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Sundown at Sundance 2005
by Amber Wilkinson
Topical doc Why We Fight and Forty Shades of Blue win Grand Jury Prizes; Sundance Awards Party and winners.
Village Person
by John Millar
Joaquin Phoenix opens up about working with director M Night Shyamalan on The Village, now getting its DVD release, and Signs
Sundance Film Festival - Day 8
by Amber Wilkinson
Mardi Gras beads of sweat and pain; gay thriller The Dying Gaul; class drama Junebug; Utah's odd booze laws.
Sundance Film Festival - Day Seven
by Amber Wilkinson
Herzog's grizzly doc; Rwanda revisited; On A Clear Day gets U.S. distrib.; special needs shocker What Is It?.
Sundance Film Festival - Day Six
by Amber Wilkinson
Amazing amnesia documentary; hot shorts; poetry and song at Sundance.
Sundance Film Festival - Day Five
by Amber Wilkinson
Missing a deer and a dead elk, Elf lands poolside with brill trio from Brit fantasy MirrorMask; US Lackawanna Blues one to watch.
Sundance Film Festival - Day Four
by Amber Wilkinson
Sundance and stars? Go directly ahead, past the dead skunk...
Sundance Film Festival - Day Three
by Amber Wilkinson
Picking up penguins; search for Mullan ends; doc asks Why We Fight.
Sundance Film Festival - Day Two
by Amber Wilkinson
The day things almost Peter-ed out...
Mama Mira and the Vanity Project
by Matt Arnoldi
Q & A with director Mira Nair on her adaptation of the Thackeray classic Vanity Fair.
Sundance Film Festival Opening Night and Day One
by Amber Wilkinson
Happy Endings opens, Scots cast out in force for "On A Clear Day".
Eye For Film awards 2004
by Eye For Film staff
Awards season is upon us! Our reviewers offer their highlights and low points of 2004...
Sundance Film Festival 2005 Preview
by Amber Wilkinson
We look forward to a fortnight of top indie films in snow-covered Park City, Utah.
Punk Pioneers
by Miles Fielder
As rock doc End Of The Century opens in London, Tommy Ramone remembers what made his band unique.
Chilled Out Minnesota-Milwaukee-style
by Matt Arnoldi
Debut director Allan Mindel on ice-fishing and the challenges of making your first film in sub-zero temperatures.
Getting To The Heart Of It
by Paul Griffiths
Writer-director David O Russell on the tortuous history of I Heart Huckabees.
Secrets To Scoring.
by John Millar
Eight-time Oscar-winning composer Alan Menken on animating with music for Disney.
Jerry Bruckheimer At The Round Table
by Agency
Q&A with the veteran producer of King Arthur.
Hitting back at domestic abuse
by Matthew Arnoldi
Spanish writer-director Iciar Bollain talks about her award-winning film Take My Eyes
The end of the world as we know it?
by Matthew Arnoldi
A look back at the 2004 London Film Festival.
10 Rules For Surviving Til The Credits Roll
by Adele Hartley
It's a horror movie... so why do they do that?
The Corporation: a reformist plea for state regulation.
by Joanne Laurier and David Walsh
A socialist perspective of the documentary The Corporation.
London Film Festival 2004 preview
by Matthew Arnoldi
Mike Leigh's Vera Drake to open London Film Festival.
Story of Peter Pan Author Touched By Fairy Dust
by Brian Pendreigh
Finding Neverland, starring Johnny Depp and Kate Winslet, stirs debate about nature of troubled author JM Barrie.
Ministry of "Frankenstein"
by Brian Pendreigh
Ex-film festival director Lizzie Francke explains how she ended up helming an outfit producing horror films.
Kiss 'N' Tell
by Brian Pendreigh
Atta Yaqub, the previously unknown leading man in Ken Loach's sexy romance Ae Fond Kiss, flirts with fame.
Getting To Know Paul McGuigan
by Brian Pendreigh
Gangster No.1 and Wicker Park director is virtually unknown in his native Scotland.
Q&A: Super Size Me director Morgan Spurlock
by Syndicate
The burger-king on why he made a documentary charting his super-sized McDonald’s binge
EIFF 2004 Diary: Closing Day
by Douglas Bell
Celebratory mood as EIFF ends.
EIFF 2004 Diary: Day Eleven
by Douglas Bell
A view from the projection room; Breillat's Rocco horror show.
EIFF 2004 Diary: Day Ten
by Douglas Bell
Gerry Butler's famous, sort of; EIFF ticket prices.
EIFF 2004 Diary: Day Nine
by Douglas Bell
HD vs 35mm debate rages at "fringe film festival".
EIFF 2004 Diary: Day Eight
by Douglas Bell
New British filmmakers enter the fray.
EIFF 2004 Diary: Day Seven
by Douglas Bell
Aaron Barschak, Rebel Without Applause
EIFF 2004 Diary: Day Six
by Douglas Bell
An intro to festival networking.
EIFF 2004 Diary: Day Five
by Douglas Bell
Edinburgh's fringe film festival
EIFF 2004 Diary: Day Four
by Douglas Bell
Learning to be a pro at fest workshops.
EIFF 2004 Diary: Day Three
by Douglas Bell
Ooh, Colin Firth!
EIFF 2004 Diary: Day Two
by Douglas Bell
Super Size Me is extra-large hit and the director, super nice.
EIFF 2004 Diary: Opening Night
by Douglas Bell
Director is elusive at opening night film, The Motorcycle Diaries.
Village Rebel
by David Haviland
Spookmeister M. Night Shyamalan on the inspiration for "punk period" film The Village.
Cheering on the Boys
by John Millar
Amy Smart says she enjoyed getting into the guy-centric, Seventies vibe for Starsky and Hutch remake.
Aisling Walsh’s Raggy Boy
by Gary Duncan
Aisling Walsh explains how she managed to complete Song For Raggy Boy, a film exposing Irish Reform School abuses, that initially “nobody wanted to touch”.
Eternal Struggle of the Creative Mind
by David Haviland
Michel Gondry and Charlie Kaufman on the challenge of delivering your best ideas
Songs of Struggle
by David Haviland
Lee Hirsch's moving documentary Amandla! looks at how the music of protest developed during Apartheid in South Africa
Industry gets animated about the best
by Amber Wilkinson
The winners of the British Animation Awards 2004 - a showcase of which toured the country earlier this year - have now been announced.
Days in the Life of a Brazilian Hijacker
by David Haviland
Documentary maker José Padilha felt compelled to tell a hijacker's story because the Brazilian media wouldn't
Mrow! It’s Halle Berry
by David Haviland
Halle Berry - Bond girl, Oscar-winner, and Catwoman – has suffered “freaky” accidents and “supernatural” experiences on set. No wonder she says she spooked herself while playing an incarcerated psychologist in Gothika.
Portrait Of A Provocative Mind
by Mostic
Danish director Nicholas Winding Refn taps fear of the unknown in psychological thriller Fear X
The Wolf Awards 2003
by Angus Wolfe Murray
From Best Film to Worst Remake of the Year
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