All Features articles – Page 14
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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.
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Features‘The Power Of The Dog’ director Jane Campion talks casting Benedict Cumberbatch, switching shoot to New Zealand
Growing up in Wellington, New Zealand, Jane Campion and her friends used to sit atop grocery boxes and pretend they were riding horses
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Features“I was basically playing Terence”: Jack Lowden on portraying Siegfried Sassoon in Terence Davies' ‘Benediction’
The actor about finding the man behind the verse in Terence Davies’ take on anti‑war poet Siegfried Sassoon.
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FeaturesThe five-year journey to create ‘Mothering Sunday’, as told by the filmmaking team
Sex, writing… and shooting during a pandemic.
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FeaturesThe BFI’s 10 biggest distribution awards of 2021
Titles include ‘Minari’, ‘Censor’, ‘Limbo’ and ‘Pirates’
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Features“Women’s bodies are autobiography”: Joanna Scanlan dissects ‘After Love’
“They tell our life history in a way that is not quite the same on a male body.”
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FeaturesThe BFI’s 10 biggest production awards of 2021
Titles include ’The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry’, ’Typist Artist Pirate King’ and ‘A Silent Roar’.
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Features“MeToo or no MeToo, we still fight these battles”: ‘King Richard’ star Aunjanue Ellis on speaking out
Ellis talks to Screen about playing the woman behind the throne in ‘King Richard’.