All Q&A articles – Page 27

  • David Oelhoffen
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    David Oelhoffen, Far From Men

    2014-09-08T20:08:00Z

    French director David Oelhoffen adapts Albert Camus’ short story The Guest into a survival story set during the Algerian War, starring Viggo Mortensen and Reda Kateb.

  • James Schamus
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    James Schamus on life after Focus

    2014-09-08T12:05:00Z

    Schamus is working on screenplays including Zealot: The Life And Times Of Jesus of Nazareth and an adaptation of Philip Roth’s Indignation.

  • Jalmari Helander & Onni Tommila
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    Jalmari Helander & Onni Tommila, Big Game

    2014-09-07T09:45:00Z

    Daniel Horowitz talks to the Finnish director and lead star of Midnight Madness premiere Big Game.

  • Boo Ji-young
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    Boo Ji-young, Cart

    2014-09-07T08:02:00Z

    Boo Ji-young’s sophomore feature Cart is a topical tale of workers at a big-box retail store.

  • Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead
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    Justin Benson & Aaron Moorhead, Spring

    2014-09-07T08:02:00Z

    The directing duo talk about their second feature, which premiered in the Vanguard section at Toronto.

  • Susanne Bier
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    Susanne Bier, A Second Chance

    2014-09-06T06:42:00Z

    The Oscar-winning Danish filmmaker follows the romance Love Is All You Need with this darker tale of a detective (Nikolaj Coster-Waldau) who crosses a moral line after a family tragedy.

  • Andrew Niccol
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    Andrew Niccol, Good Kill

    2014-09-05T15:02:00Z

    In Good Kill, Ethan Hawke plays a conflicted former fighter pilot now operating drones from a base in Las Vegas.

  • The Reach
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    Jean-Baptiste Léonetti, The Reach

    2014-09-05T09:00:00Z

    Three years after his feature directorial debut Carré blanc played at the festival in 2011, the French director who made his name in commercials returns to Toronto with thriller The Reach.

  • Lone Scherfig
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    Lone Scherfig, The Riot Club

    2014-09-05T08:14:00Z

    Danish director and Toronto regular Lone Scherfig (An Education) tackles the badly behaved British aristocracy in Laura Wade’s adaptation of her play Posh, about an infamous Oxford University dining club.

  • Baldvin Z
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    Baldvin Z, Life In A Fishbowl

    2014-09-05T07:55:00Z

    Icelandic director Baldvin Z’s second feature interweaves the story of three very different characters struggling with modern life in Reykjavik.

  • Michael Winterbottom
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    Michael Winterbottom, The Face of an Angel

    2014-09-05T06:14:00Z

    Michael Winterbottom talks about his genre-bending new film inspired loosely by the Amanda Knox-Meredith Kercher case.

  • Safdie Brothers
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    Joshua & Benny Safdie, Heaven Knows What

    2014-09-05T00:32:00Z

    The filmmaking brothers talk about their Venice and Toronto selection, including how they were inspired by addict-turned-writer/actress Arielle Holmes.

  • Cameron Bailey
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    Toronto: Cameron Bailey talks size and the Telluride policy

    2014-09-04T16:06:00Z

    Toronto artistic director Cameron Bailey talks to Jeremy Kay about food trucks, not being a snob and the Tulluride policy

  • Thelma Schoonmaker
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    Thelma Schoonmaker: Editing is a misunderstood art

    2014-09-03T08:01:00Z

    Martin Scorsese’s long-time editor talked Raging Bull, the move to digital and the art of cutting while at the Venice Film Festival where she has picked up a lifetime honour.

  • Naji Abu Nowar
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    Naji Abu Nowar, Theeb

    2014-09-03T07:00:00Z

    Premiering in Venice’s Orizzonti section, Naji Abu Nowar’s Theeb is a coming-of-age story about a young Bedouin boy who is forced to grow up fast following the death of his father and the arrival of a British army officer on a mysterious mission.

  • Guidance
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    Pat Mills, Guidance

    2014-09-03T00:26:00Z

    The Ottawa-born, Ryerson University graduate tells Jeremy Kay why he was the perfect person to play a booze and drug-addled former child star who bluffs his way into a job as a high school guidance counsellor.

  • David Gordon Green in Venice
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    David Gordon Green, Manglehorn

    2014-08-31T21:20:00Z

    The director chats about fables, gospel choirs, casting Harmony Korine and Al Pacino’s preparation process.

  • David_Mackenzie_Starred_Up
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    David Mackenzie, Starred Up

    2014-08-30T06:04:00Z

    Glasgow-based David Mackenzie’s gritty prison-set drama Starred Up starring UK hot-shot Jack O’Connell and Australia’s Ben Mendelsohn caused a stir as soon as it premiered in Toronto 2013 – but it’s much more than simply a story of violence and incarceration.

  • Cherien Dabis
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    Cherien Dabis, May In The Summer

    2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

    Following her noted 2010 debut Amreeka, Cherien Dabis swaps small-town USA for Jordan as a New Yorker returns to her native home in the run-up to her wedding.

  • Robert Englund
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    Robert Englund reveals Richard Attenborough influence

    2014-08-26T12:53:00Z

    The horror icon talks to Ian Sandwell about his latest film The Last Showing, which premiered at Film4 FrightFest, and the current state of the genre.