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25 March 2008 2:58 PM, PDT | From ifc.com | See recent IFC news

By Michelle Orange

Four years after the release of "Incident at Loch Ness," a wily mockumentary with a big, German question mark at its center, writer-director Zak Penn returns with "The Grand," his friend Werner Herzog once again in tow, this time as a participant in a high stakes poker tournament. More forthright than "Loch Ness," Penn's comedy still balances the outrageous with the heartfelt, tapping the improv skills of a cast that includes Michael McKean, Judy Greer, Richard Kind and Woody Harrelson as the odds-off favorite. Penn found time in between working on "Section 8," a sci-fi series for ABC, and writing the script for a remake of "The Dirty Dozen" to talk about making a movie where he didn't know the ending, the German, and the conundrum of the mockumentary tag.

You said in an interview in 2004 that "Incident at Loch Ness" was more about making movies than searching for monsters,

Michelle Orange

1 article from 2008