It's hard to leave Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu's "Birdman" and not feel like you've witnessed something genuinely extraordinary. The story of a washed up actor (played by Michael Keaton) mounting his creative comeback via a Broadway show he also wrote and directed after being typecast for years as an invincible superhero, the film leaves an impression, thanks largely to the stellar performances and the swirling, hallucinogenic camerawork (by Emmanuel Lubezki) that makes the movie appear as it was constructed in a single take. In the midst of mounting Oscar buzz for Inarritu as well as Keaton and his co-stars Naomi Watts and Edward Norton, and in the middle of production of his next movie, the grim revenge western "The Revenant," we talked to the filmmaker about how moviemaking reflects the current socioeconomic climate, what it was like turning down "True Detective," how his relationship with fellow Mexican filmmakers Guillermo del Toro and Alfonso Cuaron...
