Perhaps best known for her Oscar-winning turn in Tony Gilroy’s Michael Clayton and the long, fruitful collaboration she enjoyed with the late Derek Jarman, Tilda Swinton has acted recently for David Fincher, Joel and Ethan Coen, Hungarian auteur Béla Tarr, and in Andrew Adamson’s Chronicles of Narnia franchise. Her flinty, fearless performance as an alcoholic outlaw in Erick Zonca’s cross-border thriller Julia, however, truly spotlights the impressive range and cool professionalism of this adventurous, one-of-a-kind screen actress. (She also appears in Jim Jarmusch’s The Limits of Control, which opened last Friday.) We caught up with Swinton in New York to talk about her role in the film, why she’d always wanted to portray a resourceful drunk, and how the indie-film world has changed since her heyday with Jarman in Britain’s underground cinema. -- Damon Smith

Running time: 5:46

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Here Jamie Stuart examines the New York Film Festival with a irreverent brand of narrative/reporting that features the indie stars attending the festival while weaving a twisted tale starring Stuart himself.

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In Jamie Stuart's final episode from his New York Film Festival series, Mickey Rourke reflects on the bad time in his career while Jamie learns the present is the best place to be.

Running time: 9:00.

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Please visit Jamie's site at www.mutinycompany.com.

To see all the videos in this series please go to
http://filmmakermagazine.com/nyff46.php.

#posted by Jason Guerrasio @ 10/13/2008 09:34:00 AM Comments (3)

Continuing the series of sneak peak interviews provided by Filmcatcher.com from the New York Film Festival, Darren Aronofsky talks about coming up with the idea for his latest film The Wrestler, using non-actors to achieve a sense of reality, and the joys and challenges of working with a talent like Mickey Rourke.

See interview here.

#posted by Jason Guerrasio @ 10/09/2008 05:11:00 PM Comments (0)

Jamie Stuart drops a bomb in this episode from his New York Film Festival series. With special appearances by Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie, Clint Eastwood and many more.

Running time: 7:48.

Download the short here by right clicking and choosing Save Target or Save Link. (69M)

Please visit Jamie's site at www.mutinycompany.com.

To see all the videos in this series please go to
http://filmmakermagazine.com/nyff46.php.

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Continuing the series of sneak peak interviews provided by Filmcatcher.com from the New York Film Festival, Mike Leigh, a director known for his gritty "kitchen-sink realism," talks about his most light-hearted film to date, Happy-Go-Lucky.

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The first in a series of sneak peak interviews provided by Filmcatcher.com from the New York Film Festival, director Antonio Campos talks about his debut feature, Afterschool, which follows a reclusive boarding-school student who, while shooting B-roll for a school project, unintentionally films two of his fellow students overdosing.

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