All articles by Wendy Mitchell – Page 56
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NewsEwan McGregor on 'American Pastoral', Danny Boyle and directing again
McGregor’s directorial debut played at this week’s Zurich Film Festival.
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NewsOliver Stone: making 'Snowden' was a “desperate venture”
Maverick director discusses funding battle and says “evil” Hillary Clinton deserves “the [biopic] full treatment”.
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NewsZurich Summit: Snapchat, gaming, VR offer new creative opportunities
Technology represents new opportunities for the creative industries, but that doesn’t mean the robots are taking over.
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News'Lion' team reveals journey behind emotional true story
Harvey Weinstein, Iain Canning and Garth Davis discuss Toronto hit which had its European premiere in Zurich on Thursday night [Sept 23].
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CommentZurich: Harvey Weinstein says Trump "appeals to the worst in us"
Harvey Weinstein talked Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton at the 12th Zurich Film Festival.
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NewsLe Pacte joins Joachim Trier’s 'Thelma'
EXCLUSIVE: Trier kicks off Oslo shoot with Eili Harboe in lead role.
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NewsNordic funding goes to Langseth, Ostlund, Utoya massacre doc
Projects backed by Nordic funding bodies range from the next disaster film by the writers of The Wave to a documentary reconstructing the Utoya massacre.
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FeaturesToronto interview: 'Occupied' director Erik Skjoldbjærg talks 'Pyromaniac'
Director discusses his sixth feature, which plays this week at TIFF.
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News'Olli Maki' co-producers board 'Under The Tree'
EXCLUSIVE: One Two Films duo have joined the Icelandic-Polish-Danish co-pro from director Hafsteinn Gunnar Sigurdsson.
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NewsAdelaide Clemens jumps on LevelK’s 'Rabbit'
EXCLUSIVE: Luke Shanahan is directing the dark thriller about a medical student whose twin is abducted.
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NewsCPH PIX adds Danish 11, Neil Young retrospective
EXCLUSIVE: The festival will show eight films directed by Young under the name Bernard Shakey.
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NewsFirst Jamaica delegation hits TIFF
A 20-strong group of Jamaican film professionals is in town, while the festival’s industry centre is also hosting a Jamaica stand.
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News'Hunting Flies' director plots three more projects
EXCLUSIVE: Macedonian film-maker Izer Aliu’s next film will be comedy-drama 12 Dares.
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FeaturesSet report: Baltasar Kormakur's 'The Oath'
Director Baltasar Kormakur returns to his Icelandic roots for thriller The Oath, which also sees him back in front of the camera. Wendy Mitchell reports from the Reykjavik set.
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FeaturesHope Dickson Leach on debut feature 'The Levelling'
Starring Game Of Thrones’ Ellie Kendrick, the film premieres in TIFF’s Discovery strand on Friday (Sept 9).
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NewsPaul Haggis: time is right for black James Bond
The Oscar-winning writer was delivering a talk at Toronto’s Script to Screen Summit.
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News'Little Wing' director plots 'Hobbyhorse' documentary
EXCLUSIVE: Hobbyhorse Revolution will be presented at Nordisk Panorama later this month.
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FeaturesDebut director Johannes Nyholm on fantasy drama 'The Giant'
The Swedish film-maker, who made a ‘drunk baby’ short that went viral a few years ago, makes his feature debut with the inventive and moving The Giant.
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News'Girls Lost' director plots two US co-pros
EXCLUSIVE: Film-maker Alexandra-Therese Keining is plotting a crime drama and “a feminist Blade Runner”.
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NonStop revs up with F1 doc 'Superswede'
EXCLUSIVE: Henrik Jansson-Schweizer now shooting documentary about Formula 1 great Ronnie Peterson.