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Julianne Moore: the great pretender

Julianne Moore's talent for transformation has made this unassuming American mom into one of the outstanding screen actresses of her generation. David Gritten meets her On meeting Julianne Moore, you're struck by the remarkable...

Credo: Anne Rice

It can take a long time to find out how to put your experiences into writing. I spent years just absorbing material, then at 34 I wrote Interview with a Vampire and discovered that through fantasy I was able to talk about my...

When Ash was right

Case 1: When best-seller Interview with the Vampire-The Vampire Chronicles was adapted into a movie, its author Anne Rice vocally expressed her displeasure over director Neil Jordan's casting of Tom Cruise as the blood-sucking...

American Film Market hopes for change

American Film Market 2008: Indie players look for answers in a battered economy -- Opening on the day after the U.S. election, the American Film Market could have a different energy this time round. Will change have come to...

Ireland

American Film Market 2008: Government frees production coin -- The Emerald Isle lost a lot of inward production because of competition from the U.K.'s new tax credit, but the Irish government moved to strengthen its Section 481...

Paul Howlett's TV film picks: Goodbye Bafana | Breakfast On Pluto | Shoot 'Em Up

Goodbye Bafana(Bille August, 2007) 6pm, Sky Movies PremiereBased on the memoirs of James Gregory, the South African prison warder who knew Nelson Mandela for more than 20 years, there's an overly worthy feel to this story of...