Interview
This is the first ever film I watched at my first BFI London Film Festival back in 2007. I was so excited to see Steve Buscemi (who starred and directed) in the flesh. I also got to go on the red carpet as it was a premiere and I even dressed up a little as I wasn't sure of the ettiquette. Its brilliant two hander, with Sienna Miller as a famous soap opera actor who's being interviewed by a hard bitten journalist who thinks this interview is beneath him. Over the course of the night they reveal their secrets, weakness' and they're real motives. Its actually a remake of the Dutch film of the same name by Theo van Gogh who was murdered. In tribute, three of his films, including this one, were remade by American directors.
Exam
I've used this film a couple of times before but its is meant for this theme as it is exactly that, an interview. Eight candiates prepare to take an exam that will lead to a job at a pretigious company. After being given simple and odd instructions the group slowly decends into chaos as they compete and decypher each other's real motives for the job. It's gritty, dark and actually a tad sci-fi when you find out what sort of company the job is with. It does go down the route of ridiculousness and the final winning candiadte is an odd outcome but its indie worth seeing.
Mildred Pierce
Classic film noir about a woman who tries and succeeds but is never good enough for her hideous spoilt daughter Veda. The entire film is laid through a police interview where Mildred, after finding out her husband has been murdered, relates the entire story of things became the way they were. Its more a brilliant murder mystery than about an interview but she is being interviewed by the police so it sort of fits in.
