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Richard Armitage: 'I wish I could jump out of character; I'd be more popular'
14 hours ago
I never like to go out of character when filming starts I fear that if I do, I might not be able to pick it up again. This was particularly the case with the character Thorin Oakenshield [in Peter Jackson's The Hobbit]. He's moody and broody, so people kept their distance from me during the production. I wish I was good at jumping out of character in between takes, as I'd be more popular socially. »
Promised Land: Matt Damon's driller thriller about fracking
5 April 2013 11:00 AM, PDT
It doesn't sound like a subject to appeal to Hollywood, yet fracking is coming to a screen near you, and film-makers are as deeply divided on its merits as everyone else. Later this month, fracking-based drama Promised Land arrives in UK cinemas. Matt Damon (pictued) plays a conflicted corporate salesman trying to persuade rural townspeople to sell their natural-gas drilling rights. »
Screen Talk: Brilliant move for Marcus Sakey
5 April 2013 11:00 AM, PDT
A film adaptation of an upcoming novel by Marcus Sakey (above) named Brilliance is being put together at Legendary Pictures. The book takes place in a world where a rare set of people are born with extraordinary abilities and are called “brilliants.” The book is due out in the Us in July and is intended to be part of a trilogy. »
Film review: School's out for Disney's young graduates in Spring Breakers
5 April 2013 11:00 AM, PDT
Harmony Korine's fifth feature film (or seventh when you count the scripts he wrote for Larry Clark's Kids and Ken Park) is about the steadily more wild and debauched behaviour of four nubile young women in bikinis during spring break – a rite of passage that, if several teen movies are to be believed, is one of the main benefits of a Us college education. »
Juliette Binoche: She who dares wins
5 April 2013 2:00 AM, PDT
The last time we saw Juliette Binoche on screen, she was frantically grinding away on Robert Pattinson's crotch in David Cronenberg's Cosmopolis. Before that was prostitution tale Elles – in which the fearless 49-year-old French star confronted us with graphic masturbation – and she then took on Strindberg's Miss Julie at London's Barbican. Just a typical year in the career of the one who, back home, they call "La Binoche". "As an actor, you go into dangerous places," she shrugs. "And you're showing things that not always everybody wants to see or feel." »
Film review: Spring Breakers (18)
4 April 2013 9:30 AM, PDT
There is so much jiggling flesh on display in Harmony Korine's candy-coloured Four Go Down to Florida jamboree that it might almost be a parody of a beach-party flick. The camera ogles young women's bums and boobs like a lascivious old git in a flasher mac, enough to make you wonder if Korine actually is that old git (he wrote Kids for Larry Clark, after all). »
Everything you ever needed to know about screenwriting (but were afraid to ask)
3 April 2013 11:00 AM, PDT
John Yorke is a former head of drama for both the BBC and Channel 4 and has worked on or commissioned shows as diverse as EastEnders, Life on Mars, The Archers, The Street and Shameless. He's currently managing director of independent TV producers Company Pictures. His new book, Into The Woods: A Five Act Journey Into Story (Particular, £16.99) is an in-depth study of and guide to stories and narrative and a primer for any budding screenwriter (or any kind of writer). We asked him for his 10 top tips for telling stories. »
A plea from Palestine's first female director
1 April 2013 4:00 PM, PDT
One recent trend in world cinema that has become hard to ignore is the rapid emergence of Arab women film-makers. Directors such as Saudi Arabian Haifaa Al-Mansour, Palestine-American Cherien Dabis and Lebanese Nadine Labaki have been feted at festivals all round the world. Acknowledging this new wave, the Birds Eye View Film Festival is this year celebrating female Arab film-makers. »
Actor Jim Carrey hits back at Fox News as row over anti-nra video escalates
1 April 2013 10:03 AM, PDT
While in Washington lawmakers have struggled to introduce new gun control legislation, in Hollywood the issue has sparked a bout of name-calling to make even the most hardened senator blanch. After Fox News commentators criticised the actor Jim Carrey last week for a pro-gun control comedy skit in which he mocked gun owners and the National Rifle Association (NRA), Carrey released a statement describing the right-leaning news network as “a media colostomy bag that has begun to burst at the seams and should be emptied before it becomes a public health issue”. »
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