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Interview: Carlos Cuaron on Rudo & Cursi

Carlos Cuaron

Carlos Cuarón is a screenwriter and director who’s previous credits include Sólo con tu pareja (1991) – which was directed by his brother Alfonso – and Y tu mamá también (2001).

His first film as a director is Rudo y Cursi, which stars Diego Luna and Gael García Bernal as two brothers in Mexico who end up fueding as they try to carve out a career in professional football.

I spoke with Carlos recently about the film and you can listen to the interview here:

[audio:http://filmdetail.receptionmedia.com/Carlos_Cuaron_on_Rudo_and_Cursi.mp3]

You can also download this interview as a podcast via iTunes by clicking here.

> Download this interview as an MP3 file
> Carlos Cuaron at the IMDb
> Reviews of Rudo y Cursi at Metacritic

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Interview: Richard Stanley on Hardware

Hardware DVDHardware is a 1990 sci-fi film set in a post-apocalyptic future.

The story involves the head of a killing cyborg found in the desert, which ends up repairing itself and wreaking havoc in the apartment of a sculptress.

Written and directed by Richard Stanley, it stars Dylan McDermott, Stacey Travis, John Lynch and William Hootkins.

A cult sci-fi horror, it hasn’t ever had a proper DVD release due to various rights difficulties until now.

I spoke with Richard Stanley in London recently and we discussed various aspects of the film including: where it was shot, how it got funded, the various influences and the long delay in securing a proper DVD release.

You can listen to the interview here:

[audio:http://filmdetail.receptionmedia.com/Richard_Stanley_on_Hardware.mp3]

You can also download this interview as a podcast via iTunes by clicking here.

The extras on the DVD include:

Extra DVD Features:
• Audio Commentary with Richard Stanley and Paul Trijbits
• Deleted, Extended and Behind the Scenes
• Sea of Perdition
• The Early Days Richard Stanley Super 8 Movies
• The Voice of the Moon
• Original Hardware Promo
  • Audio Commentary with director Richard Stanley and producer Paul Trijbits
  • Deleted, Extended and Behind the Scenes
  • Sea of Perdition
  • The Early Days Richard Stanley Super 8 Movies
  • The Voice of the Moon
  • Original Hardware Promo

Hardware is out on DVD and Blu-ray in the UK on Monday 22nd June from Optimum Releasing

> Download this interview as an MP3 file
> Buy Hardware on DVD and Blu-ray from Amazon UK
> Hardware and Richard Stanley at the IMDb
> Everything Is Under Control – A Hardware fansite

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Interview: Nick Moran and Con O’Neill on Telstar

Telstar Poster

Telstar is a new British film about the life and career of record producer Joe Meek, the flamboyant songwriter and producer of ’60s hits as ‘Have I the Right?’, ‘Just Like Eddie, ‘Johnnie Remember Me’ and ‘Telstar‘.

Aadapted from the 2005 play of the same name, it is directed by Nick Moran and features Con O’Neill as Meek and co-stars Kevin Spacey, Pam Ferris, James Corden and Ralf Little.

I recently spoke with Nick and Con in London about the film and Joe Meek’s life and career.

Listen to the interview here:

[audio:http://filmdetail.receptionmedia.com/Nick_Moran_and_Con_ONeill_on_Telstar.mp3]

You can download this interview as a podcast via iTunes by clicking here.

Telstar is out at UK cinemas from Friday 19th June

> Download this interview as an MP3 file
> Official site
> Nick Moran and Con O’Neill at the IMDb
> Find out more about Joe Meek at Wikipedia
> Get local showtimes via Google Movies

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Interview: Kevin Sampson on Awaydays

Awaydays

Kevin Sampson is a British writer best known for his novels Awaydays (1998) and Powder (1999).

Awaydays is now a film and the story, based on his Merseyside football-following youth, explores the relationship between two teenagers (Nicky Bell and Liam Boyle) in the late 1970s.

I recently spoke with Kevin in London about the film and you can listen to the interview here:

[audio:http://filmdetail.receptionmedia.com/Kevin_Sampson_on_Awaydays.mp3]

You can download this interview as a podcast via iTunes by clicking here.

Awaydays is out now at selected UK cinemas

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> Awaydays at the IMDb
> Official site
Get local showtimes via Google Movies

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Interview: Ben Barnes and Jessica Biel on Easy Virtue

Ben Barnes and Jessica Biel on Easy Virtue

Easy Virtue is a comedy based on Noel Coward’s play of the same name.

The story is about a glamorous American widow (Jessica Biel) who marries a young Englishman (Ben Barnes) in the South of France before going home to England to meet his parents (played by Colin Firth and Kristin Scott Thomas).

It was previously made as a silent film by Alfred Hitchcock in 1928 but this version is directed by Stephan Elliott.

I spoke with Ben Barnes and Jessica Biel about the  film just after it had played at the London Film Festival last October and you can listen to the interview here:

[audio:http://filmdetail.receptionmedia.com/Ben_Barnes_and_Jessica_Biel_on_Easy_Virtue.mp3]

You can download this interview as a podcast via iTunes by clicking here.

Easy Virtue is out now on DVD in the UK and opens in selected US cinemas on Friday 22nd May

* Check out our interview with Colin Firth and director Stephan Elliot about the film *

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Easy Virtue at the IMDb
> Buy Easy Virtue on DVD at Amazon UK
> Find out more about Ben Barnes and Jessica Biel at Wikipedia
Get local showtimes via Google Movies

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Interview: Henry Selick on Coraline

Henry Selick on Coraline

Director Henry Selick is an American stop motion director, producer and writer who is best known for directing films such as The Nightmare Before Christmas and James and the Giant Peach.

His latest film is Coraline, an adaptation of Neil Gaiman’s 2002 novella about a young girl who finds a portal to an alternate world, featuring the voices of Dakota FanningTeri Hatcher and Keith David.

I spoke with Henry recently in London about the film and you can listen to the interview here:

[audio:http://filmdetail.receptionmedia.com/Henry_Selick_on_Coraline.mp3]

You can download this interview as a podcast via iTunes by clicking here.

Coraline is out now at UK cinemas

> Download this interview as an MP3 file
> Henry Selick at the IMDb
> Official site for Coraline
> Find out more about the Neil Gaiman novella at Wikipedia

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Pauline Kael City Lights Interview from 1982

Although I’ve never been a worshipper of former New Yorker critic Pauline Kael, this interview with Canadian TV from 1982 is worth a look.

 

> Pauline Kael at Wikipedia
> National Screen Institute of Canada

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Interview: Eran Creevy and Daniel Mays on Shifty

shifty-poster

Shifty is a new British film about a young drug dealer (Riz Ahmed) in a town just outside London who sees his life spiral out of control when his best friend (Daniel Mays) returns home.

Directed by Eran Creevy and co-starring Jason Flemyng and Francesca Annis, it was funded by Film London‘s Microwave scheme and shot in just 18 days.

I recently spoke with Eran and Daniel in London and we discussed the film and how it got made.

Listen to the interview here:

[audio:http://filmdetail.receptionmedia.com/Eran_Creevy_and_Daniel_Mays_on_Shifty.mp3]

You can download this interview as a podcast via iTunes by clicking here

 

Shifty is out at selected UK cinemas from Friday

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Eran Creevy and Daniel Mays at the IMDb
Official site for Shifty
Find out more about the Film London microwave scheme

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Interview: Justin Lin on Fast & Furious

Justin Lin on Fast and Furious

Justin Lin is the director of Fast & Furious, the fourth film in the franchise which sees Vin DieselPaul WalkerMichelle Rodriguez and Jordana Brewster reprise their roles from the original 2001 film.

He made his solo directorial debut with Better Luck Tomorrow in 1997 and went on to direct films such as Annapolis (2006) and the third Fast and Furious film Tokyo Drift (2006).

I spoke with him in London recently about this latest Fast and Furious film and the how he went about shooting the car sequences.

Listen to the interview here:

[audio:http://filmdetail.receptionmedia.com/Justin_Lin_on_Fast_and_Furious.mp3]

You can download this interview as a podcast via iTunes by clicking here

Fast & Furious is out now at UK cinemas

Download this interview as an MP3 file
> Justin Lin at the IMDb
> Official site for Fast and Furious
Find out more about the franchise at Wikipedia 

[Image courtesy of Universal Studios © 2009]

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Interview: Kari Scogland on Fifty Dead Men Walking

Fifty Dead Men Walking poster

Fifty Dead Men Walking is an adaptation of Martin McGartland’s 1997 autobiography, about his time as an informant within the Provisional IRA from 1988 til 1991. 

It stars Jim Sturgess as McGartland, Ben Kingsley as his British handler and was directed by Kari Scogland.

I recently spoke with Kari in London about the film and you can listen to the interview here:

[audio:http://filmdetail.receptionmedia.com/Kari_Scogland_on_Fifty_Dead_Men_Walking.mp3]

You can download this interview as a podcast via iTunes by clicking here

Fifty Dead Men Walking is out now at selected UK cinemas

Download this interview as an MP3 file
> Fifty Dead Men Walking and Kari Scogland at the IMDb
Find out more about Martin McGartland at Wikipedia

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Interview: Tomas Alfredson on Let The Right One In

Tomas Alfredson

Tomas Alfredson is the director of Let The Right One In, a new horror film based on the novel by John Ajvide Lindqvist.

Set in Sweden during the 1980s, it tells the story of a bullied 12-year-old boy named Oskar (Kåre Hedebrant) who develops a relationship with a vampire (Lina Leandersson).

Over the last few months it has garnered widespread critical acclaim, won awards and become something of a cult hit.

I spoke with Tomas in London recently about the film and you can listen to the interview here:

[audio:http://filmdetail.receptionmedia.com/Tomas_Alfredson_on_Let_The_Right_One_In.mp3]

You can download this interview as a podcast via iTunes by clicking here

 

Let The Right One In is out at UK cinemas on Friday 10th April

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Official UK site
Tomas Alfredson at the 
IMDb
Find out more about Let The Right One In at Wikipedia

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Interview: Larry Charles on Religulous

larry-charles-on-religulous

Larry Charles is the director of Religulous, a new documentary in which US comedian Bill Maher explores the subject of religion.

It sees them travel to numerous religious places, such as Jerusalem, the Vatican and Salt Lake City, where they interview believers from a variety of backgrounds and groups including a former member of Jews for JesusChristiansMuslims, former Mormons and Hasidic Jews.

Previously, he was writer on TV shows such as Seinfeld and Mad About You and more recently has directed episodes of Curb Your Enthusiasm and the Borat movie

I spoke with Larry last October at the London Film festival where we discussed Religulous and the ideas behind it.

You can listen here:

[audio:http://filmdetail.receptionmedia.com/Larry_Charles_on_Religulous.mp3]

You can download this interview as a podcast via iTunes by clicking here

Religulous is out at UK cinemas on Friday 3rd April

> Download this interview as an MP3 file
> Official UK site
> Larry Charles at the
IMDb
> Find out more about world religion at Wikipedia

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Interview: Paolo Sorrentino on Il Divo

Il Divo UK poster

Paolo Sorrentino is the director of Il Divo, a new film that explores the extraordinary career former Italian prime minister Giulio Andreotti.

It spans the period since the seventh election of Andreotti (plyed by Toni Servillo) as Prime Minister of Italy in 1992, until the trial in which he was accused of collusion with the Mafia.

It has been a favourite on the festival circuit in the past year and was nominated for the Palme D’Or at the Cannes Film Festival last May, where it was awarded the Prix du Jury.

I recently spoke with Paolo on the phone when the film screened at the Dublin Film Festival.

Listen to the interview here:

[audio:http://filmdetail.receptionmedia.com/Paolo_Sorrentino_on_Il_Divo.mp3]

You can download this interview as a podcast via iTunes by clicking here

Il Divo is out at selected UK cinemas on Friday 20th March

> Download this interview as an MP3
Paolo Sorrentino at the IMDb
> Official website for Il Divo
> Find out more about Giulio Andreotti at Wikipedia

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Interview: Guillermo Arriaga on The Burning Plain

Guillermo Arriaga

Guillermo Arriaga is a Mexican writer and director best known for his work on films such as Amores Perros (2000), 21 Grams (2003), The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada (2005) and Babel (2006).

His latest film is The Burning Plain which stars Charlize Theron and Kim Basinger as two women in different parts of America struggling to deal with their lives.

It also stars Danny PinoJennifer LawrenceJoaquim de AlmeidaJ.D. Pardo, Robin Tunney and Brett Cullen with cinematography by Robert Elswit.

I recently spoke with Guillermo in London about the film and we discussed his distinctive approach to narrative and other aspects of the movie.

Listen to the interview here:

[audio:http://filmdetail.receptionmedia.com/Guillermo_Arriaga_on_The_Burning_Plain.mp3]

You can download this interview as a podcast via iTunes by clicking here

The Burning Plain is out at UK cinemas on Friday 13th March

Download this interview as an MP3 file
> Guillermo Arriaga and The Burning Plain at the IMDb

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Red Riding chat with Tony Grisoni

Red Riding

Red Riding is a trilogy of films adapted by Tony Grisoni from David Peace‘s cult novels set in Yorkshire during the 1970s and 80s.

The three films are all two hours long and are airing as part of C4’s winter 2009 schedule.

It boasts an impressive cast including: Mark AddySean BeanJim CarterWarren ClarkePaddy ConsidineAndrew GarfieldRebecca Hall, Eddie Marsan and David Morrissey.

Produced by Michael Winterbottom and Andrew Eaton’s production company, Revolution Films, each film has been directed by a separate director: Julian Jarrold (Brideshead Revisited), James Marsh (Man on Wire) and Anand Tucker (And When Did You Last See Your Father?).

The first is entitled 1974 and explores the paranoia, mistrust and institutionalised police corruption in Yorkshire.

When a young journalist named Eddie Dunford (Andrew Garfield) becomes obsessed with a police investigation into a series of child abductions, he uncovers a complex maze of lies and deceit.

One of the characters he comes across is a local businessman named John Dawson (played by Sean Bean) who, in this clip, advises Eddie to form a mutually beneficial relationship with him.

The second episode, directed by Marsh, set in and called 1980, sees the Yorkshire Ripper terrorise the area for six long years, and with the local police failing to make any progress, the Home Office sends in Manchester officer Peter Hunter (Considine) to review the investigation.

Having previously made enemies in the Yorkshire force while investigating a shooting incident in 1974, Hunter finds himself increasingly isolated when his version of events challenges their official line on the “Ripper”.

In the final instalment, directed by Tucker and set in and called 1983, another young girl has disappeared and Detective Chief Superintendent Maurice Jobson (Morrissey) recognises some alarming similarities to the abductions in 1974, forcing him to come to terms with the fact that he may have helped convict the wrong man.

When local solicitor John Piggott (Addy) is persuaded to fight this miscarriage of justice he finds himself slowly uncovering a catalogue of cover ups.

Channel 4 logo on their building
 
I was recently invited down to Channel 4 for a round table interview with screenwriter Tony Grisoni which included my webmaster Matt, Niall Browne from Screen Rant and Phil Edwards from Live For Films.

We looked at a 20 minute montage of sequences from the trilogy and spoke with Tony about adapting the books for the screen.

They start tonight (March 5th) on Channel 4 and could possibly have a cinema release around the world in the future (a la Sunday Bloody Sunday).

The questions in bold were asked by the bloggers, which included myself.

INTERVIEW TRANSCRIPT

How do the 3 films tie together?
[They are] 3 full length films and they work so that 1983 revisits 1974 and you see things from a slightly different perspective and then the middle one, 1980 is against the background of the Yorkshire Ripper but the characters roll all the way through the 3 of them.

The original idea of the novels, it’s basically fiction around a true event?
The novels where a quartet, 1974, 1977, 1980, 1983, and what David Peace talks about, he says it’s fiction torn out of the facts.

There are 4 books and 3 films. Was that your decision?
No, it started out that we’d make all four and I wrote all four, but filmmaking is capital intensive and we didn’t have enough money to do all four and we then had a choice.

We could have made all four but made them shorter and I’m so glad it didn’t go that way. These tales are not just about cops and robbers. Making them shorter would have forced us into a vagueness of narrative and you wouldn’t have had chance to have these incredible atmospheric moments that David Peace wrote in the books that we tried to mirror in the films.

It seemed to make more sense to make three. It was then a question of how do you do it? Do you take a couple to pieces and feed them into the others, but in the end I decided to just drop 1977 out cleanly.

This was for a number of reasons. One is that the others seemed to work really well as a trilogy and the other thing is it leaves 1977 untouched and I hope we can possibly go back and make that at some point.

Another thing I noticed from watching it was the films seem to be police vs journalists, then police vs police and then police vs people. Is that something you planned or was it in the original books?

This is an adaptation. I trusted those books and I trusted David’s writing and so I treated those as the truth. What was there I took and then had to turn it into a screenplay.

What happens in 1974 is that what you’ve got is very complex. You’re with a young journalist and it’s not quite journalists against cops. It’s a particular journalist. A young guy. He’s a typical film noir hero.

He’s libidinous, he’s lazy, he’s selfish, self obsessed young man. What happens with him, he starts off by just being out for himself, but then he’s got this thing in that he has to know what happened.

He wants to find the truth and so he goes further and further down that path and eventually he gets to a point where he needs to know the truth more than anything, more than his own safety or anything. He kind of changes as it goes along.

The second one is very much the police against their own. Peter Hunter (Paddy Considine) is on a Home Office investigation that he has to keep to keep to himself and he has to investigate corrupt police and as it said in that clip how deep does the rot go?

The third one is a two hander. You’ve got two main characters. You’ve got Morris Jobson, a policeman, who has gone along with corruption all the way through and has finally reached a point where he is going to do what he should have done a long time ago, like nine years before so it’s quite redemptive in many ways.

Then you’ve got John Piggot. I really like his character, he is wonderfully disgusting. He’s a damaged man. A lousy solicitor, but again, he wants to know what really happened. Although he doesn’t feel quite up to being a champion that is what he becomes.

The thing about David’s fiction and these films we made is that they are quite complex pieces. There isn’t good and bad. It is more like what it is like out there.

It’s all these different levels of good and bad. They are not comic book heroes. They are fractured people. They are a bit like you and me.

How do you think it will go down in the North?
Where are you drawing the line? (Laughter) I think West Yorkshire will enjoy it. As you can hear I’m not a Yorkshire man. Just to misquote David Peace again, he was Yorkshire born and bred although he wrote these in Tokyo.

He’s got a very complex relationship with that area but he believes, and I agree with him that particular crimes happen in particular places to particular people.

It’s for a reason and in the 70s and 80s Yorkshire was a hostile place. The UK was a pretty hostile place and he would say that that area in that period was hostile particularly to women.

That’s a Yorkshire man talking but I agree with him. I say that about Yorkshire but I could do that for London or anywhere else.

Do you think Life on Mars fans will get into it?
Well it is the period, but there are a few more teeth in this one! I think one of the interesting things when I see lots of cuts of these is that I forget about the period. I follow the drama and I’m following the characters.

One of the exciting things for me is that you’ve got three full length films, three different directors, three different styles, so what are you following? You are following the characters and it is a real joy I’ve found to see how the characters change.

There is a young man called BJ who starts off as a silly little rent boy and who ends up a son of Yorkshire and a hero. That’s a beautiful path for him. So you follow these people and the way we structured the films was the way the novels were structured.

Your main character bows out but the more minor characters that you’ve got to know a little bit then come to the fore in the next one and so it is like baton passing.

I think that is why you are going to watch to find out what happens to these people and why things happen to them. I hope that is so interesting and so involving that you won’t look at how big the lapels are.

Did the directors have much to do with each other or did they look after their own thing?
The whole thing was very much a team effort right from the beginning in that everyone spoke to everyone else. You were always aware of two more of these films going on at the same time.

Having said that the idea was always that they should have the freedom to make the film they wanted to make. You have them on very different formats.

You have 1974 which is on 16mm. 1980 is shot on 35mm and 1983 shot digitally, but beautiful digital. They all have very different tones. They all feel different films and again what goes through though are those characters.

That’s what is leading you through and it is an interesting experience. Again, I think the more involved you become in the characters everything else falls back.

What was the hardest thing when you got the novels about changing them into a workable screenplay?
What to leave out. The novels are so full and they are such full on experiments. David uses all kinds of different styles of writing.

You’ll feel like you are reading American detective fiction where all the action is pushed through on dialogue without any stage direction and then he’ll go to stream of consciousness where there is no punctuation for blocks of text.

It is very full on. I was spoilt. These novels were gifts. The other thing was, that was quite amazing, I was getting total freedom. I wasn’t having someone saying “Oh can you do all the outlines and treatments” and all that kind of stuff which when you do, makes you kind of bored and it’s like homework then. I just ploughed in.

Fortunately, because I got a main character leading the first one, a main character leading the second one and then two characters, what’s great is that you tell the story from their perspective so you only know what they know.

You cannot know anything outside and that gave me a really solid framework. That was like the sheet anchor that helped me stay on course. Then I just waded in and started writing a very long first draft of it that I then pared down. The main difficulty was that.

The other thing was the books are written where they ask more questions than are ever answered. Part of the darkness of the books is that some narrative strands kind of disappear off into the darkness and you can never know everything.

We employed a woman whose job it was to take those novels to pieces and she gave me cross referenced charts. We had to uncover all those strands so we knew what we were dealing with.

The screenplays had to be a little more tied down than the novels but I didn’t want to do it too much otherwise you destroy the feeling of them. That was pretty tricky.

There were lots of emails between me and David Peace in the lead up to me writing it and then he came over. We had a six hour meeting and I just grilled him, “Why did they do that? Why did that character go there?”

Of course this was all in David’s past so he had to start digging again, but he was really generous and always very helpful. If he knew the answers he’d tell me.

If he didn’t he’d try and find out and if it didn’t quite add up then we’d have conversations about what might be the story.

How happy where you with the cast as there are some big names in there?
How
could I not be happy with that cast? I was just knocked out by them.

Did you picture any of them when you were writing the screenplay?
No. When I am writing they are just characters in my head, but when the casting starts to come together it adds another level to it. I don’t want to mention any particular names as they are all so good.

At what point where the directors brought in? Was that before you’d finished the scripts?
They came in after we had locked off the scripts. They weren’t completely locked off because that would have been kind of daft. I started in early 2006.
By the beginning of 2007 we had three scripts. We went through about 2 or 3 drafts. Then the directors came in.

Having said that I met James Marsh at the Edinburgh Festival and we started talking. He became attached to these projects way before anyone was officially approached. He knew the material and because we were in touch he stuck his flag in 1980.

Most people will know David Peace from The Damned United becoming an unlikely bestseller. Was this all green lit before that success?
Oh yeah. I wouldn’t say greenlit but I was working on it before Damned United.

How long where you on the project?
3 years. It started in early 2006 Andrew Eaton from Revolution Films made me an offer I couldn’t refuse. The thing is I knew Andrew because I’d worked with Michael Winterbottom on In This World.

That film about those 2 Afghanistan boys being smuggled and working on that film was one of the best filming experiences I’ve had.

The whole thing about Revolution Films is that if they make that call you know it is going to be a challenge. The chances are you are going to be asked to do something you don’t think you can really do or you are scared of doing. Go to Afghanistan. Adapt 4 novels into films inside a year and a half.

Are these 3 films going to be released in cinemas around the World?
There are plans. Things are being looked into. I’d be really interested to see how the States take them. I think they could really do well in the States.

They’ve got a feel to them. They owe a lot to film noir and American detective movies of the 40s and 50s.

It reminded me a lot of Zodiac. The density of it.
Yeah. I agree. It will be very interesting to see how it does.

What are you going to be doing next?
I’ve just finished worked on an extraordinary film that is a First Film directed by Sam Mortimer in Nottingham that concerns a little girl who is in care. That was quite an experience.

We wrapped that film just before Christmas. Also last year I directed a film I wrote. It was a 20 minute short which is set in the Kurdish community in North London where I live and so right now I’m writing the feature version of that called Kingsland.

I’m helping Terry Gilliam put Don Quixote back in the saddle.

What are they going to do with the film that never was (as seen in Lost in La Mancha)?
There was only 5 days shooting.

Is it really looking like a go this time?
Absolutely. 100% (Laughs)

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Thanks to Murray Cox and the Channel 4 press office for their help in arranging this.

Red Riding starts tonight at 9pm and can also be seen on 40D.

> Official site for Red Riding at Channel 4
> Tony Grisoni at the IMDb
> Find out more about David Peace at Wikipedia

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Interview: Emily Blunt & Rupert Friend on The Young Victoria

Emily Blunt (Queen Victoria) and Rupert Friend (Prince Albert) in The Young Victoria

The Young Victoria is a new film, directed by Jean-Marc Vallée from a script by Julian Fellowes, which chronicles the early years of Queen Victoria (Emily Blunt) and her romance and marriage to Prince Albert (Rupert Friend).

I spoke to Emily Blunt and Rupert Friend in London recently about their roles in the film.

Listen to the interview here:

You can download this interview as a podcast via iTunes by clicking here

The Young Victoria is out at UK cinemas on Friday 6th March

Download this interview as an MP3 file
Emily Blunt and Rupert Friend at the IMDb
> Official UK site for The Young Victoria
> Find out more about the real Queen Victoria at Wikipedia

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Interviews with BAFTA Winners

And the BAFTA goes to...

Here are some interviews I’ve done in the past year with people involved in films that won at the BAFTAs tonight.

Check out more interviews here and subscribe to our interview podcast via iTunes or RSS feed.

> Full list of this year’s winners
Official BAFTA site
Full list of this year’s nominees

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Interview: John Patrick Shanley on Doubt

John Patrick Shanley

John Patrick Shanley is an award winning playwright who won an Oscar for his script for Moonstruck (1987) before going on to direct Joe Versus the Volcano (1990). 

In 2005, his play Doubt: A Parable won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama and the Drama Desk Award and Tony Award for Best Play. 

Now Shanley has directed a film version called Doubt which stars Meryl StreepPhilip Seymour Hoffman and Amy Adams.

I spoke with him recently in London about the film and you can listen to the interview here:

[audio:http://filmdetail.receptionmedia.com/John_Patrick_Shanley_on_Doubt.mp3]

You can download this interview as a podcast via iTunes by clicking here

Doubt is out at UK cinemas today

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John Patrick Shanley at the IMDb
Official UK site for Doubt

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Interview: John Lasseter on Bolt

 

He initially worked as an animator at Disney in the late 70s before going on to join the computer animation division of Lucasfilm‘s Industrial Light and Magic.

In 1986 the department was purchased by Apple founder Steve Jobs who renamed the new company Pixar (a fake Spanish word meaning ‘to make pixels’) and gave Lasseter the freedom to direct, produce and create models for a variety of projects, many of which were television commercials.

In the late 1980s Lasseter made several award winning shorts before going on to direct the groundbreaking Toy Story in 1995, the first feature-length computer animated film.

As the chief of Pixar’s creative department, Lasseter became the key figure behind an extraordinary run of critically acclaimed, blockbuster animated films.

He directed A Bug’s Life (1998), Toy Story 2 (1999) and Cars (2006) whilst also serving as executive producer on Monsters, Inc. (2001), Finding Nemo (2003) and The Incredibles (2004), Ratatouille (2007) and WALL-E (2008).

If the success of Pixar was not enough, his career reached a new plateau in early 2006 when Disney officially acquired Pixar, and promoted Lasseter to Chief Creative Officer of Walt Disney Feature Animation.

The first movie he has overseen for Disney is Bolt, the tale of a small white dog who, having spent his entire life acting in a TV series, thinks that he has super powers.

Directed by Chris Williams and Byron Howard, it was produced by Lasseter and I spoke to him in London recently about his career and the new film.

You can listen to the interview here:

You can also stream it here:

[audio:http://filmdetail.receptionmedia.com/John_Lasseter_on_Bolt.mp3]

You can download it as a podcast via iTunes by clicking here

Bolt is out at UK cinemas on Friday 6th February

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John Lasseter at the IMDb
> Official UK site for Bolt
> Official Pixar site

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Interview: Robyn Hitchcock on Rachel Getting Married

Robyn Hitchcock in Rachel Getting Married

Rachel Getting Married is a drama about a young woman named Kym (Anne Hathaway) who returns home from rehab for her sister Rachel’s (Rosemarie DeWitt) wedding.

It was written by Jenny Lumet and directed by Jonathan Demme in a naturalistic, documentary style.

Robyn Hitchcock is one of England’s most enduring contemporary singer/songwriters who also appears in the film as part of the wedding band. 

He has collaborated with Demme before on the 1998 concert film Storefront Hitchcock and released many acclaimed albums throughout a distinguished career. 

I spoke with him recently in London about Rachel Getting Married:

[audio:http://filmdetail.receptionmedia.com/Robyn_Hitchcock_on_Rachel_Getting_Married.mp3]

You can download this interview as a podcast via iTunes by clicking here

Rachel Getting Married is out now at selected UK cinemas

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Rachel Getting Married at the IMDb
> Official site for Robyn Hitchcock 

[Image:  Sony Pictures Classics  © 2008]

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Interviews: Valkyrie

Valkyrie poster

Valkyrie is a new film set during World War II that depicts the plot to kill Adolf Hitler by German army officers in July, 1944.

Directed by Bryan Singer and written by Christopher McQuarrie, it stars Tom Cruise as Claus von Stauffenberg, one of the key figures in the conspiracy.

It also features Bill Nighy, Eddie Izzard, Terence Stamp and Tom Wilkinson in key supporting roles. 

I recently spoke in London with several of the major players in the film:

You can listen to the interviews here:

[audio:http://filmdetail.receptionmedia.com/Valkyrie_Interviews.mp3]

You can download this interview as a podcast via iTunes by clicking here

Valkyrie is out now at UK cinemas

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Valkyrie at the IMDb
Find out more about the July 20th plot to kill Hitler at Wikipedia 

[Image: United Artists / 20th Century Fox  © 2008]

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Interview: Perry Benson on Somers Town

Perry Benson in Somers Town

Perry Benson is a character actor who has starred in British films such as Scum (1979) and This Is England (2006), the latter of which was directed by Shane Meadows.

He is also in his latest film Somers Town, which follows two teenage boys Tomo (Thomas Turgoose) and Marek (Piotr Jagiello), who develop an unlikely friendship after meeting by chance in an area of North London.

I spoke to him on the phone recently about the film and other roles in his career.

You can listen to the interview here:

[audio:http://filmdetail.receptionmedia.com/Perry_Benson_on_Somers_Town.mp3]

 

You can download this interview as a podcast via iTunes by clicking here

Somers Town is out now on DVD from Optimum Releasing

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Perry Benson at the IMDb
> Buy Somers Town on DVD via Amazon UK
Official UK site

[Image: Optimum Releasing © 2008]

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Interview: Gabriele Muccino on Seven Pounds

Gabriele Muccino directing Seven Pounds

Gabriele Muccino is the director of Seven Pounds, a new film starring Will Smith as a man trying to change the lives of seven people.

As a director Gabriele initially found success in his native Italy with films such as One Last Kiss and Remember Me, My Love, before making his breakthrough in  Hollywood with The Pursuit of Happyness in 2006.

I spoke with him in London recently about his latest film and how he first hooked up with Will Smith.

You can listen to it here: 

[audio:http://filmdetail.receptionmedia.com/Gabriele_Muccino_on_Seven_Pounds.mp3]

You can download this interview as a podcast via iTunes by clicking here

Seven Pounds is out at UK cinemas from today

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Gabriele Muccino at the IMDb
Official UK site

[Image: Merrick Morton SMPSP  © 2008 Columbia Pictures and Beverly Blvd LLC / All Rights Reserved]

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Interview: Darren Aronofsky and Mickey Rourke on The Wrestler

Mickey Rourke and Darren Aronofsky filming The Wrestler

The Wrestler is a new film about an ageing wrestler – Randy ‘The Ram’ Robinson (Mickey Rourke) – past his prime, who struggles to make ends meet doing shows on the weekends in New Jersey.

The story follows him as he works in a deli, strikes up a relationship with a stripper named Cassidy (Marisa Tomei) and seeks a reconciliation with his estranged daughter (Evan Rachel Wood).

I spoke with the director Darren Aronofsky and Mickey Rourke back in October when the film played at the London Film Festival.

You can listen to the interview here:

[audio:http://filmdetail.receptionmedia.com/Darren_Aronofsky_and_Mickey_Rourke_on_The_Wrestler.mp3]

You can download this interview as a podcast via iTunes by clicking here

The Wrestler is out at UK cinemas on Friday 16th January

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Darren Aronofsky and Mickey Rourke at the IMDb
> Read reviews of The Wrestler at Metacritic
Official UK site

[Image: Niko Tavernise / Optimum Releasing © 2008]

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Interview: Paul Rudd and Seann William Scott on Role Models

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Paul Rudd (right) and Seann William Scott (left) are the two stars of Role Models – a new movie in which they play two guys working for an energy drink company forced to do community service for a charity after breaking the law.

Called ‘Sturdy Wings’ it is a place where they have to mentor two very different teenagers: a foulmouthed youngster obsessed with breasts (Bobb’e J. Thompson) and a nerd (Christopher Mintz-Plasse) obsessed with live action role-playing games.

I spoke with them recently in London about the film and you can listen to the interview here:

[audio:http://filmdetail.receptionmedia.com/Paul_Rudd_and_Seann_William_Scott_on_Role_Models.mp3]

You can download this interview as a podcast via iTunes by clicking here

Role Models is out now at UK cinemas

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Paul Rudd and Seann William Scott at the IMDb
Official UK site

[Image: Universal © 2008]

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Interview: Daniel Craig, Liev Schreiber and Ed Zwick on Defiance

Daniel Craig, Liev Schreiber and Ed Zwick on Defiance

Defiance is the new film set in the eastern regions of occupied Poland during World War II and is an adaptation of Nechama Tec‘s book ‘Defiance: The Bielski Partisans‘, which was based on the true story of the Bielski partisans.

Directed by Ed Zwick, it stars Daniel Craig, Liev Schreiber, Jamie Bell and George MacKay as four brothers from Poland who escape from the Nazis and fight back to rescue fellow Jews.

I spoke with Daniel, Liev and Ed in London recently and you can listen to the interviews here:

[audio:http://filmdetail.receptionmedia.com/Daniel_Craig_Liev_Schreiber_and_Ed_Zwick_on_Defiance.mp3]

You can download this interview as a podcast via iTunes by clicking here

Defiance is out at UK cinemas from today (Friday 9th January)

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Ed Zwick, Daniel Craig and Liev Schreiber at the IMDb
Official UK site

[Images: Doug Peters/Samir Hussein/EMPICS/PA Photos © 2008]

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Interview: Danny Boyle on Slumdog Millionaire

Danny Boyle directing Slumdog Millionaire

Danny Boyle is the director of Slumdog Millionaire, a new film out in the UK this week about a young street kid (Dev Patel) who ends up on the Indian version of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire.

Adapted by Simon Beaufoy from the novel Q and A by Vikas Swarup, it deservedly received a lot of buzz and acclaim at the Telluride and Toronto film festivals and is widely considered a frontrunner for BAFTA and Oscar consideration.

I spoke with Danny in London recently about the film and we discussed: the story, filming in Mumbai, using digital cameras, the Indian actors he worked with and the interesting backstory of how the film got financed and released.

Listen to the interview here:

[audio:http://filmdetail.receptionmedia.com/Danny_Boyle_on_Slumdog_Millionaire.mp3]

You can download this interview as a podcast via iTunes by clicking here

Slumdog Millionaire is out at UK cinemas from Friday 9th January

> Download this interview as an MP3 file
Danny Boyle at the IMDb
Official UK site
More reviews of Slumdog Millionaire at Metacritic
Read our selection of the best films of 2008

[Image: Ishika Mohan / Pathe / TM and © 2008]

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Interview: Stephen Daldry and Ralph Fiennes on The Reader

Stephen Daldry and Ralph Fiennes

The Reader is the film adaptation of the 1995 German novel by Bernhard Schlink that follows a complicated love affair in the 1950s between a German teenager named Michael Berg (David Kross) and a woman twice his age called Hannah Schmitz (Kate Winslet).

Years later as a law student he discovers a terrible secret about his former lover and struggles to deal with the repercussions of her actions in World War II.

The book became a bestseller that was translated into 37 languages and the film is directed by Stephen Daldry with Ralph Fiennes playing Michael Berg as an older man.

I recently spoke to both of them in London about their work on the film and you can listen to the interviews here:

[audio:http://filmdetail.receptionmedia.com/Stephen_Daldry_and_Ralph_Fiennes_on_The_Reader.mp3]

Download it as a podcast via iTunes by clicking here.

The Reader is out at UK cinemas from today (Friday 2nd January)

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Get showtimes for the film via Google Movies 
Stephen Daldry and Ralph Fiennes at the IMDb
> Official site for The Reader

[Photo: AP Photo/Evan Agostini]

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Interview: Danny Wallace on Yes Man

Danny Wallace Yes Man poster

Danny Wallace is the author of Yes Man, a 2005 book that explored what happened when an old man from the Aldgate area in London encouraged him to say yes to more things in life.

It is now a film starring Jim Carrey and Zooey Deschanel and I recently spoke to Danny about inspiration for the book and its journey to the big screen.

I’ve known Danny since 1999, when we both worked on the Ian Collins show on Talk Radio (now TalkSPORT) and – coincidentally – this interview took place in a studio on the very same street where we first met in a pub called The Marquis of Granby.

Listen to the interview here:

[audio:http://filmdetail.receptionmedia.com/Danny_Wallace_on_Yes_Man.mp3]

Download it as a podcast via iTunes by clicking here.

Yes Man is out at UK cinemas from Friday 26th December

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Get showtimes for the film via Google Movies 
IMDb entry for the film
Official Site for Yes Man
> Official site for Danny Wallace

[Images © Getty Images / Warner Bros. Pictures 2008]

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Interview: Alex Gibney on Gonzo

Gonzo UK poster

Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson is a new documentary directed by Alex Gibney.

It explores Hunter S. Thompson‘s life and times as well as his landmark writings on music and politics with contributions from the likes of Tom WolfeRalph Steadman and Jann Wenner.

It is narrated by Johnny Depp, who played Hunter in the 1998 film version of Fear and Loathing and Las Vegas.

I spoke with Alex about the film when it screened at the London Film Festival back in October and you can listen to it here:

[audio:http://filmdetail.receptionmedia.com/Alex_Gibney_on_Gonzo.mp3]

Download it as a podcast via iTunes by clicking here.

Check out the trailer for the film here:

 

Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson is out at selected UK cinemas now

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Get showtimes for the film via Google Movies 
> Gonzo and Alex Gibney at the IMDb
> Check out our review of Alex Gibney’s last film Taxi to the Darkside

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Interview: Robert Pattinson on Twilight

Twilight is the film adaptation of the novel by Stephenie Meyer and it Kristen Stewart as Bella, a teenage girl who falls in love with a vampire, played by Robert Pattinson.

I recently spoke to Robert in London about the film, his character, the Twilight phenomenon and his previous work in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire.

Listen to the interview here on Soundcloud:

You also can download this interview as a podcast via iTunes by clicking here

Twilight is out in UK cinemas on Friday 19th December

UPDATE 14/07/12: Twilight became a huge hit and made enormous stars of its cast. It also took my site down as thousands of people tried to download it.

Download this interview as an MP3 file
> Robert Pattinson at the IMDb
Official site for Twilight
Find out more about the novel at Wikipedia
> Listen to our interview with co-star Cam Gigandet on Twilight

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Interview: Scott Derrickson on The Day The Earth Stood Still

The Day The Earth Stood Still poster

The Day the Earth Stood Still is a remake of the 1951 sci-fi film about an alien who comes to earth in order to assess the planet.

This version stars Keanu Reeves as the alien (named Klaatu), who is assessed by team of scientists (played by Jennifer Connelly, Jon Hamm and John Cleese) who must convince him that the human race is worth saving.

I recently spoke to the director Scott Derrickson about updating a sci-fi classic for the present day.

You can listen to the interview here:

[audio:http://filmdetail.receptionmedia.com/Scott_Derickson_on_the_Day_The_Earth_Stood_Still.mp3]

Download it as a podcast via iTunes by clicking here.

The Day The Earth Stood Still is out at UK cinemas from Friday 12th December

> Download the interview as an MP3 file
> Official website for The Day The Earth Stood Still
> Scott Derrickson at the IMDb
> Find out more about the original 1951 film at Wikipedia

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Interview: Samuel L Jackson on Lakeview Terrace

Lakeview Terrace is a contemporary drama set in LA about a young couple (played by Patrick Wilson and Kerry Washington) who move in to an upmarket neighbourhood next to a sinister police officer (Samuel L Jackson) who begins to make their life very difficult.

Directed by Neil LaBute, it explores some of the uncomfortable prejudices beneath contemporary US society.

I spoke to Samuel L Jackson back in late August and we discussed the film, the US elections and the Ryder Cup.

Listen to the interview here:

[audio:http://filmdetail.receptionmedia.com/Samuel_L_Jackson_on_Lakeview_Terrace.mp3]

Download it as a podcast via iTunes by clicking here.

Lakeview Terrace is out at UK cinemas from Friday

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Get showtimes for the film via Google Movies 
> Samuel L Jackson at the IMDb
> Official website for Lakeview Terrace
Listen to an interview we did in 2006 with Samuel about Snakes on a Plane

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Interview: Jonás and Alfonso Cuarón on Año Uña

Año Uña is a new film directed by Jonás Cuarón about a Mexican teenager and an older American woman who meet one summer in Mexico.

Unusually, it was edited entirely from photographic stills and was made without a script or set.

I recently spoke to Jonás and his father Alfonso Cuarón, who served as an exec producer and is a noted director in his own right having made such films as Children of Men and Y Tu Mama Tambien.

We talked about this movie, the business of making films on a smaller scale, new distribution models for movies on the web and the wider future of cinema in general.

You can listen to the interview here:

[audio:http://filmdetail.receptionmedia.com/Jonas_and_Alfonso_Cuaron_on_Ano_Una.mp3]

Download it as a podcast via iTunes by clicking here.

Año Uña is out at selected UK cinemas from Friday 

> Download this interview as an MP3 file
> Get showtimes for the film via Google Movies
> IMDb entry for the film
> Official MySpace page
Jonás Cuarón and Alfonso Cuarón at the IMDb
> Listen to an interview we did with Alfonso in 2007 about Children of Men

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Interview: Fernando Meirelles on Blindness

Blindness is the film adaptation of the 1995 novel by José Saramago about a society suffering an epidemic of blindness.

Directed by Fernando Meirelles it stars Julianne MooreMark Ruffalo , Danny Glover and Gael Garcia Bernal as a group of people struggling to survive amidst the chaos that ensues.

In recent years Fernando has directed such acclaimed films as City of God (2002) and The Constant Gardener (2005) and I recently spoke to him in London about this latest film.

You can listen to the interview here:

[audio:http://filmdetail.receptionmedia.com/Fernando_Meirelles_on_Blindness.mp3]

Download it as a podcast via iTunes by clicking here.

Watch the trailer here:

 

Blindness is out at UK cinemas from today

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Fernando Meirelles at the IMDb
Official UK site for Blindness
Find out more about the novel at Wikipedia
Get local showtimes for the film via Google Movies

[Image © Ken Woroner 2008 / Courtesy of Pathe]

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Interview: Ari Folman on Waltz With Bashir

Waltz With Bashir is the remarkable new film that deals with the memory of Israeli soldiers involved in the invasion of Lebanon in 1982 which culminated in the Sabra and Shatila massacre.

Directed by Ari Folman, it examines his experiences in the army and struggle to remember what happened as he interviews fellow soldiers from the time.

The strange title is taken from a scene with one of Folman’s interviewees remembers taking a machine gun and dancing an ‘insane waltz’ amid enemy fire, with posters of Bashir Gemayel lining the walls behind him.

Gemayel was the Lebanese president who whose assassination helped trigger the massacre.

The most unusual and startling aspect of the film is that it is animated, an unconventional approach for what is essentially a documentary.

I recently spoke with Ari in London about the film and you can listen to the interview here:

[audio:http://filmdetail.receptionmedia.com/Ari_Folman_on_Waltz_With_Bashir.mp3]

Download it as a podcast via iTunes by clicking here.

Watch the trailer here:

 

Waltz With Bashir is out at selected UK cinemas from Friday 21st November

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Ari Folman at the IMDb
> Official site for Waltz With Bashir
Find out more about the Shabra and Shatila massacre at Wikipedia
> Get local showtimes for the film via Google Movies

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Interview: Bernd Eichinger on The Baader Meinhof Complex

Bernd Eichinger is a writer and producer who came to prominence in the 1980s by helping Constantin Film to become one of the most successful production companies in Germany with films like Christiane F.The Neverending Story and The Name of the Rose.

More recently he wrote Downfall, a stark examination of the final days of Hitler and The Third Reich and his latest film deals with another dark chapter of German history.

The Baader Meinhof Complex explores the creation and actions of the West German terrorist group the Red Army Faction (RAF), which was the most active and prominent terrorist group in post-war West Germany.

Directed by Uli Edel, it stars Moritz BleibtreuMartina Gedeck and Johanna Wokalek and is based on the best selling non-fiction book of the same name by Stefan Aust.

I spoke with him recently in London about the film and you can listen to the interview here:

[audio:http://filmdetail.receptionmedia.com/Bernd_Eichinger_on_The_Baader_Meinhoff_Complex.mp3]

The Baader Meinhof Complex is currently showing at UK cinemas

> Download this interview as an MP3 file
Bernd Eichinger at the IMDb
> Find out more about the Red Army Faction at Wikipedia

N.B. Currently the podcast isn’t available via iTunes but we hope to get this fixed as soon as possible.

UPDATE 19/11/2008: The podcast is now working in iTunes. Hallelujah.

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Interview: Stephan Elliott and Colin Firth on Easy Virtue

 

Easy Virtue is a new comedy based on Noel Coward’s play of the same name.

It was previously made as a silent film by Alfred Hitchcock in 1928 but this version is directed by Stephan Elliott and stars Jessica BielBen BarnesColin Firth and Kristin Scott Thomas.

I recently spoke to Stephan and Colin about the film just after it had played at the London Film Festival.

You can listen to the interview here:

[audio:http://filmdetail.receptionmedia.com/Stephan_Elliot_and_Colin_Firth_on_Easy_Virtue.mp3]

Easy Virtue is out now at UK cinemas

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Easy Virtue at the IMDb
> Find out more about Stephan Elliot and Colin Firth at Wikipedia
> Get local showtimes via Google Movies 

N.B. The podcast isn’t currently available on iTunes but we hope to have it fixed as soon as possible

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Interview: Cam Gigandet on Twilight

Twilight is the upcoming film adaptation of the novel of the same name by Stephenie Meyer.

The book is a bestseller, which has been translated into over 20 langauges worldwide, and is one of the most eagerly anticipated films of the year.

It is directed by Catherine Hardwicke and stars Kristen Stewart as Bella, a teenage girl who falls in love with a vampire, played by Robert Pattinson.

I recently spoke to Cam Gigandet, who plays James, the leader of a group of nomadic vampires who intends to kill Bella.

Listen to the interview here:

[audio:http://filmdetail.receptionmedia.com/Cam_Gigandet_ on _Twilight.mp3]

You can download this interview as a podcast via iTunes by clicking here

Twilight is out in UK cinemas on Friday 19th December and in the US on November 21st

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Cam Gigandet at the IMDb
> Official site for Twilight
> Find out more about the novel at Wikipedia

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Interview: Liam Cunningham on Hunger

Liam Cunningham is one of the actors in the new film Hunger, which deals with the 1981 IRA hunger strike and marks the feature film debut for director Steve McQueen.

Although he only appears in one scene, it is an extraordinary unbroken sequence in which plays a priest who questions Sands about the wisdom of his actions.

The film premiered to great acclaim at the Cannes Film Festival and recently screened at the London Film Festival, which was when I spoke to Liam.

You can listen to it here:

[audio:http://filmdetail.receptionmedia.com/Liam_Cunningham_on_Hunger.mp3]

Download it as a podcast via iTunes by clicking here.

Hunger opens at selected UK cinemas on Friday 31st October

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Official UK site for Hunger
Liam Cunningham at the IMDb
> Read our recent LFF piece on Hunger and a longer review from last month
Green Cine Daily with the reactions to Hunger at Cannes earlier this year
Find out more about the 1981 Hunger Strike at Wikipedia