Simon Abrams

Life of Pi Star Irrfan Khan on Crossing Over From Bollywood to American Film and TV

Simon AbramsNovember 15, 2012

"I can't think of a more pathetic situation for an actor than to do a film and not connect to it," Irrfan Khan says. "And I pray to God that I never face that situation." Khan might not be one of the biggest stars in Bollywood, especially when compared with......

Cloud Atlas: Inside the Wachowskis' World

Simon AbramsOctober 25, 2012

It's a Sunday afternoon in New York, and Tom Tykwer and the filmmakers formerly known as the Wachowski brothers are talking about Zardoz, that odd and ambitious 1974 science fiction drama most infamous for featuring a gun-vomiting godhead and Sean Connery in a mankini. As a film that confronts viewers......

Director Genndy Tartakovsky Chats About Hotel Transylvania, His Feature Debut

Simon AbramsSeptember 27, 2012

"I hate realism," director Genndy Tartakovsky said last week over the phone. "In America especially, we're very narrow-minded as far as animation goes. There is only one kind of movie, and that's that big, family-oriented, four-quadrant, please-everyone kind of film. But if I wanted realism, I'd watch a live-action movie......

David Cronenberg's Cosmopolis: Director Tells Us How He Adapted Don DeLillo's Novel for the Screen

Simon AbramsAugust 9, 2012

One of the most interesting things about Cosmopolis, writer-director David Cronenberg's extraordinary adaptation of Don DeLillo's novel by the same name, is that it's the first script Cronenberg has both written and shot since 1999's eXistenZ. Additionally, his adaptation of Cosmopolis marks the first time he has adapted a work......

Mumbai Diaries

Simon AbramsJanuary 20, 2011

MUMBAI DIARIES Mumbai Diaries — a new Indian indie written and directed by Kiran Rao that's kind of about a romantic rich man/rich girl/poor boy love triangle, but mostly about vanishing culture in Mumbai — is sadly only as interesting as its peripheral details. Star Aamir Khan, who also produced......

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Life of Pi Star Irrfan Khan on Crossing Over From Bollywood to American Film and TV

Cloud Atlas: Inside the Wachowskis' World

Director Genndy Tartakovsky Chats About Hotel Transylvania, His Feature Debut

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