Interviews

Sex and the City and Younger creator Darren Star is back with another female-centric comedy, Emily in Paris which stars Lily Collins as a young confident Chicago marketing executive who is hired to provide her perspective at a marketing firm in Paris. Of course, her French counterparts are not the least impressed by what they see as her brash upfront ideas, so this particular American in Paris has to navigate her way in a new city and new culture.

Italian actress and icon Isabella Rossellini, 68, talks about her upcoming show, Sex and Consequences, a one-of-a-kind, 40-minute absurdist comedy about biodiversity and the multiple ways animals reproduce.   The show will be streaming live from her farm, 60 miles outside New York City, and will feature some of her favorite furry co-stars, including goats, dogs, and a temperamental chicken.

Lav Diaz, who is known to be an avid supporter of the slow cinema movement with his usually more than three-hour feature presentations, recently added a feather to his cap with his Orizzonti win for Best Director of his unusually “short” two-hour black-and-white film, Genus Pan (Lahi, Hayop) at the Venice International Film Festival. The movie follows the lives of three Filipino mine workers as well as exposing the corruption of government authorities and questioning the notion of humanity.

In the new supernatural series, The Haunting of Bly Manor, Oliver Jackson-Cohen not only has to navigate through the paranormal and the mystical, but he has to go toe-to-toe with other forces of nature: two adolescents, played by Amelie Bea Smith and Benjamin Evan Ainsworth. “I love working with kids,” laughs the 33-year-old London native, who reunites with the same creative team and cast from the 2018 series The Haunting of Hill House.

Frank Langella knows a thing or two about sucking the life out of an individual. You see, he played Dracula, the title character in John Badham’s 1979 darkly romantic horror film adaptation of the Bram Stoker vampire tale.

Globe-nominated director Luca Guadagnino comes to the small screen with an 8 episode series titled We Are Who We Are, set in Chioggia, Italy, in 2016 on an American military base. Here he tells the adventures of two teenagers, 14-year-olds Fraser and Caitlin, their families and their friends, Italian and American, white and black.

Starring and executive produced by Ethan Hawke, The Good Lord Bird, tells the story of controversial abolitionist John Brown told through the eyes of Henry "Little Onion" Shackleford (played by Joshua Caleb Johnson) a newly freed teenager who joins him on a holy crusade to end slavery. The seven-episode series is based on the National Book Award-winning novel by James McBride.

In 1970, William Friedkin (The Exorcist) directed the film adaptation of the 1968 Broadway play The Boys in the Band. Written by Matt Crowley, the story centers on a group of gay friends who reunite to celebrate one of their birthdays.

Sasha Lane stars in Utopia, the latest offering by Gillian Flynn (Gone Girl) who adapted this critically-acclaimed British series for the United States. Lane, 24, stars opposite John Cusack and Rainn Wilson in the role of Jessica Hyde.

Amanda Collin was at a small film festival representing the Danish film A Horrible Woman when she was approached at a bar by Ridley Scott’s casting director. She was handed a script and the next day was auditioning for 'Mother', the leading role in Scott’s upcoming HBO Max TV series Raised by Wolves.