Oscars
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CARNIVALESQUE: TERRY GILLIAM’S THE IMAGINARIUM OF DOCTOR PARNASSUS |
By Jason Guerrasio
Leading up to the Oscars on March 7, we will be highlighting the nominated films that have appeared in the magazine or on the Website in the last year. Jason Guerrasio interviewed The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus co-writer-director Terry Gilliam for our Winter 2010 issue. The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus is nominated for Best Art Direction (Art Director: Dave Warren and Anastasia Masaro; Set Decoration: Caroline Smith) and Best Costume Design (Monique Prudhomme). An elderly man pulls his carriage to the curb and prepares to put on a show. Onlookers watch with a mixture of bewilderment and vague familiarity; the […]
by Jason Guerrasio on Feb 15, 2010 -
ARMANDO IANNUCCI, IN THE LOOP |
By Nick Dawson
Leading up to the Oscars on March 7, we will be highlighting the nominated films that have appeared in the magazine or on the Website in the last year. Nick Dawson interviewed In the Loop co-writer-director Armando Iannucci for our Director Interviews section of the Website. In the Loop is nominated for Best Adapted Screenplay (Iannucci, Jesse Armstrong, Simon Blackwell and Tony Roche). Scottish writer-director Armando Iannucci has made a slow and steady progression toward becoming a film director. The Glasgow-born Italian Scot originally was planning to become a priest (like Martin Scorsese) but the lure of the entertainment world […]
by Jason Guerrasio on Feb 15, 2010 -
SPOILED APPETITE: ROBERT KEENER’S FOOD, INC. |
By Jason Guerrasio
Leading up to the Oscars on March 7, we will be highlighting the nominated films that have appeared in the magazine or on the Website in the last year. Jason Guerrasio interviewed Food, Inc. director Robert Keener for our Spring 2009 issue. Food, Inc. is nominated for Best Documentary. As the grill sizzles in the background a waitress rattles off the specials of the day when a voice interrupts her. “I think I’ll have a hamburger,” says the man looking up from his menu. Sitting at a diner counter in Anywhere, USA, the order comes from the most unlikely of […]
by Jason Guerrasio on Feb 11, 2010 -
JANE CAMPION’S BRIGHT STAR |
By Livia Bloom
Leading up to the Oscars on March 7, we will be highlighting the nominated films that have appeared in the magazine or on the Website in the last year. Livia Bloom interviewed Bright Star writer-director Jane Campion for our ’09 Toronto Film Festival coverage. Bright Star is nominated for Best Costume Design (Janet Patterson). Chaste is not a word often associated with the films of Jane Campion. From the boudoirs of The Portrait of a Lady to the rough frontier bedrooms of The Piano (1993), Campion is known for her steamy, sultry visions of intimacy. But in her latest film, […]
by Jason Guerrasio on Feb 11, 2010 -
PAOLO SORRENTINO, IL DIVO |
By Nick Dawson
Leading up to the Oscars on March 7, we will be highlighting the nominated films that have appeared in the magazine or on the Website in the last year. Nick Dawson interviewed Il Divo writer-director Paolo Sorrentino for our Director Interviews section of the Website. Il Divo is nominated for Best Makeup (Aldo Signoretti and Vittorio Sodano). If Paolo Sorrentino represents the future of Italian cinema, then the country’s filmic output certainly should be exciting in years to come. The highly accomplished writer-director was born in Naples in 1970, and first became involved in filmmaking in the mid-90s when he […]
by Jason Guerrasio on Feb 8, 2010 -
A Night at the Movies: Quentin Tarantino on Inglorious Basterds
The following interview of Quentin Tarantino originally appeared as the cover story of Filmmaker‘s Summer, 2009 edition. Quentin Tarantino fans have been waiting for almost a decade now for a project he’s discussed in interviews — a World War II-set, Dirty Dozen-style “men on a mission” movie. Big-name actors have been brought up, an epic-length storyline has been mentioned, and many imagined this project to be a return to the macho camaraderie of Tarantino’s first film, Reservoir Dogs, with the warehouse expanded into the world at war. Of course this project’s journey to the screen has had as many plot […]
by Scott Macaulay on Feb 7, 2010 -
VIDAL ON THE OSCARS
Sheerly Avni has an interview with Gore Vidal up on Truthdig.com in which the American author discusses Oscar-nominated films Brokeback Mountain and Capote (both of which he approves of, saying of the latter, “The movie is quite brave about showing somebody who did not have any redeeming characteristics, nor did they pretend he had”). Of Capote himself, Vidal has some choice memories: Oh, Capote. [Sighs.] I spent half a century trying to avoid him, in life, and now suddenly I’m surrounded by him. He was a pathological liar. He couldn’t tell the truth about anything, and he’d make it up […]
by Scott Macaulay on Mar 12, 2006 -
OSCAR WINNER, THE MORNING AFTER
Anne Thompson has an interesting profile of Crash producer Cathy Schulman up on Reuters that covers the entirety of Schulman’s career, from her days working at Sundance to her ill-fated partnerships with Mike Ovitz and Bob Yari, and it discusses what’s up at her company, Bulls Eye, post the Oscar win.
by Scott Macaulay on Mar 10, 2006 -
CURRY’S ROAD TO THE OSCARS
The Reeler has a good piece up on Marshall Curry, whose Street Fight opened today at New York’s IFC Center. From the piece: “While viewing Curry’s riveting film last week, it occurred to me that this could absolutely be the dark horse nominee come March 5. In chronicling Newark’s 2002 mayoral race between relative newcomer Cory Booker and Jersey’s reigning machine-politics king Sharpe James, Curry captures a system imploded by racism, corruption, lies and at least a few physical altercations. Perhaps more shockingly, Street Fight reflects the assured work of a first-time feature filmmaker–a guy who quit his job, bought […]
by Scott Macaulay on Feb 22, 2006 -
OSCAR WINNERS LIVE LONGER… WITH ONE EXCEPTION
From an interesting article in Forbes.com: “Later [today], when Clint Eastwood faces off against Martin Scorsese in the battle for the Academy Award for best director, they could be fighting over much more than a gold statue. Life itself could be at stake. A study by a University of Toronto physician suggests that winning an Oscar can extend a director’s life-span dramatically. In fact, Oscar-winning directors live about two years longer than those who were just nominated, the result of a 24% decrease in the risk of death over their lifetimes. Those with multiple wins saw their average risk of […]
by Scott Macaulay on Feb 27, 2005
