Interview

The late German filmmaker Werner Schroeter never tired of exploring his many passions—often all at once, with his muses (Candy Darling, Isabelle Huppert) inhabiting lushly colored fusions of music, melodrama, and kitsch.  ARTICLE PUBLISHED: 05/11/12

It seems that Rudyard Kipling's short-story collection, The Jungle Book, is on Sony's remake agenda. According to Variety, the studio has already recruited Harry Potter screenwriter, Steve Kloves, to pen a live-action script. Never ones to pass up fantasy-casting a late-19th-century work of fiction, we perused our actor archive for a suitable cast.  ARTICLE PUBLISHED: 05/11/12

This week: Lawless vs. Savages, two gangster films dealing with the complications that accompany the trafficking of illicit substances.  ARTICLE PUBLISHED: 05/10/12

Dark Shadows, Tim Burton's big-screen adaptation of the cult 1960s goth soap opera, opens this week, and rounding out the cast as the matriarch of the Collins Stoddard clan is our favorite Catwoman, original Cool Rider, and all-around class act, Michelle Pfeiffer.  ARTICLE PUBLISHED: 05/09/12

What did you do over spring break? If you’re director Harmony Korine, then you headed down to Florida with Selena Gomez, Vanessa Hudgens, Ashley Benson, and, of course, James Franco to make a twisted, sexy, druggy, not-quite-ironic (or is it?) bikini-bandit film amidst the hedonistic throng of the collegiate riviera. Interview grabs its baggiest board shorts and a beachfront share for a special report from the set of spring breakers  ARTICLE PUBLISHED: 05/07/12

Self imposed tax exile, excessive and uninterrupted drug use, leachinghangers-on, and several unstable lovers sounds more like a recipe fordisaster than formula for one of the most revered rock albums inhistory. But seeing is believing, and a Virgin-produced feature film, based on David Greenfield's literary account of the conception and creation of Stones' album Exile on Main St., might just make us believers.  ARTICLE PUBLISHED: 05/04/12

This week: Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry vs. Portrait of Wally, two documentaries about art that has politically polarized bureaucratic institutions.  ARTICLE PUBLISHED: 05/03/12

With the 75th anniversary of the iconic sunglasses manufacturer, Ray-Ban underway, INTERVIEW celebrates the NEVER HIDE moments of a few influential leaders in art, fashion, music and film. We've met quite a few characters over the decades, but here are some of our favorite interviewees and icons, artists who never shied away from marching to the beat of their own drum. Here we talk to James Franco:  ARTICLE PUBLISHED: 05/03/12

It’s rare that an actress who so fully disappears into her roles manages to bring so much of herself to them—and even rarer when that actress’s resume is filled with an assortment of thorny roses, eccentric royals, witches, rogues, oddities, kooks, and apes. But then Helena Bonham Carter is a rare bird indeed.  ARTICLE PUBLISHED: 05/03/12

We're huddled together in a sterilized room of a midtown PR agency together with Harmony Korine and Val Kilmer, the star of Korine's latest venture, The Fourth Dimension, which just played the Tribeca Film Festival. Also in the room is Vice's Eddy Moretti, the executive producer and co-writer of a "creative brief" used to steer the movie.  ARTICLE PUBLISHED: 04/30/12