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Sam Rockwell On ‘Moon,’ Mind Games, And The Perils Of Clone Ping-Pong
7:45AM STV | Sundance wouldn’t be Sundance without an appearance or four by Sam Rockwell, whose superb sci-fi effort Moon features the actor playing opposite one of his most formidable co-stars to date: Himself. More »
Director Stephen Daldry on Sex, Moguls and Surviving ‘The Reader’
2:28AM STV | The culmination of our dedicated coverage of The Reader — from Rudin/Weinstein blow-ups to Oscar prognoses to its sexual audacity — arrived this weekend when director Stephen Daldry phoned Defamer HQ. “Sorry, I overslept,” he said in his dignified brogue — a forgivable lapse under the circumstances, with his Kate Winslet film following his Billy Elliot stage adaptation by mere weeks on his late-’08 calendar. Nevertheless, we got him properly caffeinated and settled in for a rousing installment of Five Questions (plus one, just for appropriate awards-season breadth): More »
EXCLUSIVE: Dennis Hopper Pleased With New Film, Not So Much With Career
2:30AM STV | For all the talk about Sir Ben Kingsley’s sex scenes with Penelope Cruz and Patricia Clarkson, the new film Elegy arguably features an even more up-front intimacy between the Oscar-winner and Dennis Hopper — Kingsley’s sidekick in academia who counsels him through an intense romantic relationship with an ex-student (played by Cruz). We won’t spoil it for you; let it suffice to say the role is Hopper’s latest in a marathon of work that has seen three films released this year and finds the 72-year-old halfway through shooting Starz’ adaptation of the Paul Haggis film Crash. We tracked Hopper down this week to run through Elegy, Crash and the 50-plus turbulent years that preceded them — all in five convenient questions (and a few surprisingly candid replies) after the jump. More »
