All Features articles – Page 78
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FeaturesCan the UK film industry meet the diversity challenge?
Long before the #OscarsSoWhite furore ignited, the British Film Institute had thrown down the gauntlet to the film industry with its new and extended diversity standards. Are the provisions on their own enough to bring more varied faces and stories to UK screens and meeting rooms?
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FeaturesSpotlight: Getting into LaZona
Local hits Spanish Affair and Spanish Affair 2 have given LaZona Films the confidence to expand into television, producer Gonzalo Salazar-Simpson tells Elisabet Cabeza.
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Features'Ex Machina': rise of the machine
As Alex Garland’s Ex Machina vies for five Baftas and two Oscars, the film-makers look back on its production and debate the pros and cons of an international release strategy that saw the sci-fi film become a sleeper hit in the US. Mark Salisbury reports.
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FeaturesSandy Powell: the dress maker
UK costume designer Sandy Powell has four Bafta and Oscar nominations this year for her work on Cinderella and Carol. She talks to Tiffany Pritchard.
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FeaturesMads Matthiesen, Denmark's next top 'Model'
Mads Matthiesen made a splash with his 2012 debut Teddy Bear. The Danish director talks to Wendy Mitchell about his English-language follow-up, The Model, which screens at Goteborg and Rotterdam.
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Features'Trumbo': from blacklist to shortlist
Bryan Cranston, the Oscar and Bafta-nominated star of Trumbo, talks to Jeremy Kay about digging deep to find the truth behind one of Hollywood’s screenwriting greats.
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Features'The Big Short': prophets of loss
Producers Dede Gardner and Jeremy Kleiner and director Adam McKay of The Big Short tell Elbert Wyche how they made an entertaining, informative film about the build-up to the calamitous global banking meltdown.
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FeaturesAwards countdown: Bound for glory
With just two weeks to go until the Baftas on February 14, we are into the final stretch of awards season.
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FeaturesThe angels and their outfits
London costume house Angels has made and supplied outfits to hundreds of films, from Lawrence Of Arabia to Maggie Smith’s muddy boots in The Lady In The Van. As Bafta is poised to honour the company, Sarah Cooper meets the family of Angels.
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FeaturesAndrew Haigh: the time of his life
UK writer-director Andrew Haigh reflects on a whirlwind year for 45 Years, his disappointment Charlotte Rampling and Tom Courtenay missed out on Bafta nominations, and upcoming projects Lean On Pete and an Alexander McQueen biopic. Michael Rosser reports.
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FeaturesInterview: 'The Revenant' composers, Ryuichi Sakamoto and Alva Noto
Alternative music pioneer Ryuichi Sakamoto and his regular collaborator, the leading electronic musician known as Alva Noto, talk to Tiffany Pritchard about their Bafta-nominated work on The Revenant.
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FeaturesSundance: New Frontier strand celebrating 10 years at this year’s festival
Following the recent Consumer and Electronics Show (CES), Sundance’s New Frontier strand, now in its tenth year, boasts a bigger-than-ever slate of virtual-reality (VR) pieces and mixed media installations.
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FeaturesSundance 2016: Babak Anvari talks 'Under The Shadow'
Screen sat down with first-time feature director Babak Anvari and Lucan Toh of production company Wigwam Films to discuss Farsi-language horror Under The Shadow, which has been acquired by Netflix.
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FeaturesRotterdam: the new-look festival
Ahead of this month’s International Film Festival Rotterdam (Jan 27-Feb 7), new artistic director Bero Beyer talks about the radical changes he has introduced.
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Features'The Revenant' producer Mary Parent on the biggest challenge of her career
After the Golden Globes, Bafta and Oscar nominations, The Revenant has become this awards season’s front-runner. Jeremy Kay talks to producer Mary Parent about bringing the most challenging project of her career to fruition
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FeaturesSundance 2016: World Cinema film profiles
An Indian teen comedy, a New Zealand doc about tickling and a musical featuring mermaids in 1980s Warsaw are among the films jostling for primacy in Sundance’s World Cinema Dramatic and Documentary competitions.
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FeaturesBox Office 2015: A grand year abroad
SCREEN SUBSCRIBERS: The blockbusters got bigger in 2015 and so did the box office, but how did the top 10 US films perform around the world?
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CommentJörn Threlfall talks BAFTA-nominated short 'Over'
Screen Star of Tomorrow Jörn Threlfall discusses his short film Over, a mystery told in reverse, which was nominated for a Best British Short Film BAFTA.
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FeaturesPalm Springs Q&A: Raam Reddy, 'Thithi'
The director discusses his India-US drama, which premired at Locarno in August.
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FeaturesPalm Springs Q&A: Thomas Stuber, 'A Heavy Heart'
The Leipzig-based director tells Jeremy Kay about earning the trust of his star, stage veteran Peter Kurth, who portrays a former East German boxer who receives life-changing news