All Features articles
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FeaturesJosh Safdie on working with a bigger budget on ‘Marty Supreme’ and why Timothée Chalamet was perfect for “outcast” lead role
“It was a big movie. It’s period. It’s international. The costumes, you can’t just go to thrift stores and buy them. I wanted lots of extras. I needed to recreate reality.”
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Features‘One Battle After Another’ duo Paul Thomas Anderson and Leonardo DiCaprio on improvising and film industry optimism
The director and star of One Battle After Another first mooted working together with Boogie Nights, then waited nearly three decades to actually do so
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FeaturesMaking ‘Arco’: the modestly budgeted French animation that is an awards season dark horse
Screen talks to director Ugo Bienvenu and producer Sophie Mas about bringing their hand-drawn feature to life
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FeaturesThe personal story that inspired animation contender ‘In Your Dreams’
The threat of parental split as a child inspired writer/director Alex Woo to deepen animated fantasy ’In Your Dreams’
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FeaturesAwards Whispers: anonymous Bafta voters on this season’s hidden gems and why some Q&As “feel too rehearsed”
Screen’s panel of anonymous awards voters explain how they prioritise what they watch.
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FeaturesCurzon’s development partnership with Cinéart and Madman is widening its remit: “We’ve got about 12 projects locked in”
Upcoming projects include Peter Hoar’s ‘A Waiter In Paris’ and Ibsen adaptation ‘Ghosts’ from May el-Toukhy.
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FeaturesThe debut directors of ‘My Father’s Shadow’, ‘Pillion’ and ‘Lollipop’ on imposter syndrome, inspirations and what comes next
Screen gathered Harry Lighton, Akinola Davies Jr and Daisy-May Hudson for a conversation about their first features
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FeaturesFrom ‘Adolescence’ to ‘Urchin’: UK casting director Shaheen Baig on her phenomenal year and opening up her “closed-shop” profession
The casting director talks to Screen about her approach to the craft.
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Features“I’ve adored his work for so long”: father and son Daniel and Ronan Day-Lewis look back on making ‘Anemone’
The family pair discuss brotherhood and the beauty, power and romanticism of nature that resulted in their first filmic collaboration.
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FeaturesMaking ‘Die My Love’: delays, “instant” chemistry between the stars and help from Martin Scorsese’s book club
Director Lynne Ramsay and producers Justine Ciarrocchi and Andrea Calderwood talk Screen through their $15m adaptation of Ariana Harwicz’s 2012 novel.
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FeaturesIn conversation: Kate Winslet and son Joe Anders discuss the real-life inspirations behind ‘Goodbye June’
The Netflix-backed film marks the debut feature for both, as director (Winslet) and writer (Anders) respectively.
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FeaturesBafta flashback: ‘Kneecap’ director Rich Peppiatt on getting his award through Heathrow security
“I had a meeting with Eric Fellner from Working Title [the next day]. I was so hungover I fell asleep on his sofa midway through the meeting.”
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Features‘The Ballad Of Wallis Island’ filmmakers on its long journey to becoming a “well-timed” word-of-mouth hit
Director James Griffiths and writers/stars Tom Basden and Tim Key recount how trying to turn their 2008 Bafta-nominated short into a feature nearly became “one of life’s regrets”
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FeaturesHow ‘I Swear’ star Robert Aramayo prepared to play Tourette’s campaigner John Davidson: “It’s impossible to copy John’s tics”
The key was to play the man and not the condition, the actor tells Screen.
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FeaturesMary Bronstein, Rose Byrne on why making ‘If I Had Legs I’d Kick You’ needed a “psychotic level of confidence”
Mary Bronstein on quiting filmmaking and her return 17 years later with ’If I Had Legs I’d Kick You’.
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Features“I didn’t have grey hair before this”: Four filmmakers behind Oscar international feature hopefuls on working with their child leads
‘The President’s Cake’, ‘Orphan’, ‘The Left-Handed Girl’ and ‘The Love That Remains’ all showcase child protagonists.
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Features‘Weapons’ star Amy Madigan on why she didn’t see Aunt Gladys as the villain: “This woman is fantastic”
Amy Madigan is enjoying a late career renaissance.
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FeaturesJafar Panahi on ‘It Was Just An Accident’ and making films his way - “no matter if I’m banned or not”
It Was Just An Accident pivots from revenge thriller to a humanist study of modern Iran. Jafar Panahi tells Screen what drives his filmmaking choices.
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Features'Sorry Baby' director and star Eva Victor talks finding instant chemistry with co-lead Naomi Ackie
In ’Sorry, Baby’, Eva Victor explores personal trauma through a comic prism, and the importance of friendship in the healing process.
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FeaturesMona Fastvold on bringing a little-known 18th-century story to life with 'The Testament Of Ann Lee'
’The Testament Of Ann Lee’ is an audacious musical about the founder of the Shaker religious community.