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My interview with Guillermo Del Toro, my second of the “Three Amigos” Mexican filmmakers (see archives for Inaritu). What an amazing guy!
For the latest NYLON I got to interview the lovely Elliott Holt, whose new novel, YOU ARE ONE OF THEM, is out soon from The Penguin Press.
Actress Kate Lyn Sheil is a film nerd with a penchant for playing dark, tormented characters. And nothing
Director Brandon Cronenberg deep dives into the cult of celebrity with his first feature, Antiviral. By Mike Harvkey. Photographed by Kathy Lo
Brandon Cronenberg on the celebrity narrative, the celebrity virus, and the celebrity, er, anus.
Tequan had better get ready for a seismic shift in his career. Currently a regular on General Hospital (and formerly on Everybody Loves Chris), he makes a star turn in Blue Caprice, as “beltway sniper” Lee Boyd Malvo. The film was one of the most talked about at this year’s Sundance.
The young Pulitzer Prize nominee talks about the matter-of-fact strangeness of her home state, what she learned from George Saunders, and her new (already bestselling) short story collection, Vampires in the Lemon Grove.
For the March/April 2013 NYLON Guys I got to sit down (twice) with the indomitable Eddie Huang. The first time the food was on Cipriani in TriBeCa. The second, it was on Eddie (don’t tell anyone, but I enjoyed Eddie’s pork buns more).
The Dec/Jan issue of NYLON was dominated by low- and micro-budget indies like the incredible Pavilion, but it’s Caitlin’s hard-hitting review of On the Road that everyone will read first. Apparently the “that’s not writing, it’s typing” idea extends to the film version: “that’s not directing, it’s operating a camera?”
I love the way this turned out! For TRUNK Magazine, I wrote a piece about both well known and lesser known (but not unknown, or known unknown) thriller writers working away across the globe.
For NYLON’s October 2012 issue I got to talk to Sean Baker, the puppet master behind the sly indie Starlet, featuring fearless model Dree Hemingway. I also toss in my two cents on Joe Wright’s fascinating Anna K, and 3, 2, 1 Frankie Go Boom. I’ll take uneven fun any day if I get to watch Lizzy Caplan on screen.
Over “summer beer flights,” Scoot and I sat at a sidewalk bar off Court street in Cobble Hill, Brooklyn for two hours, talking about the extraordinary run of five big films he’s completed in the last year. It was a nice ‘n easy conversation. Scoot’s a cool cat.
This profile will appear in the October 2012 issue of NYLON.
Boy oh boy, Ezra is one kookie kid. And a lot of fun to interview. I did this one on the cusp of Kevin, which I thought would make him a star. It sorta did, and The Perks of Being a Wallflower will likely do the rest.
This one ran in the December 2011 issue of NYLON.
