Interviews
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Interview: Dick Maas, director of ‘Saint’
The films of cult Dutch director Dick Maas are as notorious for their difficulty to see as for their often graphic depictions of murder and mayhem. Released today on DVD, his latest effort Saint (2010) – starring Huub Stapel, Bert Luppes and Egbert Jan Weeber – gives a new and murderous twist to the seasonal…
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Interview: François Ozon, director of ‘Potiche’
Recently, CineVue were fortunate enough to meet up with director François Ozon to discuss his latest film Potiche (2011), a wonderfully vibrant and energetic comedy about trophy wife Suzanne Pujol, played by the lady of French cinema Catherine Deneuve. We met at the Institut Français in Queensbury Place and started with discussing how he adapted…
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Interview: Eli Craig on ‘Tucker & Dale vs Evil’
Eli Craig will not be a name familiar to many of you reading this – yet. His first feature, Film4 FrightFest favourite Tucker & Dale vs Evil (2010), stars Tyler Labine and Alan Tudyk in a comical, inverted take on the Hillbilly slasher movie sub-genre. I recently spoke with the director to discuss the project…
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Interview: Jaco Van Dormael, director of ‘Mr. Nobody’
Jaco Van Dormael’s latest feature Mr. Nobody (2009) – starring Jared Leto, Diane Kruger, Sarah Polley, Rhys Ifans and Juno Temple – is a fitting example of the writer/directors highly visual approach to storytelling. Belgium’s most expensive film, Mr. Nobody is a colourful, intense drama, full of dreamlike imagery open to various interpretations. Van Dormael…
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Interview: Rachid Bouchareb, director of ‘Outside the Law’
To mark the UK DVD release of Rachid Bouchareb’s Palme d’Or nominee Outside the Law (Hors la loi, 2010), the Paris-born director kindly agreed to answer a few short questions from CineVue’s Russell Cook regarding the film’s highly topical subject matter and themes, and also explains where he draws influence from for his films.Russell Cook:…
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Interview: Jason Momoa, star of ‘Conan the Barbarian’
To celebrate the release today of Marcus Nispel’s remake of the classic Arnold Schwarzenegger action adventure Conan the Barbarian (2011), we caught up with the film’s star Jason Momoa. Perhaps best-known for his role as Khal Drogo in HBO fantasy epic Game of Thrones, Momoa’s star is rising quickly and the Hawaiian-born actor will next…
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Interview: Mem Ferda, actor in ‘The Devil’s Double’
You may have seen pictures of him, you may have heard of him, you will certainly being seeing more of him in the next 12 months. Mem Ferda, a classically trained actor with a diploma from LAMDA and a degree in Business Administration, does not strike you as a cultural icon. But at 6′ 2″…
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Interview: Liz Garbus, ‘Bobby Fischer Against the World’
CineVue recently caught up with director Liz Garbus to discuss her latest film, the documentary Bobby Fischer Against the World (2011), which is due to be released in UK cinemas on 15 July 2011. Bobby Fischer against the World is a feature documentary that uses the narrative tension of the 1972 match between Boris Spassky and Bobby Fischer…
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Interview: John Malkovich takes to the Barbican stage
Last weekend saw the opening of The Infernal Comedy: Confessions of a Serial Killer (2010) starring John Malkovich. Loosely speaking, it is a play that merges baroque opera with dialogue telling the autobiographical tale if Austrian serial killer Jack Unterweger. The play has met with critical success and is touring until November when Malkovich will…
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Interview: Li Weiran, director of ‘Welcome to Shama Town’
It is the second day of the 13th Far East Film Festival in Udine, Italy and Spencer Murphy sat down with director Li Weiran to talk about his first film, the action comedy summer blockbuster from China Welcome to Shama Town (2010), which opened the festival the previous evening. Spencer Murphy: First of all, thank…