At Sundance 2008 I had a chance to speak with documentary filmmaker Morgan Spurlock (Super Size Me) about his new film Where in the World is Osama Bin Laden? which hits theaters today. Listen to the full interview below. We’ve included a chapter guide so that you can skip to the best parts. I recommend listening to Morgan’s story of his run-in with the FBI. Enjoy.

00:00 His Experiences at 2004 with Super Size Me
00:40 Morgan’s Return to Sundance
01:00 Promoting a Movie at Sundance
01:25 The Indiana Jones Parody Poster
02:00 Spoiler Alert: Morgan Didn’t Find Osama
02:30 Did You Think you actually had a chance to find Osama?
03:00 What would you have done [...]

Entertainment Weekly has a good sit down interview with Steven Speilberg and George Lucas. The most interesting part of the interview is where the two legendary directors talk about the effect that the Internet Spoiler has had on cinema. Here is a short excerpt:
Spielberg: It really is important to be able to point out that the Internet is still filled with more speculation than facts. The Internet isn’t really about facts. It’s about people’s wishful thinking, based on a scintilla of evidence that allows their imaginations to springboard. And that’s fine.
Lucas: Y’know, Steven will say, ”Oh, everything’s out on the Internet [in terms of Crystal Skull details] - what this [...]

A bunch of middle school kids interview Juno director Jason Reitman at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival. One of the brats asks Reitman where he finds time to call his father (Ivan Reitman) when he needs to know where to put the camera. Another one of the kids follows up with a question asking “Since you really have no chance of winning the Academy Award, was it still fun being nominated?” The look on Reitman’s face is hilarious. I need to find these middle school kids and hire them on to do interviews for /Film… oh yeah, and that sexman guy too…
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Hello again everyone, I’ve returned from Park City, but I’ve unfortunately caught the flu (which most people in Utah were referring to as “The Sundance Bug”). I know at least seven other people who caught this thing while working at Sundance, and one of my good friends, Frosty, even ended up flying home early. I hope this thing will be over with in a 24-48 hours, but right now I’m feeling pretty crappy. I’m going to try and update the site the best I can, and hopefully Hunter will continue to help fill the gaps. But I just wanted you guys to know that we’ll be back to normal in [...]

As you probably know, I’m a huge fan of Chuck Palahniuk, best known as the author of Fight Club. I’ve attended, god knows how many of his public events over the years, and got the chance to sit down with Palahniuk in Park City Utah at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival to talk about the big screen adaptation of his novel Choke. The photo above was taken at the Choke premiere, the night before this interview. Palahniuk leaned his head across mine right before the flash. “Congratulations, now you have syphilis.” he added. Fans of the author will surely recognize his patented sense of humor.
Palahniuk chats with me about the [...]

The production notes for the big screen adaptation of Chuck Palahniuk’s Choke includes an extensive interview with director/screenwriter/co-star Clark Gregg. Read the interview below. Check back tomorrow for my exclusive interview with Chuck.
Adapting Choke
What exactly drew you to the book?
When I was given the book I was aware of Chuck.  I had loved Fight Club.  When I read Choke, I couldn’t put my finger on it.  My mother is not Ida and I never worked in a colonial village, but there was something about it that felt painfully familiar and really unusual in the way it represented sexuality as another thing — that is a consumer obsession in this [...]

You can now watch JJ Abrams’ speech from the TED Conference from last March below. Abrams doesn’t talk about any specific movie or television projects (Lost, Cloverfield, Star Trek), but instead gives some insight into the way he thinks and a “Mystery Box” which has has had since he was a kid, but has never opened. A must watch for any Abrams fan. Check it out below.

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Tim Burton sat down with David Poland for a 40 minute interview to talk about his latest film, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street. I really love long form interviews, and there are few directors in Hollywood that I find more interesting than Tim Burton (at least as a person). The most interesting part of the interview comes near the end where Burton admits that Green Screens give him a headache, and talks about his feelings on the advancements in technology. I agree with Burton, technology shouldn’t be used just because we have it. It’s something better assessed project to project, depending on what the story calls for. [...]

Yesterday i got the chance to sit down with Michel Gondry, and I’ll be publishing that interview at a later date. But for now I have something special for you guys. After my interview, the music video turned film director made an appearance at the Apple Store in downtown San Francisco which was moderated by SF360’s Susan Gerhard, and featuring a surprise appearance by Be Kind Rewind star Mos Def. I was in attendance and caught the whole thing on tape.
Gondry talks in depth about his new film Be Kind Rewind before opening the floor up to questions. An Interesting exchange happens where Gondry tells Mos Def that he will [...]

Paramount Vantage has provided us with video interviews with the stars of one of the best films of 2007 - Paul Thomas Anderson’s There Will Be Blood. Watch below as Daniel Day Lewis and Paul Dano talk about this new film classic. It’s amazing how much different Daniel is from the characters he creates.
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Director Matt Reeves has begun doing press for the upcoming JJ Abrams-produced monster flick Cloverfield. Here are some highlights from the various interviews:
On the Movie Poster: “The inspiration came from the poster of Escape from New York. The poster had an image on it of the head of the Statue of Liberty and that image was nowhere in the movie!”
On Seeing or Not Seeing The Monster: “People who have seen the trailer might think we are using this style to avoid seeing the monster, but that is definitely not what we’re doing. We’re using it to build dread and anticipation.”       “But in this movie, you do see a lot. At [...]

Director Eli Roth (Hostel, Thanksgiving) and actor Josh Brolin (Goonies, No Country For Old Men) sat down and had a conversation and MySpace shot it for their video interview feature Artists on Artists.
Josh Brolin tells the story of how he got Robert Rodriguez to shoot his audition tape for No Country, while Quentin Tarantino directed. Roth talks about his experience meeting Joel Cohan, and unleashing fanboy praise upon him. Brolin discusses his very short conversation with ‘The Brothers. They also discuss the value of test screening films. Roth talks about writing movies in long hand in public locations, advice he got from Tarantino. Roth also shares a couple of the [...]

A couple weeks ago, we had the opportunity to sit down with Donnie Darko director Richard Kelly and talk about his newest film Southland Tales.
I know, I know, we’re a little late in posting this interview, as the film was released in limited theaters this past week. But as much as this is the type of movie that you must see multiple times to understand, this interview should probably only be read or listened to after you have seen the film, or it likely won’t make complete sense. I have posted the audio file from the roundtable interview below, and you can read the transcript after the jump.

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Last week we got the chance to sit down and talk with Beowulf star John Malkovich. You can read the round table interview below.
Question: Is that one of your own outfits that you’re wearing today? You’ve got a clothing line don’t you?
John Malkovich: I did.  I don’t anymore.
Q: I could never find it.
John Malkovich: You and everyone else. 
Q: This was kind of amazing because we do recognize you in this movie even under the wig and the whatever.  What did you see about this character?  Is he the villain of the piece outside of the monster?
John Malkovich: No, I don’t think so.  [...]

Last week we got the chance to sit down and talk with Roger Avary (Pulp Fiction, Rules of Attraction) and Neil Gaiman (Sandman, Stardust), the screenwriter’s of Robert Zemeckis’ Beowulf. During the roundtable interview, we heard tales about the 10 year struggle to bring Beowulf to the screen, the magic of performance capture, the troubles with adapting a poem into a feature film, the possibility of comic books during the Writers Strike, and the mismarketing of Stardust. Check out the interview below.

Question: When did you guys start on Beowulf?
Gaiman: 10 and half year now. We went off to write the first draft of the script for Beowulf in May 1997. [...]