All articles by Mike Goodridge – Page 4
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CommentRemembering Bingham Ray
The film world lost one of its most colourful and passionate characters this week when Bingham Ray died at the age of 57 after a stroke at the Sundance Film Festival.
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CommentOn the audience and UK films
In light of the Film Policy Review, remembering that you can’t force audiences to watch a film they don’t want to watch; and noting how the UK benefits from US box-office domination.
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Features2012 preview: the prestige pictures
There is a wealth of high-prestige pictures set for release this year and a potentially classic end-of-year awards season featuring new movies by Steven Spielberg, Ang Lee, the Coen brothers, Terrence Malick, Quentin Tarantino, Baz Luhrmann, Paul Thomas Anderson, David O Russell, Tom Hooper and Kathryn Bigelow. Mike Goodridge and ...
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CommentGreat expectations for 2012
Welcome to Screen International 2012, a year that could see a silent French film win the best picture Oscar and Angelina Jolie win the Golden Globe for best foreign-language film.
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CommentStreep for the win
Meryl Streep is always outstanding — but that doesn’t mean that BAFTA and Oscar voters should take her for granted this year.
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NewsFoundation For Jewish Culture backs six documentaries
The New York-based organisation grants finishing funds to six projects, selected from 80 applications.
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CommentVenice’s Latest Renaissance
Outgoing festival director Marco Mueller returned Venice to its former glory by focusing on the movies. Incoming Alberto Barbera has been charged with creating a market infrastructure. But does Venice need it?
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FeaturesSteven Zaillian
A-list screenwriter and a film-maker in his own right, Zaillian tells Screen how he adapted Stieg Larsson’s epic novel The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo into the pacy Sony Pictures movie.
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CommentLonergan’s Period Piece
The seven year-old film Margaret, which has finally been released by Fox Searchlight, is very much of its time for a number of reasons.
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FeaturesRalph Fiennes
It is more than a year since he locked his directorial debut Coriolanus, and Ralph Fiennes is keen for it to be in front of audiences, he tells Mike Goodridge
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CommentStudying the Snubs
What can you do in a year of such strong movies? There are bound to be casualties. Besides, what is a snub?
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CommentOnline versus face time
How can the internet help the film industry at a time when online-only businesses are still struggling to devise effective revenue models?
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CommentThis year's contenders: Mike Goodridge speculates about likely nominees
In a year when voters will be divided among many good movies, Screen looks at the likely nominees for Oscars and Baftas; plus 30 contenders who have everything to play for.
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CommentGlittering European Prizes
The EFAs and the BIFAs celebrate their respective constituents’ art and talent in as pure a way as possible, largely indifferent to the Hollywood awards hype machine.
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CommentAn Undervalued Master
Ken Russell, who died this week, was one of the UK’s most audacious film-makers so why was he so wildly under-appreciated?
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NewsJerusalem Film Lab launches this week with 12 projects
Intensive seven month film lab modeled on Sundance, Binger and Turin and created by the Sam Spiegel Film & TV School brings 12 film-makers to Israel this week including Alvaro Brechner, Nadav Lapid, Burhan Qurnabi and Ernesto Contreras.
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CommentAn Oscars What If?
If the Oscars move into January in 2013, the Academy will set in motion a sea change in the production cycle and distribution of prestige titles.
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CommentUIP: The comeback?
The dramatic reorganization of Paramount Pictures International, which will see 80 people lose their jobs in the UK, raises big questions for all the studios’ international businesses.