“Cinema Needs Europe, Europe Needs Cinema”: 4,700 Film Professionals Call for EU to Protect Film Funding

“Cinema Needs Europe, Europe Needs Cinema”: 4,700 Film Professionals Call for EU to Protect Film Funding

Francis Ford Coppola, Juliette Binoche, Sandra Hüller, Stellan Skarsgård, Joachim Trier, and Vicky Krieps are among the more than 4,700 film professionals who have signed an open letter calling for the European Union to protect film funding on the continent. The letter, titled “Europe needs cinema, Cinema needs Europe,” calls on the EU to “future-proof”…

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Director Joachim Trier Interview on ‘Sentimental Value’

Director Joachim Trier Interview on ‘Sentimental Value’

For his latest film, Joachim Trier is playing it straight. In his career to date, the Danish-Norwegian director has often pivoted between realism and moments where irony and the surreal puncture the everyday. Think of the dream-like narrative in his debut Reprise (2006) where the lives of two aspiring Oslo writers are told via jump-cut flash-forwards and imagined futures…

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‘Awards Chatter’ Live Pod: Stellan Skarsgard on ‘Sentimental Value,’ Lars von Trier and Ingmar Bergman

‘Awards Chatter’ Live Pod: Stellan Skarsgard on ‘Sentimental Value,’ Lars von Trier and Ingmar Bergman

Last Friday, the veteran Swedish actor Stellan Skarsgard reflected on his life, career and latest project — Joachim Trier’s Cannes Grand Prize-winning dramedy Sentimental Value, in which Skarsgard plays a veteran filmmaker who has a complicated family life — during a recording of The Hollywood Reporter’s Awards Chatter podcast in front of a packed house at…

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#‘Andor’ Creator Tony Gilroy Talks Luthen Rael’s Future and Being Surprised by Certain Easter Eggs

#‘Andor’ Creator Tony Gilroy Talks Luthen Rael’s Future and Being Surprised by Certain Easter Eggs

‘Andor’ Creator Tony Gilroy Talks Luthen Rael’s Future and Being Surprised by Certain Easter Eggs [This story contains spoilers for Andor episode ten, “One Way Out.”] On the heels of Andor’s latest showstopper of an episode, creator Tony Gilroy wants to preview what lies ahead for Stellan Skarsgard’s fan-favorite character Luthen Rael in season one and…

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