All Comment articles – Page 55
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Silence Is Golden
The Hippodrome Festival of Silent Cinema will be making the most of this year’s silent sensation The Artist to attract the crowds.
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Chevy chase
Unknown 26-year-old Zach Borst’s winning advert for Chevrolet will be watched by 163 million people during Sunday’s Superbowl. No pressure..
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Haunting memories
The director of Rotterdam premiere When The Lights Went Out talks about his personal connection to the horror story.
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Indie Shakedown
The news – not entirely unexpected – that Lionsgate had bought Summit Entertainment comes as good news in that the two companies will together create an independent powerhouse and as depressing news in that the business loses another buyer of material and movies and a key supplier to the international ...
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Stubbled, not stirred
Screen casts its glance over the first official shot of Daniel Craig in Skyfall.
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The man behind the titles
Rotterdam unveils the world premiere of a documentary about Pablo Ferro.
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Remembering Bingham Ray
The film world lost one of its most colourful and passionate characters this week when Bingham Ray died at the age of 57 after a stroke at the Sundance Film Festival.
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On the audience and UK films
In light of the Film Policy Review, remembering that you can’t force audiences to watch a film they don’t want to watch; and noting how the UK benefits from US box-office domination.
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Film on stage
Nicholas Wright’s new play Travelling Light is a love letter to the silent film era.
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Here Come The 'Boys'
Bret McKenzie meets a hot meat pie and a ginger cat in this Berlin-bound irreverent Kiwi comedy.
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Tough audience
The Film Policy Review report could be the blueprint for the next decade or so of British film. So what about that cover photo!?
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Great expectations for 2012
Welcome to Screen International 2012, a year that could see a silent French film win the best picture Oscar and Angelina Jolie win the Golden Globe for best foreign-language film.
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Streep for the win
Meryl Streep is always outstanding — but that doesn’t mean that BAFTA and Oscar voters should take her for granted this year.
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Venice’s Latest Renaissance
Outgoing festival director Marco Mueller returned Venice to its former glory by focusing on the movies. Incoming Alberto Barbera has been charged with creating a market infrastructure. But does Venice need it?
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Lonergan’s Period Piece
The seven year-old film Margaret, which has finally been released by Fox Searchlight, is very much of its time for a number of reasons.
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Brightening up Berlin
The mood in Europe may be bleak, but the Berlinale 2012 poster is more colourful and jolly than ever.