Meet the Filmmaker

Join filmmakers Matt Damon and John Krasinski as they discuss their new drama "Promised Land." Directed by Van Sant, the film follows ace corporate salesman (Damon) who is sent to a rural town with his partner (Frances McDormand) to close a key deal in his company’s expansion plans. What seems like an easy job becomes complicated by numerous roadblocks, including a grassroots campaign led by a well-meaning farmer (Krasinski). Promised Land explores America at the crossroads, where big business and the strength of small-town community converge.

Join BAFTA-award winning director Mike Newell (Four Weddings and Funeral, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire), Jeremy Irvine (War Horse) and Holliday Grainger (The Borgias, Anna Karenina) as they discuss their latest film, Great Expectations. Based on the Charles Dickens’ classic, the young orphan Pip (Irvine) is given a chance to rise from his humble beginnings thanks to a mysterious benefactor. Pip uses his new found position to pursue the beautiful Estella (Grainger); a spoilt heiress he’s loved since childhood.

Join Oscar-nominated filmmaker David O. Russell ("The Fighter") as he discusses "Silver Linings Playbook," his new film about a man who has lost everything after a stint in a mental institution. Written and directed by Russell, the film tells the story of Pat Solitano (Bradley Cooper) who moves back in with his parents (Jacki Weaver, Robert DeNiro), determined to rebuild his life and reunite with his ex-wife. When Pat meets Tiffany (Jennifer Lawrence), a mysterious girl with problems of her own, things get complicated.

Join filmmaker and actor Edward Burns as he discusses his new film, "The Fitzgerald Family Christmas," a comedy about an Irish-American family whose deadbeat dad threatens to return to spend the holiday with the wife and seven children he walked out on 20 years before.

Join Cameron Diaz, Colin Firth, Alan Rickman, Tom Courtenay and director Michael Hoffman as they discuss their upcoming film, Gambit at the Apple Store Regent Street. In Gambit, art curator Harry Deane (Firth) enlists a Texas rodeo queen (Diaz) in a plot to con his abusive boss (Rickman) into purchasing a fake Monet painting.

Join Hugh Bonneville (Robert, Earl of Grantham), and Joanne Froggatt (Anna Bates) as they discuss the BAFTA, Emmy and Golden-Globe winning series ‘Downton Abbey’.

Join Academy- Award winning director Sam Mendes (American Beauty, Road to Perdition) as he discusses the latest James Bond film, Skyfall. In Skyfall, Bond’s loyalty to M is tested as her past comes back to haunt her. As MI6 comes under attack, 007 must track down and destroy the threat, no matter how personal the cost.

Join Hugh Bonneville (Robert, Earl of Grantham), and Joanne Froggatt (Anna Bates) as they discuss the BAFTA, Emmy and Golden-Globe winning series ‘Downton Abbey’.

Join the director and star of Beasts of the Southern Wild, recipient of the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival as well as top honours at Cannes. Following a storm that unleashes prehistoric creatures, six-year-old Hushpuppy must quickly learn to survive. Hushpuppy is played by young newcomer Quvenzhané Wallis.

Join director Jacques Audiard (A Prophet, A Beat that my Heart Skipped) and Matthias Schoenaerts (Bullhead) as they discuss their upcoming film ‘Rust and Bone’. After suddenly finding himself in charge of his young son, Ali (Schoenaerts) takes refuge in Antibes where he meets Stephanie (Marion Cotillard), a killer whale trainer. When a performance ends in tragedy for Stephanie, a call to Ali brings them closer together. This critically acclaimed film was a Palme d’Or nominee at the 65th Cannes Film Festival.

Join filmmaker Roger Michell (Notting Hill) as he discusses his film "Hyde Park on Hudson." In June 1939, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt (Bill Murray) and his wife Eleanor (Olivia Williams) host the King and Queen of England (Samuel West and Olivia Colman) for a weekend at the Roosevelt home in upstate New York—the first-ever visit of a reigning English monarch to America. With Britain facing imminent war with Germany, the royals are desperately looking to FDR for support.

Join Chilean director Pablo Larraín in conversation as he discusses "No," his film about an ad executive who develops a campaign to defeat Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet’s 1988 referendum.

Join comedic legend Martin Short (Father of the Bride, Three Amigos, SCTV) and Academy Award nominee Don Hahn (producer of Beauty and the Beast and The Lion King) as they discuss their new film. Frankenweenie is the latest creation from creative genius Tim Burton (Alice in Wonderland, The Nightmare Before Christmas).  A stop-motion animation in glorious black and white and 3D, Frankenweenie is the story of a young boy who harnesses the power of science to bring his dog back to life.

Don’t miss this moderated discussion with cast members of the Broadway play, "Grace." In this suspenseful dark comedy, a wide-eyed couple (Rudd and Arrington) move to sunny Florida with big plans to open a chain of Gospel-themed motels. When an agitated rocket scientist (Shannon) and prickly pest-control man (Asner) enter the picture, the couple’s ordered world descends into utter chaos.

Join playwright and Oscar-winning filmmaker Martin McDonagh ("In Bruges") as he discusses his new comedy, "Seven Psychopaths." The story follows a struggling screenwriter (Colin Farrell), who inadvertently becomes entangled in L.A.’s criminal underworld after his oddball friends (Christopher Walken and Sam Rockwell) kidnap a gangster’s (Woody Harrelson) beloved Shih Tzu.