Gervasi's rock heart opened to 'Hitchcock'
With "Hitchcock," Sacha Gervasi made the unlikely journey from heavy metal roadie to feature film director.
Anthony Kaufman
Field linked by matters of heart
When it comes to the foreign-language Oscar, it's become almost a cliche that historical "prestige" dramas -- often related to World War II or other recent European strife -- are the stuff of…
Veterans push past obstacles
Seasoned pros strive for vitality in global cinema scene's changing biz
How to tackle a tyrant
Foreign-lingo pix examine oppression in myriad ways
Melfi: Real-life characters drive bigscreen stories
In the mid-1990s, Ted Melfi was working as a cook in an Italian restaurant in Los Angeles. When a young man with a screenplay asked him if he produced, he said, "Yes." The next thing Melfi knew, he…
Carolin: 'Magic' helps scribe's career take off
As a Harvard-educated Midwesterner who developed the somber Iraq war drama "Stop-Loss," Reid Carolin admits that he never expected a movie about male strippers in Florida would be his big…
Scrappy indies aspire to level playing field
Dating back beyond the mid-'80s, when independently distributed films began to establish a toe-hold in the Oscar race,
Dramas ripped from headlines
From Middle Eastern dustups to natural disasters, fimmakers mine heady inspiration
Baker looks for breakthrough
Since 2002, Sean Baker's claim to fame was a puppet named Greg the Bunny. Co-created by fellow NYU film school alumni Spencer Chinoy and Dan Milano, the character saw iterations on IFC and Fox…
The Weinstein Co has more in store
Can Harvey Weinstein score a hat trick?
