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Five Favorite Films with Werner Herzog

The director of Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans talks about his wild career.
By Tim Ryan on Tuesday, Nov. 17 2009, 03:19 PM comment50 Comments

During his remarkable 40-year career, Werner Herzog has made some of world cinema's boldest films -- including Aguirre, the Wrath of God, Stroszek, Fitzcaraldo, and a remake of Nosferatu. In recent years, he's approached mainstream success in the United States, with the eccentric documentary Grizzly Man and the Vietnam war film Rescue Dawn, which starred Christian Bale. His latest, Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans, features Nicolas Cage and Eva Mendes in the tale of a cop who tries to solve a brutal murder and keep his grip on reality while battling drug addiction, gambling debts, and familial woes. Read the full article to get the whole story.

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Eric Bana talks Love the Beast - RT Interview

On why he's such a petrol head.
By Joe Utichi on Monday, Nov. 16 2009, 04:21 PM Comment8 Comments

Not a lot of people know that actor Eric Bana, familiar to most from roles in the likes of Star Trek, Munich and Ang Lee's Hulk, is a massive petrol head. With the release of Love the Beast, Bana aims to change that. It's a love letter to his pride and joy, a Ford GT Falcon Coupe which he's owned since he was 15, a documentary about his obsession with it and with racing, and the mourning attached to his crash during the Targa rally in 2007. Along the way Bana interviews the likes of Jeremy Clarkson, Jay Leno and Dr. Phil as he attempts to understand his passion better. In London to promote the UK release -- it's out on DVD now -- Bana sat down with RT to talk more about his pride and joy.

Fight Club Sound Designer Reflects on Film's 10th Anniversary

Ren Klyce breaks the first and second rule of Fight Club by talking about it.
By Oscar Hillerstrom on Sunday, Nov. 15 2009, 05:51 PM Comment38 Comments

Ren Klyce may not be a household name to most, but for those who are keen on sound design, he's the kind of chap that you might mention alongside Ben Burtt, the legendary creator of the Star Wars soundscapes. Working with David Fincher (almost exclusively) since 1995's Se7en, he has created some of the most memorably unnerving soundscapes ever put to film. One of which was, of course, 1999's iconic Fight Club. With the film's 10-year anniversary a special edition is being released on Blu-ray and DVD, with extras devoted entirely to the sometimes shockingly graphic sounds that underpinned what is still, for many, a confronting film. For others, of course, it's a modern day masterpiece. We spoke with Ren on the Fox Studios Lot in Los Angeles and he gave us the low down on what inspires him in movies, and just what went into the creation of those bone-shattering fight sequences.

James Schamus talks Taking Woodstock - RT Interview

By Joe Utichi on Friday, Nov. 13 2009, 09:06 AM Comment6 Comments

James Schamus might be a workaholic. If it's not enough that he's the head of Focus Features -- the independent imprint of Universal -- he's also an established producer and screenwriter best known for his collaborations with Ang Lee. This week sees the release of the pair's latest, Taking Woodstock, a comedy about a family integral to the birth of the infamous Woodstock concert of 1969. And if that isn't enough, he's an associate professor of film at Columbia University and just delivered a politically-charged lecture to a rapt London Film Festival audience. While in town, he sat down with RT to talk about the release of Taking Woodstock, his work at Focus and his thoughts on the Tomatometer...

Five Favourite Films with Ang Lee

The Oscar-winner explains his picks.
By Joe Utichi on Thursday, Nov. 12 2009, 09:22 AM Comment34 Comments

The rule that no two Ang Lee movies are ever the same is confidently kept intact with the release of his latest, Taking Woodstock, a comedy about the true story behind the Woodstock music festival in 1969. It follows romantic wartime drama Lust, Caution and the Oscar-winning Brokeback Mountain on the director's CV and arrives in UK cinemas this week. As RT sits down with Lee to ask his five favourite films, he's keen to point out that if we'd asked him another day we'd have received an entirely different list. "It's a hard one to answer," he tells us. "I could give 50, or 100. I'll throw out 5 that come into my head."

10 Movies That Changed The (End Of The) World

With 2012 destroying the world in theaters this week, we look back at the seminal films of the cinematic apocalypse
By Michael Adams on Wednesday, Nov. 11 2009, 08:11 PM Comment32 Comments

This week's 2012 sees director Roland Emmerich getting back to doing what he does best -- or worst, depending on which side of the argument you fall -- as he uses Mayan prophecy as a loose pretext for laying waste to the planet in a way that would shame even his previous Independence Day and The Day After Tomorrow. Of course, movie-makers have been depicting the end of the world since the dawn of cinema, so we decided to take a look back at 10 of the landmark films of the disaster genre. Have a nice apocalypse, kids...

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John Hurt Talks Harry Potter, Quentin Crisp and Alien - The RT Interview

The legendary thesp on the state of British film.Comment15 Comments

12 Facts About 2012

We take a journey through Roland Emmerich's disaster epic.Comment135 Comments

Terry Gilliam Talks Doctor Parnassus

The legendary director discusses fate, losing his friend Heath Ledger, and why he thinks filmmaking is so 'unreasonable'Comment32 Comments

Five Favourite Films with 24's Carlos Bernard

Tony Almeida himself chats Season 7 with RT.Comment33 Comments

Six Horrible Part Sixes

With Saw VI in cinemas this week, how will it rank against these horror franchise bombs?Comment32 Comments

Wes Anderson Talks Fantastic Mr. Fox - RT Interview

The director on moving into stop-motion.Comment8 Comments

Christopher Smith's Favourite Cult Horror Films

The Triangle director on the films you have to see to believe.Comment14 Comments

Wolverine Creator Len Wein Talks About the Film

The comic book creator chats with RT about X-Men Origins: Wolverine -- and discusses editing Watchmen with Alan Moore and Dave GibbonsComment28 Comments

Gavin Hood Talks Wolverine; Possible Sequel

With X-Men Origins: Wolverine on DVD, we caught up with the director for a chat.Comment56 Comments

Five Favorite Films with F. Gary Gray

The director of Law Abiding Citizen also talks about his career and debuting his films with audiences.Comment29 Comments

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