All Features articles – Page 403
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FeaturesPaddy Considine
UK actor-turned-director Paddy Considine talks to Sarah Cooper about making his directorial debut Tyrannosaur, which has its world premiere at Sundance on Jan 21.
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FeaturesJames Marsh, Simon Chinn
The film-making team behind Man On Wire talk about their latest feature doc, Project Nim, which will have its world premiere in the world cinema documentary competition at Sundance tonight.
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FeaturesThe Skin I Live In
Spanish auteur Pedro Almodovar reunites with his Tie Me Up, Tie Me Down star Antonio Banderas in this hotly anticipated thriller, currently in post.
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FeaturesCol Spector
Honeymooner director Col Spector talks about non-loutish male characters, shooting on a tight budget and being part of New British Cinema Quarterly.
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FeaturesThe Hot 50 International Films for 2011
Screen presents our international film preview 2011, of the hottest 50 projects readying for delivery in 2011.
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FeaturesTeddy Leifer
UK producer Teddy Leifer has two films at Sundance, Steve James’ The Interrupters and Ian Palmer’s Knuckle.
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FeaturesTchavdar Georgiev, Amanda Pope, Joyce Mandell, Michael King
At the inaugural film-maker retreat at the Palm Springs International Film Festival, Jeremy Kay talks to the film-making teams behind two documentaries. Tchavdar Georgiev and Amanda Pope’s who made The Desert Of Forbidden Art and Michael King and Joyce Mandell whose project is The Rescuers.
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FeaturesStewart Till
Stewart Till talks to Screen about his new role as chair of Skillset and the importance of training in the film industry.
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FeaturesKing’s Speech has huge second weekend in UK
The King’s Speech posted a remarkable $7.1m (£4.4m) during its second weekend at the box office, a 25% week-on-week improvement.
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FeaturesPaolo Virzi
The director and co-writer of Italy’s foreign language Oscar submission The First Beautiful Thing, talks to Jeremy Kay about shooting in his home town Livorno and going up against Avatar at the box office.
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FeaturesInternational Box Office 2010 Wrap
The combined box office of the top 50 international territories in 2010 was $17.9bn* from 14,504 titles, a staggering 10.6% increase on 2009, when 14,466 titles grossed $16bn.
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FeaturesJapan's arthouse crisis
As arthouse cinemas struggle across the globe, Screen examines the particular decline of the independent cinema business in the major market of Japan.
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FeaturesJohn Smithson
The creative director of London-based factual production company Darlow Smithson talks about working with Danny Boyle on 127 Hours.
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FeaturesThe Deep Blue Sea
British director Terence Davies is in post on his first fiction feature in 10 years.
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FeaturesThe King’s Speech reigns at the UK box office
Momentum’s awards contender The King’s Speech eased into top spot at the UK box office over the Jan 07-09 weekend.
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FeaturesIn their own words
Imaginative, perceptive and characterful screenplays provided the blueprint for this year’s best films.Jeremy Kay assesses the the leading contenders in the original screenplay category.
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FeaturesAdventure land
Celebrating its 40th anniversary, the International Film Festival Rotterdam remains a major champion of indie and experimental cinema — despite a difficult climate for arts funding in the Netherlands.
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FeaturesSpreading the word
Cannes Grand Prix winner Of Gods And Men was a breakout success in 2010, earning more than $30m. Key European distributors met at Les Arcs to discuss how they helped Xavier Beauvois’ film to attract audiences.
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FeaturesThe Lars picture show
The independent landscape may be tougher than ever but Lars von Trier’s films attract financing and pre-sales — despite their unpredictability. In the first of two case studies held at Les Arcs European Film Festival (Dec 11-18) and moderated by Geoffrey Macnab, some of the director’s associates discuss his forthcoming ...
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FeaturesThe admissions bummer of 2010
Len Klady worries about ticket sales in North American multiplexes falling 7% in 2010.