Interviews
Jessica Chastain sits down with Marc Fennell to talk her upcoming film A Most Violent Year. Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SBS2Australia Twitter: https://twitter.com/sbs2 Tumblr: http://sbs2australia.tumblr.com/
Maziar Bahari appeared on a sketch for Jon Stewart's The Daily Show, pretending to talk to a spy, and he was imprisoned for it. Now Stewart has directed a film based on his story. Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SBS2Australia Twitter: https://twitter.com/sbs2 Tumblr: http://sbs2australia.tumblr.com/
Oscar likely Julianne Moore sits down with Marc Fennell to talk Still Alice, Seventh Son, and finally getting the statue. Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SBS2Australia Twitter: https://twitter.com/sbs2 Tumblr: http://sbs2australia.tumblr.com/
Oscar shoo-in Eddy Redmayne talks playing Stephen Hawking in the movie The Theory Of Everything. Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SBS2Australia Twitter: https://twitter.com/sbs2 Tumblr: http://sbs2australia.tumblr.com/
Roy Conli 20 year veteran of Walt Disney Animation talks about Bog Hero 6 and where the studio has gone right and wrong. Will the first animated Marvel film be Disney's next Frozen-sized hit? Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SBS2Australia Twitter: https://twitter.com/thefeedsbs Tumblr: http://sbs2australia.tumblr.com/
I really don't get enough opportunities to bring up eye make-up in interviews. Joel answers the campaign to boycott his new movie Exodus. He talks about having Ridley Scott draw eyeliner on him and having a giant sphinx with his face moved to Bondi.
His labour of love Felony is an exceptionally good film. Here's my full triple j review.
A great movie that wraps around you until you feel as guilty as the characters themselves
52 Tuesdays was a tiny Adelaide film production that's gone on to win huge attention around the world. I sat down with the team behind 52 Tuesdays.
The movie opened strongly in the United States taking $A76.7 million on it's opening weekend and it's since taken more than $400 million worldwide with a large proportion of the audience being adults.
Animation director Chris McKay says Warner Bros gave the Animal Logic team a lot of latitude with the film because of the team’s passion for Lego.
"On the one hand they were expecting us to sort of push the envelope a little bit," says Mr McKay. "They understood what we were trying to do."
The film is filled with pop-culture references but many of them are in the background - a style which Mr McKay says pays homage to the style of movies like 'Who framed Roger Rabbit'.
To many people The Lego Movie might feel like a stop motion film but it’s all computer generated. Mr McKay says the animators paid particular attention to things like camera movement and lighting to apply real world limitations to their 3D animation.
"[We] put the camera in places that on a set only the camera could go... put the lights in a place that only the lights could go" says Mr McKay. "That gave it a very realistic feeling."
The Lego Movie was made locally at Animal Logic in Sydney - the studio known for its work on films like Happy Feet.
But despite film being made in Australia we're one of the last countries to see it in cinema.
Mr McKay says he wished The Lego Movie could have been shown here earlier.
"I understand the frustration, I've felt it myself," says Mr McKay. "Top to bottom this movie was made here in Australia."
"There's nothing I wanted more than to show this to the people that made it."
