GrouchoReviews.com: Interviews http://grouchoreviews.com/ Fri, 28 Jul 2023 20:09:24 GMT Film/DVD reviews, interviews and features. Interview: Goran Stolevski−Of An Age, You Won‘t Be Alone…2/6/2023 http://grouchoreviews.com/interviews/484 /interviews/484 I think one thing actually that sometimes even gay people seem to forget about: there is something extremely sexy about being the only two people in the room who have a secret that no one else knows about. Sun, 01 Jan 2023 08:00:00 GMT Peter Canavese Interview: Marcia Gay Harden…Confess, Fletch; Miller‘s Crossing…9/16/2022 http://grouchoreviews.com/interviews/483 /interviews/483 It was so much fun. She was slightly, wonderfully over the top, narcissistic, and enjoys life. Sat, 01 Jan 2022 08:00:00 GMT Peter Canavese Interview: Steve Martin & Martin Short…Only Murders in the Building…5/25/2022 http://grouchoreviews.com/interviews/482 /interviews/482 [Martin:] I‘ve read that monkeypox is sexually transmitted, so neither Marty nor I could possibly catch it.“ [Short:] “Unless you can catch it through batteries.“ Sat, 01 Jan 2022 08:00:00 GMT Peter Canavese Interview: Harvey Guillén…Werewolves Within and What We Do in the Shadows…6/25/2021 http://grouchoreviews.com/interviews/481 /interviews/481 I wanted with Joachim to have quirks and certain characteristics that I know from friends and people I‘ve worked with...I love him being over the top and flamboyant, but still grounded, ‘cause we all have a friend like that. Fri, 01 Jan 2021 08:00:00 GMT Peter Canavese Interview: Jack Dylan Grazer & Fionn Whitehead…Don‘t Tell a Soul…12/14/2020 http://grouchoreviews.com/interviews/480 /interviews/480 [Grazer:] I feel like Fionn, not only on set but just in life, showed me the ropes as like a brother would do. Fri, 01 Jan 2021 08:00:00 GMT Peter Canavese Interview: Will Forte…Extra Ordinary, MacGruber…2/17/2020 http://grouchoreviews.com/interviews/479 /interviews/479 I feel like most of the discussion about the character on this one was about hair. (Laughs.) Hair and facial hair....And they told me to take a look at Chris de Burgh videos. Wed, 01 Jan 2020 08:00:00 GMT Peter Canavese Interview: Ruth E. Carter…Dolemite Is My Name, Do the Right Thing…11/20/2019 http://grouchoreviews.com/interviews/477 /interviews/477 I don‘t want to be on my own island...I‘m here to collaborate, not to just be the Grand Poobah of costume design. Tue, 01 Jan 2019 08:00:00 GMT Peter Canavese Interview: Scott Z. Burns & Daniel Jones…The Report…10/11/2019 http://grouchoreviews.com/interviews/476 /interviews/476 [Burns:] ‘The only thing more powerful than telling someone a story they don‘t know is telling someone a story that they thought they knew‘...Whenever I could I used the language and the facts that are in the report to tell the story of the program. Tue, 01 Jan 2019 08:00:00 GMT Peter Canavese Interview: Ira Sachs…Frankie…10/7/2019 http://grouchoreviews.com/interviews/475 /interviews/475 I‘m interested in a democratic narrative...Anyone who is on the screen is interesting. Right? Everyone has their own story. Tue, 01 Jan 2019 08:00:00 GMT Peter Canavese Interview: Alfonso Cuarón…Roma…1/4/2019 http://grouchoreviews.com/interviews/471 /interviews/471 I was very lucky to be raised by two strong and very generous women...[Cleo] embodies, in one hand, those scars that I share with my family, but in the other hand, those scars that I share with a whole society. Tue, 01 Jan 2019 08:00:00 GMT Peter Canavese Interview: Pawel Pawlikowski…Cold War, Ida…10/5/2018 http://grouchoreviews.com/interviews/473 /interviews/473 The more you think about [your parents], the more contradictory they get...A lot of people find themselves in this film. You‘d expect it‘s such an unusual, eccentric story, but... Tue, 01 Jan 2019 08:00:00 GMT Peter Canavese Interview: Peter Hedges…Ben is Back, The Odd Life of Timothy Green…10/12/2018 http://grouchoreviews.com/interviews/474 /interviews/474 Who wants to be directed by their father? Particularly at an age when…the fun part of being 21 is that you fire your parents. Y‘know, you‘re free of them. Mon, 01 Jan 2018 08:00:00 GMT Peter Canavese Interview: Paul Dano…Wildlife, Love & Mercy…10/5/2018 http://grouchoreviews.com/interviews/472 /interviews/472 [I] immediately felt a sort of uncanny personal relationship to it: the characters, the sense of love in this really great struggle...a lot of pain. [Richard Ford] somehow wrote about this very difficult situation with a great amount of compassion. Mon, 01 Jan 2018 08:00:00 GMT Peter Canavese Interview: Frederick Wiseman…Monrovia, Indiana; Titicut Follies…9/28/2018 http://grouchoreviews.com/interviews/470 /interviews/470 I‘m trying to make a group of movies that represent as many different aspects of contemporary life as I can. Mon, 01 Jan 2018 08:00:00 GMT Peter Canavese Interview: Kathryn Hahn & Tamara Jenkins…Private Life…10/5/2018 http://grouchoreviews.com/interviews/469 /interviews/469 [Hahn:] Like childbirth, a movie is like: you kind of forget the pain and would do it again in a second. Mon, 01 Jan 2018 08:00:00 GMT Peter Canavese Interview: Bo Burnham…Eighth Grade…6/7/2018 http://grouchoreviews.com/interviews/468 /interviews/468 I felt...pop culture is insane, and I always felt so gross for participating in it, and so hypocritical for participating in it. So what I’ll be is an angry hypocrite. Because that’s a coherent, at least, worldview. Mon, 01 Jan 2018 08:00:00 GMT Peter Canavese Interview: Paul Schrader…First Reformed, Auto Focus…4/6/2018 http://grouchoreviews.com/interviews/464 /interviews/464 ‘Why are we here? Where are we going? What will become of us?’ And for twenty or thirty thousand years, that’s been a hypothetical question…well, it’s no longer… Mon, 01 Jan 2018 08:00:00 GMT Peter Canavese Interview: Jason Isaacs…The Death of Stalin, Star Trek: Discovery, Harry Potter…4/22/2018 http://grouchoreviews.com/interviews/465 /interviews/465 You can‘t sprinkle perfume on a turd...You can‘t make a bad script into a good story. Mon, 01 Jan 2018 08:00:00 GMT Peter Canavese Interview: Michael Mayer…The Seagull…April 29, 2018 http://grouchoreviews.com/interviews/462 /interviews/462 For most of my life, I really identified with Constantin...but through the years, I‘ve probably become more of a Trigorin. Mon, 01 Jan 2018 08:00:00 GMT Peter Canavese Interview: Armando Iannucci…The Death of Stalin…3/12/2018 http://grouchoreviews.com/interviews/461 /interviews/461 The comedy‘s suddenly different. The jokes are more about crazy behavior, paranoia, and hysteria. Mon, 01 Jan 2018 08:00:00 GMT Peter Canavese