Weekend interviews.

"[Adolf] Burger has flown into Britain to promote The Counterfeiters, a gripping and moving Oscar contender by the Austrian director Stefan Ruzowitzky," writes Stephen Dalton, who meets him for the London Times. "The film is partly based on Burger's wartime memoir The Devil's Workshop, which details the biggest currency forgery scheme in history. It's a story so incredible that it can only be true." More from David Archibald in the Financial Times.

And Matthew Garrahan lunches with Helen Mirren for the FT.

"The first two movies I made, The Killing Fields and The Mission, I loved making, but in some ways they've been an albatross round one's neck," Roland Joffé tells James Mottram in the Independent. "'Everybody thinks that's what you're supposed to doing.' He remembers meeting Orson Welles in New York shortly after The Mission was released. 'He looked at me for quite a long time, then he said: "So now what do you do?" And he laughed like somebody who knew. My answer to that was: "What I do is not have a career as a director." My job is not to go around repeating myself.'"

"What is it that makes one movie work and another fall flat with the same person at the helm?" wonders Partrick Goldstein in the Los Angeles Times. So he meets up with Craig Gillespie, who, according to many, will bounce back in style with Lars and the Real Girl after the clunker that was Mr Woodcock.

Creative Review talks with animation director Darren Walsh of Passion Pictures about the "Play-Doh" advert for Sony's Bravia TV.

"Hollywood Lost & Found" is the name Issue 32 of Stop Smiling's going by, "Our Biggest Issue Yet!" - with three Chinatown-related covers. The first online sampling is an excerpt from Dan Winters's interview with Harry Dean Stanton.

More varied covers for a single issue: Miranda July does goon.

Kurt Halfyard has a good long talk with Guy Maddin at Twitch.

Jeremiah Kipp talks with Larry Fessenden about The Last Winter for the House Next Door; also, a few tips on environmentally sound filmmaking.

In the Guardian, Simon Hattenstone and Mark Lawson meets Aidan Gillen.

Steven Daly profiles Eva Green for Vanity Fair.

Lesley O'Toole talks with Jamie Foxx for the Independent.

Posted by dwhudson at October 6, 2007 1:09 PM