Jack Eve: “All we have is our imagination and our heart. That’s where most of our material comes from”

Remember the Academy Award-winning screen classic “All About Eve” (1950)? Well, the title seemed very appropriate to me, because after I had attended a screening of “Bees Make Honey” recently at th…

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John Hough: “I am happy to say that ‘Dirty Mary, Crazy Larry’ is one of Quentin Tarantino’s favorite films”

John Hough (b. 1941) is a filmmaker, best remembered for the work he did in the 1970s and 1980s, such as the action thriller “Dirty Mary, Crazy Larry” (1974)—which inspired Quentin Tara…

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Peter Greenaway: “The film editor is the gatekeeper to what the audience gets to see”

Peter Greenaway’s latest film “Que Viva Eistenstein!” is very much a homage to Russian filmmaker Sergei Eisenstein (1898-1948). “To me, he is the greatest film director that cinema in its 120-year …

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Guy Hamilton: “Film directors must be gentle to the viewer’s eye”

“I had the good fortune to have worked with and learned from some enormously talented people. Working on pictures with them was hugely instructive,” British film director Guy Hamilton (born in Pari…

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Sir Alan Parker: “Meryl Streep is unbelievably brilliant, she can do anything”

British film director Sir Alan Parker was the guest of honor at the latest edition of the Brussels Film Festival in June 2014. A press conference was organized at the Steigenberger Grandhotel in Br…

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