{"id":571,"date":"2007-04-19T09:00:12","date_gmt":"2007-04-19T09:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/archives\/2007\/04\/19\/ryan-fleck-and-anna-boden-on-half-nelson\/"},"modified":"2011-01-25T22:37:41","modified_gmt":"2011-01-25T22:37:41","slug":"ryan-fleck-and-anna-boden-on-half-nelson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/2007\/04\/19\/ryan-fleck-and-anna-boden-on-half-nelson\/","title":{"rendered":"Ryan Fleck and Anna Boden on Half Nelson"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Half Nelson<\/strong><\/a> is out this week at UK cinemas and I recently interviewed the director Ryan Fleck<\/a> <\/strong>and the co-writer and producer Anna Boden<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n

It tells the story of a talented Brooklyn<\/a> school teacher (Ryan Gosling<\/a>) who is caught smoking crack<\/a> by one of his pupils (Shareeka Epps<\/a>). But this is not a traditional classroom drama by any means. With two pitch perfect lead performances and a wise, heartfelt script, it is one of the finest films<\/a> to come out of the US in the last year.<\/p>\n

I spoke to Ryan and Anna about how they got the film made, what the title means, Ryan Gosling’s Oscar nomination<\/a> and a whole lot more besides.<\/p>\n

Have a listen to the interview below:<\/p>\n[audio:http:\/\/filmdetail.receptionmedia.com\/Ryan_Fleck_and_Anna_Boden_on_Half_Nelson.mp3]\n

You can also download the interview as an MP3<\/a> or subscribe to our interview podcast via iTunes<\/a><\/p>\n

(Its a 20 minute interview so it might take 2 or 3 mins to download)<\/p>\n

Half Nelson<\/strong> opens at UK cinemas on Friday<\/em><\/p>\n

> Ryan Fleck at the IMDb<\/a>
\n> Anna Boden at the IMDb<\/a>
\n> TwitchFilm interview Anna and Ryan <\/a>
\n> Check out the reviews for Half Nelson at Metacritic<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

An interview with the director Ryan Fleck and co-writer\/producer Anna Boden, the team behind Half Nelson.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,19],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=571"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}