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Greg Kinnear - 'We all lead double lives'
Friday, 13 March 2009
Greg Kinnear used to be a journalist. Gill Pringle hears why that makes the actor extra careful of his own privacy
Screen Talk - Fury frenzy
Friday, 13 March 2009
Hollywood has always been good at striking innovative deals, but a new agreement with Samuel L Jackson is unprecedented.
The Word On... The Young Victoria
Friday, 13 March 2009
"The film is exquisitely beautiful: at times the characters look like mahogany in candlelight, like the wooden pawn Victoria fears she is becoming. Britain's in situ castles and palaces cannot fail to host perfect settings for the royal screamings and weepings that are largely over nothing. What the film lacks is a sense of its awful era – if only Dickens could have had a hand in the script." - Vincent Olliver, www.teletext.co.uk
Crowd with a silver lining: A new climate change film has found a novel way of raising cash
Thursday, 12 March 2009
It was the moment that proved film maker Franny Armstrong's hard work had paid off. A contact of hers, a young professional had sent an email to her friends. Its title was simply: "Why I am kissing goodbye to my cash."
The Independent Film Forum: 5. Watchmen
Wednesday, 11 March 2009
Our new film forum is your chance to pass judgement on a recent release. Here's a selection of your views on Zack Snyder's interpretation of the comic book classic
Clough: The inside story
Wednesday, 11 March 2009
James Lawton: The movie dramatisation of Brian Clough's 44-day tenure at Leeds is great entertainment, but the reality was even more thrilling.
An epic in the making
Monday, 9 March 2009
Sebastian Faulks sold the film rights for Birdsong 16 years ago. With filming yet to start, Geoffrey Macnab pieces together a blockbuster saga
‘I can make anyone famous’
Sunday, 8 March 2009
Paul Duddridge is a former comedy agent who believes he can transform the lowliest nobody into a massive celebrity – in just 40 days. Guy Adams gets his tips for stardom
Culture: Hold on to the edge of your seat...
Sunday, 8 March 2009
In the summer of 1998, a film was released called Deep Impact which boasted the tagline: "Oceans rise. Cities fall. Hope survives." After sitting through its two-hour running time, I decided a more appropriate tagline would be: "Summers come. Movies suck. Hope survives." It is one of the strange paradoxes of the blockbuster season that, no matter how disappointed we are, we always look forward to the following summer with giddy enthusiasm. Some day, we think, Hollywood will get it right.
One-click Wonder: Playing the Dane
Sunday, 8 March 2009
It’s been reported that David Tennant will reprise his role as Hamlet in a film version of the recent RSC production, to be filmed this summer. Here we recall some other memorable screen portrayals of the dithering Dane...
Out of Heath's shadow
Saturday, 7 March 2009
Michelle Williams has spent the last year quietly proving herself as an actress. And her latest role is her best yet, says Kaleem Aftab
Charlize Theron: 'My whole career has been proving people wrong'
Saturday, 7 March 2009
Her stunning looks could easily have pigeonholed her as a bombshell-for-hire. But Charlize Theron has shown that she's far more: character actor, Oscar winner, producer. But she still finds nude scenes 'quite liberating', bless her. James Mottram is rather dazzled
Gwyneth Paltrow: The earth mother goes back to work
Friday, 6 March 2009
She left movies to bring up her family and to rebrand as a lifestyle guru. Now Gwyneth Paltrow is fired up by acting again, she tells James Mottram
The Barometer: François Bégaudeau; The Prodigy; exorbitant ticket prices; Jonas Brothers
Friday, 6 March 2009
Observations: Artworks that unlock the heart of Bronson's darkness
Friday, 6 March 2009
Ever on the lookout for a new enfant terrible, the art world's current darling would seem to be Charles Bronson, aka Britain's most dangerous prisoner. Next Friday sees the release of the film Bronson, with a beefed-up, bewhiskered Tom Hardy in the lead. The same day an exhibition of the artwork Bronson has produced over 34 years in jail will open at the Amuti bookshop and gallery in the West End of London.
Party Of The Week: Palace of the stars
Friday, 6 March 2009
After escaping from a blustery walk along the red carpet for the world premiere of The Young Victoria, the blue-blooded guests and acting nobility congregated at Kensington Palace. They then ascended the same stately staircase that Queen Victoria had skipped up more than a century earlier.
From New Wave to tedious old hat
Friday, 6 March 2009
Forget the rebels of the past, it's time European cinema moved on, says Geoffrey Macnab
Screen Talk: Football mom
Friday, 6 March 2009
Sandra Bullock is growing up. The 45-year-old actress is eyeing a transition from kooky girl-next-door to neighbourly matriarch. Bullock is lined up to star in the sports drama 'The Blindside', for the writer and director John Lee Hancock. Based on a bestselling book by Michael Lewis, 'The Blindside' tells the true story of the American football player Michael Oher, who is projected to be one of the stars of the upcoming gridiron season. Oher was a homeless black teenager who was taken in by an affluent white family; Bullock is set to play the wife and mother in the family, Leigh Anne Touhy.
Chess: the film of the music label
Wednesday, 4 March 2009
The latest musical biopic may be flawed, but the story it tells of a legendary blues and rock'n'roll label is compelling, writes Pierre Perrone
The Independent Film Forum: 4. Confessions of a Shopaholic
Wednesday, 4 March 2009
Our new film forum is your chance to pass judgement on a recent release. Here's a selection of your views on this tale of modern consumer madness
American Teen: The real brat pack
Wednesday, 4 March 2009
Geeks, jocks and prom queens – we may think we know about American high schools, but a new documentary reveals the truth behind the clichés
Cinema Ouagadougou: The home of African film
Tuesday, 3 March 2009
Forget Cannes, Venice and Berlin – if you're passionate about film, Burkina Faso is the place to go, writes Katrina Manson
The Independent Film Forum: Week 5 - Watchmen
Tuesday, 3 March 2009
So, was it worth the wait? The next film up for discussion in The Independent Film Forum will be Watchmen. It's taken 20 years to bring the best graphic novel of all time to the silver screen. Has the resulting film stayed true to Alan Moore's masterpiece or has Zack Snyder destroyed a legend? Air your views in the comment form below and we'll print the best in the newspaper next week.
Mallory: The Everest enigma
Monday, 2 March 2009
Eight decades after his ill-fated expedition, the legend of George Mallory is about to live again – on screen and in a novel by Jeffrey Archer. So will we ever discover whether this dashing, sexually ambiguous, bohemian adventurer reached the top? Ed Douglas meets the myth-makers
The weird world of Alan Moore
Sunday, 1 March 2009
The black magician who created the graphic anti-heroes is 'spitting venom' from afar over the new film writes Andrew Johnson.
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The Class, 15
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