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Here you'll find pieces that look at how films have been influenced by the conventions of theatre and vice versa. We also look at adapting plays for the screen and films for the stage, including what is lost and gained from the change in medium.
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 …
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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 …
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On Chesil Beach DP Sean Bobbitt discusses collaboration, composition, and his strong opinions on the anonymity of coverage. Read the rest of our On Chesil Beach …
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On Chesil Beach’s editor discusses his role and how, no matter the style or genre, everything he does stems from the actors. Read the rest of our On Chesil …
[Read more...] about Nick Fenton on film editing: ‘You are that first audience’
On Chesil Beach director Dominic Cooke discusses using his experience as a theatre director while still relishing the tools that are unique to cinema. Read part …
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For our special TIFF17 coverage of On Chesil Beach, we talked to Dominic Cooke about the value of rehearsing actors for film and minimizing cuts. Read part 2 of …
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Saul Dibb’s adaptation of the acclaimed play sees the source material through a modern lens and makes use of the intimacy unique to the cinematic form. …
[Read more...] about Journey’s End is a thoughtful, modern screen adaptation
The premise of The Party — seven characters trapped in a house, for 71 minutes, as secrets are revealed and lives potentially irreparably changed — sounds like …
[Read more...] about Sally Potter’s The Party is a dynamic, witty ensemble film
Simon McBurney’s one-man show The Encounter is a journey into the Amazon and the nature of consciousness, using theatre itself as a metaphor for memory. …
[Read more...] about Theatre Review: Simon McBurney’s The Encounter has to be experienced live
In Terence Davies’ screen adaptation of Rattigan’s The Deep Blue Sea, Davies plunges us into Hester’s memories, nudging us to accept her …
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