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CommentGuest comment: Use tax credit to promote greater diversity in the UK film industry
The diversity of this year’s Bafta and Oscar nominations is welcome, but how does the UK industry make the change permanent?
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NewsComment: Berlin grins and bears it
An arthouse-orientated Berlin line-up could ultimately reveal some pleasant surprises.
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CommentComment: Sundance Online has set a new industry gold standard
It was different, certainly, but vibrant and full of the Park City spirit with a feeling of wider – in a way more democratic – access.
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CommentComment: Film business should kick off 2021 by knuckling down to reality
Every sector rallied last year to the best of its ability in a constantly twisting scenario.
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CommentComment: It is time to rethink the awards season conversation
The rules have changed and attitudes could do with a makeover too.
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NewsComment: Has Cineworld really got no option but to close all its UK and Ireland cinemas?
If the company displayed more “pandemic pragmatism” it could look very different.
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CommentComment: The film industry needs to pull together if it is to survive this pandemic
The September festivals mostly provided a morale boost but, as cinema closures prove, storms lie ahead.
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FeaturesComment: A “Damascene moment” for Venice
This year’s line-up looks very global, very arthouse, and very welcome.
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CommentComment: John Boyega is a hero, says Lucasfilm. They’re right.
As the pictures from London’s Black Lives Matter protest attest, Boyega’s dazzling star quality has grown over the years.
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CommentComment: Cannes selection gets show on the road
Fifty-six titles now wear the Cannes 73 label. Thierry Fremaux tries to set them off in style.
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CommentGuest comment: “Covid-19 crisis will have a profound impact on film finance”
Polish director Agnieszka Holland shares her thoughts on the future of independent cinema.
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CommentComment: A toast from Screen to Cannes
Today should have been opening day of the 73rd Cannes Film Festival.
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FeaturesComment: Industry in a bind over festival premieres
Pride And Premieres: It has a complicated plot, but it’s a story worth reading.
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FeaturesComment: Cannes – requiem for the dream
The industry will adapt and survive: it’s comprised of obstinate fighters.
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FeaturesComment: Where will the next foreign-language Oscar winner come from?
’Parasite’’s win will have other non-English-speaking countries pondering their own chances.
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FeaturesComment: ‘Parasite’ triumph is the best thing that could have happened to the Oscars
Parasite has shown that stories don’t have to be rooted in Americana or English-speaking culture to win the big prize.
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FeaturesComment: This year marks a new low for female directors at Venice
”Barbera has opened the festival’s legs wide for auteurs to further man-spread across the international arthouse landscape.”
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FeaturesComment: 'Business as usual' for UK industry at Berlinale despite Brexit uncertainty
The UK’s position as a high-value film market - both import and export - means any and all disruptions will have a strong ripple effect across the continent.
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FeaturesWhich films could win big at the UK box office in early 2019?
Titles that could make a splash include ‘Mary Queen Of Scots’, ‘Green Book’ and ’The Favourite’.
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FeaturesRemembering Sammy Hadida: "energy, good taste and loyalty"
Hadida died in November, aged 64.