Weekend interviews.

The majority of intellectuals of the normal Hungarian cast have done their utmost to turn us against each [other] in the context of The Werckmeister Harmonies [Béla Tarr's film based on Krasznahorkai's novel, The Melancholy of Resistance]. I think Tarr is one of the last great Hungarian film directors. People are always asking me whether I don't find it insulting that while I wrote the whole thing, he goes and collects the laurels for it. What on earth could I say to that? Partly, it is not true that I invented the whole thing: I delivered the novels, and helped with whatever I could. But the film was made by Béla Tarr alone, even if he did have people to help him: excellent, brilliant, sensitive characters.

Shouldn't all interviews with Guillermo Del Toro appear as comics? Mike Russell would seem to think so.

Martin Degrell talks with Ryan Fleck about Half Nelson for Film International.

Mike Russell has a good long talk with Kelley Baker, "The Angry Filmmaker."

Sujewa Ekanayake talks with Gordy Hoffman, "screenwriter of Love Liza, director of the feature A Coat of Snow, USC cinema professor, & the founder of the BlueCat Screenplay Competition (& the brother of an actor you may have heard of)."

Alice O'Keeffe profiles Emilio Estevez for the New Statesman. Related: Martin Kettle comments on the interview and on the memory of RFK in the Guardian.

Alison Willmore talks with Eric Nicholas about Alone With Her. Related: Writing in the New York Times, Matt Zoller Seitz finds the film "ultimately less than the sum of its parts." More from Armond White in the New York Press.

Lesley O'Toole interviews Jennifer Connelly for the Independent.

At Cinema Strikes Back, Mike M talks with Smokin' Aces director Joe Carnahan.

Paul Cullum talks with Todd Field about Little Children for the Los Angeles Times.

In the New York Press, Jennifer Merin talks with Luc Besson about Arthur and the Invisibles.

Posted by dwhudson at January 20, 2007 4:15 PM