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Marshall Shaffer

Marshall Shaffer’s interviews, reviews, and other commentary also appear regularly in Slashfilm, Decider, and Little White Lies.

Eddie Redmayne

Interview: Eddie Redmayne on The Aeronauts and Accessing Physicality

by Marshall Shaffer
December 2, 2019

Redmayne discusses everything from calibrating his physicality in rehearsals to cultivating his imagination on a barren set.

Céline Sciamma

Interview: Céline Sciamma on Redefining the Muse with Portrait of a Lady on Fire

by Marshall Shaffer
December 1, 2019

Our talk ranged from the personal to the political, her singular work to the cinema at large.

Marielle Heller

Interview: Marielle Heller on Mr. Rogers and A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood

by Marshall Shaffer
November 21, 2019

Our conversation led us into discussion about how far Mr. Rogers’s philosophy can extend into today’s world.

Lauren Greenfield

Interview: Lauren Greenfield on The Kingmaker and Threats to Democracy

by Marshall Shaffer
November 11, 2019

Greenfield discusses how the film relates to her body of work and the warnings Americans ought to heed from it.

Julius Onah and Kelvin Harrison Jr.

Interview: Julius Onah and Kelvin Harrison Jr. Talk Luce’s Ambiguities

by Marshall Shaffer
August 8, 2019

Onah and Harrison discuss their approach to creating the film’s central character and how they navigated his many dualities.

Lynn Shelton

Interview: Lynn Shelton on Honing Her Process for Sword of Trust

by Marshall Shaffer
July 15, 2019

The filmmaker discusses how she wants viewers to feel like they’re paratrooping into her characters’ lives.

Jack Reynor

Interview: Jack Reynor on His Reverse Hero’s Journey in Midsommar

by Marshall Shaffer
July 2, 2019

It’s been a whirlwind for Reynor to process the wide swath of reactions sparked by his character in the film.

Joe Talbot and Jimmie Fails

Interview: Joe Talbot and Jimmie Fails Talk The Last Black Man in San Francisco

by Marshall Shaffer
June 9, 2019

Fails and Talbot live and breathe their city, even as its dominant tech industry is wiping away its offbeat majesty.

Mary Harron

Interview: Mary Harron on Charlie Says and Correcting the Record on Manson

by Marshall Shaffer
May 9, 2019

Harron’s background as a journalist and critic was apparent as we discussed her latest film.

Robert Pattinson

Interview: Claire Denis and Robert Pattinson on the Making of High Life

by Marshall Shaffer
April 8, 2019

The director and actor discuss how the film’s main character progressed from Denis’s imagination to Pattinson’s realization.

Mike Leigh

Interview: Mike Leigh on Peterloo and the Currency of Period Films

by Marshall Shaffer
April 5, 2019

Leigh discusses the seemingly counterintuitive process of making a period film more contemporarily relevant by fully embracing the past.

Barry Jenkins

Interview: Barry Jenkins on If Beale Street Could Talk and Generational Joy

by Marshall Shaffer
December 19, 2018

Jenkins discusses his artistic inspirations, how he’s developed his cinematic voice, and more.

Interview: Alice Rohrwacher on Happy as Lazzaro and the Past in the Present Tense

Interview: Alice Rohrwacher on Happy as Lazzaro and the Past in the Present Tense

by Marshall Shaffer
November 27, 2018

Rohrwacher discusses why she needed to make this film at this moment.

Hirokazu Kore-eda

Interview: Kore-eda Hirokazu on the Invisible People of Shoplifters

by Marshall Shaffer
November 20, 2018

Kore-eda Hirokazu discusses what motivated him to make his Palme d’Or-winning triumph.

Interview: Richard E. Grant on Morality and Can You Ever Forgive Me?

Interview: Richard E. Grant on Morality and Can You Ever Forgive Me?

by Marshall Shaffer
October 18, 2018

Grant discusses portraying persons who have good and bad in them.

Interview: Melissa McCarthy on Lying to Achieve Truth in Can You Ever Forgive Me?

Interview: Melissa McCarthy on Lying to Achieve Truth in Can You Ever Forgive Me?

by Marshall Shaffer
October 18, 2018

McCarthy discusses how her process changed to play a real person.

Interview: Jacques Audiard on the Making of The Sisters Brothers

Interview: Jacques Audiard on the Making of The Sisters Brothers

by Marshall Shaffer
September 20, 2018

Audiard discusses his alterations to the source novel, as well as his on-the-fly shooting style.

Nick Kroll on Operation Finale and Embracing Drama

Interview: Nick Kroll on Operation Finale and Embracing Drama

by Marshall Shaffer
August 26, 2018

The actor and comedian discusses the similarity of his process across genres.

Operation Finale

Review: Operation Finale

by Marshall Shaffer
August 24, 2018

The film never manages to reconcile the enormity of the Holocaust with how ordinary a bureaucrat Eichmann was.

Jeremiah Zagar

Interview: Jeremiah Zagar on the Intimacy of We the Animals

by Marshall Shaffer
August 16, 2018

The director discusses how his film functions in the larger conversation of queer cinema.

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