All Leader articles – Page 2

  • The Birth of a Nation
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    COMMENT: Birth of a game-changer

    2016-01-29T06:00:00Z

    It is safe to say by this time next year, The Birth Of A Nation will not only feature among the best picture Oscar nominees but most likely will be the first on the list.

  • Straight Outta Compton
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    COMMENT: The Oscar doesn't go to...

    2016-01-19T00:01:00Z

    A lack of diversity was glaringly apparent in this year’s Oscar nominations, writes Matt Mueller.

  • 45 years tom courtenay
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    COMMENT: Bafta nominations shine a spotlight on British film

    2016-01-08T10:26:00Z

    Screen editor Matt Mueller on the deserved recognition for British filmmaking in this year’s Bafta nominations – despite not securing a single entry in the Best Film category.

  • Matt Mueller
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    Globe bends to the Force

    2016-01-06T09:25:00Z

    Has the start to a year ever been so dominated by one five-word film title, writes Screen editor Matt Mueller.

  • Matt Mueller
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    COMMENT: Now we are 40

    2015-12-22T14:06:00Z

    Screen editor Matt Mueller introduces our 40th anniversary edition.

  • Matt Mueller
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    The Summit of ambition

    2015-12-18T10:46:00Z

    Screen editor Matt Mueller on his personal highlights from this year’s Screen Film Summit.

  • Matt Mueller
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    Awards: the underdogs with bite

    2015-12-11T11:04:00Z

    Who doesn’t like an underdog, asks Screen editor Matt Mueller.

  • Matt Mueller
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    Reaching the Summit

    2015-12-04T16:44:00Z

    At next week’s annual Screen Film Summit (Dec 10), several of the key figures in the UK film industry will address the challenges and issues facing their various sectors, from production and distribution to exhibition and digital.

  • Matt Mueller
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    COMMENT: Indie Spirit Awards 2015

    2015-11-27T06:00:00Z

    With the Independent Spirit Award nominations announcement comes the first significant marker for awards season, as pundits and prognosticators read the tea leaves for signs of relative health (or ailment) in each film’s march towards the Oscars.

  • Jeremy Kay
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    Vive le cinema

    2015-11-20T07:00:00Z

    Screen US editor Jeremy Kay highlights the best film contenders and considers the strength of human resolve in the wake of the Paris attacks.

  • Matt Mueller
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    Film’s global language

    2015-11-13T10:11:00Z

    Screen editor Matt Mueller on the foreign-language film race.

  • Matt Mueller
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    The great digital debate

    2015-11-02T06:00:00Z

    Screen editor Matt Mueller on the big questions hanging over the future of European independent film.

  • Matt Mueller
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    Awards season: And we're off...

    2015-10-13T12:25:00Z

    Screen editor Matt Mueller on the early rumblings of awards season.

  • Matt Mueller
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    Thriving amid the chaos

    2015-09-01T15:11:00Z

    Screen editor Matt Mueller on how the pace of change among digital natives is dizzying and exponential.

  • Matt Mueller
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    Summer ramblings

    2015-06-24T11:17:05.403Z

    Now that summer is here, thoughts (well, mine anyway) turn to holidays and multiplexes being dominated by Hollywood’s latest salvo of tentpoles, sequels and tentpole sequels.

  • Matt Mueller
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    Hello, Cannes

    2015-05-12T07:54:00Z

    Screen Editor Matt Mueller looks ahead to this year’s festival… and beyond.

  • Wendy Mitchell 2014
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    Broadcast blues

    2015-02-04T19:44:00Z

    The Berlinale’s European Film Market kicks off the year’s dealmaking for the European film industry in earnest.

  • Jeremy Kay
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    Respect the producer

    2015-01-23T11:06:00Z

    Precisely what a producer does is one of the murkiest questions in cinema.

  • Selma
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    Selma’s bad timing

    2015-01-18T23:59:00Z

    The exclusion of Selma’s David Oyelowo from the Oscar nominations is more than a snub - it’s an injustice.

  • Wendy Mitchell
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    Women of substance

    2015-01-07T12:20:00Z

    Wendy Mitchell reflects on women in film over the past 12 months and what to look forward to in 2015.