In Canberra for the premiere of his debut feature film Monsters which screened at the Canberra International Film Festival, Gareth Edwards is clearly jet-lagged, yet more clearly thoughtful and curious. Sitting in an empty bar in Canberra’s CBD on a Sunday morning we talk about directing, movies and the success he’s having chasing his […]
There’s unquestionably something macabre in the air – vampires and zombies have invaded the screen zeitgeist, and audiences can’t seem to get enough of the adrenalin that comes with a good fright or a scary character with one foot in the grave. And with Screen Australia finally supporting genre filmmaking, Australian directors have joined the […]
Stanley Kubrick described Jim Thompson’s book The Killer Inside Me as ‘the most chilling and believable first-person story of a criminally warped mind’ he’d ever read. British film director Micheal Winterbottom, who’s just turned that book into a feature film starring Casey Affleck, Jessica Alba and Kate Hudson, agrees. “It is a great book, a […]
There’s a well-worn complaint amongst actors that great roles for women over forty are almost impossible to find and, when they do emerge from the green-lit rooms of film production, they frequently involve the Demi Moore’s and Catherine Zeta Jones’ of this world playing women much younger than themselves. Whilst it’s not really been a […]
She has a pilot’s license, speaks German, travelled the world as a teenage model, and married a Hollywood star. It seems that life couldn’t get much sweeter for Jacinda Barrett, born and raised in Brisbane. Yet the actress, who has a house in Los Angeles and who has played opposite leading men like John Travolta, […]
When Ewan McGregor found out that Roman Polanski was interested in casting him in his new film, he was completely gobsmacked. “It was so weird, because I hadn’t ever considered I would work with him,” says the actor in voice so soft and warm that it could sell Scotch whisky by the truckload. “I had […]
When Christian McKay auditioned for RADA (Royal Academy of Dramatic Art), he decided to overcome his nerves by pretending to be Richard Burton. McKay, the British actor currently wowing critics and audiences in the title role of the feature film Me and Orson Welles, had a perfectly good career as a concert pianist before trying […]
Scriptwriting consultants and directing gurus from all over the world frequently tell you that the golden rule of filmmaking is to write from your own experience, to tell your own story, to write about your own “tribe”. It’s only then, they argue, that the real detail and a sense of the authentic will emerge in […]
Late one night in Paris, when director Christian Carion was writing the script of his latest film Farewell - a true story from the 1980’s about Russian traitors and French spies - he received a call from a man he didn’t know. “My number is completely unknown,” says Carion, “and I have no idea how […]
Despite playing - indeed creating - some of the most famous characters in cinema and television over the past forty years, and working with many of the industry’s leading directors and producers, John Hurt has never felt he was in control of his own destiny. The English actor, who recently returned to Australia to take […]
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