5 Minutes With: Jeremy Irvine
Film3Sixty sat down with Jeremy Irvine, star of the new adaptation of Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations directed by Mike Newell and co-starring Helen Bonham Carter and Ralph Fiennes. With War Horse at the beginning of the year and now Great Expectations at the end of it, how have you adapted to the stardom? JI: It [...]
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. [...]
Night And Day: Nordic Film Festival 2012
The first ever Nordic Film Festival takes place in London on 30 November-5 December at the Ciné lumière, Riverside Studios and Prince Charles Cinema. Tickets are available here. Over the past decade Nordic film has seen a genuine renaissance. Embraced by worldwide audiences, North European productions have been received with open arms by UK and American [...]
Abi Morgan: BAFTA and BFI Screenwriters’ Lectures
“I know one thing – that I know nothing,” this was the opening gambit from prolific screenwriter Abi Morgan in the fifth and final instalment of this year’s BAFTA and BFI screenwriters’ lecture series. Best known for writing Steve McQueen’s Shame and the Oscar-winning The Iron Lady (which also swooped her a BAFTA), Morgan has [...]
Hollywood Costume Exhibition At The V&A
Opening this week, the new exhibition at London’s Victoria and Albert Museum, Hollywood Costume, should have film fans in a fever with the opportunity for an up-close and personal chance to gaze lovingly at some of film’s most famous costumes. A near unique collection of fantastic costumes has been drawn together, including Judy Garland’s iconic [...]
A Spellbinding Phenomenon: Harry Potter Revisited
Twenty years ago a single mother boarded a train to Manchester, little did she know that on that journey she would conceive one of the most successful stories of all time. JK Rowling, who recently published her first book for adults, A Casual Vacancy, is now one of the richest women in the world after [...]
BowieFest at the ICA
It seems strange that no one had thought to do it before, but now the ICA, located on London’s Mall, has had the forethought to programme an entire weekend film festival dedicated to music icon and legend David Bowie. Joe Walsh reports for Film3Sixty on the inaugural BowieFest. The weekend kicked off with a screening of D.A. [...]
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 [...]
5 minutes with: Ashley ‘Bashy’ Thomas
Dan Turner’s latest feature The Man Inside tells the thrilling story of a young boxer Clayton, played by Ashley ‘Bashy’ Thomas, who is struggling to support his family and distance himself from his criminal father. Film3Sixty met up with Thomas to discuss his role. Can you tell us what The Man Inside is about? Ashley [...]
Finding Sugar Man
The first documentary from Malik Bendjelloul, Searching For Sugar Man, is the fantastic story of the unknown 1970’s rock star Rodriguez. Whilst failing to make it big in the USA, Rodriguez made a tremendous impact on the apartheid movement in South Africa and unknown even to him grew to mass popular appeal. Film3Sixty met up [...]
