SPRING HIGHLIGHTS
Film3Sixty Focus: Oscar-winning screenwriter Geoffrey Fletcher
Geoffrey Fletcher studied at NYU, and went on to teach both there and at Columbia University, whilst continuing to devote his spare time to screenwriting and filmmaking. He shot to Hollywood’s attention in 2010 when he won the Best Adapted Screenplay Oscar for Lee Daniels’ Precious, and has just directed his own film, the action [...]
Cannes 2012
And so to the 65th Cannes Film Festival where this year’s lucky festival goers have a particularly strong choice of films in selection to enjoy. If you’re headed down to the Riviera this week (or even if you’d just like to know what’s going to be big this year) here’s our top five you should [...]
5 Minutes with: Berenice Bejo
Is it harder to act in a silent film? Berenice: For me it wasn’t a silent movie! It was only for the audience that it was silent. I had dialogue and I learned lines and I speak, the difference is you don’t hear me and so for me the experience was almost the same. You [...]
Risen from the dead
With its feature film arm back in production and a major Blu-ray restoration of its back catalogue underway it’s time to revisit the story of Hammer Films. In 1968 Hammer Films was recognised with a Queen’s Award for Services to Industry but they remained a studio ignored by BAFTA, patronised by the press and snipped [...]
Film & Food
The launch of The Lounge – Odeon’s new boutique cinema at Bayswater in London which serves three course meals by top chef Rowley Leigh to your seat – has upped the ante for cinema food. But it’s not the only place to eschew rubbery nachos and buckets of coke in favour of better fare. Here [...]
5 Minutes with: Irvine Welsh
Two of your books have already become films and two – Ecstasy and Filth – are due in cinemas this year. How do you react to cinematic visions of your writing? Irvine: It’s a kind of win win for the writer really. If it’s a great film you can say, well – they had this [...]
