All Features articles – Page 82
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FeaturesBafta takes a bow
With a change in eligibility rules, Bafta’s organisers are hoping that smaller films will benefit in certain key categories.
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FeaturesScreen Film Summit: state of the nation
Leading lights of the UK film industry came together for a dynamic day of talk and debate, to celebrate and learn from the successful releases, and to glean inspiration from on-stage film-makers.
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Features'Je Suis Charlie': documenting the aftermath of a tragedy
SCREEN SUBSCRIBERS: On the day of Je Suis Charlie’s release in France, co-directors Daniel and Emmanuel Leconte discuss their doc about Charlie Hebdo’s survivors and the recent Paris atrocities.
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FeaturesDesert heat: shooting in the UAE
The UAE is fast becoming one of the most popular shooting destinations in the Middle East.
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FeaturesAwards Season: Best Picture
In-depth looks at Carol, Mad Max: Fury Road, Room and Spotlight
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Features'Carol': producer Elizabeth Karlsen on her 14-year passion project
In her own words, Carol producer Elizabeth Karlsen reveals the 14-year-long journey to bring the adaptation of Patricia Highsmith’s novel to the screen.
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Features'Room': if these walls could talk
Bestseller or not, Room’s sensitive subject matter was always going to be a cinematic challenge. Jeremy Kay speaks to writer Emma Donoghue, director Lenny Abrahamson and producer Ed Guiney about translating its emotional and physical space to the screen
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Features'Spotlight': drama in the newsroom
From avoiding lawsuits to casting a prestige acting ensemble, the team behind best picture hopeful Spotlight reveal how they pulled off the high-wire act.
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Features'Mad Max: Fury Road': driven to the edge
Mad Max: Fury Road has garnered critical acclaim and global box office of $375m and counting. But it was an arduous journey, as director George Miller, producer Doug Mitchell and production designer Colin Gibson tell Tom Grater.
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FeaturesMexico's Gaston Pavlovich talks Fabrica de Cine and Martin Scorsese
SCREEN SUBSCRIBERS: Mexican financier-producer Gaston Pavlovich talks to Jeremy Kay about building Fabrica de Cine into a major international player and working with Martin Scorsese to create Silence
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FeaturesBest Picture race: bounty hunters
Will Quentin Tarantino’s The Hateful Eight be the film to shake up this year’s awards season? Jeremy Kay looks at which movies have achieved glory so far.
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FeaturesDubai Film Connection: up close and personal
Dubai Film Connection is dominated by intimate, character-driven tales from voices that are often ignored or marginalised, DFC artistic director Jane Williams says.
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FeaturesThe changing face of the European Film Awards
The role of the EFAs is changing as they become more than just a chance to celebrate the best in European film-making. They now have a part to play in campaigning on important issues and bringing collaborators together.
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FeaturesUAE filmmaking: rattle and roll
An unprecedented five Emirati feature films are screening at DIFF this year as the UAE’s fledgling film scene goes from strength to strength.
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Spike Lee: The Passionate Outsider
SCREEN SUBSCRIBERS: Spike Lee discusses the shocking urban violence that inspired Chi-Raq, and explains how his timely new film found a home at Amazon
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Features'The Peanuts Movie': Snoopy's welcome return
When the Schulz family entrusted the Peanuts characters with director Steve Martino, they had two stipulations: no twerking and no iPhones.
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Features'Minions': the three stooges
Charlie Chaplin, Peter Sellers and Mr Bean were the inspirations behind animation success story Minions. John Hazelton explores the rise of the be-goggled ones.
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Features'Shaun The Sheep Movie': silence of the lambs
For a film with no dialogue, Shaun The Sheep Movie still took two years to write. The runaway hit’s creative team at Aardman talk to Ian Sandwell about the rigours and rewards of remaining mute.
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Features'Inside Out': ode to joy
The team behind Pixar’s Inside Out found inspiration for their strikingly ambitious trip into the human mind in some unlikely places, as Pete Docter tells Jeremy Kay.
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Features'The Good Dinosaur': Jurassic bark
The Good Dinosaur director Peter Sohn talks to Elbert Wyche about bringing a friendly dinosaur and a dog-like boy to life and hatching the film’s environment from present-day reality