All Features articles – Page 278
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Features'Spotlight': drama in the newsroom
From avoiding lawsuits to casting a prestige acting ensemble, the team behind best picture hopeful Spotlight reveal how they pulled off the high-wire act.
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Features'Mad Max: Fury Road': driven to the edge
Mad Max: Fury Road has garnered critical acclaim and global box office of $375m and counting. But it was an arduous journey, as director George Miller, producer Doug Mitchell and production designer Colin Gibson tell Tom Grater.
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FeaturesMexico's Gaston Pavlovich talks Fabrica de Cine and Martin Scorsese
SCREEN SUBSCRIBERS: Mexican financier-producer Gaston Pavlovich talks to Jeremy Kay about building Fabrica de Cine into a major international player and working with Martin Scorsese to create Silence
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FeaturesBest Picture race: bounty hunters
Will Quentin Tarantino’s The Hateful Eight be the film to shake up this year’s awards season? Jeremy Kay looks at which movies have achieved glory so far.
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FeaturesScreen December 11 2015
Browse the digital edition of Screen International here, which includes a focus on the leading contenders for best film this awards season…
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FeaturesNoura Kevorkian, '23 Kilometres'
The Lebanese director explains why a very personal film about her father’s illness is a metaphor for the state of her homeland.
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FeaturesOmar Shargawi, 'Al Medina'
The Danish-Palestinian film-maker was inspired by dark days — with echoes of the Dogme movement — for his latest film Al Medina.
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FeaturesDubai Film Connection: up close and personal
Dubai Film Connection is dominated by intimate, character-driven tales from voices that are often ignored or marginalised, DFC artistic director Jane Williams says.
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FeaturesLarry Yang, Mountain Cry
Larry Yang talks about how he adapted a rural Chinese story set in the 1980s for contemporary audiences in China and overseas.
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FeaturesAnu Menon, Waiting
London-based director Anu Menon talks about her second feature Waiting, which is receiving its world premiere in Dubai
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FeaturesSean McAllister, A Syrian Love Story
The film-maker says he wanted to make a film about the ‘hidden gem’ of the Middle East, but then events made Syria anything but.
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FeaturesHany Abu-Assad, The Idol
The prize-winning director talks about why he was unable to resist making The Idol, the story of the Palestinian winner of Arab Idol
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FeaturesThe changing face of the European Film Awards
The role of the EFAs is changing as they become more than just a chance to celebrate the best in European film-making. They now have a part to play in campaigning on important issues and bringing collaborators together.
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FeaturesUAE filmmaking: rattle and roll
An unprecedented five Emirati feature films are screening at DIFF this year as the UAE’s fledgling film scene goes from strength to strength.
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FeaturesDubai: Meet the jury
DIFF has assembled an eclectic group of international film-makers to take a seat on the festival juries, Screen meets Deepa Mehta [pictured], Nujoom Alganem, Fridrik Thor Fridriksson, Ali F Mostafa and Kim Magnusson.
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FeaturesRifqi Assaf, The Curve
The film-maker who hails from Jordan and Palestine talks about his debut feature, road movie The Curve.
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FeaturesMajid Al Ansari, Rattle The Cage
The director talks about his ‘kick-ass’ thriller Rattle The Cage (Zinzana), which screens in Dubai’s Muhr Emirati competition
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FeaturesJuris Kursietis, 'Modris'
The directorial debutant behind Latvia’s foreign-language Oscar submission talks to Jeremy Berkowitz about growing up, his filmmaker influences and what two Lats can buy you today – or not.
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FeaturesAwards Season: Directors, Writers
Interviews with Steven Spielberg, Ridley Scott, Danny Boyle, Aaron Sorkin, Cary Joji Fukunaga, Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu and Phyllis Nagy.
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FeaturesWriter Phyllis Nagy talks adapting 'Carol'
Directors, producers and actors came and went but Phyllis Nagy remained the one constant. The writer of Patricia Highsmith adaptation Carol talks to Nikki Baughan