All Features articles – Page 5
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FeaturesAlexander Rodnyansky on financing October 7 drama ‘Of Dogs And Men’
The drama is directed by Dani Rosenberg and premieres in Venice’s Horizons strand.
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FeaturesToronto 2024 preview: Screen’s guide to the Gala and Special Presentations
TIFF takes the baton from fall rival Venice, offering an audience-friendly line‑up.
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Features‘Paul & Paulette Take A Bath’ director on crafting his Venice Critics’ Week debut “outside of the system”
The dark comedy is the first feature from UK born, Paris-based commericals and music video producer Jethro Massey.
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FeaturesHow Baltasar Kormakur recreated multiple time periods in Japan, Iceland, and London for ‘Touch’
‘Touch’ follows Icelandic widower Kristofer who travels to Japan to find the woman he met and fell in love with in London 50 years before.
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Features“Measuring ovations is deeply silly”: what’s behind the rise of the ‘standing ovation’ story?
One exec said he’s seen publicists with “giant stopwatches with glowing screens” independently timing ovations at film premieres.
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FeaturesFabrice du Welz’s ‘Maldoror’, about Belgian serial killer Marc Dutroux, is first in planned trilogy about “my very strange country”
The film premieres out of competition at Venice on September 2.
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Features“Calm on set”: How Venice title ‘My Everything’ has helped to pioneer accessibility practices while filming
’My Everything’ and box office smash ’A Little Bit Of Everything’ both boasted the first ’accessibility coordination manager’ role.
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Features‘There was no budget’: The Quay Brothers on their epic 19 -year journey to make ‘Sanatorium Under The Sign Of The Hourglass’
Acclaimed UK-based animators have spent 19 years creating their latest feature-length film, a mixture of stop-motion and live action.
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FeaturesHow a new documentary sheds light on Jerry Lewis’s notorious lost film ‘The Day The Clown Cried’
Directors Michael Lurie and Eric Friedler have unearthed lost footage from ’The Day The Clown Cried’.
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FeaturesMy Screen Life: UK producer Rebecca O’Brien on her love of cold-water swims and 1960s musicals
Revered UK producer O’Brien is a long-time collaborator of director Ken Loach and screenwriter Paul Laverty.
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FeaturesHow TorinoFilmLab is making sustainability more accessible for European film producers
TorinoFilmLab’s pioneering Green Production Lab will match sustainability experts with European film producers to create a practical green plan for an upcoming project
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FeaturesIs the super-sized multiplex cinema on its way out in the UK?
“You see far fewer 10, 12 or 14-screen cinemas opening now.”
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FeaturesIs Creative Europe Media "drifting away" from its core cultural objectives?
The Creative Europe Media programme has long been a cornerstone of the European film industry. But some worry it is now prioritising business objectives over cultural ones — and independent filmmakers are losing out.
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FeaturesHow Laika’s ‘Coraline’ became the re-release hit of the year
The ‘Coraline’ re-release has passed $27m worldwide.
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FeaturesThe lowdown on all the Venice Film Festival 2024 titles
Screen profiles all the films in the Venice Film Festival’s official selection and parallel sections.
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FeaturesVenice 2024 preview: Screen’s guide to the Competition titles
Includes films from Luca Guadagnino, Todd Phillips, Dea Kulumbegashvili, Pablo Larrain and Wang Bing.
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FeaturesVenice 2024 preview: Screen’s guide to the Out of Competition titles
Includes new films from Errol Morris, Tim Burton, Kevin Macdonald, Petra Costa, Asif Kapadia and Harmony Korine.
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FeaturesVenice 2024 preview: Screen’s guide to the Horizons titles
Includes films from Alex Ross Perry, Valerio Mastandrea and Scandar Copti.
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FeaturesVenice 2024 preview: Screen’s guide to the Critics’ Week titles
Includes UK title ’Paul & Paulette Take A Bath’ and Trump supporter documentary ’Homegrown’.
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FeaturesVenice 2024 preview: Screen’s guide to the Giornate degli Autori titles
Politics and relationships dominate the Venice Film Festival sidebar.