All Q&A articles – Page 28

  • John McNaughton
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    John McNaughton, The Harvest

    2014-07-28T09:21:00Z

    Ian Sandwell talks to the American director about his first film in over a decade, The Harvest.

  • Luc Besson
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    Luc Besson, Lucy

    2014-07-23T19:31:00Z

    The French director of La Femme Nikita and Leon: The Professional returns with a new super-female – and in this case it’s no exaggeration. Plus he tells Jeremy Kay why the first meeting with Scarlett Johansson was like two dogs sniffing each other’s butts.

  • Suburban Gothic
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    Richard Bates, Jr. & Matthew Gray Gubler, Suburban Gothic

    2014-07-21T17:32:00Z

    Writer/director Richard Bates, Jr. and lead actor Matthew Gray Gubler talk to Ian Sandwell about Suburban Gothic, which world premiered at Fantasia.

  • Mike Cahill
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    Mike Cahill, I Origins

    2014-07-20T23:28:00Z

    Mike Cahill burst onto the scene three years ago when his feature directorial debut Another Earth premiered at Sundance and won the special jury prize and the $20,000 Alfred P. Sloan Feature Film Prize.

  • Noboru Iguchi at Fantasia
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    Noboru Iguchi, Live & Nuigulumar Z

    2014-07-19T13:58:00Z

    Ian Sandwell talks to the Japanese film-maker about his two films screening at this year’s Fantasia International Film Festival.

  • Shlomi and Ronit Elkabetz
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    Ronit and Shlomi Elkabetz, Gett: The Trial Of Viviane Amsalem

    2014-07-15T13:30:00Z

    The brother-and-sister filmmaking team talk about their drama set against the complicated divorce system in Israel.

  • eran riklis on set dancing arabs
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    Eran Riklis talks Dancing Arabs

    2014-07-14T13:54:00Z

    Eran Riklis — one of Israel’s foremost film-makers — talks to Screen’s Wendy Mitchell about his latest film Dancing Arabs, and his ambitions to connect with a global audience

  • Nadav Lapid
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    Nadav Lapid

    2014-07-12T14:27:00Z

    The Kindergarten Teacher director talks about autobiographical inspirations, working with his mother, and his new film in Paris.

  • Richie Mehta
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    Richie Mehta, Siddharth

    2014-07-11T04:47:00Z

    In Richie Mehta’s profoundly engrossing drama Siddharth, a chain-wallah in India sends his young son to work far away on the sub-continent. When the child does not return home, the father sets off on a quest.

  • Ana Lily Amirpour
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    Sundance Institute summer labs

    2014-07-08T02:54:00Z

    The June Directors and Screenwriters Labs hosted by the Sundance Institute brought together filmmakers and creators from many disciplines and diverse locales. Elle Toussi went to Park City in Utah to speak to some of the participants.

  • Hafsteinn Gunnar Sigurðsson
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    Hafsteinn Gunnar Sigurðsson, Paris of the North

    2014-07-07T12:52:00Z

    After seeing his debut feature Either Way remade into US film Prince Avalanche, director and writer Hafsteinn Gunnar Sigurðsson talks to Laurence Boyce about his second feature, which receives its world premiere in Karlovy Vary.

  • Cherry Tobacco
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    Katrin & Andres Maimik, Cherry Tobacco

    2014-07-07T12:47:00Z

    Estonian film Cherry Tobacco has its World Premiere in Karlovy Vary. Laurence Boyce talks to the married director Andres and Katrin Maimik about influences, first love and dumpling faces.

  • Kevin Smith
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    Kevin Smith, Tusk

    2014-07-07T06:00:00Z

    US director Kevin Smith talks about the state of independent film, his upcoming horror Tusk, meeting Game of Thrones author George RR Martin and why the Weinsteins passed on Clerks 3.

  • Grzegorz Jaroszuk
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    Grzegorz Jaroszuk, Kebab & Horoscope

    2014-07-04T11:54:00Z

    KARLOVY VARY: Grzegorz Jaroszuk’s debut feature Kebab & Horoscope is the eagerly awaited first feature from the graduate of Łódź Film School which will premiere in the East of the West Competition. Laurence Boyce asks him about his influences and improvisation.

  • Steve James
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    Steve James, Life Itself

    2014-07-02T20:18:00Z

    In Life Itself, veteran documentarian Steve James adapts Roger Ebert’s memoirs to throw a light on the life of the celebrated Pulitzer Prize-winning movie critic, who died in 2013 following a long battle with thyroid cancer.

  • Ben Rivers
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    Karlovy Vary: Ben Rivers

    2014-07-02T10:50:00Z

    British filmmaker and artist Ben Rivers will be one of the three recipients of a retrospective at this year’s Karlovy Vary Film Festival. Laurence Boyce caught up with him to ask what the retrospective holds.

  • Signe Baumane
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    Signe Baumane, Rocks In My Pockets

    2014-07-02T10:40:00Z

    Rocks In My Pockets, the debut feature from respected animator Signe Baumane, will be the first animated feature ever to take part in the Karlovy Vary International Competition. Laurence Boyce spoke to her about the film.

  • Scott Derrickson
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    Scott Derrickson, Deliver Us From Evil

    2014-07-02T05:17:00Z

    The director of Sinister and The Exorcism Of Emily Rose locks horns with dark forces again in his latest film, which stars Eric Bana and Edgar Ramirez and opens in the US this week through Screen Gems. Jeremy Kay comes out from behind the sofa.

  • Martin Provost
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    Martin Provost, Violette

    2014-06-30T21:28:00Z

    Martin Provost’s French period drama Violette relates the story of author Violette Leduc and her relationship with Simone de Beauvoir. It stars Emmanuelle Devos and Sandrine Kiberlain and has just opened in Los Angeles ahead of a national roll-out.

  • Andrew Rossi
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    Andrew Rossi, Ivory Tower

    2014-06-18T03:15:00Z

    Director Andrew Rossi takes on the rising debt crisis in his documentary film Ivory Tower, which premiered at this year’s Sundance Film Festival and opens in the US on June 13 through Samuel Goldwyn. Elbert Wyche reports.