Posts by Nathan Pine
Transport Yourself to a Pumpkin Patch With 11 Fall Candles
‘Tis the season to treat yourself to a warm cup of fall! Even if it’s quite warm where you are and a pumpkin patch isn’t in your future, you can certainly transform your space into one thanks to these fall candles. From scents that are rich with the spices of autumn, to gourmand options that…
Read More‘La Bola Negra’ Directors Talk Generational Trauma – Contenders London
Spanish directors Javier Calvo and Javier Ambrossi delved into the generational trauma behind award-winning film La Bola Negra at Deadline’s Contenders London. The feature – revolving around the interconnected stories of three gay men in 1932, 1937 and 2017 – took its cue from Alberto Conejero’s 2013 play La piedra oscura, which in turn was…
Read More‘Project Hail Mary’ DoP Says Film Was “Most Complicated” He’s Shot
Oscar-winning DoP Greig Fraser knows a thing or two about working on challenging movies, from Dune to The Batman, Rogue One to Zero Dark Thirty. At Deadline’s Contenders London event today, the in-demand cinematographer revealed that none were as challenging as Phil Lord and Christopher Miller’s space hit Project Hail Mary: “This was the most…
Read MoreMarie-Clémentine Dusabejambo On Directing Rwanda’s Oscar Submission ‘Ben’Imana’
It’s been a good year for Marie-Clémentine Dusabejambo; after directing the first Rwandan feature to be accepted into the official selection by the Cannes film festival, where she was awarded the Camera d’Or, her film Ben’Imana was recently nominated as the country’s first ever Oscar submission. Set in 2012, 18 years after the genocide against…
Read MoreI was abandoned as baby on the street during China’s one-child policy era
I grew up in Memphis, Tennessee, but my life began in China. That’s where I was abandoned at just 3 days old, left on a sidewalk in Nanchang, Jiangxi Province. For the longest time, I was told finding my birth family would be impossible. That part of my life became a closed chapter. But that…
Read MorePenélope Cruz On Working With Javier Bardem In Florian Zeller’s “Bunker”: “We Knew Florian Was Never Going To Manipulate Anything From Our Real Relationship” — Contenders London
Florian Zeller and Penélope Cruz stepped into Deadline’s Contenders event in London where the duo discussed their upcoming psychological thriller, Bunker. The film, which Zeller wrote, produced and directed, sees Cruz star as the wife of her real-life husband Javier Bardem as their characters face emotional and moral challenges in an increasingly uncertain world. Bardem…
Read MoreLéa Seydoux, Marie Kreutzer On The “Earthquake” Of ‘Gentle Monster’
Gentle Monster writer-director Marie Kreutzer and star Léa Seydoux took to the stage at Deadline’s Contenders London event to discuss the journey behind their Cannes drama. Seydoux plays Lucy, an experimental pianist who moves with her beloved but panic attack-liable husband Philip (Laurence Rupp) and young son to a rural farmhouse in Bavaria. Life seems…
Read MoreGuy Nattiv & Carrie Coon On Finding Empathy In ‘The Liberation’: “Who Are We To Say What Is Required For Someone To Move On?” — Contenders London
Writer-director Guy Nattiv and actress Carrie Coon joined Deadline’s Contenders London event today where the pair discussed making The Liberation, a very personal story inspired by real events from Nattiv’s own grandmother. The film, which Bleecker Street is releasing in in the U.S. in January, is set in the early 1980s where Rita, a depressed…
Read More‘Wildwood Director’ Travis Knight On LAIKA’s Stop-Motion Fantasy Epic
Travis Knight took to the stage at Deadline’s Contenders London event to explain just how much work had gone into making LAIKA’s new release Wildwood. Accompanied by cinematographer Caleb Deschanel, composer Dario Marianelli and costume designer Deb Cook, Knight revealed that the legendarily difficult stop-motion process did not exactly make life easy when making a…
Read MoreTrump mocks NY law replacing ‘mother’ with ‘gestating parent’
President Donald Trump mocked terminology in a New York surrogacy bill during a Friday rally in Syracuse while campaigning for Republican gubernatorial nominee Bruce Blakeman. His remarks targeted legislation passed by state lawmakers that revises wording connected to surrogacy. Speaking to the Empire State crowd at the Oncenter, he ridiculed New York legislation that replaces…
Read MoreMike Leigh On ‘Tender Loving Care’ & Whether The Film Is His Last
“It’s quite practical,” actor Kate O’Flynn concluded this morning when quizzed on working on Tender Loving Care with veteran filmmaker Mike Leigh, best known for his unique pre-production process, which includes no script and a collaborative approach to story development. O’Flynn was speaking on stage at Deadline’s London Contenders event alongside Leigh and her co-star,…
Read MoreDanny Boyle On ‘Ink’: “We Had A Siege Mentality While Making It”
At Deadline’s Contenders London event this morning, Ink director Danny Boyle has spoken about the challenges he and his film team faced making the origin story of Rupert Murdoch-owned British tabloid The Sun. The filmmaker was joined on stage by writer James Graham and actor Jack O’Connell. “We had a siege mentality while making it”,…
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