By Jonathan Marlow
January 18, 2006 - 12:14 PM PST

When we next see L.Q. Jones, it'll be in Robert Altman's A Prairie Home Companion in the spring, more than fifty years and scores of film and television roles since his onscreen debut. From his late 2003 conversation with Jonathan Marlow, though, you can tell that the achievement he's most proud of is having made the cult science fiction favorite, A Boy and His Dog.

By Sean Axmaker
January 9, 2006 - 12:11 AM PST

Special effects pioneer and director Douglas Trumbull tells Sean Axmaker what he learned from Stanley Kubrick while working on 2001, why Close Encounters and Blade Runner have a lot more in common than you might see the first time around, about making his own films, Silent Running and Brainstorm, and about the future of cinema as immersive media.

By John Esther
January 2, 2006 - 3:54 AM PST

In an interview touching on class in England and America, sex (the jolly kind) and luck, both good and bad, Emily Mortimer tells John Esther she's nothing at all like her character in Woody Allen's Match Point.

By David D'Arcy
December 26, 2005 - 1:17 AM PST

Addressing both Steven Spielberg's Munich and critical reaction to it, David D'Arcy then talks with Avi Mograbi, whose documentary, Avenge But One of My Two Eyes, takes in through a single lens the ancient Jewish story of Masada and the recent Palestinian intifadas.