Eric Hynes
Nicolas Winding Refn (The Pusher Trilogy, Bronson, Valhalla Rising) talks to Reverse Shot's Damon Smith about growing up isolated in America, the act of creation, and the Michael Bay movie he really wants to make.
Filmmaker Pedro González-Rubio walks along the water with host Eric Hynes to discuss fishing, family, and poetry, and to explain how his lovely new film, Alamar, was a journey of discovery.
Four years after their collaboration on Fast Food Nation, filmmaker Richard Linklater and author Eric Schlosser visit Manhattan's DeBragga & Spitler to inspect meat and discuss changes in the American diet.
Sebastian Junger and Tim Hetherington (Restrepo) talk to Reverse Shot's Damon Smith about war, brotherhood, and the psychodynamics of combat reporting.
Actor Mathieu Amalric (A Christmas Tale, Quantum of Solace) talks to host Eric Hynes about his new film - Alain Resnais's Wild Grass - the performance of doing press, and why actors are animals.
It begins with a hum. A hum that starts down in the throat and carries up into the mouth. But it doesn’t stop at the lips. You keep your mouth open to project the noise, to send vibrations out rather than back in. It’s a hum without a definite end, without the “m.”
Navigating the rocky straits of the serious-minded comedy, Let It Rain maintains a breezy tone while hinting at deeper concerns.
Host Eric Hynes joins a ghoulish parade through Manhattan and talks to George Romero (Night of the Living Dead) about fandom, allegorical horror and zombies, zombies, zombies.
Paul Verhoeven (Robocop, Showgirls) talks to host Eric Hynes about historical reality versus Gospel distortion, the necessity of narrative cheats, and why Jesus was the messenger of a new ethics.
Damon Smith talks to Bahman Ghobadi (No One Knows About Persian Cats) about art and conscience, guerrilla filmmaking, and how he met the brave young bands in Tehran's underground indie-music scene. Sheida Dayani translated from Farsi.
In its own wild way—and precisely because of its wildness—Ade’s film is a perfectly complete portrait of romantic entanglement. Being on the inside can be brutal, but few things are as worthy of the trouble.
Michel Gondry (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind) talks to host Eric Hynes about capturing and constructing reality for his new documentary The Thorn in the Heart, contemplates movie trickery, pantomimes fratricide, and plays ping-pong with himself.
Reverse Shot's Damon Smith talks to Catherine Breillat (Bluebeard, Fat Girl) about fairy tales, death and eroticism, and the aesthetics of cruelty. Robert Gray translated from French.
Reverse Shot's Damon Smith talks to Bong Joon-ho (Mother, The Host) about the psychological costs of making better films, the blurring of reality and fantasy, and the drinking habits of Korean auteurs.
Actress Zoe Kazan (Meek's Cutoff) and filmmaker Bradley Rust Gray talk to host Eric Hynes about how their offscreen friendship gave birth to The Exploding Girl, and how sneaking shots on the New York subway turned them into criminals.
Host Eric Hynes discusses acting, the art of bartending, and archery with the British star of Fish Tank and the Oscar-nominated Inglourius Basterds.
Host Eric Hynes chats with Oscar-nominated cinematographer Christian Berger (The White Ribbon) about light, actors' faces, and working with Michael Haneke.
Host Eric Hynes discusses Man on Wire, Red Riding: 1980, and leaving New York with Academy Award-winning filmmaker James Marsh.
Ajami gets right to the tragic heart of the matter. Before the viewer knows what or whom he’s watching, a young boy is gunned down in the middle of a city street in broad daylight.
Memories are remnants of subjective experience, further skewed by time and the brain’s chemical disruptions. But a different sort of subjectivity is afoot when one’s memories are appropriated, conjectured over, and made material by someone else.