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“You don’t get very long,” says Tim Webber, VFX (visual effects) supervisor on the blockbuster space thriller Gravity. “Five minutes to talk about it, a 10-minute showreel, and then three minutes of question and answer. When you’ve spent three years on a project, that’s not an awful lot of time to get it across.” Webber … Read more
Once a rising star in films such as American Beauty and Ghost World, Thora Birch says she found herself discarded by the studios when she wouldn’t conform. Hollywood has never been kind to its young. It is an industry that famously venerates youth and, infamously, has casually destroyed so many young people, used them up … Read more
12 Years a Slave may have been just pipped to the post at this year’s Oscar nominations, but there is consolation for Steve McQueen: his film dominates the longlist for the first ever Guardian Film Awards. The awards, which aim to act as an antidote rather than an addition to the established slate of ceremonies, … Read more
As someone who was born and grew up in Northern Ireland, I’ve always been aware of the pitfalls of labelling something “British”. I’ve been surprised many times about how messy it gets in the world of film. Everyone remembers Colin Welland’s battle cry when Chariots of Fire triumphed at the Oscars in 1981: “The British … Read more
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