All Features articles – Page 324
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FeaturesKanu Behl, Titli
Mumbai-based filmmaker Kanu Behl is making his feature debut with Titli, about the youngest member of a car-jacking brotherhood attempting to escape his oppressive family.
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FeaturesFabrice du Welz, Alleluia
Having had his debut feature Calvaire selected for Critics’ Week in 2004, Fabrice du Welz returns to Cannes with Alleluia in Directors’ Fortnight.
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FeaturesBridging Sarajevo’s past
The omnibus feature film The Bridges Of Sarajevo, consisting of 13 short films by 13 European directors, will have its world premiere as a Cannes Special Screening on Thursday.
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FeaturesSpandau Ballet finds 'gold' with new documentary
Martin Kemp and director George Hencken talk about Soul Boys of the Western World.
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FeaturesDocumentaries: On the frontline
Documentary film-makers are finding new ways to attract finance and audiences. Ahead of today’s Doc Corner Brunch, Colin Brown explores the cutting-edge strategies and the crop of documentaries at Cannes 2014.
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FeaturesCuarons go from space to desert with Forsaken
“Forsaken is a story of survival,” says director Jonas Cuaron of his Mexico-France thriller that recently wrapped in Baja, California.
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FeaturesDean DeBlois, How To Train Your Dragon 2
Dean DeBlois’ dragon-flying sequel How To Train Your Dragon 2 takes a bolder, braver approach than the first in the trilogy - bringing heavier topics to the table that according to DeBlois, “have made some people very nervous.”
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FeaturesKristian Levring, The Salvation
Kristian Levring tells Wendy Mitchell about the inspiring process of making The Salvation, a ‘Western that’s a myth about Westerns’
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FeaturesAndrew Hulme, Snow In Paradise
The veteran editor talks about moving into the director’s chair with his story set in London’s East End.
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FeaturesSwiss industry quietly confident about return to MEDIA
As Swiss producers, distributors and cinema-owners gather in Cannes, those dark days of February’s Berlinale seem far away when the Swiss referendum on an ¨ Initiative against mass immigration¨ looked like resulting in the Swiss industry being denied access in future to the EU’s Creative Europe programme.At the beginning of ...
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FeaturesGenre bares its teeth
As Cannes Marché launches its first Fantastic Mixer networking event, Ian Sandwell talks to some of the key players in genre film-making.
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FeaturesSebastiano Riso, Darker Than Midnight
Italian director Sebastiano Riso’s debut feature Darker Than Midnight - about a gay teenager living on the streets of the Sicilian city of Catania to escape a violent father who disapproves of his girlish looks - is premiering in Critics’ Week. Rai Trade handles sales.The film is based on the ...
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FeaturesAlice Rohrwacher, The Wonders
Thirty-two year-old Italian director Alice Rohrwacher returns to the Croisette with Competition entry The Wonders (Le Meraviglie), a coming-of-age story set in the Italian countryside.
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FeaturesDavid Michod, The Rover
The director talks about the “incredible beauty and incredible menace” of Australia.
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FeaturesThe Go-go Boys hit the big screen
Veteran Israeli producers Menahem Golan and Yoram Globus hit the Palais des Festivals this evening for the Cannes Classics premiere of Hilla Medalia’s documentary The Go-go Boys, charting the rise and fall of their infamous indie studio the Cannon Group.
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FeaturesMike Leigh, Mr. Turner
Mike Leigh returns to the Croisette for a fifth time with his biggest-canvas film to date, a biopic of British Romantic painter JMW Turner, who was known as the ‘painter of light’.
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FeaturesCeline Sciamma, Girlhood
Céline Sciamma talks to Melanie Goodfellow about her Directors’ Fortnight opener Girlhood, about teenage girls in Paris.
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FeaturesSet report: The Girl King
Wendy Mitchell visits Turku, Finland to watch Mika Kaurismaki at work on his big international historical drama The Girl King
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FeaturesBennett Miller, Foxcatcher
“It’s the kind of film that’s very funny until it’s not funny,” says Bennett Miller of his US competition entry Foxcatcher, backed by Megan Ellison’s Annapurna Pictures and Columbia Pictures.
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FeaturesShlomi and Ronit Elkabetz, Gett: The Trial of Viviane Amsalem
The sibling film-making duo talk to Sarah Cooper about the third film in their trilogy, which screens in Directors’ Fortnight.