All Features articles – Page 14
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FeaturesLemming Film is forging ahead with an ambitious film and TV slate
Dutch outfit produced Sam de Jong’s Rotterdam contender, ‘Met Mes’.
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FeaturesGuillermo del Toro on his close collaboration with Bradley Cooper on ‘Nightmare Alley’: “It changed the way I shoot things”
del Toro’s ‘The Shape of Water’ won four Oscars in 2018, including best film and best director.
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FeaturesHow ‘Petite Maman’ director Celine Sciamma establishes “a safe space for radical feelings”
Sciamma wrote, shot and released Petite Maman throughout the pandemic.
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FeaturesThe long road to success for ‘Lunana: A Yak In The Classroom’: “Bhutan was not an option on the Academy list”
The film has made the Academy international feature shortlist, as Bhutan’s second-ever submission.
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FeaturesRotterdam industry head Marit van den Elshout on this year’s theme of “the new possible”
The head of IFFR Pro Days reflects on 15 years in the role and what the future holds.
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FeaturesRotterdam’s Vanja Kaludjercic on the “exhilaration” of turning an online event around in a month
A physical event was planned until late December.
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Features“Each job felt like a triumph”: ‘Mass’ lead Ann Dowd on sticking with acting through hard times
”I never thought of myself as an ingenue. Nor did anyone else, for that matter.”
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FeaturesBanjos and bassoons: how ‘The French Dispatch’ composer Alexandre Desplat collaborates with Wes Anderson
The fifth feature collaboration to date between the composer and Anderson has a “more American, jazzy/bluesy” feel.
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Features“The beginning of an explosion”: ‘The Mitchells Vs The Machines’ team on advances in animation
“There are a lot of X-Men on screen, and I don’t know any X-Men. But I do know families that don’t get along.”
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Features58 European films to tempt festival directors in 2022
The hot list of films from established and rising directors.
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Features‘Belle’ creator Mamoru Hosoda on global collaboration, Japanese cinema and advances in computer animation
“I always liked the underlying story of Beauty And The Beast,” says Hosoda about the fairy tale on which Belle is loosely based.
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Features‘No Time To Die’ sound team describe the “unique magic on set… that’s very hard to create afterwards”
Simon Hayes had a special plan for the film’s Jamaican club scene in No Time To Die.
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FeaturesCinematographer Ari Wegner on her year with Jane Campion making 'The Power of the Dog'
“Her only caveat was she wanted someone who would be up for being with her for the entire year before we shot,” recalls Wegner.
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Features“I was not supposed to be a director!”: Patrick Imbert on adapting ‘The Summit Of The Gods’ for French cinema
Immersive, emotive and stunningly atmospheric, The Summit Of The Gods is a hand-drawn animated film that recreates the scale, splendour and savageness of Mount Everest.
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FeaturesWhy ‘Dune’ hair and make-up stylist Donald Mowat avoids relying on special effects
It fell on Donald Mowat to ensure no ringlet, skin tone, blemish or tribal marking was out of place on the Legendary/Warner Bros tentpole.
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Features'Ron’s Gone Wrong': the team behind new UK animation studio Locksmith discuss its first feature
It was more than 10 years ago that writer/director Sarah Smith hit on the idea of creating a UK-based animation studio that could rival the output of US powerhouses such as Disney and Pixar.
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FeaturesUK awards campaigners react to the Bafta 2022 longlists
“What happened to Joanna Hogg’s The Souvenir: Part II?” asks one.
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Features‘Encanto’ filmmakers talk working with Lin-Manuel Miranda to create "a definitive Latin American Disney musical"
The filmmaking team talks to Screen about their journey of cultural enchantment.
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FeaturesSiân Heder on ‘Coda’ success: “I hope it means more stories like this get told”
Writing and directing a film about a deaf family was one steep learning curve for Sian Heder.
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FeaturesSteven Knight on writing ‘Spencer’: “I wanted a happy ending”
“I didn’t want it to be unsympathetic to the royal family,” says Spencer screenwriter Steven Knight.