All Interview articles – Page 101

  • Olivier Nakache and Eric Toledano
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    Olivier Nakache and Eric Toledano, Samba

    2014-09-08T23:00:00Z

    The French directing duo follow up their huge hit Intouchables with Samba, starring Omar Sy as an African immigrant in Paris who falls in love with his immigration worker.

  • James Schamus
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    James Schamus on life after Focus

    2014-09-08T12:05:00Z

    Schamus is working on screenplays including Zealot: The Life And Times Of Jesus of Nazareth and an adaptation of Philip Roth’s Indignation.

  • Viggo Mortensen in Far From Men
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    Viggo Mortensen, Far From Men

    2014-09-07T23:05:00Z

    In David Oelhoffen’s Far From Men, Viggo Mortensen plays a reclusive teacher who helps a villager accused of commiting a murder escape into the mountains during the Algerian war.

  • Jalmari Helander & Onni Tommila
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    Jalmari Helander & Onni Tommila, Big Game

    2014-09-07T09:45:00Z

    Daniel Horowitz talks to the Finnish director and lead star of Midnight Madness premiere Big Game.

  • Boo Ji-young
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    Boo Ji-young, Cart

    2014-09-07T08:02:00Z

    Boo Ji-young’s sophomore feature Cart is a topical tale of workers at a big-box retail store.

  • Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead
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    Justin Benson & Aaron Moorhead, Spring

    2014-09-07T08:02:00Z

    The directing duo talk about their second feature, which premiered in the Vanguard section at Toronto.

  • Susanne Bier
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    Susanne Bier, A Second Chance

    2014-09-06T06:42:00Z

    The Oscar-winning Danish filmmaker follows the romance Love Is All You Need with this darker tale of a detective (Nikolaj Coster-Waldau) who crosses a moral line after a family tragedy.

  • Andrew Niccol
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    Andrew Niccol, Good Kill

    2014-09-05T15:02:00Z

    In Good Kill, Ethan Hawke plays a conflicted former fighter pilot now operating drones from a base in Las Vegas.

  • The Reach
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    Jean-Baptiste Léonetti, The Reach

    2014-09-05T09:00:00Z

    Three years after his feature directorial debut Carré blanc played at the festival in 2011, the French director who made his name in commercials returns to Toronto with thriller The Reach.

  • Baldvin Z
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    Baldvin Z, Life In A Fishbowl

    2014-09-05T07:55:00Z

    Icelandic director Baldvin Z’s second feature interweaves the story of three very different characters struggling with modern life in Reykjavik.

  • Michael Winterbottom
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    Michael Winterbottom, The Face of an Angel

    2014-09-05T06:14:00Z

    Michael Winterbottom talks about his genre-bending new film inspired loosely by the Amanda Knox-Meredith Kercher case.

  • The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
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    Participant Media: game changers

    2014-09-04T16:41:00Z

    As Participant Media celebrates 10 years and 55 films, Jeremy Kay talks to CEO Jim Berk about the company’s growth and further global expansion.

  • October Gale
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    Myriad Pictures: breaking out

    2014-09-04T16:36:00Z

    Kirk D’Amico, founder of Myriad Pictures, tells Jeremy Kay about the move into Canadian distribution and prestige productions in the pipeline

  • Cameron Bailey
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    Toronto: Cameron Bailey talks size and the Telluride policy

    2014-09-04T16:06:00Z

    Toronto artistic director Cameron Bailey talks to Jeremy Kay about food trucks, not being a snob and the Tulluride policy

  • Thelma Schoonmaker
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    Thelma Schoonmaker: Editing is a misunderstood art

    2014-09-03T08:01:00Z

    Martin Scorsese’s long-time editor talked Raging Bull, the move to digital and the art of cutting while at the Venice Film Festival where she has picked up a lifetime honour.

  • Naji Abu Nowar
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    Naji Abu Nowar, Theeb

    2014-09-03T07:00:00Z

    Premiering in Venice’s Orizzonti section, Naji Abu Nowar’s Theeb is a coming-of-age story about a young Bedouin boy who is forced to grow up fast following the death of his father and the arrival of a British army officer on a mysterious mission.

  • David Gordon Green in Venice
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    David Gordon Green, Manglehorn

    2014-08-31T21:20:00Z

    The director chats about fables, gospel choirs, casting Harmony Korine and Al Pacino’s preparation process.

  • Andrew Garfield, Ramin Bahrani and Michael Shannon in Venice
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    Ramin Bahrani: Cinema can't be an obsessive selfie

    2014-08-29T15:34:00Z

    Ramin Bahrani, Andrew Garfield and Michael Shannon talk about their detailed research for housing-crisis thriller 99 Homes, which receives its world premiere in Venice tonight (Aug 29)

  • Frederick Wiseman
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    Frederick Wiseman, National Gallery

    2014-08-29T14:52:00Z

    Boston-based 84-year-old Frederick Wiseman, who will be honoured with a Lifetime Achievement Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival tonight (Aug 29) is one of the greatest living documentary makers – and one of the most unobtrusive.

  • Black Souls
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    Francesco Munzi, Black Souls

    2014-08-29T10:40:00Z

    Francesco Munzi talks about the extensive research behind his Venice competition tilte Black Souls, about the Calabrian mafia.