The movie that left John Carpenter with “no passion whatsoever”
“By the time I got to the scoring stage, I looked like a zombie.”
Author: Thomas Coll Archives: 02/2024
The Tom Hardy movie he called a “student film”
“You don’t really get the freedom to do things like that.”
Why William Friedkin repeatedly fired a shotgun on the set of ‘The Exorcist’
“It is very difficult to ask actors to go from a dead start to create surprise or fear.”
‘Jam’: The experimental black comedy by Chris Morris
One crashing airliner, eight tons of geese and a 50ft plutonium bum.
The trippy movie Jonathan Glazer calls an “absolute head-fuck”
“It was the strangest thing I think I had probably ever seen at that point.”
The story of the failed James Dean biopic starring Leonardo DiCaprio
“From one angle, he totally had it with him. I mean, it’s brilliance.”
The role Alan Rickman was “apprehensive” to accept
“It was full of rich, diverse characters that you can’t pin down, any of them.”
The ingenious geopolitical detail Denis Villeneuve added to ‘Blade Runner 2049’
“What if it was as strong a cultural and economic force as the U.S.?”