Portrait of Kaye: Ben Reed on the Moral Quandaries of the Documentary Form Lydia Rostant June 9, 2021 Features, Independent, Interview There is a common misconception in filmmaking which presumes the director to have total and divine confidence in both their subject matter, and the various processes by which they tell the story. Ben Reed’s...
The Quiet Power of Isla Badenoch’s The Elvermen At Sheffield DocFest Lydia Rostant June 6, 2021 Features, Independent, Interview In Isla Badenoch’s The Elvermen, fish are the size of men and men are of mythical proportions. The film (which premiered on June 5, 2021 at Sheffield DocFest), was shot in a narrow window of time, between...
Todd Stephens, Udo Kier and Linda Evans on Swan Song Rafaela Sales Ross March 28, 2021 Features, Interview, One Off In the realm of great storylines, “A formerly flamboyant hairdresser takes a long walk across a small town to style a dead woman's hair” certainly hits the jackpot. Throw in two contrasting legends in the...
Heather Young Discusses Murmur Rafaela Sales Ross February 28, 2021 Features, Interview Screening at this year's Glasgow Film Festival, Heather Young's first feature Murmur is a bleak portrait of loneliness. The director sat down with us to discuss her creative process, touring digital festivals...
Arcade Fire’s Richard Reed Parry On His Intimate Score For The Nest Jess Goodman December 2, 2020 Behind The Curtain, Features, Interview Writer/Director Sean Durkin's first feature, Martha Marcy May Marlene (2011), gave Elizabeth Olsen her breakthrough role. Nine years on, his second feature might just do the same for Arcade Fire's Richard...
Me and the Cult Leader – An Interview with Director Atsushi Sakahara Sophie Maxwell August 13, 2020 Behind The Curtain, Features, Interview In 1995 members of the doomsday cult Aum Shinrikyo (now named Aleph) deposited bags of sarin gas along Tokyo’s subway line during rush hour. It was an act of domestic terrorism that killed 13 people and has...
Michel Hazanavicius on Redoubtable Louise Burrell May 8, 2018 Behind The Curtain, Features, Interview Based on French actress Anne Wiazemsky's autobiography, Redoubtable is an intimate biopic of a very specific period in Jean-Luc Godard's life. Following his overwhelming success as the leader of French New...
Interview: Bryan Singer Talks About The Apocalypse David Brake May 18, 2016 Behind The Curtain, Features, Interview In X-Men: Apocalypse, we find our favourite group of mutants in 1983, dealing with more than just the fashions of the time. An ancient, powerful and extremely angry creature named Apocalypse has awakened after...
The Club – An Interview With Chilean Maestro Pablo Larraín Nick Evan-Cook March 21, 2016 Behind The Curtain, Features, Interview "God said, 'Let there be light,' and there was light. God saw that the light was good, and he separated the light from the darkness." So begins Chilean auteur Pablo Larraín's latest opus El Club, which...
Ryan Reynolds Q & A – Deadpool Interview David Brake February 12, 2016 Behind The Curtain, Features, Interview The last time we saw Deadpool, he had his mouth sewn up and his head cut off in the much maligned X-Men Origins: Wolverine. Seven years later, Ryan Reynolds is the suited-up, gun-happy Merc with a Mouth once...
Sherpa – An Interview With Director Jennifer Peedom Nick Evan-Cook January 28, 2016 Behind The Curtain, Features, Interview A fight on Everest? It seemed incredible. But in 2013 news channels around the world reported an ugly brawl at 21 000ft as European climbers fled a mob of angry Sherpa mountain guides. What had happened to the...
Jonás and Alfonso Cuarón talk Desierto, Immigration and Harry Potter Nick Evan-Cook October 18, 2015 Behind The Curtain, Features, Interview Jonás Cuarón's second feature, Desierto, produced by his father Alfonso, screened this week in Official Competition at the 2015 London Film Festival. We sat down for a roundtable chat with the pair to talk...
Thomas Turgoose And Charley Palmer Rothwell Talk Jacked, This Is England and Patsy Palmer Nick Evan-Cook October 15, 2015 Behind The Curtain, Features, Interview Starring two of Britain's brightest up and coming lead actors, Thomas Turgoose and Charley Palmer Rothwell star in the new short film, Jacked, which is premièring at the 2015 London Film Festival. As...
The Transporter Refueled – Interview with Ed Skrein David Brake September 2, 2015 Behind The Curtain, Features, Interview You may have seen Frank Martin in his previous Jason Statham incarnations, but now this franchise is being refuelled with Ed Skrein at the helm. In The Transporter Refueled the English actor portrays...
Tom Harper Talks War Book, Low-Budget Filmmaking and War and Peace Tom Bond August 14, 2015 Behind The Curtain, Features, Interview 70 years on from the world-changing atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, a film about the dangers of nuclear war is finally getting the attention it deserves. War Book is about a government exercise where...
