All Features articles – Page 13
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Features‘Belle’ creator Mamoru Hosoda on global collaboration, Japanese cinema and advances in computer animation
“I always liked the underlying story of Beauty And The Beast,” says Hosoda about the fairy tale on which Belle is loosely based.
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Features‘No Time To Die’ sound team describe the “unique magic on set… that’s very hard to create afterwards”
Simon Hayes had a special plan for the film’s Jamaican club scene in No Time To Die.
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FeaturesCinematographer Ari Wegner on her year with Jane Campion making 'The Power of the Dog'
“Her only caveat was she wanted someone who would be up for being with her for the entire year before we shot,” recalls Wegner.
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Features“I was not supposed to be a director!”: Patrick Imbert on adapting ‘The Summit Of The Gods’ for French cinema
Immersive, emotive and stunningly atmospheric, The Summit Of The Gods is a hand-drawn animated film that recreates the scale, splendour and savageness of Mount Everest.
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FeaturesWhy ‘Dune’ hair and make-up stylist Donald Mowat avoids relying on special effects
It fell on Donald Mowat to ensure no ringlet, skin tone, blemish or tribal marking was out of place on the Legendary/Warner Bros tentpole.
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Features'Ron’s Gone Wrong': the team behind new UK animation studio Locksmith discuss its first feature
It was more than 10 years ago that writer/director Sarah Smith hit on the idea of creating a UK-based animation studio that could rival the output of US powerhouses such as Disney and Pixar.
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FeaturesUK awards campaigners react to the Bafta 2022 longlists
“What happened to Joanna Hogg’s The Souvenir: Part II?” asks one.
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Features‘Encanto’ filmmakers talk working with Lin-Manuel Miranda to create "a definitive Latin American Disney musical"
The filmmaking team talks to Screen about their journey of cultural enchantment.
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FeaturesSiân Heder on ‘Coda’ success: “I hope it means more stories like this get told”
Writing and directing a film about a deaf family was one steep learning curve for Sian Heder.
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FeaturesSteven Knight on writing ‘Spencer’: “I wanted a happy ending”
“I didn’t want it to be unsympathetic to the royal family,” says Spencer screenwriter Steven Knight.
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FeaturesLin-Manuel Miranda talks directing ‘Tick, Tick…Boom!’, working with Netflix, other 2021 projects
A writer, performer and now debut filmmaker who has a hand in no fewer than four of the titles jockeying for attention during this busy awards season.
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FeaturesFive talking points from the Bafta Film Awards 2022 longlists
Impact of longlists, studios vs. streamers… and where are the British films?
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FeaturesNFTs: just a craze, or a gamechanger for the content industries?
A group of Hong Kong companies are trying to turn the craze into a business model for the content industries.
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FeaturesMaggie Gyllenhaal on directing ‘The Lost Daughter’: "No one had to come to me with a spoonful of bullshit sugar"
“I know I want to be a director. I know I want to write. And I don’t know if I want to keep acting.
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FeaturesUK-Ireland box office sees big rise in 2021, but female directors, indie films worryingly absent
“If anybody had offered these kinds of numbers for 2021, we would have bitten their hand off.”
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FeaturesHow the Covid lockdown inspired Kenneth Branagh to make ‘Belfast’
As a director, Kenneth Branagh has long been comfortable switching between big-budget studio pictures and smaller, more intimate productions
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FeaturesNorth American box office up 100% in 2021, but it was a tough year for indie distributors
Older, more affluent patrons were slow to get back into the filmgoing habit after cinemas began to open their doors.
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FeaturesCan French cinema repeat its stellar 2021 festival run?
The annual Unifrance Rendez-Vous in Paris, which runs January 11-17, will provide some clues.
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FeaturesRebecca Hall on the personal journey behind her directing debut ‘Passing’
Rebecca Hall’s personal journey to making her directing debut Passing started some 17 years ago.
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Features‘King Richard’ director Reinaldo Marcus Green: “We didn’t want to sugarcoat anything”
Reinaldo Marcus Green may never have been a teenage tennis phenomenon, but he still brought an athlete’s perspective to King Richard.