Renowned French filmmaker Claude Chabrol has passed away today aged 80. Beginning his career as a film critic alongside contemporaries Jean-Luc Godard, Jacques Rivette, Eric Rohmer and François Truffaut with the influential French film magazine Cahiers du Cinéma, Chabrol helped to usher in the French New Wave with his self-financed debut feature Le beau Serge […]

In the third of a series of articles examining the various screen incarnations of George Lucas’ Star Wars saga, we focus on the final instalment of the Imperial trilogy, Episode VI – Return of the Jedi… Star Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi, 1983. Directed by Richard Marquand. Starring Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, […]

Trevor Hogg profiles the careers of filmmaking siblings the Coen brothers in the first of a four part feature… Using a Super 8 camera, Joel and his younger brother Ethan were inspired to remake the Hollywood movies being broadcasted on television; their naivety about motion picture production did not hinder their innovative spirit when shooting […]

Amy Flinders profiles Scottish director Lynne Ramsay in the second of a two-part feature… read part one here. With three critically acclaimed shorts and a mantelpiece full of awards, Ramsay won another cluster of prizes, including a BAFTA for most promising newcomer, for her first feature Ratcatcher (1999). When asked how the idea of Ratcatcher […]

Trevor Hogg profiles the career of visionary director Robert Zemeckis in the third of a three part feature… read part one and part two. Adapting Winston Groom’s story of a simple-minded man who meets various historical figures from the twentieth century, while wandering in and out of the life of his childhood sweetheart, served as […]

Trevor Hogg profiles the career of legendary British filmmaker Carol Reed in the second of a two-part feature… read the first part here. “I don’t think people care what sort of curtains I have,” stated the British filmmaker. “I don’t think they care about the technical people. Stars are the draw. They earn their publicity. […]

Tom Conran with his thoughts on an early screening in Sheffield and Q&A with Shane Meadows, Paddy Considine and Mark Herbert… Le Donk and Scor-Zay-Zee (2009). Directed by Shane Meadows. Starring Paddy Considine, Dean Palinczuk and Olivia Coleman. Shane Meadows and Paddy Considine reunite for the first time since Dead Man’s Shoes (2004) in this […]

Trevor Hogg profiles the career of legendary director Stanley Kubrick in the first of a two-part feature… When the teenage Stanley Kubrick stepped behind a camera lens he discovered a vast world of opportunity. “I worked for Look Magazine from the age of seventeen to twenty-one,” remarked the legendary filmmaker, of his time as a […]

Trevor Hogg profiles the career of legendary writer, director and producer John Hughes in the second of a two-part feature… read the first here. “At the time I came along,” reflected John Hughes, “Hollywood’s idea of teen movies meant there had to be a lot of nudity, usually involving boys in pursuit of sex, and […]

Trevor Hogg profiles the career of director Peter Jackson in the second of a two-part feature… read the first part here. Peter Jackson decided to pursue his dream of producing a fantasy film as his follow-up project. Lacking major studio support to remake King Kong, the director chose to adapt a literary masterpiece. J.R.R. Tolkien’s […]