Over the Rainbow and Into a Trip
April 26, 2011
In Beyond the Black Rainbow, director Panos Cosmatos takes a horror plot that we’ve seen in countless incarnations—the evil doctor controlling a young beauty as she struggles to escape—and infuses it with a color-drenched visual style.
Campbell Scott on Roberts, Rossellini, and How to Stay Fresh
April 26, 2011
In Love, Lots of It, Campbell Scott brings a sexy world-weariness to the enigmatic devil’s minion to whom a vulnerable, looking-for-love Kathleen McElfresh (Scott’s real-life wife) presents her soul in a battered cardboard box, which emits a supernatural glow.
Julian Schnabel’s Dual Creations
March 25, 2011
As in Julian Schnabel’s previous films—Basquiat, Before Night Falls and The Diving Bell and the Butterfly—the artist’s eye is beautifully evidenced in Miral, a lyrical, evocative, and passionate meditation on growing up amid the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
All the Real Girls: Posen in Paris
March 1, 2011
As Zac Posen put the final touches on his highly anticipated Paris couture show on March 3, Interview visited him in-studio to view his ready-to-wear line, Z Spoke.
Silhouettes and MisShapes: Hervé Léger Still Makes a Scene
February 17, 2011
This season, Max Azria sent the Hervé Léger bandage dress’s current reincarnation down the runway as fresh, body-skimming, sleeveless, and mostly knee-length dresses in tones ranging from nutmeg to black, paired with knee-high stiletto boots.
Charlotte and Samantha Ronson Do It Again
February 15, 2011
The hippest crowd of Fashion Week filled the Charlotte Ronson Fall 2011 show to overflowing this weekend, as she sent a mélange of slouchy sweaters, delicate chiffon print skirts, punky torn tights, knit caps, and lace-up ankle boots down the runway to her sister Samantha’s soundtrack.
Portman and Kutcher on Love (and Love Scenes)
January 26, 2011
No Strings Attached is the story of two friends with benefits (which was the film’s working title), the twist being that it’s Natalie Portman, not co-star Ashton Kutcher, avoiding love. Portman and Kutcher spoke recently about romance, comedy and the ins and outs of sex scenes.
David O. Russell and Spike Jonze Catch Up
January 26, 2011
To kick off a retrospective of his work at the Museum of the Moving Image, Russell recently sat down with old pal Spike Jonze to discuss his films.
French Film Goes on Tour
January 18, 2011
If your knowledge of French cinema begins with Jean-Luc Godard and ends with Gérard Depardieu, brace yourself: uniFrance and Allocine make a new generation of emerging French filmmakers accessible with its first-ever juried online French film festival.
Alexandra Richards: Spinning Upwards
November 30, 2010
For all the bacchanalian excesses detailed in his best-selling new autobiography, Life (“Johnny [Lennon] and I were so out there that sometimes years later,in New York, he would ask, ‘What happened on that [acid] trip?'”), whatis really shocking about Keith Richards is how normal his family lifehas been.
Diane Keaton Wins the Boys Over
November 10, 2010
Diane Keaton shows serious men how to laugh: “Because I love them so much. They’re very attractive, don’t you think?”
… Gives You Wings!
October 7, 2010
If Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas, Barbet Schroeder’s Barfly and Wim Wenders’ Wings of Desire had a menage a trois, their surrealist progeny would be Idiots and Angels.
Picking Up With Poetry
October 5, 2010
Rene Ricard rarely ventures out of his Hotel Chelsea apartment, but when he does, the art world shows up, as they did this weekend for the “Oil Kills Poets Spill” poetry reading at New York Marble Cemetery in the East Village.