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Bryan Cranston and Jay Roach on Telling 'Trumbo's' Story
Bryan Cranston and Trumbo director Jay Roach tell us how they ended up making a biopic about blacklisted screenwriter Dalton Trumbo and what drew the…
10 years, 2 months ago
Banned in India, Leslee Udwin's Documentary Opens in US
Director Leslee Udwin was in India as a court blocked the broadcast of her documentary about an infamous gang rape and murder in that country. Her fi…
10 years, 2 months ago
Lenny Abrahamson & Emma Donoghue Bring 'Room' to the Screen
Director Lenny Abrahamson didn’t expect author Emma Donoghue would choose him to make a film based on her bestselling novel Room. Abrahamson tells us…
10 years, 2 months ago
Davis Guggenheim's Career Evolution & 'He Named Me Malala'
Early in his career, Oscar-winning director Davis Guggenheim declared he would never make documentaries. He tells us about the bad experience in Holl…
10 years, 3 months ago
Sebastian Schipper & Laia Costa: One Take Wonder 'Victoria'
The German thriller Victoria follows a bank heist in Berlin in real time. Director Sebastian Schipper shot the entire film in one long take. Schipper…
10 years, 3 months ago
Amy Berg on 'Prophet's Prey' and 'An Open Secret'
With her new film Prophet's Prey, documentarian Amy Berg takes on the polygamous, fundamentalist arm of the Mormon Church. She tells us about encount…
10 years, 3 months ago
Brazilian Director Anna Muylaert Finds Success, then Sexism
Filmmaker Anna Muylaert has won acclaim at home and abroad for The Second Mother, which is Brazil's Oscar entry this year. But even with all the succ…
10 years, 3 months ago
FX CEO John Landgraf: Peak TV and the Paradox of Choice
It may seem strange for the head of a cable network that's gone from two to 20 shows in the last decade to say there's officially too much TV, but th…
10 years, 4 months ago
China Has a Change of Heart on Filmmaker Jean-Jacques Annaud
The 1997 movie Seven Years in Tibet was banned in China, and its director Jean-Jacques Annaud barred from entering the country. A decade later, China…
10 years, 4 months ago
Revisiting Norman Lear & His Lifetime of TV 'Experience'
Television icon Norman Lear wrote sitcoms that tackled real issues, like rape, abortion and race relations. This Labor Day, we revisit Lear's convers…
10 years, 4 months ago