Hey folks, Harry here - with Grib's latest report from Sundance, this time - it's Steve Buscemi's INTERVIEW with - drool drool, Sienna Miller. Without further ado, here ya go...

Hey Harry,

Grib here with my take on Steve Buscemi's "Interview" with Sienna Miller. Both appeared at last night's late showing, although Miller left after her intro to get some sleep (jetlag).

"Interview" is a remake of the late Theo Van Gogh's 2003 Dutch film of the same name. The earlier version was part of a trilogy of films that Van Gogh (an outspoken activist murdered by an assassin who disagreed with him politically) wanted to remake in America. Buscemi was approached by a close friend of Van Gogh's about helming the first of the three, and he agreed to do it (Stanley Tucci and Bob Balaban will direct the other two; since these films are so intimate and rely so heavily on individual performances, the producers wanted actors to direct them). And what a stunning result this is: "Interview" is basically an hour and a half of Steve Buscemi and Sienna Miller talking to each other. No more, no less. While this will not appeal to action fans, it is more than enough to keep one on the edge of one's seat throughout.

Buscemi plays Pierre, a reporter for a news magazine who is accustomed to globetrotting in pursuit of hard-hitting political pieces (at one point he recounts being wounded in a suicide grenade attack in Sarajevo), but his alcoholism and a newfound penchant for creating sources from thin air has landed him in a New York City restaurant, checking his watch to mark just how late his interview subject, the television and horror film actress Katya (the radiant Miller; yes, Jude Law is an idiot) is for their meeting. Pierre is quite pissed off at his descent into fluff journalism, and he makes no secret of his distaste for the proceedings when Katya finally arrives. Katya is justifiably offended, and cuts the interview short, storming out with a "fuck you" after Pierre refers to her as "Cuntya."

But we know the interview isn't over, because we're barely thirty minutes in. As it turns out, Pierre's cab driver is so fixated on trying to get Katya to smile at him from the sidewalk that he rear-ends a delivery truck, slamming Pierre's head into the partition and giving him a nasty, bloody bump on the head. Katya comes to his rescue, and before we know it they are riding the elevator up to her nearby industrial loft apartment, where Pierre sucks down some Glenlivet and Katya has some red wine and, later, some coke and soon the interview is back in full swing, only this time it's a cat-and-mouse game in which Katya is eliciting more secrets about Pierre than vice versa.

I won't reveal any more of the plot, because their conversation goes places that you'll have to see for yourself. I don't want to spoil it for you. Buscemi gives his typical master acting class-type performance, revealing both Pierre's awkwardness in his new role as a Hollywood journalist and the pain that underlies his alcoholism and career failure. Miller is surprisingly good as Katya; she has the more difficult of the two roles, as she must convincingly portray both a bad actress and a table-turning seductress who's smarter than she appears in her movies and her brainless sitcom.

I wholeheartedly recommend this film. It's great stuff, and it's a joy to watch these two play off of each other as three XD cameras (which transfer images directly to blu-ray disc) catch their every move. It's really good stuff, and it's by far the best movie I've seen thus far at Sundance '07.