All Features articles – Page 283
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FeaturesAton Soumache talks 'The Little Prince', new films and building a European animation mini-major
SCREEN SUBSCRIBERS: Aton Soumache, producer of Mark Osborne’s global hit The Little Prince, talks about bringing the French classic to the big screen and his ambitions for Paris-based mini-major On Entertainment.
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FeaturesSlamdance directors: Jeremy Lalonde, 'How To Plan An Orgy In A Small Town'
SCREEN SUBSCRIBERS: Jeremy Lalonde takes the coming-of-age formula and turns it on its head: what if the protagonist was a confident teen gazelle who becomes a Sex And The City-style big city writer and the plot was about her return to her hometown to plan an orgy?
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FeaturesSundance directors: Yao Huang, 'Pleasure. Love.'
The dreamy intimacy of Yao Huang’s debut feature is a departure from the more mannered Chinese film-making to which Western audiences have become accustomed.
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FeaturesSundance directors: Elite Zexer, 'Sand Storm'
Elite Zexer’s feature debut stems from her love for the Bedouin people and in particular her fascination with the role of women.
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FeaturesSundance directors: Alejandro Fernández Almendras, 'Much Ado About Nothing'
Alejandro Fernández Almendras won the Sundance World Cinema Dramatic prize in 2014 with To Kill A Man and he mines the familiar terrain of social and legal injustice in his return to Park City.
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FeaturesSundance directors: Rebecca Daly, 'Mammal'
Australian actress Rachel Griffiths usually inhabits gregarious characters but plays against type in Mammal as a woman who loses a son and weaves a complicated relationship with a teenage boy.
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FeaturesSundance directors: Agnieszka Smoczynska, 'The Lure'
Agnieszka Smoczynska had already collaborated with screenwriter Robert Bolesto on her short films but the impetus for her trippy $1.6m (€1.5m) feature debut came as a surprise.
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FeaturesSundance directors: Felix van Groeningen, 'Belgica'
Relationships and music are the beating heart of Belgica, as they were in Felix van Groeningen’s 2014 Belgian Oscar submission The Broken Circle Breakdown.
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FeaturesScreen January 19 2016
Browse the digital edition of Screen International here, including a look at the international box office hits of 2015, the nominations for the Oscars and Baftas, the making of The Revenant and the Sundance Film Festival.
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FeaturesSundance: the year starts here
The Sundance Film Festival (Jan 21-31) is embracing virtual reality, web and TV series, and world cinema to offer a characteristically eclectic selection of films.
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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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FeaturesTallinn: 'Erik Stoneheart', Screen Best Pitch winner
Estonia’s Ilmar Raag and Evelin Soosaar-Penttilä of Amrion Ltd. were the recipients of the latest Screen International Best Pitch Award at Tallinn’s Baltic Event for their film project ‘Erik Stoneheart’.
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FeaturesComposers: Johann Johannsson, 'Sicario'
Johann Johannsson’s score for Sicario rumbles and intimidates “like a beast lurching in slow motion”, he tells Tiffany Pritchard, who meets five of the composers in contention this awards season
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FeaturesComposers: Daniel Pemberton, 'Steve Jobs'
Having worked with Ridley Scott, Guy Ritchie and now Danny Boyle on Steve Jobs, Daniel Pemberton is rapidly becoming one of the industry’s most sought-after composers.
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FeaturesComposers: Carter Burwell, 'Carol', 'Anomalisa'
The self-taught composer of Carol and Anomalisa used very different methods to score - and conduct - both films
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FeaturesComposers: Alexandre Desplat, 'The Danish Girl'
The politically engaged composer discusses why he was drawn to Suffragette and The Danish Girl
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FeaturesComposers: Tom Holkenborg (aka Junkie XL), 'Mad Max: Fury Road'
More commonly known as Junkie XL, the Dutch composer turned to religious themes and heavy metal to score Mad Max: Fury Road