NFF2012: Interview with Gergely Wootsch
Gergely Wootsch’s THIS IS NOT REAL was the “Best Animation” winner at this year’s Norwich Film Festival. We spoke to Wootsch about his influences as a scholar of the obscure, and his plans for the future.
Gergely Wootsch’s THIS IS NOT REAL was the “Best Animation” winner at this year’s Norwich Film Festival. We spoke to Wootsch about his influences as a scholar of the obscure, and his plans for the future.
MZ: Was hat Sie dazu gebracht Filme zu machen? MB: Ich glaube das war das Kino der 80 Jahre. Das erste Mal „Krieg der Sterne“ zu sehen, oder die Abenteuer der „Goonies“ und „Indiana Jones“ hat einen starken Eindruck hinterlassen. Zwar haben mich von da an Filme interessiert, aber viel mehr beschäftigt hat mich immer … Continue reading Augenblicke: Interview mit Martin Bargiel
Marc Senter featured in the CFF2011 programme as Franki in RED, WHITE AND BLUE. He’s a committed and versatile method actor, as well as a regular contributor to funnyordie.com. Mark Bullock caught up with Marc, who spent last year promoting BRAWLER and has now joined Bill Moseley on Darren Bousman’s DEVIL’S CARNIVAL project.
It’s plain to see just from the trailer that this isn’t your typical, brainless romcom – from the idiosyncratic characterisation to the humour and honesty of the script, LOVE AFTER SUNRISE shows true potential for a thinking man’s look at love.
Fun and fanciful, but never flippant, REMEMBERING FORMBY is an animated short commemorating the life and work of the fictional Formby Patterson-Wright, an anthropomorphic personification of a generic male safety sign character, reminiscent of TVGoHome’s Ted Bellingham.
CANDY CRIME, a sweet microcinematic treat, is the winner of the Norwich Film Festival 2012 One Minute Movie competition and will be the first film screened at the festival. Rosy Hunt spoke to director Ben Jacobson.
Tim Heidecker and Eric Wareheim were set to produce Tommy Wiseau’s sitcom, THE NEIGHBORS. In an interview with GQ magazine, Tim Heidecker explained why the collaboration fell through.
90 years before Švankmajer’s LITTLE OTIK set our teeth on edge, Ladislaw Starewicz took the Victorian love of whimsical taxidermy and puppet theatres, and breathed strange life into them through the new medium of stop motion.
Ten-year-old reviewer Jeremiah Humphreys strongly recommends THE MUPPET SHOW, and examines whether Jim Henson’s legacy has cross-generational appeal.
EXHIBIT A is the story of a normal family disintegrating under financial pressure, eventually driven to the unimaginable. Rosy Hunt reviews the Yorkshire based found-footage thriller and speaks to its director Dom Rotheroe.