All Features articles – Page 25
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FeaturesBerlin 2021: all the key deals signed at the European Film Market
Sellers told Screen they were impressed by the business that took place during this year’s European Film Market.
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FeaturesThe fight to make ‘Sound Of Metal’: “Hollywood didn’t want to hear about heavy metal and deaf people”
Sound Of Metal began as a hybrid docufiction in 2007, directed by Derek Cianfrance, and emerged over a decade later as the fiction feature debut of Darius Marder
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FeaturesScreen craft: DoP Tobias A Schliessler on the photos that inspired ‘Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom’
“We had the cameras in this small room hiding behind a piano.”
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FeaturesScreen craft: Erik Messerschmidt on rebuilding Old Hollywood through the cinematography of ‘Mank’
“By the time [David Fincher] approaches you, he can see how the film would be laid out in his head.”
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FeaturesScreen craft: DoP Mandy Walker on ‘Mulan’ battle scenes, Baz Luhrmann’s Elvis film
“With Yifei Lui’s stunts, we were able to capture her reactions in real time.”
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FeaturesScreen craft: the documentary skills that helped Newton Thomas Sigel shoot Spike Lee’s ‘Da 5 Bloods’
”Today cinematographers have so many more tools than we had when I began.”
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FeaturesEllen Burstyn talks Scorsese, industry changes and 'Pieces Of A Woman's explosive climax
Now in her seventh decade as a screen actor, six-time Oscar nominee Ellen Burstyn is respected for her talent, dedication and instinct for powerfully dramatic roles. Screen talks to her about the fierce - but loving - matriarch in Pieces Of A Woman
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FeaturesCeline Sciamma talks Berlin Competition title ‘Petite Maman’: “I wanted this film in the world as soon as possible”
The French director only finished the film right before Berlin started.
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FeaturesThe story behind the costumes from five female-fronted awards contenders
‘Emma’, ‘Promising Young Woman’, ‘The United States Vs Billie Holiday’ and more share costume secrets.
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FeaturesHow ‘Welcome To Chechnya’ team digitally disguised endangered LGBTQ subjects
Director David France and VFX supervisor Ryan Laney reveal how they laid “digital veils” over persecuted LGBTQ Chechens.
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FeaturesMy Screen Life: German producer Fabian Gasmia on persuading his peers to take up yoga
Gasmia on his love for the Berlinale, Euphoria and long walks with his daughter.
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FeaturesFrom R&B star to Golden Globes glory: Andra Day talks ‘The United States Vs Billie Holiday’
”The last thing I wanted to do as a lover of this woman was to sabotage her legacy.”
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Features“I thought more about Donald Trump than anybody else”: Charles Dance talks ‘Mank’
The UK actor discusses his rich run of roles and reuniting with director David Fincher, nearly three decades after appearing in the ill‑fated ’Alien3’.
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FeaturesHow Sidney Flanigan got in the headspace for ‘Never Rarely Sometimes Always’
”Eliza [Hittman] would be off-screen saying things like, ‘Push your hair behind your ear’.”
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Features“There are still attempts to stifle what it is to be black”: Daniel Kaluuya, LaKeith Stanfield on ‘Judas And The Black Messiah’
Judas And The Black Messiah is a drama that arrives with added contemporary resonance.
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Features‘Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom’ director George C Wolfe on celebrating black performers
The filmmaker on the “ferocity of commitment” of the late Chadwick Boseman
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Features“I understand this character inside out”: Anthony Hopkins on ‘The Father’ and TikTok dancing
The Oscar-winning actors says he knew immediately that he wanted to play the title role in Florian Zeller drama, about a man with dementia.
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FeaturesJodie Foster talks cutting back her role in ‘The Mauritanian’ and her most inspiring directors
The Oscar-winning actress reveals why she has only ever played two real-life characters and looks back on ‘Silence Of The Lambs’.
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FeaturesAaron Sorkin on why ‘The Trial Of The Chicago 7’ "suddenly became relevant" in the age of Trump
Screenwriter Aaron Sorkin took on the biggest challenge of his career when he stepped up to direct expansive true-life drama ‘The Trial Of The Chicago 7’.
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FeaturesBerlin 2021: Screen’s guide to the Competition titles
Titles from Céline Sciamma, Radu Jude and Alonso Ruizpalacios comprise the Competition lineup.