November 29, 2011
Director Steve McQueen on Michael Fassbender's Shame
Acclaimed visual artist (and tough guy namesake) Steve McQueen made an astonishing feature film debut with 2008's uncompromising prison piece Hunger, a movie that also drew attention to a daring performance from its emerging star, Michael Fassbender. This week, the pair reunite for their second collaboration, Shame, in which Fassbender plays Brandon Sullivan, a New York yuppie trapped in an emotionally crippling labyrinth of sex addiction. The movie, which co-stars Carey Mulligan as Brandon's wayward sister Sissy, finds McQueen trading one form of incarceration for another -- and has placed Fassbender squarely in the acting race for Oscar prognosticators. We had the opportunity to chat with the ever-lively director in Los Angeles recently, where he shared some thoughts on the film.
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November 23, 2011
David Cronenberg Discusses His Dangerous Method
Of all the North American directors to emerge in the 1970s, few have been as consistent -- and consistently fascinating -- as Canadian auteur David Cronenberg, the man whose imagination unleashed Videodrome, The Fly, Crash and A History of Violence (to name just a few). His new film, A Dangerous Method, represents something of an origin piece in Cronenberg's universe, returning to a pivotal moment in the birth of modern psychiatry that predicts the obsession with repressed sexuality, violence and the subconscious so prevalent in his work. We met the director in Los Angeles recently, where he shared his thoughts on psychiatry, hysteria, the connections between his movies... and cigars.
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October 22, 2010
Colin Farrell Wanted for Total Recall Remake
Len Wiseman is gearing up to direct the "Total Recall" remake, and according to the Hollywood Reporter, the short list of potential stars includes Colin Farrell, Tom Hardy, and Michael Fassbender.
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July 9, 2010
Oldman Firth Fassbender Fiennes are Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
Working Title is preparing an adaptation of John le Carré's "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy," and it's got a heck of a pedigree: Peter Morgan wrote the script, Tomas Alfredson ("Let the Right One In") is directing, and the cast includes Gary Oldman, Colin Firth, Michael Fassbender and Ralph Fiennes.
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January 7, 2010
Steven Soderbergh Lines Up a Knockout Cast
We knew Steven Soderbergh had lined up MMA star Gina Carano to topline his action thriller, "Knockout" -- but now we're hearing she'll be joined by Michael Fassbender, Ewan McGregor, Dennis Quaid and Michael Douglas.
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November 4, 2009
Michael Fassbender Talks Centurion
Michael Fassbender will head to Rome -- and the distant past -- for his next picture, Neil Marshall's "Centurion," which he describes to Collider as "a Roman chase film."
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September 9, 2009
Andrea Arnold talks Fish Tank - RT Interview
Having bagged an Oscar for her short film Wasp and a Cannes Jury Prize for her debut feature Red Road, Andrea Arnold concretes her status as one of Britain's hottest new directors with Fish Tank. Harsh, delicate, funny and oh-so-real, this powerful tower-block drama creeps up on you with a startling emotional wallop. Breathtaking in her first ever acting role, Essex girl Katie Jarvis plays a sweary, spiky 15-year-old who dreams of being hip-hop dancer but finds herself drawn towards her single mum's new boyfriend (the superb Michael Fassbender). The heat is just around the corner...
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August 18, 2009
Exclusive: Inglourious Basterds - The Cast Discuss Their Characters
Inglourious Basterds, Quentin Tarantino's unique take on the Second World War, blasts into cinemas on Friday. Following our interview with the maverick director last week, RT sat down for exclusive chats with Brad Pitt, Diane Kruger, Christoph Waltz, Eli Roth, Melanie Laurent, Til Schweiger, Daniel Brühl and Michael Fassbender to learn more about their characters and the Tarantino experience, with additional comments from the director himself. Join us as we discover Tarantino's original plans to play Pitt's character himself, Diane Kruger's desire to record a song in character and how Eli Roth came to replace Adam Sandler. Inglourious Basterds is released in the UK on 19th August, in Australia on 20th August and in the US on 21st August.
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August 12, 2009
Michael Fassbender Talks Jonah Hex
Josh Brolin might be playing the lead in "Jonah Hex," but he told audiences at Comic-Con that Michael Fassbender is the film's show-stealer -- in a role Fassbender discussed in a new interview with ScreenCrave.
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August 11, 2009
Quentin Tarantino talks Inglourious Basterds - RT Interview
With his sixth film, Quentin Tarantino has fashioned the ultimate in pulp fiction, a Second World War epic set in Nazi-occupied France that sees two parallel assassination plots vying to kill off the Big Four: Adolf Hitler, Martin Borman, Joseph Goebbels and Heinrich Himmler. Now, this might suggest that Inglourious Basterds is the pop-culture king's most serious film to date, and though it probably is, it's far from heavy, with outstanding, dry-comedic turns - notably from Brad Pitt as the Tennessee-born Lieutenant Aldo Raine - and an effervescent black humour. Sitting down exclusively with Rotten Tomatoes, he discusses his wartime adventure, over ten years in the making...
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May 20, 2009
Cannes 2009: Tarantino Talks Basterds
The stars were out in full force to support Inglorious Basterds in Cannes this morning, with writer/director Quentin Tarantino and cast members Brad Pitt, Eli Roth, Diane Kruger and Michael Fassbender (amongst others) facing the press on the Croisette. The film follows the efforts of a team of Jewish-American soldiers, nicknamed 'The Basterds', to venture behind enemy lines to capture, maim and kill as many Nazis as possible, and is Tarantino's tribute to the 'men on a mission' movies popularised in the 1960s and '70s. Eli Roth, who plays the baseball bat-wielding Basterd Donnie Donowitz in the movie, called it "kosher porn" for Jews, claiming that murdering Nazis, "is something that I've fantasised about since I was a kid."
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May 15, 2009
Cannes 2009: The Tomato Report ? Andrea Arnold Hits with Fish Tank
Returning to the Cannes Film Festival after a massive success there with your last film is a challenge for any filmmaker -- critics are quick to pounce on falls from form here. Andrea Arnold received an Oscar for her short film Wasp in 2004 and saw her debut feature as a director, Red Road get a competition spot and, ultimately, the jury prize when it played at Cannes in 2006. The tale of Mia (newcomer Katie Jarvis), a 15-year-old whose penchant for trouble has seen her excluded from school and alienated from her friends, Fish Tank joins her on a hot summer's day. Playing to rapturous applause at yesterday morning's press screening, critics wasted no time in praising Fish Tank for its immaculately-drawn characters.
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January 28, 2009
Three for Neil Marshall's Centurion
Olga Kurylenko, Dominic West, and Michael Fassbender have signed on to star in "Centurion," a thriller from Neil Marshall "billed as a thriller set during the Roman invasion of Britain in A.D. 117."
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August 8, 2008
Exclusive: Eden Lake Poster Revealed
RT has been given an exclusive look at a new poster for chilling new horror movie Eden Lake! Written and directed by James Watkins and starring Kelly Reilly, Michael Fassbender and Thomas Turgoose, the film hits cinemas on September 12th.
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