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CommentActing notables: Smiley and sexy
More insights into awards-friendly titles at Venice including Tinker Tailor, Shame and Contagion.
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CommentThe Madonna Factor
W.E. is being declared a bomb after its Venice world premiere, even before it’s screened anywhere else. But Madonna’s movie should have a second wind. It’s no masterpiece but it’s an ambitious second film which should recover and find its audience.
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CommentTinker Tailor's latest fan: John Le Carre
As Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy gets rave reviews in Venice, author John Le Carre offers his support of the film and says Alec Guinness himself would have given it a standing ovation.
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CommentStudioCanal's new look
As Kinowelt and Optimum are rebranded, the company’s new ident showcases music by Alexandre Desplat.
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CommentNew Awards Season Blog: Tracking early contenders from Venice
Welcome to Open Season, Screen’s new blog on the awards race, an on- the-ground account of the movies and performances in contention for this year’s awards, giving first reaction, word of mouth and plenty of opinion about the avalanche of films that will start falling onto our screens over the ...
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CommentLet the smart season begin
Summer is for inane, mindless spectacle, but autumn and winter – as if the harsher weather demands it – bring on the thinking movies.
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CommentPaul Walker burns rubber in Vehicle 19
I spent the bank holiday weekend in Johannesburg (as you do) watching Paul Walker drive a car into a supermarket window.
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CommentShifting into top gear
Ben Parker’s short Shifter impresses before the UK premiere of Kill Listat FrightFest.
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CommentOn the road with the rain man
The welcomes might have been warm at the Karlovy Vary, St Petersburg and Sarajevo festivals, but the weather proved more inhospitable
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CommentChina’s international ambitions
What the Relativity Media and Legendary Pictures deals say about China rallying forth into the world.
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CommentDawn of The Dead
Ahead of its theatrical release, Screen chats to director/producer Howard Ford about near death experiences whilst shooting zombie film The Dead on location in remotest Africa.
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CommentAfter 18 years, a documentary gets a happy ending
A tribute to the work of Joe Berlinger, Bruce Sinofsky and HBO Films, as the West Memphis 3 are freed.
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CommentAnd she does her own stunts...
She’s known for her scorching on-screen performances, but Kate Winslet will forever be remembered by Richard Branson’s family for her heroism after she rescued the entrepreneur’s mum from a blaze on Necker Island.
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CommentTrishna trailer launches
Freida Pinto and Riz Ahmed get meaty roles in a beautiful-looking Tess update from Michael Winterbottom.
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CommentCriticising The Critics
I think Goodbye First Love is a great film, but Screen’s critic Lisa Nesselson didn’t respond in the same way. When it comes to movies, it seems everyone has their own opinion.
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CommentBrendan Gleeson’s Halle Berry moment
The Guard writer-director John Michael McDonagh was in great form at a Q&A ahead of Optimum’s release of the film in the UK on Friday.
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CommentBlitz spirit
The producers of Wartime Wanderers, the true story of the 1939 Bolton Wanderers football team which signed up to serve in World War II, have come up with an innovative way to finance their film whilst also raising money for charity.
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CommentDanny Dyer finds his inner luvvie
Screen chatted to the hard man of British cinema about his latest - and very different - role in Ray Cooney’s Run For Your Wife.
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CommentA Walk To Remember
Screen will be out in force for MediCinema’s annual Movie Walk in London on September 4 in aid of bringing the medium of cinema to hospital patients.