Rachel Weisz

  • Directing

All-Seeing Eyes: How Director Yorgos Lanthimos and DP Robbie Ryan Defy Period Film Aesthetics in The Favourite

A caustic, royal love triangle is the new target of industrious Greek director Yorgos Lanthimos’ delectably wicked gaze. Boasting absurd…

5 years ago
  • Acting

Stone Cold: Emma Stone on Her Charming, Devious Turn in The Favourite

The first thing you notice about Emma Stone are her eyes, green and enormous. But she squinted almost as soon…

5 years ago
  • Producing

Weisz Beyond Her Years: From Optioned Novel to Arthouse Drama, Rachel Weisz Nurtured Disobedience at Every Stage

Facing down a casting system that has historically held out on women over the age of 40, Rachel Weisz, daughter…

6 years ago
  • Interviews

“Every Movie I Make, I Commit My Entire World:” Derek Cianfrance Talks The Light Between Oceans

It’s just plain fun to watch Michael Fassbender and Alicia Vikander, whose real-life romance is the stuff of celebrity gossip…

8 years ago
  • Interviews

Defining Complete Unknown: Joshua Marston on Writing Shape-Shifting Characters, Directing a Contained Set

Joshua Marston's latest film, Complete Unknown, is an exploration of what it means to be a filmmaker, a film actor…

8 years ago
  • Interviews

Idiomatic Idiosyncrasy: Yorgos Lanthimos Talks The Lobster, Greek Cinema and Musical Subtlety

Whether depicting a family sheltering their children into madness, a group of people selling an unorthodox yet efficient cure for…

8 years ago
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  • How They Did It

The Legitimizor: Rian Johnson Fakes It for The Brothers Bloom

There’s a machine which, in the back of my mind, I always assumed existed. It’s called “The Legitimizor.” Housed in…

15 years ago