All Features articles – Page 77
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Features“History, unfortunately, is cyclical”: ‘Blue Jean’ filmmakers on the drama’s important warning
Director Georgia Oakley and producer Hélène Sifre tell Screen why they felt they had to tell this story.
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FeaturesIs France’s defiantly traditional film industry waking up to gender equality?
A handful of female French directors enjoyed success in 2022.
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Features‘Living’ team talk Bill Nighy, positivity and how they nabbed ‘Ikiru’ rights
In converting Japanese film Ikiru to UK drama Living, director Oliver Hermanus, screenwriter Kazuo Ishiguro and producer Stephen Woolley were able to add a note of positivity and optimism — as they explain to Screen.
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FeaturesEmma Thompson doesn’t want to be called “brave” for ‘Good Luck To You, Leo Grande’ nudity
After a career spanning 40 years, Emma Thompson has taken one of her most daring roles to date.
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FeaturesThe industry takeaways from the 2022 Red Sea film festival
The event itself was well organised, well attended and, above all, well-funded.
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FeaturesHow Joseph Kosinski convinced Tom Cruise to make a 'Top Gun' sequel
Producer Jerry Bruckheimer and director Joseph Kosinski tell Screen about the film’s epic journey.
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FeaturesBaftas 2023: which titles are in the running for outstanding British film?
With 10 nominees, the category always presents a fascinating snapshot of UK film.
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FeaturesWill a new breed of Italian blockbuster attract theatrical audiences back to homegrown films?
There is an acknowledgement that Italian cinema has not changed much in the last 30 years, missing the rise of genre movies and failing to cultivate a younger audience.
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FeaturesRian Johnson talks ‘Knives Out’ Netflix deal, playing Mafia with ‘Glass Onion’ cast
With Knives Out and sequel Glass Onion, Rian Johnson breathes new life into a film genre that had been neglected by Hollywood for decades.
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Features‘She Said’ writer on the “huge responsibility” to #MeToo survivors
Rebecca Lenkiewicz wanted to honour the journalists and survivors at the centre of the Weinstein scandal.
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FeaturesTodd Field on being given the creative freedom to make ‘TÁR’: “They gave me enough rope to hang myself”
With his first film in 16 years, Todd Field returns with TÁR — a provocative drama about the rise and fall of a classical music star.
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FeaturesSarah Polley on making ‘Women Talking' and why the story meant so much to her
In Women Talking, an ultraconservative religious community’s female members must decide how to confront the sexual abuse they are experiencing. Its writer/director Sarah Polley talks to Screen.
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FeaturesWhy Baz Luhrmann chose to make an Elvis biopic: "He is an amazing canvas"
”Elvis is an amazing canvas because he’s there at the crossroads of culture in the ’50s, ’60s and ’70s, for the good, the bad and the ugly.”
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FeaturesWhat has been the cost of Denmark’s landmark streaming deal to the stalled local industry?
The Danish production sector has been almost shut down for a year amid talks with the streamers for improved terms.
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FeaturesWho are the early Oscar and Bafta frontrunners in the director and screenplay categories: 2023 edition
Many directors and screenwriters who won prizes in recent years have returned with a new title.
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FeaturesIn conversation: Brendan Gleeson and Colin Farrell talk ’The Banshees Of Inisherin’ and being “kindred souls”
The Dublin pair spill the beans on the trajectory of a beautiful friendship.
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FeaturesFrom ‘Love Actually’ to ‘Living’: Bill Nighy on his "unspeakably lucky” career
Close to two decades on from his Bafta win for Love Actually, Bill Nighy’s beautifully restrained performance in Living sees him back in the awards conversation — and in a rare big-screen lead role.
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Features“Hollywood is a mean place”: the story behind Brendan Fraser’s ‘Brenaissance’
“I was never that far away, mind you. But in Hollywood years, that can be aeons.”
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FeaturesMicheal Ward on ‘Empire Of Light’ nude scenes: “If Jude Law can do it, I can do it!”
England’s racial divide is probed in Sam Mendes’s 1980s-set Empire Of Light. Actor Micheal Ward tells Screen about the bittersweet film’s toughest moments, romancing Olivia Colman and getting butt naked.
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FeaturesHow Eddie Redmayne prepared to play a serial killer in ‘The Good Nurse’
Actor plays real-life serial killer Charles Cullen.