Lexicon reader Nina wrote in to let us know:

“Thought you guys might be interested in posting a link to KCRW- Santa Monica’s Public Radio station. Their Guest DJ project will be featuring songs personally selected by New Moon Director Chris Weitz.

They also had a really nice interview with Alexandra Patsavas last year during their morning Alternative Music program, Morning Becomes Eclectic. During that interview she talked specifically about Music Supervision on the Saga series. It is archived on the site. I would not be surprised if she were featured again as Eclipse opens  given her connection to the music and film industries and her unique ability to acquire yet unpublished songs from cutting edge performers that are often already featured on their show.

Catherine Hardwicke was also featured  last March as a Guest DJ and she discusses “15 Step” by Radiohead and Robert Pattinson’s “Let me sign” how they made it into Twilight.”

CNN talked to Chris Weitz about the upcoming New Moon DVD.

“Chris Weitz was determined to get the moon right. And when you have a movie about vampires and werewolves whose fans pay attention to every detail, it’s important to get the moon right.

For the director of “The Twilight Saga: New Moon,” though, the impetus for showing the moon phase properly in the shot that opens the film was an astrophysicist, not a Twihard.

“I went to a lecture by Neil deGrasse Tyson where he’s complaining that they’d gotten the stars in ‘Titanic’ wrong,” Weitz said. “So his voice was in the back of my head, that we had to get the phase of the moon properly.”

“New Moon,” which comes out on DVD Saturday, did a lot of things properly, indicated by the fans’ support. Though “Twilight,” the first film in the series, received respectful reviews and good box office, “New Moon” — which continues the story of lovestruck human Bella and vampire Edward — was the bigger blockbuster, outgrossing the first film by more than $100 million domestically and earning more than $700 million worldwide.”

Read it all on CNN.

Fearnet has a great interview with New Moon director Chris Weitz where he talks about the commentary for the DVD and some of the choices that were made in the process of film making.  Chris had this to say about adapting a book to a movie in relation to the “months” passage of the book:

I think that the passage of time was an open opportunity for us to take something that was a literary device that works rather nicely in the book and turn it into a kind of elegant visual effects shot that doesn’t necessarily seem like a very CGI-intensive shot, but it in fact was very labor-intensive and was done over the course of half of a year. The elements that go into it, it has to be shot in numerous passes in order to get the various seasons outside the window and all of that kind of thing, and I always knew this would be a really interesting way to use a motion-control camera to show the passage of time. So that I saw as an opportunity to expand upon what was in the book.

Read the whole interview over at Fearnet.