HFPA in Conversation

For Thierry, Frémaux cinema is the most important thing in the world.   The director of the Cannes Film Festival, the Lumière Film Festival, and the Institut Lumière recently joined HFPA Film Restoration Summit in Los Angeles and gave a special presentation on the Lumière brothers restoration project.

Amy Seimetz considers herself lucky- as an actress, writer, director and producer she can cathartically exorcize some of her demons. “Even in Pet Sematary or any of the horror work or genre work that I’ve done, there is the catharsis to exercising your existential dread.

Henry Winkler has been acting since the 1960s, but it was his Arthur ‘Fonzie’ Fonzarelli - Happy Days' tough biker in a black leather jacket - that made him famous and brought him two Golden Globes in the 1970s.   Several TV shows-Children'ss Hospital, Royal Pains, Parks and Recreation, Arrested Development- followed, complemented with directing, producing and writing children’s books.

In The Mustang, Belgium actor Matthias Schoenaerts plays a violent prison inmate who undergoes a personal transformation when he is entered into a mustang-taming program.   HFPA journalist Greet Ramaekers sat down with Schoenaerts and talked about how an actor from Antwerp ended up having an internationally successful career.

Golden Globe-nominated Cuban-American actor Andy García sat down with HFPA journalist Silvia Bizio in Los Angeles and talked about his long career from 8 Million Ways to Die to his recent movie The Mule.   Working with Clint Eastwood was a dream come true for him.

When Gloria, Chilean filmmaker Sebastián Lelio ’s fourth feature-length film, was released in 2013, it caught Julianne Moore’s attention. Lelio was told that Moore had seen saw the film -the complex journey of a divorced woman - and loved it but he wasn’t interested in doing the remake.

As a boy in New Jersey, Kevin Feige waited for Fridays – that was his movie night.   Now, as a film producer, he is creating movie nights for people around the world.

Matt LeBlanc doesn’t mind if people remember him as Joey from Friends.   But for the last few years, he has been playing Adam Burns on the CBS’ TV show Man with a Plan, currently in its third season.

Controlling.  That is how Anna Paquin described herself when she sat down with journalist Barbara Gasser at the Hollywood Foreign Press Association’s office in West Hollywood.

A three-time Golden Globe winner, composer Justin Hurwitz met journalist Ana Maria Bahiana at HFPA’s office in West Hollywood where he talked about his process of working with director Damien Chazelle.  They have done four movies – Guy and Madeline on a Park Bench, Whiplash, La La Land and First Man.