Timothy Rhys, MovieMaker Magazine (MM): In our first conversation you told me that in Europe you are not a “full artist” until you…
Certain actors always stop me cold. Cruising through the channels on late-night TV, God help me if I should stumble…
Not long ago independent moviemakers were the darlings of the mainstream media. From 1989 when Steven Soderbergh’s sex, lies, and videotape was…
A ramble with America’s Greatest Living Director about his long career and his new “eastern western,” Gangs of New York.…
Read Rebecca Miller's bio and you can't help but think that this is one lucky girl. And she'd tell you that herself.…
Although Rod Steiger had survived to see the start of his 77th summer, when he finally gave in July 3 to…
Men in Scoring Position was conceived in the winter of 1995, shortly after the city of Seattle was transformed by the…
James Coburn himself will tell you that it's sometimes hard to separate the actor from the characters he plays, and since no…
You might be tempted to smile when you hear a bona fide 16-year-old movie star and screenwriter say, "I haven't…
Suddenly Bridget Fonda is everywhere-posters, trailers, newspapers, talk shows, personality profiles in national film magazines-you'd think her PR people just hijacked the…
You probably knew guys like Rick Linklater in school. Guys who were well-rounded, well-liked and well-adjusted, but who were, well, different. You…
It’s 5:30 p.m. and Harvey Keitel has just entered the lobby of the Clift Hotel in San Francisco after a…
If there were a director’s hall of fame, John Frankenheimer would be elected on the first ballot. Then again, he…
The weekend before Thanksgiving our sister organization, The MovieMaker Institute, traveled to New York City to put on what we billed as…
Prior to the days when movies were amalgams of past movies, the clash between genre and auteur, between the classic…
You’ve got to figure that Woody Allen knew something about Mira Sorvino before he asked her to read for the part of…
Timothy Rhys, Moviemaker Magazine (TR): I’ve read that your creative roots sprang from the Free Cinema movement of the late 50s. How…
A famous man's reputation is the ambassador that precedes him wherever he goes, and like every other budding director we…
There’s one thing you won’t do after you see Ron Shelton’s latest movie. You won’t not have an opinion. In…
"At first I didn't know people could say those things about you," Alan Rudolph intimates with a smile. "With all…
I had a chance to sit down with Dan Algrant when he was in Seattle a couple of weeks ago…