Damon Smith
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.
Rivette works in miniature, gracefully orchestrating a modest story set against the backdrop of Saint-Loup Peak, a geological marvel crowning the genteel Languedoc region of southern France.
Sebastian Junger and Tim Hetherington (Restrepo) talk to Reverse Shot's Damon Smith about war, brotherhood, and the psychodynamics of combat reporting.
Abandoning the freewheeling ingenuity of his previous period adaptations (Jude, The Claim, Tristram Shandy), as well as the frenetic pacing of docu-realistic dramas like In This World or A Mighty Heart, Winterbottom’s latest effort, though enthralling on the whole, sometimes feels too literal for its own good.
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.
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.
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.
Marco Bellocchio sets history a-twirl in the opening minutes of his Cannes-buzzed melodrama Vincere, cutting between set-ups in Trent 1907 and Milan 1914 and back again, tripping the wire on linear narrative with rapid-fire bursts of under-contextualized, nonsynchronous events. We are somewhere in time.
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.
Reverse Shot's Damon Smith talks to Michael Haneke (The White Ribbon) about the nature of evil and the ethics of spectatorship. Robert Gray translated from German.
"Whether you’re making a film or writing a novel, you’re dealing less with the political and much more with the personal questions, personal dramas. The political aspects are supplementary."