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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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Christian Carion: “Hitchcock taught me the grammar of making movies”

French film director Christian Carion surprised the world of movies ten years ago when he captured in his second and highly acclaimed film “Joyeux Noël” the tragedy, the madness and the hell of war…

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When you wish upon a star: Audrey Hepburn’s early years in her native Elsene, near Brussels

Audrey Hepburn was born on May 4, 1929, as Audrey Kathleen Ruston, in Elsene near Brussels. Her father, Joseph Victor Anthony Ruston (1889–1980), was of Austrian and British descent, while her moth…

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Joseph Gordon-Levitt: “If you have to say something substantially, do it with a sense of humor”

Former child actor Joseph Gordon-Levitt (b. 1981) began acting at the age of six with small roles in commercials and television, before turning into a leading actor and film director. He become kno…

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Joe Dante: “Working with actors is the joy of making movies”

Joe Dante (1946), film buff and former film journalist (including for ‘Film Bulletin’, up until 1974) who became a film director in the late 1970s, was the guest of honor at the 33rd Brussels Inter…

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Film director Jacques Feyder: Hollywood’s starmaker from—once again—Elsene, Brussels

European film directors at work in Hollywood silents, early 20th century. It was pretty common, and there were quite a bit of them who were lured to Southern California: they left their native (oft…

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Brenda Vaccaro: “Actors can bring so much that you never even thought about”

Screen, stage, and television actress Brenda Vaccaro (b. 1939), a Golden Globe and Emmy Award-winner, as well as a Tony Award and Academy Award nominee, was an instrumental and leading figure who s…

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Tobe Hooper: “I always wanted to work in the time before I was born”

The breakthrough film of American filmmaker Tobe Hooper (b. 1943), “The Texas Chain Saw Massacre” (1974), was an independent and groundbreaking thriller, and it turned out to become one of the most…

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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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Steven Knight: “Filmmaking is as close as you can get to a dream”

Screenwriter-director Steven Knight’s latest film, out now in theaters worldwide, is Sergei Bodrov’s “Seventh Son,” an action-adventure epic starring Academy Award winners Jeff Bridges and Julianne…

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