Shekhar Kapur, director of Badit Queen, Elizabeth and Four Feathers, explains to Marc Lee why he could never have made Elizabeth had it not been for Trainspotting.
(The Telegraph UK)
 

The film director Jonathan Levine never sold marijuana in high school, though he may have inhaled some. “Possible,” he said recently, fighting a smile. “It’s possible.”
Nor did he ever trade weed for sessions with a psychiatrist, as the protagonist of his new movie, “The Wackness,” does. But in other respects “The Wackness” — Mr. Levine’s […]

The visuals in Wanted are so unique that not even a Hollywood screenwriter or graphic novelist can come up with them. Though based on a comic book, director Timur Bekmambetov actually scripted the movie from his own pre-visualization animatics.
(Can Mag)

The film director Guy Ritchie, husband of Madonna, is to try to revive his career by giving Sherlock Holmes a gritty, gangland-style makeover.
Ritchie is best known for his violent 1998 hit Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels but has had little success since.
The Hollywood studio Warner Bros is backing his attempt to repackage Holmes from […]

It’s hard to say which event in midtown Manhattan on Thursday night was cooler: New German Cinema legend Werner Herzog in conversation with director Jonathan Demme at the Times Center, or the two crazed climbers who attempted to scale the New York Times building right next door just a few hours earlier. In some ways, […]

This weekend M. Night Shyamalan returns to theaters with the paranoid thriller The Happening starring Mark Wahlberg, Zooey Deschanel and John Leguizamo. It is his first film since 2006’s Lady in the Water, which didn’t connect with critics or audience members. As the director of The Sixth Sense his star rose high and in 2002 […]

As a child, on Saturday afternoon TV I first saw Dr Zhivago, Lawrence of Arabia and Oliver Twist, and then I was shown Brief Encounter by my favourite surrogate grandmother, the first person I knew to have a VHS machine. I felt Lean was there for me with these magical, glamorous, beautiful worlds populated with […]

In March of 1977, about 14 months before shooting began on The Shining, Jack Nicholson took a vacation to Colorado, apparently leaving his palace on Mulholland Drive in the care of Anjelica Huston, Marlon Brando’s maid, and Chinatown director Roman Polanski. Polanski, 44, owed the French edition of Vogue a photo story and had decided […]

Talk about your high-concept lowbrow humor.
In the big-budget action-comedy “You Don’t Mess With the Zohan” (which arrives in theaters Friday), Adam Sandler portrays the titular Zohan, an ultra-lethal Israeli counterterrorist operative who tires of his part in his country’s war on terror, fakes his own death and comes to New York in pursuit of his […]

Quentin Tarantino’s first trip to Sundance wasn’t exactly a success.
“If you do this in real life, they’re going to fire your ass,” scolded cinematographer Stephen Goldblatt, veteran of films like “Lethal Weapon” and “Charlie Wilson’s War.”
The novice filmmaker was participating in a directors’ workshop at the Sundance Institute — the film trust founded by Robert […]