We talk to 19-year-old actress Saoirse Ronan about playing a more typical teen than she’s accustomed to in Kevin Macdonald’s “How I Live Now.” The Oscar nominee also gives us some reflections from the sets of Wes Anderson’s “The Grand Budapest Hotel” and Ryan Gosling’s “How to Catch a Monster.”
Saoirse Ronan on 'The Grand Budapest Hotel' and taking direction from Ryan Gosling
Posted by Guy Lodge · 2:30 pm · November 18th, 2013
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As Focus Features evolves, an appreciation
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 1:24 pm · October 2nd, 2013
Focus Features has announced a shift in ideology, folding in FilmDistrict and focusing on a broader cache of product. While the label isn’t dead, the identity will most certainly change. Here’s an appreciation of the best that identity produced over the last decade or more.
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Tech Support: Jacqueline Durran on playing with history (and Chanel) in 'Anna Karenina'
Posted by Guy Lodge · 11:28 am · November 23rd, 2012
The British costume designer seeks her third Oscar nod for Joe Wright’s latest
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'Les Mis' and 'Atonement' producers Tim Bevan and Eric Fellner to receive PGA's highest honor
Posted by Guy Lodge · 5:15 pm · November 14th, 2012
Will that be the only award they win from the Producers’ Guild this season?
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The Long Shot: Free to be… you and me
Posted by Guy Lodge · 3:39 pm · October 3rd, 2012
Why other awards should welcome the Academy’s calendar shift.
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Review: All the world really is a stage in adventurous, aloof 'Anna Karenina'
Posted by Guy Lodge · 6:20 pm · September 2nd, 2012
The design is dazzling, but the passion muted, in a creative adaptation of the Tolstoy tome.
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Universal Pictures and Focus Features celebrate anniversaries in 2012
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 8:57 pm · March 1st, 2012
Uni floats celebratory Blu-rays while Focus offers up a look back at performances
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Rhapsody in tweed: on the costumes of 'Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy'
Posted by Guy Lodge · 11:20 am · January 17th, 2012
BAFTA voters overruled their own costume branch by handing a Best Costume Design nomination to the soberly colored men’s suits of “Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy” — and they were right to do so.
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