All Q&A articles – Page 43
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FeaturesMaja Milos
28-year-old Serbian writer-director Maja Milos’ debut feature Clip (Klip) has been the talk of Rotterdam. It was a polarising film drawing some praise and some outrage. “At least nobody is indifferent to the film,” Milos says.The story follows a young teenage girl who has a frustrating home life and turns ...
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FeaturesPeter von Bagh
The Finnish director talks about his Rotterdam retrospective, the privilege of bringing great directors to the Midnight Sun Film Festival, and how very local films can be universal.
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FeaturesWoody Harrelson
Woody Harrelson tells Jeremy Kay how he prepared to play the policeman at the centre of Rampart.
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FeaturesThomas McCarthy
Thomas McCarthy tells Jeremy Kay about using wrestling to explore middle-class life in Win Win.
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FeaturesBart Layton and Dimitri Doganis, The Imposter
Ahead of their Sundance world premiere, the UK director and producer talk about the elusive truth in their film about a Frenchman who impersonated a missing Texas teenager.
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FeaturesLaura Bickford and Nicholas Jarecki, Arbitrage
Producer Laura Bickford and writer-director Nicholas Jarecki talk to Jeremy Kay about making $15m suspense drama Arbitrage, starring Richard Gere, which is generating buzz at Sundance.
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FeaturesGrégory Bernard, producer of Wrong
Grégory Bernard, the Paris-based producer of Quentin Dupieux’s Sundance contender Wrong, tells Screen about their new brand of English-language, French-style cinema.
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FeaturesPeter Baxter, Slamdance
The Slamdance festival director and co-founder talks about hot titles at the 2012 festival and the event’s growing digital presence year-round.
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FeaturesHarry Gregson-Williams
Harry Gregson-Williams talks to Ian Sandwell about composing the score for Arthur Christmas.
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FeaturesZhang Yimou
The Flowers Of War director tells John Hazelton about balancing the Eastern and Western elements of one of China’s biggest-ever productions.
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FeaturesMichelle Williams
The actress tells Jeremy Kay how she avoided Marilyn Monroe’s “wiggles and winks” to focus on the character at the heart of the blonde bombshell in My Week With Marilyn.
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FeaturesGlenn Ficarra and John Requa
The Crazy, Stupid Love. co-directors talk about working with Steve Carell and keeping a story emotional.
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FeaturesWill Reiser
50/50 writer Will Reiser tells Jeremy Kay about seeing the funny side of cancer — and balancing laughter and tears.
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FeaturesOlivia Colman
The break-out star of Paddy Considine’s Tyrannosaur tells Louise Tutt why she enjoyed playing such a harrowing role.
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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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FeaturesGary Oldman
To play the disenchanted spy hunter at the centre of Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, Gary Oldman went back to the classic novel and used its author, John le Carré, as a template.
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FeaturesBrad Pitt and Bennett Miller
Brad Pitt and Bennett Miller tell Jeremy Kay how Moneyball withstood several curveballs in development before leaving the dugout as an awards contender.
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FeaturesKenneth Branagh
The actor-director tells Leon Forde about recreating Laurence Olivier’s on-set relationship with Marilyn Monroe in My Week With Marilyn.
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FeaturesSteve McQueen
The Shame director tells Screen why he made a film about one of society’s biggest taboos.