Michael Winterbottom

Film preview: Michael Winterbottom, London

As part of a celebration of the past 40 years of British film, Michael Winterbottom takes part in a Q&A and presents his latest film, the psychological drama Genova. Winterbottom might not be everyone's favourite director but...

Oscar frontrunner

Jessica Alba at the premier of Filth and Wisdom in New York (10/13) Jessica Alba has signed on to play a hooker in the film-adapation of the novel The Killer Inside Me. The Hollywood Reporter says: Casey Affleck and Jessica...

Moray Firth could be movie festival Mecca

THE Moray Firth could become a Mecca for film fans, one of Inverness Film Festival's organisers believes. advertising Matt Lloyd, co-director of the 6th Inverness Film Festival which begins at Eden Court on Wednesday , also...

Why I've no regrets about having sex on film . . .

Margo Stilley comes into the bar wearing a pretty, if slightly see-through, white cotton dress. It's eye-catchingly crotch-skimming but she's teamed it with black opaque tights, a denim jacket and a cotton scarf, so it's not...

Casey Affleck to costar with Jessica Alba

By Herald Wire Services Monday, November 10, 2008 - Updated 4m ago Casey Affleck and actress Jessica Alba are set to star together in a new flick called “The Killer Inside Me,” Entertainment Tonight reported. Cambridge homey...

Affleck, Alba join 'Killer Inside Me'

By Simon Reynolds, Entertainment Reporter Casey Affleck and Jessica Alba have joined the cast of Michael Winterbottom's thriller The Killer Inside Me, says The Hollywood Reporter. An adaptation of Jim Thompson's novel, the...

Instant weekend ... Genoa

The Boccadasse Quater in Genoa, Italy. Photograph: Bruno Morandi/Robert Harding/Rex Features Why go now? Director Michael Winterbottom has set his latest film, Genova, in this little-known gem of a northern Italian city....

U.K. indie producers see opportunity

Film News: Film production expands despite financial crisis -- Where there is crisis, there is sometimes opportunity. With that in mind, some U.K. indie film producers are staring down the challenges posed by the global...

Tony Grisoni tackles trio of films

Film News: Multiple projects keep English scribe busy -- Tony Grisoni made his name as a frequent collaborator with Terry Gilliam, first adapting Hunter S. Thompson's "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas" and later writing...

The view: Leave the unfilmable unfilmed

For every literary opus that goes on to work on screen, there are stacks that fail, so why not just accept that not everything belongs on screen? And yet there was always at least one cheering exception to the rule in the form...

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