Director ERIC APPEL Makes THE BREADWINNER Feel Real With Chaos, Clutter and Comedy – Exclusive Interview
Director Eric Appel didn’t just want THE BREADWINNER to be funny. He wanted the chaos to feel real.
Director Eric Appel didn’t just want THE BREADWINNER to be funny. He wanted the chaos to feel real.
Stunt Coordinator ANDY RUSK talks practical gags, 1970s car-chase DNA, Ethan Hawke’s physical instincts, and why nobody in FX’s Tulsa noir is especially good at violence.
“It’s what we wanted,” Adkins says with a laugh. “Just to make an entertaining, silly movie with a buffoon in the lead.” And Adkins’s Devon truly is a buffoon in the best possible way.
As director of four pivotal episodes and executive producer of ALIEN: EARTH, DANA GONZALES balances franchise legacy with bold evolution, crafting a visually and emotionally layered expansion of the Alien universe.
Barker has delivered a film that feels both confident and inventive—blending psychological horror, practical filmmaking, and a sly sense of humor into something refreshingly original.
With FORGE, writer-director Jing Ai Ng takes the bones of a true-crime art-world scandal and transforms them into something far more psychologically textured than a standard forgery thriller.
For writer/director JOHN MICHAEL KENNEDY, “I really like films when characters live in the gray. It’s more like real life.”
Rather than simply extending the episodic storytelling onto a larger canvas, Arias Munoz approached CASA GRANDE as an opportunity to re-engineer the material through a more expansive cinematic lens.
BEHIND THE LENS was on the Opening Night “Green” Carpet for the 17th Annual TCM CLASSIC FILM FESTIVAL for a Carpet Chat with actor CHRISTOPHER McDONALD, who was on hand with some of his former co-stars to honor GREASE 2.
BEHIND THE LENS was on the Opening Night “Green” Carpet for the 17th Annual TCM CLASSIC FILM FESTIVAL for a Carpet Chat with ANDREAS DEJA, Disney Animation Historian, Disney animator, a “Disney Legend”.
BEHIND THE LENS was on the Opening Night “Green” Carpet for the 17th Annual TCM CLASSIC FILM FESTIVAL for a Carpet Chat with GENEVIEVE McGILLICUDDY, Vice President, Enterprises & Strategic Partnerships of TCM, and Executive Director of the TCM Classic Film Festival.
BEHIND THE LENS was on the Opening Night “Green” Carpet for the 17th Annual TCM CLASSIC FILM FESTIVAL for a Carpet Chat with DIANE BAKER, actor, producer, educator. Diane does it all!
