Two articles and interviews with two very different British directors showing films at this year’s Cannes appeared in the press today.
Firstly, Stephen Frears spoke to the Hollywood Reporter about his latest film Tamara Drewe, which had its debut screening at the festival (out of competition). Frears talks about how he took Tamara Drewe from the pages of The Guardian to the big screen, and what it is people love about British films.
"What people really like about British film is the loonies on screen. Alec Guinness, Peter Sellers, maybe John Cleese -- that's what people like in British films, the dottiness...It's good, because personally I have dottiness in spades." (More here
In The Times, documentary-maker Lucy Walker gives an interview about her shocking new film Countdown to Zero. The doc, which explores the threat of nuclear warfare facing the world today, features interviews with a notorious nuclear smuggler from Russia now in a Georgian prison, and Walker explains how she managed to gain access.
" To get into the prison, she had to spend many nights in the bars and restaurants of Tbilisi, drinking wine out of animal horns and making endless toasts about things she couldn’t understand, and can’t remember, with Georgia’s nuclear investigators and top cops. “Drinking in Georgia goes on all night long until people start falling over,” she notes."
Read the rest of the article here.
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