5 Minutes With: Mike Newell

Film3Sixty met up with Mike Newell, the director of the latest adaptation of Charles Dickens’ novel Great Expectations, to discuss what attracted him to the project and the challenges the production held in store. What is it about the Great Expectations story that attracted you to this project? Mike Newell: I wanted to come home. [...]

Keep The Lights On: Ira Sachs Interview

After Ira Sachs won the Grand Jury Prize at the 2005 Sundance Film Festival for his feature Forty Shades Of Blue he rose from obscurity to become an internationally recognised indie filmmaker. His latest feature, Keep The Lights On, is a part-autobiographical tale of contemporary gay life in New York. We sat down with the auteur [...]

The Hunter: Daniel Nettheim Interview

The Hunter, the story of a mercenary (Willem Dafoe) who gets sent to Tasmania to track down the Tasmanian Tiger (which did once exist but is now considered to be extinct), is released on DVD & Blu-ray this week. We sat down with director Daniel Nettheim to talk about making this atmospheric, sparse, beautiful film, [...]

360 Seconds With: Ross Noble (Stitches)

Ross Noble, internationally-famed stand-up comedian and frequent television personality, has now decided to make his first foray in the world of film. The result is Stitches, a macabre clown comedy that is as hysterical as it is bloody. In the below interview, Noble talks to us about the fun of shooting his first feature, and what he considers to [...]

5 Minutes WIth: Garrett Hedlund

Film3Sixty talks to Garrett Hedlund about playing Dean Moriarty, aka Neal Cassady, the petty criminal, womaniser and manic muse of many of the Beat writers, in Walter Salles’s long-awaited adaptation of On the Road. When did you first read On the Road? Garrett Hedlund: At college. I read it for the first time because some girl [...]

5 Minutes With: Clare Stewart, Director of The LFF

In her first year at the helm of the 56th BFI London Film Festival, Clare Stewart shares her vision with Film3Sixty magazine. What were your goals coming into the LFF? Claire Stewart: I knew I was coming into a festival that had gone from strength to strength under Sandra Hebron’s direction [Hebron presided over the [...]

Interview: The Makers of Shut Up And Play The Hits

In Shut Up and Play the Hits, a new documentary following LCD Soundsystem’s James Murphy at the band’s farewell concert in a packed Madison Square Garden and in and around New York the next day, filmmakers Will Lovelace and Dylan Southern ask a tantalising question: Why quit when you’re so far ahead? As they explain [...]

5 MINUTES WITH: NICK CAVE

Film3Sixty talks to singer-songwriter Nick Cave about his script for Lawless, a 1920s Prohibition gangster film starring Shia LaBeouf and Tom Hardy and directed by John Hillcoat, who previously made the Cave-scripted Australian western The Proposition. Were you immediately drawn to Lawless? Nick Cave: Actually, I was initially very reticent of writing a script based [...]

5 MINUTES WITH: TOM HARDY

Film3Sixty meets Tom Hardy, fresh off his role as Batman’s nemesis Bane in The Dark Knight Rises and now back for John Hillcoat’s gangster film Lawless. He stars as Forrest Bondurant, a 1920s Virginia bootlegger who believes he’s invincible. Was there camaraderie on set between you, Shia La Beouf and Jason Clarke, who play Forrest’s [...]

Interview: Ashley Thomas – Cockneys vs. Zombies

Directed by Matthias Hoene, Cockneys vs. Zombies is the story of a group of inner city youths trying to save their granddad’s nursing home by robbing a bank, only to discover Zombies have over run the East End. Recording artist and actor Ashley ‘Bashy’ Thomas stars as the villain of the film ‘Mental Mickey’. Film3Sixty [...]