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Recent FeaturesSunday, January 1 1995Agnes BrownePaul Thomas Anderson describes his new film, Magnolia, in language that only seems simple. He's obviously excited about it, glad to have it released and to be talking about it, which, he observes, is part of the process. The Way of the GunChris McQuarrie doesn't look like someone from Hollywood. He doesn't wear black, his face is pleasant and his voice soft and deliberate, without the speed and breathlessness that afflict folks who spend too much time inside the business. The DishRob Sitch seems the type who might turn questions around on his interviewer fairly regularly. Better Luck TomorrowI didn't want the characters to have to explain why they exist. I don't feel like I have to do that. The Time MachineSamantha Mumba sits in a hard-backed chair: perfect posture, perfect makeup, perfect smile. Everybody’s Famous!Dominique Deruddere seems like the ideal dad. Jackpot. BrotherThe 28-year-old Brooklyn native began writing plays when he was just ten years old, and his first starring film role was also his first film role. EvolutionSean Patrick Thomas is one of the more genuinely polite people I've met. He stands up to shake my hand when I arrive and leave. He acts as if he actually wants to be here, in this hotel lobby two days after Christmas, talking about his job. Focus. Genghis BluesThe story of San Francisco-based blues singer Paul Pena's journey to Tuva, a teeny republic in the heart of Asia, is certainly strange and wondrous. Still, given the obscurity of almost every element involved, the story probably wouldn't strike most people as the ideal material for a first film. Sexy BeastIt was a little alarming playing a bad actor, because I used to be a bad transvestite, and I've spent years trying to get away from that, trying to be someone whom people might look at and say, 'Hey, I wish I could have that look! The Luzhin DefenceIt wasn't actually the novel that attracted me, it was the script. Bring It Alive: Interview with Michael RadfordThe director of Il Postino talks to PopMatters about his new Shakespeare adaptation The Merchant of Venice. U-571Jonathan Mostow's first feature length film was 1997's Breakdown, with Kurt Russell as Jeff Taylor, a middle-class white man victimized by rednecks in an extortion plot. Lost in a Sea of Trivia: Interview with Niels MuellerThe director of the new Sean Penn film, The Assassination of Richard Nixon, talks to PopMatters about his interests in history and the kind of hopeless rage that erupts in violence. |
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