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News‘Blue Moon’ screenwriter Robert Kaplow on how he made Ethan Hawke cry
Robert Kaplow dreamed for decades of writing about lyricist Lorenz Hart. The Blue Moon screenwriter tells Screen how he finally achieved his goal, with help from Richard Linklater and Ethan Hawke.
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FeaturesEthan Hawke on playing Lorenz Hart in ‘Blue Moon’ and how Philip Seymour Hoffman changed the trajectory of his career
Hawke plays legendary Broadway lyricist Lorenz Hart at a moment of crisis in Richard Linklater’s film
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NewsDick Pope, cinematographer for Mike Leigh films including ‘Hard Truths’, dies aged 77
Pope was Oscar-nominated for filming Leigh’s ‘Mr. Turner’ and Neil Burger’s ‘The Illusionist’.
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Linklater to shoot Me & Orson Welles starting Feb 24
Richard Linklater will start shooting Me & Orson Welles in England (Pinewood Studios and London locations), the Isle of Man and New York from February 24.Zac Efron and Claire Danes lead the ensemble cast for the coming-of-age romantic comedy set in the theatre world. The story follows a teenager who ...
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CHRISTIAN McKAY
Richard Linklater spent the best part of a decade looking for an actor to play the eponymous actor and director in Me And Orson Welles. When he saw Christian McKay in his one-man show Rosebud: The Lives Of Orson Welles last year, his search was over. Starring opposite Zac Efron ...
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NewsBerlinale competition adds Before Midnight, Dark Blood, Prince Avalanche
New films from Richard Linklater, Bille August, David Gordon Green among final competition titles.
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Gala PresentationsBurn After Reading (Joel and Ethan Coen)Dean Spanley (Toa Fraser)The Duchess (Saul Dibb)Fifty Dead Men Walking (Kari Skogland)La Fille De Monaco (Anne Fontaine)The Loss of a Teardrop Diamond (Jodie Markell)Nothing But The Truth (Rod Lurie)One Week (Michael McGowan)The Other Man (Richard Eyre)Passchendaele (Paul Gross)Pride And Glory (Gavin O'Connor)Rachel Getting ...
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New talent - The Actors part 2
GEORGIA GROOMEGeorgia Groome made her big-screen debut aged 14 in Paul Andrew Williams' festival hit London To Brighton, in which she played a young homeless girl. She is about to prove her versatility as an actor in Gurinder Chadha's comedy Angus, Thongs And Perfect Snogging which opens at the end ...
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