TheWrap Magazine
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How Ukraine Oscar Entry ‘Klondike’ Tells a Timely Story Set in the Past
TheWrap magazine: “We made this film to very carefully ask the international audience: ‘What do you think about the situation on the border of Russia and Ukraine?’” says director Maryna Er Gorbach
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‘Last Flight Home’ Director on Filming Her Father Before His Medically Assisted Death
TheWrap magazine: Ondi Timoner says turning on the cameras during her dad’s final days “suddenly became so valuable to everyone”
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‘Navalny’ Director Daniel Roher: Imprisoned Russian Opposition Leader’s Impact on History is Unfulfilled
TheWrap magazine: “It’s very, very sad to know that (Alexei Navalny) has never seen our film and he may never see our film,” the filmmaker says
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‘Good Night Oppy’ Director on Making a Doc for Steven Spielberg: ‘I Wanted to Make Him Proud’
TheWrap Magazine: “Making a film like this, that’s very Spielberg in its branding, I felt intimidated,” Ryan White says of his movie about two Mars rovers
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‘Return to Seoul’ Director Davy Chou on What It Means to Live Between Two Cultures
TheWrap magazine: Chou’s film, about a woman struggling to figure out who she is and where she belongs, is Cambodia’s Oscar entry
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Why Robert Downey Jr. Gave His Blessing to ‘Sr.,’ the Documentary About His Filmmaker Father
TheWrap magazine: Director Chris Smith (“American Movie”) talks about how how the young Downey contributed to the film charting his father’s illness
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How ‘Fire of Love’ Doc Captured the Larger-Than-Life Spirit of Famed Volcanologists
TheWrap magazine: “The more we learned, and the more imagery we saw, we were just blown away — forgive the pun,” says director Sara Dosa
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‘Holy Spider’ Director Ali Abbasi Says Protests in Iran Have Made His Film About Murdered Sex Workers ‘Part of a Bigger Thing’
TheWrap magazine: “The magnitude of what’s happening in Iran, it’s so huge that I forget about the movie sometimes,” Abbasi says
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‘Argentina, 1985’ Asks a Timely Question: How Fragile Is Democracy?
TheWrap magazine: “There was a lot of mistrust, a lot of misinformation, a lot of skepticism in the air,” says actor Ricardo Darín of the case study behind Argentina’s Oscar entry
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How Celebrated Composer J. Ralph Focused on ‘Empowerment’ to Write Song for ‘The Voice of Dust and Ash’
TheWrap magazine: Ralph’s song is featured in a key scene of the documentary about the late Iranian musician Mohammad Reza Shajarian
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How ‘Decision to Leave’ Director Park Chan-wook Combined Police Procedural and Romance to Make His Slow-Burn Mystery
TheWrap magazine: ” I wanted to make a sexy story without sex and a love story that does not say the words, ‘I love you,’” Park says
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How ‘Tár’ and ‘Women Talking’ Composer Hildur Guðnadóttir Surprised Herself With an ‘Optimistic’ Score
TheWrap magazine: Guðnadóttir composed for two very different films that both took her on “beautiful” creative journeys” and “Women Talking” could get the Oscar-winning composer of “Joker” back on the Oscars red carpet in 2023
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Director Laura Poitras Was Intimidated to Work With ‘Incredibly Brave’ Artist Nan Goldin on Doc ‘All the Beauty and the Bloodshed’
TheWrap magazine: “Both in the process of this film and in her own work, she goes to a place that rarely artists go to, in terms of vulnerability and honesty,” Poitras told TheWrap
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‘Wednesday’ Creators Alfred Gough and Miles Millar on Collaborating With Tim Burton on the Creepy, Kooky Series
TheWrap magazine: When it came time to look for directors, “He was always our first choice, for obvious reasons,” Gough says
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How ‘The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power’ Cast Brought a New Middle-earth to Life
TheWrap magazine: The cast and showrunners share behind-the-scenes stories about lengthy audition processes, casting Sauron and bonding during a pandemic
