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Director Paddy Breathnach on building the characters and family dynamic in a film that makes the political personal, and crafting an immediate, engaging visual …
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French directors Caroline Poggi and Jonathan Vinel, together with star Aomi Muyock, discuss Jessica Forever, a film as inspired by video games as it is by the …
Asante details the long road to making her passion project, Where Hands Touch, and explains the importance of nuance in her controversial love story. …
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As TIFF '18 draws to a close, the 7R team looks back at the festival's best films that are still searching for distribution. Read all our TIFF coverage here. …
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Stage and screen directing legend Richard Eyre discusses the real-life stage that is the courtroom in The Children Act and directing for stage vs. screen. Read …
[Read more...] about Interview: Richard Eyre on the real-life stages on screen in The Children Act
Director Tuva Novotny and lead actress Pia Tjelta discuss Blind Spot, a technically and conceptually dazzling feature debut about the stigma around mental …
[Read more...] about Director Tuva Novotny and actress Pia Tjelta discuss one-take wonder Blind Spot
Richard Billingham discusses his debut feature Ray & Liz, which viscerally recreates some of his own memories growing up in 1970s' Birmingham. …
Writer-director Darlene Naponse on her unconventional protagonist, capturing the beauty of a landscape through both visuals and sound, and the respect and care …
[Read more...] about Interview: Falls Around Her centres a complex, middle-aged, Indigenous woman
Irish writer-director Carmel Winters discusses her second feature, Float Like a Butterfly, a female coming-of-age story set in the 1970s amongst the Irish …
[Read more...] about Interview: Carmel Winters on her TIFF Discovery film Float Like a Butterfly
Despite strong performances from a gender blind cast, Scott Wentworth's production is a confusing and misguided adaptation. …
[Read more...] about Et Tu, Bathos? Julius Caesar underwhelms at the Stratford Festival
