As the director of some of the best films over the past fifteen years (Fight Club, Zodiac, Seven, The Game, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, The Social Network), David Fincher is considered by many (myself included) to be one of the best directors working in Hollywood.  Unfortunately, while he makes some of the best movies, he rarely grants interviews and is reluctant to talk with the press.   So when I was offered the chance to sit down with him earlier today to talk about his latest masterpiece, The Social Network, I jumped at the chance.

While the interview was scheduled for thirty minutes, we actually ended up talking for almost fifty!  During our lengthy conversation we discussed making The Social Network (which gets released on DVD/Blu-ray January 11th), the way he makes movies, future projects like The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo and 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, and why he does so many takes.  If you’re a fan of this brilliant director, hit the jump to either read or listen to what he had to say.  I promise, this is one interview you don’t want to miss.

Seven, or Se7en (if you want to be like that) is now an all-timer. Upon release it was hailed pretty quickly, there’s already a BFI book on the film, The Criterion Collection put it out on laserdisc, and there was a super-special edition DVD released. And now the Blu-ray release is a big deal (this has been the year of Fincher on Blu-ray, with Fight Club, this and Alien 3 coming by the end of the year). This could be the last major release of the title (until the next format), and it is the sort of film that rounds out a collection. While The Player is one of Robert Altman’s biggest box office triumphs and one of his most crowd-pleasing films with an insider look at Hollywood. Both have hit Blu-ray, and my reviews of both follow after the jump.

Can two former collaborators once again create the movie magic where a film builds to a point of having Brad Pitt cry, “What’s in the box?!  What’s in the fucking box?!” I think “Seven” is a highly entertaining film but what will director David Fincher and screenwriter Andrew Kevin Walker create 15 years later?  It looks like we’re going to find out.  The two have re-teamed to adapt the supernatural thriller “The Reincarnation of Peter Proud”.  Hit the jump for more details.