Eric Hynes
Eric Hynes and filmmaker Kyle Smith took a break from the SXSW bedlam to toss the pigskin around and discuss Smith's unique, assured debut Turkey Bowl. Here Kyle relates the high school sports moment that might have consigned him to a lifetime of filmmaking.
Reverse Shot's Eric Hynes strolls the Austin Convention Center with Azazel Jacobs (Terri, Momma's Man) in search of SXSW cool.
Set sail on Town Lake in downtown Austin with director Todd Rohal, while his co-stars Robert Longstreet and Steve Little pilot the most feared ship on the high seas.
Greta Gerwig, attending SXSW for the world premiere of The Dish and the Spoon, remembers her first visit to the festival all the way back in David Fincher-tinted 2006.
On the ground in Austin for SXSW, the Reverse Shot team chats with Marie Losier (The Ballad of Genesis and Lady Jaye) about a particularly surprising meeting with a wasp during a screening of Azazel Jacobs's Terri.
Host Eric Hynes talks to Palme d'Or–winning filmmaker Apichatpong Weerasethakul (Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives) about the Thai jungle, time and duration, and the transformative qualities of life and cinema.
How about a very early computer-age romantic comedy, starring Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy, called Desk Set? It’s hardly obscure, but I’d never seen it. Click, boom, presto. Instantly, it begins.
Host Eric Hynes talks to photojournalist-turned-filmmaker Danfung Dennis (Hell and Back Again) about combat journalism, the power of received images, and how his latest innovations in immersive technology will change the face of filmmaking.
Host Eric Hynes talks to director Im Sang-soo (The Housemaid) about the nature of suspense, female desire, and why conservative Korean filmgoers hated his latest film, a remake of Kim Ki-young's sexed-up 1960 classic.
Bruno Dumont (Hadewijch, Twentynine Palms) talks to Reverse Shot's Damon Smith about faith, mysticism, and the mysteries of cinema. Translated from French by Robert Gray.
In Mike Leigh’s Another Year, four seasons come and go, characters arrive and depart, produce ripens and rots, everything and nothing changes. There's such weariness in that title. Living is shadowed by dying, bounty is turned over by hunger, loneliness is assuaged by company.
Host Eric Hynes talks to French filmmaker Claire Denis (White Material, Beau travail) about why she prefers working with familiar collaborators, the erotics of the actor-director relationship, and how she often feels mastered by her own creations.
French screen legend Isabelle Huppert talks to host Eric Hynes about being an object of scrutiny in Claire Denis's White Material, how filmmaking is a questioning, and why movie acting is about just doing it.
Host Eric Hynes talks to Kent Jones (A Letter to Elia, Val Lewton: The Man in the Shadows) about film restoration, the art of criticism, and the need to discover life outside cinema.
Host Eric Hynes talks to French auteur Olivier Assayas (Carlos, Summer Hours) about visual style, the paradox of cinephilia, and the connections between cinema and real life.
Frederick Wiseman (Boxing Gym, La Danse) talks to Reverse Shot's Damon Smith about observing real life, associative editing, and why his documentaries aren't made with an audience in mind.
Eric Hynes and legendary documentary filmmakers D.A. Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus tour Jacques Torres Chocolate, uncover the subject that links all their films, and discuss the perils of being married while editing.
Host Eric Hynes talks to French star Romain Duris (Heartbreaker, The Beat That My Heart Skipped) about painting, performance, and the rigors of being a leading man.
Actress Chiara Mastroianni and host Eric Hynes take a stroll through Central Park to talk about her breakthrough performances in A Christmas Tale and Making Plans for Lena, before touching on motherhood, divorce, and the difficulties of being a modern woman.
Inspired by Peter Kerekes's fascinating documentary Cooking History, acclaimed culinary writer and chef Betty Fussell shops the greenmarket and discusses the meaning of food while cooking up a massive ribeye.