At a crossroad in Athens, people of different nationalities, including locals, refugees and tourists come together. Only for a moment.
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July 2023
Q&A with Savanah Leaf, Tia Nomore, and Erika Alexander
Can you talk about making the transition from athletics to a visual and creative artist?
Savanah Leaf: In a way, I think a film is this combination of working in a team environment.
September 2015
Q&A with Ramin Bahrani and Michael Shannon
How did you come to this story, and what was the writing process?
Bahrani: I was interested in this whole world-turned-upside-down issue during the economic crisis. The focus was housing.
September 2021
Q&A with Pascual Sisto
Can you discuss the way the film begins, and ends, with a family dinner scene?
Pascual Sisto: I think they are two very important scenes, but I will first say that, as a point of interest, they were shot on the same day because of practical reasons.
September 2019
Q&A with Lorene Scafaria
This film is very inclusive and focused on women. Were you aiming to make a film about female empowerment? What was your concept about the story, initially?
I like the idea of making something that people can take away from it whatever they want.
February 2023
Q&A with Laura Poitras
The following questions and answers are excerpted from a conversation that followed the NBR screening of All the Beauty and the Bloodshed. You really weave so many stories together so beautifully in the film. How did you and Nan weave in and out of each other’s lives? Laura Poitras: Nan and I have intersected, sometimes literally […]
August 2022
Q&A with John Patton Ford, Aubrey Plaza, and Theo Rossi
Can you talk about how the idea for the film came about? I read it was somewhat autobiographical.
That sounds weird off the bat. I have not committed fraud.
October 2019
Q&A with Ira Sachs and Isabelle Huppert
You are such a quintessential New York Filmmaker, Mr. Sachs, but now you’ve made this film set in Portugal. I was wondering how the story came to you and how you worked with your writing partner, Mauricio Zacharia, to develop this film?
Ira Sachs: Probably around fifteen years ago, I saw a film by Satyajit Ray, the Indian master Filmmaker, called Kanchenjungha. It’s about a family on a vacation in the Himalayan mountains, and it takes place in one day.
November 2013
Q&A with Alexander Payne, Bruce Dern, Will Forte, and June Squibb
Why did you decide to shoot this film in black and white?
Alexander Payne: You know, it wasn’t ever really a decision—it just felt right. It had to be in black and white.
December 2021
Q&A with Adam McKay
How did you arrive at the very specific tone of the film?
Adam McKay: It was always going to have comedic elements to it. But in the editing process, the tone was very tricky.
June 2018
LIFELINE – Directed by L. Marcus Williams
She is a woman in despair who calls a suicide hotline not for help, but to say goodbye. He is the operator who takes her call, who must do everything he can to keep her on the line. Will he lose her, or will she find the will to live?