Features
5 Minutes With: Eran Creevy (Welcome To The Punch)
When a notorious criminal is forced to return to London, it gives a detective one last chance to take down the man he’s always been after. Eran Creevy’s sophomore feature as director, Welcome To The Punch, stars James McAvoy, Mark Strong and Andrea Riseborough. Film3Sixty met up with the director to chat about his slick [...]
The London Italian Film Festival 6-8 march
Italian cinema returns to London with the third LIFF with Cinema Made In Italy In its third year, the London Italian Film Festival is proving to be bigger and bolder than ever, bringing the cream of Italian cinema to UK shores with Cinema Made In Italy. The five day festival is held at Ciné Lumiére [...]
Everything Is Connected: Cloud Atlas
Three directors, six narratives, multiple stars and a 500-year timespan: how David Mitchell’s ‘unfilmable’ novel became the soaring epic Cloud Atlas. Tom Hanks was in the midst of one of life’s most daunting challenges – getting through Herman Melville’s great American novel Moby Dick – when he met with Lana and Andy Wachowski at his [...]
Man On Fire: Mark Wahlberg Talks Broken City
In Broken City, Mark Wahlberg faces off against Russell Crowe in a gritty tale of corruption and murder. He tells Film3Sixty why his new thriller packs a rock-hard punch. Born and raised in the Boston ghetto and with a chequered past that includes a term in prison for assault, Mark Wahlberg knows his way around [...]
Danger Men: The Place Beyond The Pines
Following their success with Blue Valentine, Ryan Gosling and director Derek Cianfrance reunite for the fathers-and-sons drama The Place Beyond The Pines. We shouldn’t be surprised that writer-director Derek Cianfrance and Ryan Gosling would want to reunite. Blue Valentine was one of the most enthusiastically reviewed films of 2011, the touching portrait of a tattered marriage. Set in upstate New York, their second collaboration The Place [...]
In Dreams – Oz: The Great And Powerful
When creating the gorgeous and surreal dreamscapes of Oz: The Great And Powerful, Sam Raimi relied on Oscar-winning production designer Robert Stromberg. If you set out to tell the imaginary tale of how a circus magician from Kansas (James Franco) ended up becoming the exalted Wizard of Oz, then acclaimed director Sam Raimi (Spider-Man 1, [...]
Steamy Clubs To Hot Properties: The Look Of Love
Steve Coogan reunites with director Michael Winterbottom for The Look Of Love, their ambitious biopic of Soho entrepreneur Paul Raymond. In Michael Winterbottom’s The Look Of Love, Steve Coogan ( In The Loop, The Trip) plays Paul Raymond, the publishing and property baron who opened Britain’s first strip club, ran a stable of adult magazines and bought up large swathes [...]
Make ‘Em Laugh: I Give It A Year
Sacha Baron Cohen’s longtime writing partner Dan Mazer shares the recipe for success with his deeply funny directorial debut I Give It A Year. Dan Mazer has been Sacha Baron Cohen’s confidante for 15 years – as writer and producer on everything from Da Ali G Show to Borat, Bruno and The Dictator – so we hazard [...]
Choose Life: ‘Broken’ Set Visit
Film3Sixty visits the set of the powerful British drama Broken, this year’s BIFA winner for Best Film. When he originally sat down to wrote his 2009 novel Broken, author Daniel Clay was inspired not by life in modern Britain but the world depicted in Harper Lee’s To Kill A Mockingbird, a book published in 1960 and [...]
5 Minutes With: Ben Whishaw
From Skyfall to Cloud Atlas, Ben Whishaw is on an almighty streak… You play the young composer Robert Frobisher in your main storyline. Did you have to study music? Ben Whishaw: Tom [Tykwer] phoned me three months before we were going to shoot and said, “You need to have piano lessons.” So he sent me the score and [...]
