Carol“I remember very clearly the day when we shot the scene when Carol and Therese first have lunch together. It was such an extraordinary scene, and we got to do it in these long takes. It was our first real back and forth scene with dialogue,” says Mara, who plays ... More

Carol“At the premiere in Cannes, we were nervous, but that really was an amazing night. I felt like I was in a fairytale,” the director recalls. “There was a lot of advance word of mouth on Carol, so I felt anxious about the film being looked at and all of ... More

Room“We had been inside this tiny, 10-foot-by-10-foot room that had been built for us for a month. It had been hard being inside that room, and everybody was like, ‘I can’t wait until we escape,’” explains Larson, who stars in Room, a harrowing account of a young woman and her ... More

The Big Short “The big moment for me was when I first watched the rough assembly of the movie, which our editor did an amazing job with,” the film’s director Adam McKay says. “I’ve never seen one that played as well as this. Usually it’s a mess, with long parts of ... More

Son of Saul “The first time we were shown around the set—this is the gas chamber, this is the crematorium, this is the bunker—was the first concrete moment when I felt it was going to be alright,” says the Son of Saul star. “It somehow felt familiar, and like this was ... More

The Danish Girl  “There is a scene in the film, in which my character Lili is still living as Einar, and she goes out in Paris to a peep show,” Redmayne says of his role as a transgender woman in 1920s Europe. “There are men watching this woman dance, and Lili ... More

The Danish Girl  “A defining moment for me on The Danish Girl was Alicia Vikander’s London screen test with Eddie. It was the first time I saw Alicia bring Gerda to life. But it was also the first time I saw Eddie as Lili Elbe,” says Hooper, the film’s director. “I ... More

The Big Short “There aren’t any times when I sit back after a take and think, I nailed it! I always had the sense that if I felt satisfied at the end of shooting a scene that I should retire right then,” Carell says of the film The Big Short, which ... More

In director Todd Haynes’ Carol, a young store clerk (Rooney Mara’s Therese) meets a woman (Cate Blanchett’s Carol) doing her holiday shopping and finds her life turned completely upside down. And while Haynes’ sumptuous filmmaking—as well as a top-notch script and homerun performances—makes for a beautiful story, the relationship ... More

Knifing into the sky 21,000 feet above the Ganges River in the Garhwal Himalayas of Northern India, the “Shark’s Fin” on Mount Meru has earned its reputation among big-wall climbers. It’s a perfect storm of Earth’s most inhospitable elements. Which is precisely why it’s a constant siren song for so many in ... More