All Q&A articles – Page 29
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FeaturesRania Attieh and Daniel Garcia, Recommended By Enrique
The neo-noir premieres at the Los Angeles Film Festival on June 13 and plays again on June 17 and tells of a young actress and an aging cowboy in a small Texan town on the Mexican border. Emmanuelle Charlier saddles up.
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FeaturesE.L. Katz, Cheap Thrills
Ian Sandwell talks to the US film-maker about his feature directorial debut.
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FeaturesCurtis Burch, Words And Pictures
Producer Curtis Burch talks to Elbert Wyche about financing the film, the need for more character-based films in Hollywood, surprises from the cast and his plans for the future.
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FeaturesNuri Bilge Ceylan, Winter Sleep
The Turkish director Nuri Bilge Ceylan is glad to be back in Cannes, where he has a happy history. He won the Grand Jury Prize in 2002 for Distant and in again 2011 for Once Upon A Time In Anatolia and a Best Director Award in 2008 for Three Monkeys.
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FeaturesThomas Cailley, Love At First Fight
“It’s more than the army - it’s the theme of survival” that interests Thomas Cailley in his Director’s Fortnight entry Love at First Fight (Les Combattants).
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FeaturesDavid Robert Mitchell, It Follows
The New York based director delivers a buzzy thriller with his second trip to Cannes.
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FeaturesGaspard Ulliel talks about his YSL tranformation
The actor/model talks about working on Bertrand Bonello’s Saint Laurent.
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FeaturesJohn Boorman, Queen and Country
Geoffrey Macnab speaks to the English film-maker about the sequel to his autobiographical feature Hope and Glory.
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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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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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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’.