Interviews, 8/2.

"White Light/Black Rain provides a graphic, unflinching look at the reality of nuclear warfare through first-hand accounts of both survivors and American men who carried out the bombing missions at Hiroshima and Nagasaki." Michael Guillén talks with director Steven Okazaki. In the LA Weekly, a review from Robert Abele:

All in all, the remembrances are sobering and disturbing but told without sourness, which begins to have an odd effect, especially in relation to President Truman's regrettably chaste newsreel description of the country's new weapons as "a harnessing of the basic power of the universe." Perhaps the titanic resilience of the survivors - from the enduring physical agony to the loss of loved ones to the discrimination they felt while Japan tried to rebuild and forget its warring past - is in its own way an incredible harnessing of mysterious power, albeit an internal, unscientific one very few of us can comprehend. As one survivor nobly puts it, "All this pain we carry in our hearts and our bodies, it must end with us."

Blake Ethridge talks with Dario Argento about The Third Mother at Twitch.

Sujewa Ekanayake talks with AJ Schnack about Kurt Cobain About A Son and points to Lesley Savage's backgrounder in Rolling Stone, where, in a roundabout way, the film is rooted.

Reel Chicago talks with Gabe Klinger, Christy LeMaster and Darnell Witt about the Chicago Cinema Forum which tracks down prints of rare films "along with the chance to talk about them with film scholars in post-screening discussions."

Brian Darr talks with Jennifer Baichwal and Edward Burtynsky about Manufactured Landscapes.

"Few actors are more intimately associated with the films of John Waters than Mink Stole." Nathan Rabin talks with her. Also at the AV Club, Kyle Ryan talks with Andy Samberg. Related: In the Voice, Scott Foundas reviews Lonely Island's "aggressively silly debut feature film," Hot Rod.

Cinematical's Kevin Kelly has a talk with Kevin Smith about all his plans.

Ryan Gilbey profiles Kristin Scott Thomas for the Guardian.

The New Statesman has 10 questions for Asger Leth.

For the San Francisco Bay Guardian, Cheryl Eddy talks with David Wain about The Ten. And of that one, Nick Schager writes that it "is, I guess, sacrilegious in the strictest sense of the term, and its interest in investigating the commandments can be skin deep... A general lack of seriousness, however, doesn't preclude faithful adherence to the commandments' guiding principles, and is, in fact, precisely what energizes the film's anything-goes wit, of which the centerpiece is a sly bit of casting: shoplifter extraordinaire Winona Ryder in 'Thou shall not steal.'" More from Eric Kohn in the New York Press.

Sheila Johnston talks with Harry Potter producer David Heyman about One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. Also in the The Telegraph, John Hiscock talks with Richard Gere about The Hoax.

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