DRIVE-AWAY DOLLS & THE QUEST FOR THE FEMALE ORGASM
ARTICLE
Ethan Coen and Tricia Cooke’s bawdy sex comedy borrows from high-school farces, with one crucial difference: it puts queer female sexuality front and centre. By Billie Walker
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FROM DREAMS TO REALITY: BRINGING ROBOT DREAMS TO LIFE
INTERVIEW
Filmmaker Pablo Berger founded a studio for his first foray into animation, a beautiful, dialogue-free drama about the power of friendship. Here, along with animation director Benoît Feroumont, he tells Michael Leader about their creative process.
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HANS ZIMMER: ‘I HAD TO CHANGE STYLE BECAUSE EVERYONE ELSE WAS DOING MINE’
INTERVIEW
The legendary Oscar-winning composer discusses his transcendent Dune: Part Two score and reflects on his expansive, four-decade career, from the dark musical subtext of The Lion King to the thrumming crescendos of Inception. By Amon Warmann
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AVA DUVERNAY’S FIGHT FOR CHANGE
WOMEN IN THE SPOTLIGHT
Ava DuVernay’s Origin is a continuation of her typically resonant, politically engaged cinema, since it’s a Black story that encourages change both on and off screen. Here, Victoria Luxford explores the filmmaker’s groundbreaking work.
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MARK RONSON & ANDREW WYATT ON THEIR OSCAR-NOMINATED HIT ‘I’M JUST KEN’
AWARDS BUZZ
Songwriters Mark Ronson and Andrew Wyatt talk Ellen Peirson-Hagger through their creative process on writing the much memed, self-deprecating, Oscar-nominated power ballad ‘I’m Just Ken’.
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SANDWORMS, SPACESHIPS AND SPECIAL EFFECTS: HOW VFX SUPERVISOR PAUL LAMBERT BROUGHT DUNE TO LIFE
AWARDS BUZZ
Leila Latif speaks to the Oscar-winning visual effects supervisor about his work on Denis Villeneuve's sci-fi epic.
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PERFECT DAYS & THE EQUALISING POWER OF THE TOKYO TOILET
ARTICLE
Lillian Crawford considers how Wim Wenders’ gentle, Oscar-nominated drama extols the power of architecture, and continues his fascination with capturing artwork on film.
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BAFTA-WINNING OPPENHEIMER EDITOR ON CONDENSING A LIFE INTO 3 HOURS
AWARDS BUZZ
Playing with time, holding viewers’ attention, summarising a life in three hours… these were just some of the challenges BAFTA-winning editor Jennifer Lame faced when assembling Christopher Nolan’s gargantuan, years-spanning biopic. By Orla Smith.
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ROBIN CAMPILLO ON HIS AUTOBIOGRAPHICALLY INSPIRED RED ISLAND
INTERVIEW
Jonathan Ronmey talks to the director about how his childhood inspired the story, the ideas of revolution and uprising bubbling under the surface, and the fantasy sequences that pervade the film.
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