Articles by Ian Caddell.
March 4, 2010 - 03:55 AM
Movies FeaturesJacques Audiard and Thomas Bidegain were pretty sure they had a good screenplay when they set out to get
Un Prophète (A Prophet) into production.
March 2, 2010 - 2:01 PM
Movies FeaturesHere are some of the films and people whose victories would make the show memorable. They range from sentimental favourites to locally produced talent and fortunate individuals who beat the odds just by winning a nomination.
February 11, 2010 - 01:40 AM
Movies FeaturesGarry Marshall has made 17 films, with the majority focusing on a serious relationship between two people. That approach was thrown out the window in his latest movie,
Valentine’s Day. February 4, 2010 - 05:35 AM
Movies FeaturesShe has 10 other costars from
Valentine’s Day to choose from at a news conference held in an L.A. hotel, but Julia Roberts assumes that standup comic Jamie Foxx will have something funny to say about love in Los Angeles.
February 4, 2010 - 05:25 AM
Movies FeaturesPeter Raymont had already been involved in the making of several films about high-profile men and women when he set out to make a movie about pianist Glenn Gould.
January 28, 2010 - 05:35 AM
Movies FeaturesIf you were on a city bus and you saw someone acting like Mel Gibson does when he’s trying to quit smoking, you would probably move as far away as possible.
January 28, 2010 - 05:30 AM
Movies FeaturesWinnipeg-based filmmaker Gary Yates was looking for a story about a Brinks heist when he was sent a copy of a play called
High Life.
January 21, 2010 - 05:35 AM
Movies FeaturesRay Winstone has cornered the market on Hollywood heavies but he's now out to move on from archetypes.
January 14, 2010 - 05:40 AM
Movies FeaturesBefore he made the
Lord of the Rings trilogy and
King Kong, Peter Jackson’s résumé didn’t suggest that he would ever be stereotyped as a megabudget filmmaker.
January 7, 2010 - 05:25 AM
Movies FeaturesStanley Tucci has been lucky of late.
December 23, 2009 - 06:00 AM
Movies FeaturesThe hip-hop sensation loved acting as a child, and comes full circle in the year’s most anticipated movie musical.
December 23, 2009 - 05:40 AM
Movies FeaturesHe was making a movie with a director whose own decision to work with his wife had been calamitous, but Robert Downey Jr. was excited about setting up shop for Guy Ritchie’s movie
Sherlock Holmes with his own spouse.
December 17, 2009 - 05:50 AM
Movies FeaturesIn a New York City hotel room, actor Daniel Day-Lewis says that although he was apprehensive about taking on the part of a burned out Italian filmmaker in
Nine, he could relate to it.
December 17, 2009 - 05:45 AM
Movies FeaturesAudiences can be forgiven for confusing Morgan Freeman with a certain retired world leader.
December 17, 2009 - 05:40 AM
Movies FeaturesThe last time Guy Ritchie took money from a major studio to make a film, things didn’t work out well. However, Warner Bros. Pictures decided that the British director would be the best choice to direct the latest version of
Sherlock Holmes.
December 10, 2009 - 06:35 AM
Movies FeaturesPenélope Cruz is fresh off one Oscar win (for 2008’s
Vicky Cristina Barcelona) and is being talked about as a possible two-category nominee in 2009.
December 10, 2009 - 06:30 AM
Movies FeaturesWhen Matt Damon got a script from Clint Eastwood for
Invictus, the story of how a rugby game helped to change the course of South African history, he thought as much about his height as he did about the weightiness of the material.
December 10, 2009 - 06:20 AM
Movies FeaturesIn an interview room during the Toronto International Film Festival,
Up in the Air director Jason Reitman, who was born in Montreal, says his second film had a big impact on the making of his third.
December 3, 2009 - 05:35 AM
Movies FeaturesAnna Kendrick admits that she was a little cowed by one of her
Up in the Air costars. It wasn't the one you might expect.
November 25, 2009 - 10:52 AM
Movies FeaturesRob Marshall has gone where no director has gone before—he's become the first person in motion picture history to direct a movie that can claim six Academy Award-winning actors on the day of its release.
November 19, 2009 - 05:50 AM
Movies FeaturesIn
The Blind Side, a young man with limited aspirations becomes involved in a surprising relationship with someone who is far removed from the life he lives, something singing star Tim McGraw could relate to.
November 12, 2009 - 06:05 AM
Movies FeaturesWhen Sandra Bullock read the script for
The Blind Side, she liked almost everything about it. She just wasn’t sure she wanted to work too closely with the woman whose life is portrayed in the film.
November 12, 2009 - 05:55 AM
Movies FeaturesIn the past 13 years, Roland Emmerich has spent a great deal of other people’s money.
November 5, 2009 - 05:55 AM
Movies FeaturesActor Michael Sheen had never had an inclination to be a broadcaster or a politician, but he managed to reap international acclaim for capturing David Frost and Tony Blair on film.
November 5, 2009 - 05:50 AM
Movies FeaturesIn his latest film, John Cusack plays a man whose marriage failed because he spent too much time dreaming about being a writer and not enough time with his family.
October 29, 2009 - 05:45 AM
Movies FeaturesHow do you make a movie about an enigma wrapped in a mystery? That was the task that faced Mira Nair when she signed on to direct
Amelia, the story of Amelia Earhart.
October 22, 2009 - 06:00 AM
Movies FeaturesIt’s a long way from Bellingham trailer parks to the glamour of two Academy Awards, but Hilary Swank followed a dream and it worked out for her.
October 15, 2009 - 06:00 AM
Movies FeaturesJoel and Ethan Coen revisit the Midwest and explore their faith in the semiautobiographical film
A Serious Man.
October 15, 2009 - 05:55 AM
Movies FeaturesRuba Nadda knew that if she was going to make her film
Cairo Time in the city in which it was set she would have to ignore the advice of her friend and mentor Atom Egoyan.
October 15, 2009 - 05:50 AM
Movies FeaturesForest Whitaker says that no previous role prepared him for doing the voice-over for a giant puppet in
Where the Wild Things Are.
October 8, 2009 - 05:30 AM
Movies FeaturesIt’s unlikely that fans of Maurice Sendak’s children’s book
Where the Wild Things Are had Spike Jonze’s name at the top of any list of possible directors of a film adaptation.
October 8, 2009 - 05:25 AM
Movies FeaturesRichard Kind wasn’t blown away by Joel and Ethan Coen’s script for
A Serious Man. He says that when he got to rehearsals, he realized that the part was better than it had read on the page.
October 1, 2009 - 05:40 AM
Movies FeaturesOn the surface, Clive Owen, who once seemed the natural choice to succeed Pierce Brosnan in the James Bond role, would appear to be the wrong actor to play the lead role in
The Boys Are Back.
September 24, 2009 - 06:55 AM
Movies FeaturesAt 45, Rob Lowe is not just another pretty face.
September 24, 2009 - 06:50 AM
Movies FeaturesBen Wickshaw says he was surprised when Oscar-nominated director Jane Campion told him that she wanted him to bring along some pieces of his
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer character to play the role of 19th-century poet John Keats in her film.
September 24, 2009 - 06:45 AM
Movies FeaturesFor Scott Hicks, nothing is more daunting than the day he sits down with the subject of a film he has made from a true story.
September 17, 2009 - 05:50 AM
Movies FeaturesProving that the veteran director likes to mix things up, Steven Soderbergh's new movie
The Informant! is a comedy about a whistle blower.
September 17, 2009 - 05:35 AM
Movies FeaturesThe alternate universe that Ricky Gervais and Matthew Robinson created for their film
The Invention of Lying is one in which the liar is king.
September 17, 2009 - 05:30 AM
Movies FeaturesAustralia’s Jane Campion may be considered one of the best directors in the film business, but she admits that had she been born American, it’s possible that she would have been unable to make movies.
September 10, 2009 - 05:40 AM
Movies FeaturesBritish actor Kate Beckinsale is not unfamiliar with being chased by men with murderous intentions.
September 10, 2009 - 05:35 AM
Movies FeaturesTwenty-three years after she wandered through Jim Henson’s imaginative world in
Labyrinth, Jennifer Connelly is lending her voice to an animated character for the first time.
September 3, 2009 - 06:00 AM
Movies FeaturesDustin Milligan was 18 when he left Yellowknife for “the south”.
September 3, 2009 - 05:55 AM
Movies FeaturesActor Elijah Wood was particularly excited about
9, in which he plays the title character, a living doll who wakes up to discover a postapocalyptic world that is ruled by machines.
September 3, 2009 - 05:40 AM
Movies FeaturesProducer Joel Silver's latest production
Whiteout—about Antarctic-based U.S. air force personnel who discover that there may be a killer among them—would not be the same film had it been made before the visual-effects revolution.
August 27, 2009 - 05:50 AM
Movies FeaturesWhen Liev Schreiber was offered a role in Ang Lee’s
Taking Woodstock, he could see that the part of Vilma, a gay ex–army officer who dresses in women’s clothing, could be complicated.
August 27, 2009 - 05:45 AM
Movies FeaturesJean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne may be less known in North America than Francis Ford Coppola, but Coppola and the Belgian brothers are three of the five members of one of filmmaking’s most exclusive clubs.
August 27, 2009 - 05:40 AM
Movies FeaturesAfter working in the film and television industry for almost three decades, Jason Bateman has finally become a leading man.
August 20, 2009 - 05:55 AM
Movies FeaturesInglourious Basterds filmmaker Quention Tarantino’s writing and casting process is complex.
August 20, 2009 - 05:50 AM
Movies FeaturesAfter filming six tragedies, Taiwanese-born director Ang Lee decided to take on a comedy about the iconic 1969 Woodstock concert.
August 20, 2009 - 05:40 AM
Movies FeaturesJames Spader appeared to have a lengthy career as long as he could stick to the stereotypes. However, his good looks and a starring role in 1989’s
Sex, Lies, and Videotape led Hollywood to turn his image upside down.
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