All articles by Mark Salisbury
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Features‘The Pitt’ creator on immersing the audience: “We decided never to go home with our doctors”
The Pitt doesn’t pull any punches in its politics or depiction of medical procedures. “Some of it is quite gnarly,” showrunner and creator R Scott Gemmill tells Mark Salisbury. “That was our goal”
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FeaturesKarolina Wydra on her ‘Pluribus’ character Zosia and returning to acting after five years out: “I was scared”
Karolina Wydra had not acted for five years when she was cast as the emotionless personification of an alien hive mind in Vince Gilligan’s sci-fi series Pluribus
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FeaturesMy Screen Life: ‘The Boys’ showrunner Eric Kripke talks octopus sex toys, email anxiety and embracing failure
”I can’t have emails in my inbox.”
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Features‘The Diplomat’ creator Debora Cahn and star Rufus Sewell on real-life inspirations and making Brits look bad
The Diplomat reveals the human side to international politics
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FeaturesIn conversation: First-ever nominees for new Oscars casting category discuss a changing industry and AI actors
Gabriel Domingues, Nina Gold, Cassandra Kulukundis, Francine Maisler and Jennifer Venditti talk to Screen.
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FeaturesHow Depression-era photography inspired the Oscar-nominated visuals for 'Train Dreams’
Born in Brazil, resident in Portugal and working across continents, director of photography Adolpho Veloso connected with the itinerant themes of Train Dreams.
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FeaturesWhy John Carney struggled to finance ‘Power Ballad’ until Paul Rudd joined
The comedy drama made its world premiere at the Dublin film festival this weekend.
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FeaturesKleber Mendonca Filho breaks down four key scenes from ‘The Secret Agent’: “The film has multiple layers of storytelling”
Kleber Mendonca Filho has poured his experiences growing up in Recife, northern Brazil into political thriller The Secret Agent. He talks to Screen about four key sequences in the film.
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FeaturesPaul Thomas Anderson, DoP Michael Bauman break down four key scenes from ‘One Battle After Another’: “I knew people would have a good reaction”
One Battle After Another combined meticulous planning with a flexible, open filmmaking approach.
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Features‘Sunny Dancer’ director George Jaques on avoiding cancer cliches: “I wanted to make a film about joy”
I said, ‘I’m not going to do any long, drawn-out hospital scenes. I’m not going to have any bald kids. I’m going to make this feral’”
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FeaturesFrom Terrence Malick to celebrating “a little life”: the inspirations behind Clint Bentley and Greg Kwedar’s ‘Train Dreams’
The filmmakers’ adaptation of Denis Johnson’s 2011 novella explores the life of a labourer and logger in the Pacific Northwest over several decades
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FeaturesJosh Safdie on working with a bigger budget on ‘Marty Supreme’ and why Timothée Chalamet was perfect for “outcast” lead role
“It was a big movie. It’s period. It’s international. The costumes, you can’t just go to thrift stores and buy them. I wanted lots of extras. I needed to recreate reality.”
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Features‘One Battle After Another’ duo Paul Thomas Anderson and Leonardo DiCaprio on improvising and film industry optimism
The director and star of One Battle After Another first mooted working together with Boogie Nights, then waited nearly three decades to actually do so
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FeaturesEthan Hawke on playing Lorenz Hart in ‘Blue Moon’ and how Philip Seymour Hoffman changed the trajectory of his career
Hawke plays legendary Broadway lyricist Lorenz Hart at a moment of crisis in Richard Linklater’s film
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FeaturesKathryn Bigelow on the inspiration behind nuclear-strike thriller ‘A House Of Dynamite’: “I was interested in discussing the unthinkable”
Kathryn Bigelow delivers high stakes and high tension with nuclear‑missile thriller ’A House Of Dynamite’.
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Features“It is the DNA of my own story”: Guillermo del Toro on making ‘Frankenstein’ and casting Jacob Elordi as his Creature
Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein is the culmination of an almost‑lifelong obsession
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FeaturesHow the filmmaking team behind ‘Bugonia’ adapted a 2003 Korean film into a “very contemporary” black comedy
Despite its origins, the film’s themes of paranoia and environmental decay feel pertinent today
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FeaturesHow an “alien enthusiast” friend helped Jesse Plemons prepare for his role in ‘Bugonia’
In Bugonia, Jesse Plemons plays a man empowered by certainty he is saving the human race from an alien conspiracy.
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FeaturesHow different-sized shoes helped Michael B Jordan play twins in ‘Sinners’
To play twins Smoke and Stack in Ryan Coogler’s film, Michael B Jordan developed complex back stories to help deepen the two performances.
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FeaturesHow ‘One Battle After Another’ editor crafted the iconic ‘river of hills’ car chase
One Battle After Another’s editor Andy Jurgensen tells Screen about the craft behind a memorable sequence.