I had a chance to interview a make-up artist and hair designer, Wakana Yoshihara, who had a remarkable year in 2021, she tackled two of the Oscar contenders, “Spencer” and “Belfast,” please read about how she took on the challenge of creating a princess Diana’s look and working on the Black and White film. An Exclusive Interview…
Haris Zambarloukos is no stranger to collaborating with Kenneth Branagh. The two first worked together on Sleuth in 2007, and have joined forces for other projects including Thor, Murder on the Orient Express, and the upcoming sequel Death on the Nile. He’s gaining widespread recognition for one of the leading awards contenders this season, Branagh’s…
Synopsis : BELFAST is a movie straight from Branagh’s own experience. A nine-year-old boy must chart a path towards adulthood through a world that has suddenly turned upside down. His stable and loving community and everything he thought he understood about life is changed forever but joy, laughter, music and the formative magic of the…
Can one film serve to truly represent a place? There are many films with titles that reference a city, state, or country. Most often, their contents are not a comprehensive history of that piece of geography but rather a specific moment in time or merely the setting for a story that might as well have…
Q: We’re going to be talking about the making of “Belfast”. Because it’s such a personal story, we want to connect it to your whole journey as a storyteller. One thing that resonates really strongly about the film is the tight-knit sense of community within and among families in Belfast. Was that your experience growing…
‘BELFAST is the most personal film I have ever made. About a place and a people, I love.’ Kenneth Branagh Focus Features presents Kenneth Branagh’s BELFAST. Written and directed by Academy Award® nominee Branagh, BELFAST is the humorous, tender and intensely personal story of one boy’s childhood during the tumult of the late 1960s in…
Sporting competitions exist for the enjoyment of others but have been linked to many troubling health risks. That hasn’t stopped many events and institutions from continuing to be popular and to attract those who are willing to do whatever it takes to compete and win. Intense physical transformations are often necessary, and there may be…
It’s possible that some of the people that managed to catch Rich Peppiat’s Kneecap at its Sundance Film Festival premiere were not aware that the Irish hip-hop trio at the center of the story was a real Belfast-based hip-hop act that had been finding growing success at home and abroad. That’s because Kneecap is a…
©New Line Cinema Mirrors are superficially meant to reflect how people are physically presented to the world. However, they ultimately serve as a way for the outside world to put those steered by their emotions, including vanity, on display to be judged by others, especially those they don’t intimately know. Up-and-coming genre auteur, Ishana Night…
©Courtesy of Longride/Level 33 Entertainment England’s Lake District has a rich literary history, often involving bunny rabbits. Richard Adams’ Watership Down was set in the area, but for Kenzaburo Oshima’s wife Akiko, the Beatrix Potter connection was much more important. Her love of Peter Cottontail attracted her to Lake Windermere in her youthful student days….
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