Everybody's Got One: The Home of Tim Grierson

You may remember that, a couple years ago, I wrote a piece about some of the major nuclear-war films of the early 1980s . One of those was  ...

Jeff Tremaine is one of the chief architects behind  Jackass . So why doesn't he get any respect? For  Filmmaker , I had a long talk wit...

I was very happy to be on KCRW yesterday to talk to Madeleine about Mel Brooks' birthday, and why he's the embodiment of American co...

Cave of Forgotten Dreams  is back in theaters, now in IMAX. It seemed like the perfect time to talk to Werner Herzog, who gave me his though...

Ever since I picked up Christgau's Record Guide: The '80s   in 1990, I have been a fan of the man who calls himself the Dean of Amer...

Dead Man's Wire  is one of Gus Van Sant's strongest films in years. And it's writer Austin Kolodney's first big-screen credi...

A couple years ago, I had the immense pleasure of moderating a Q&A with Bela Tarr after a screening of his final film,  The Turin Horse ...

When someone in the film industry passes, Madeleine Brand will often ask me to come on the show to talk about that person's legacy. I wa...

What a terrible way to end a terrible weekend of sad news. For  Rolling Stone , Althea Legaspi and I wrote about Rob Reiner's legacy . 

For  Screen International , I spoke to writer-director Imran Hamdulay and star Keenan Arrison about  The Heart Is a Muscle , which is South ...

At the end of last year, I caught My Undesirable Friends: Part I , which premiered at the New York Film Festival. Spanning five-and-a-half h...

Embeth Davidtz has been acting in movies since the late 1980s. (Of all her great work, I'll always be partial to her in  Junebug .) But ...

To get the answer, I spoke separately to five directors who have recently worked with the studio: Nanette Burstein ( Elizabeth Taylor: The L...

A few months ago, I moderated a Q&A with Brendan Bellomo, one of the directors of the Oscar-nominated documentary Porcelain War , which ...

I feel very fortunate this awards season to have gotten to spend some time with RaMell Ross. I've already profiled him for the Los Angel...

For much of awards season, I've been trying to nail down a time to speak with the director and star of Conclave . This past week, it fin...

I loved The Room Next Door , so I wanted to talk to Pedro Almodovar about his bittersweet drama that touches on life, death, global catastro...

Over AFI Fest weekend, I sat down with RaMell Ross, whose feature debut Nickel Boys is one of a kind. We talked about empathy, photography ...

Nine years ago, I interviewed Joshua Oppenheimer for Rolling Stone to discuss his great documentary The Look of Silence . Recently, I inter...

When he was a kid, Sav Rodgers was battling with questions about himself. Then, he saw Chasing Amy , which was the first time he was exposed...