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SACHAR, LOUIS: HOLES
Louis Sachar has written 20 books, but only one screenplay, and he enjoyed it so much he wants to do more, he tells Andrew L. Urban, when they meet in a bar with no drinks.
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SACHS, IRA - MARRIED LIFE
An English author in 1952 (John Bingham) wrote a novel that set in train the
story that became Ira Sachs’s latest movie, Married Life. Sachs wanted to tell a
strong story in a domestic setting – very much like Hollywood movies of the 40s
and 50s did, he explains to Andrew L. Urban during a short visit to Sydney on
the eve of the film’s Australian release.
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SACKS, DR OLIVER; AT FIRST SIGHT
We think sight and hearing are essential to be able to fully take part in this world;
not necessarily so, says Dr Oliver Sacks, whose book was the basis for the film At First
Sight. The story raises some profound questions about ‘normal’ life. He talks to
ANDREW L. URBAN.
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SALOMÉ, JEAN-PAUL – FEMALE AGENTS
The heroic women who fought alongside the men in the French Resistance during
World War II risked as much if not more than the men – but were quickly
overlooked, until now, as filmmaker Jean-Paul Salomé tells one of their stories
in Female Agents and here explains why he did it.
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SALVADORI, PIERRE - PRICELESS
Pierre Salvadori’s latest film is a romantic comedy – with a twist. And with a
central performance by Audrey Tatout as a determined golddigger. But all comedy
needs a certain degree of cruelty, Salvadori tells Bernard Payen.
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SAMUEL L. JACKSON: SHAFT
It never occurred to him that he himself might play the new Shaft in an updated version of
the 70s hit movie, but when asked, Samuel L. Jackson felt something ‘click’ into
place, he tells JENNY COONEY CARILLO.
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SAURA,CARLOS : TANGO
Carlos Saura, one of Spain's pre-eminent filmmakers, is staring an Oscar in the face as a
nominee with his film, Tango, releasing now in Australia; one the eve of the Academy
awards, PAUL FISCHER talks Tango with him
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SAURUS, SPINO – JURASSIC PARK III
Urban Cinefile sent intrepid interviewer Andrew L. Urban on
location for this exclusive conversation with the biggest star of
them all, Spino Saurus, one of the sophisticated, smart - and
deadly - dinosaurs in Jurassic Park III. They had a chat at the
catering tent... it ended badly.
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SAVILLE, MATTHEW – NOISE
He’s not a thriller director and he’s made a thriller genre film that is not
predictable – but that’s life, the writer/director of Noise, Matthew Saville,
tells Andrew L. Urban.
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SAYLES, JOHN : Men With Guns
John Sayles is one of America's most noted independent filmmakers. His latest film, Men
with Guns, is his most complex work to date, and his first to be shot in a foreign
language. The writer/director talks to PAUL FISCHER.
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SAYLES, JOHN: Limbo
John Sayles’ Limbo was selected for Competition at Cannes 1999, where the abrupt
ending shocked the audience into a few boos. (It also opened the Sydney Film festival in
1999 and divided the audience.) But Sayles is unmoved; he was consciously taking risks and
asking audiences to take risks, too. He took some time out in Cannes to explain his intent
to ANDREW L. URBAN.
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SAYLES, JOHN: Limbo (extracts)
Extracts from Andrew L. Urban’s interview with John Sayles, whose latest film,
Limbo, screened in Competition at Cannes 1999, and is the opening film for the 1999 Sydney
Film Festival (June 11). The interview will be run in full when Limbo is released commercially in
Australia later this year.
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SCACCHI, GRETA - LOOKING FOR ALIBRANDI
She was born in Italy, brought up in England, made to feel at home in Australia: Greta
Scacchi, who plays an Italian-Australian in Looking for Alibrandi, tells ANDREW L. URBAN
why she feels that way.
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SCHEPISI, FRED – LAST ORDERS
Australian director Fred Schepisi joins Andrew L. Urban at a Sydney pub for a conversation about Last Orders, his latest film about friends and friendships, life and death, love and sorrow and the whole damn thing.
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SCHEPISI, FRED: IT RUNS IN THE FAMILY
Directing Hollywood royalty like the Douglas family in their first ever movie together was a challenge for Australia’s Fred Schepisi, but the history making effort was an eye opener, he tells Andrew L. Urban.
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SCHUMACHER, JOEL: TIGERLAND
Joel Schumacher is enjoying getting smaller, he tells Alistair Harkness, after the
premiere of his latest film, Tigerland, at the London Film Festival.
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SCHWARZENEGGER, Arnie: End of Days
Arnie wanted to come back after a two year screen absence (for a bit of heart surgery)
with something big: big action, big stunts, big effects, big movie. End of Days was his
ticket - but in the end, the big star opted for a finale in which drops his gun, he
reveals at his Sydney press conference, where he admitted to ANDREW L. URBAN that no
matter what the film says, 1999 is really NOT the end of the Millenium.
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SCORSESE, MARTIN: GANGS OF NEW YORK
Martin Scorsese has wanted to make Gangs of New York for some 30 years, and now he’s done it, but the pressure and the challenge was enormous, with schedules (and phones) flying out the window at times, as Jenny Cooney Carrillo discovers, when Scorsese explains how primal is this story.
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SCOTT, JAKE: Plunkett & Macleane
First came Ridley, then brother Tony, and now there’s Jake Scott, son of the one,
nephew of the other a movie director with his own unique slant. His first feature film is
a contemporary take on a period genre, the story of 19th century highwaymen, Plunkett and
MacLeane. PAUL FISCHER spoke to the young director in Los Angeles.
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SCOTT, KEITH
You want Sylvester Stallone, Daffy Duck, Prince Charles, Gough Whitlam, Dame Edna,
a New York cabbie – or that famous moose, Bullwinkle? No problem. Get Keith Scott,
Australia’s master of mimic, with over a thousand character voices on call, who
spoke (in his own voice) to ANDREW L. URBAN.
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SEALE, JOHN – POSEIDON
Oscar winning Australian cinematographer John Seale feels rewarded by meeting
the challenges of shooting Poseidon, where his inventive contributions had a
significant impact on the production, as Andrew L. Urban discovers.
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SEALE, JOHN: COLD MOUNTAIN
Oscar winning/contender cinematographer John Seale has totally changed the way he shoots these days; he’s become “unashamedly a realist,” he tells Andrew L. Urban, talking about the making of Cold Mountain, with Nicole Kidman, Jude Law and director Anthony Minghella – who all became like family and partied a lot in the middle of Romania. Work fast, drive slow, he says, as he admits bribing his crazy driver to slow down.
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SEALE, JOHN: HARRY POTTER
He’s shot dozens of films and won an Academy Award for his work, yet
Australian cinematographer John Seale still learns something on every film – and
Harry Potter is no exception, he tells Andrew L. Urban.
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SEALE, JOHN: THE TALENTED MR RIPLEY
Australian cinematographer John Seale shot The Talented Mr
Ripley on various (gorgeous) Italian locations. He takes a low
key, pragmatic approach, avoiding cliché - preferring the light
of nature, he tells ANDREW L. URBAN.
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SEALE, JOHN; THE PERFECT STORM
Australia's Oscar winning cinematographer, John Seale, is in the middle of a
Hollywood storm - and has been for seven months, helping to make Wolfgang Petersen's
dramatic recreation of the century's Perfect Storm. Seale calmed the waters for a Saturday
afternoon chat with ANDREW L. URBAN.
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SEIDELMAN, SUSAN – BOYNTON BEACH CLUB
Susan Seidelman, best known for her film Desperately Seeking Susan, explores the
singles scene – among ageing baby boomers. The idea for the film came from real
life, via her mother Florence, who soon was made Producer of the film, Susan
explains to Andrew L. Urban.
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SEINFELD, JERRY - BEE MOVIE
He’s easily irritated, Jerry Seinfeld confesses to Sue Williams ...and then
proves it, as he speaks (loudly) about Bee Movie, his first movie as a writer
and voice actor, at the Cannes Film Festival, where the film was heavily
promoted prior to its screening
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SELKIE - THE CAST
The young stars of the Australian family yarn, Selkie, are no ordinary teenagers, as AndrewL. Urban discovered in these brief interviews.
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SELLECK, TOM : In & Out
Ex-TV action hero Tom Selleck is re-discovered as a comic actor, first in TV's Friends, and now as a gay reporter in the hit film comedy In & Out. As the film
premiered at the recent Toronto Film Festival, the gargantuan
star spoke with Paul Fischer about acting, stardom, playing a gay
character, and THAT kiss with co-star Kevin Kline.
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SEN, IVAN – BENEATH CLOUDS
It was once said location was everything in real estate investing; rising Aboriginal filmmaker Ivan Sen says the same goes for filmmaking, but in his case, the more extreme the better, he tells Andrew L. Urban as his debut feature, Beneath Clouds is released.
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SERENITY - JEWEL STAITE, ADAM BALDWIN AND GINA TORR
The stars of Serenity discuss the making of the movie – and the making of the
making of for the DVD, which is now released in Australia. That was just too
much pressure for Gina Torr.
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SEWELL, RUFUS : Dark City
The star of Dark City (currently shooting In a Savage Land in New Guinea for Bill
Bennett) doesn't mind talking about his own dark past. Rufus Sewell tells PAUL FISCHER of
his convict ancestors. And what part sex and free sandwiches played in his acting career.
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SEWELL, RUFUS: DESTINY OF HER OWN
Rufus Sewell is one actor not afraid to speak his mind. Coming up in two very different
films - A Destiny of Her Own and the re-titled The Very Thought of You, Sewell talks
frankly to PAUL FISCHER about a dark past and his feelings about films that change their
titles.
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SHADYAC, TOM: Patch Adams
Critics often hate his work but audiences love them, from the first Ace Ventura, through
to Nutty Professor, Liar Liar and now Patch Adams; former joke writer and stand up
comedian Tom Shadyac is now one of Hollywood's bigger players. PAUL FISCHER spoke to him
in Los Angeles.
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SHAKESPEARE, NICHOLAS: THE DANCER UPSTAIRS
Coincidences, connections and prescient imagination propelled the story of extremism in The Dancer Upstairs from novel to screen, as well as its author, Nicholas Shakespeare, as Andrew L. Urban discovers on meeting the man, a distant relative of the Bard.
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SHEEDY, ALLY:High Art
In a role that she describes as very close to her heart, Ally Sheedy makes a movie
comeback in Lisa Cholodenko's High Art, about a cynical and wasted art photographer
contemplating a comeback of her own. In this, her only Australian interview, Sheedy talks
to PAUL FISCHER while at the Sundance Film Festival.
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SHERIDAN, JIM: The Boxer
Jim Sheridan made quite leap from theatre to film director,
winning plaudits and Oscar nominations for his two films, My Left
Foot, and In the Name of the Father. In Australia to promote his
latest film, the romantic drama, The Boxer, Sheridan talked to
PAUL FISCHER.
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SHIRE, TALIA: The Godfather (25th Anniversary)
The Godfather made history. It also made a number of
careers, including that of the director’s sister: Talia
Shire, speaking exclusively to PAUL FISCHER on the eve of its 25th
Anniversary re-release in August 1997, says it could never be
made again.
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SILENT PARTNER: Field and Tsilimidos
Silent Partner has quickly become a festival favourite, in
Australia and internationally. Perhaps it’s because despite
its modest budget, it is an unexpected film about two mates.
Andrew L. Urban talks to actor David Field and director Alkinos
Tsilimidos.
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SILVER, JOEL – THE PROCESS MAN
Joel Silver is a producer of big films. At last count, 32 of them, including four
Lethal Weapons and three Die Hards. He is master of the filmmaking ‘process’.
When Silver visited The Matrix set at Fox Studios in Sydney (on the eve of Lethal Weapon 4
opening here), he told ANDREW L. URBAN that these days, the Hollywood
studios are the ‘auteurs’.
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SILVERSTONE, ALICIA: Blast from the Past
At just 22 Alicia Silverstone is already a veteran of film and TV. Mature,
intelligent and outspoken, Silverstone talks to PAUL FISCHER about her thoughts on
love, her latest film and why she hated doing Batman and Robin.
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SIMS, JEREMY – LAST TRAIN TO FREO
Actor and theatre director Jeremy Sims makes his feature film debut with Last
Train to Freo, a tense psychological drama on board a midnight suburban train –
it’s a ride that promises to take him places. He chose it because it is a half
way house between cinema and theatre, Sims tells Andrew L. Urban.
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SINGTON, DAVID - IN THE SHADOW OF THE MOON
Man’s landing on the moon was a spectacular technical and scientific
achievement – but David Sington wanted to show the emotional, human side, as he
gets the astronauts to recall how they felt, not just what they did, he tells
Andrew L. Urban.
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SIVES, JAMIE: WILBUR WANTS TO KILL HIMSELF
In Jamie Sives’ first leading role, he plays the suicidal Wilbur, in Lone Scherfig’s quirky romantic comedy set in Glasgow, about two brothers and a young woman who changes their lives. But Sives had to criss-cross Europe to meet up with Scherfig and land the role, he explains to Andrew L. Urban.
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SKUBISZEWSKI , CEZARY: PROFILE
Perhaps the most marked demonstration of Cezary Skubiszewski’s musical versatility is that The Rage In Placid Lake comes hot on the heels of his score for the superb television mini-series, After The Deluge. The poignant story of an Alzheimer’s sufferer who had once been a concert violinist, it required a classically nuanced score at practically the opposite end of the stylistic spectrum. Brad Green profiles one of Australia’s most gifted and hard working screen composers.
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SLADE, DAVID – 30 DAYS OF NIGHT
English director David Slade started his career with a bang at the 2005 Sundance
Film Festival and the success of his acclaimed feature, Hard Candy. In his
second motion picture, 30 Days of Night, Slade has chosen to delve into another
side of fear and in the process has reinvented the image of the vampire. By R.
Cowan.
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SLAVIERO, ROBERT
Hoyts, now owned by Kerry Packer, has re-launched its film distribution operation
under Robert Slaviero, who [as he flies off to the AFM on a buying mission] tells Andrew
L. Urban he has helped release some films he thought were dreadful – but successful.
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SLETAUNE, PAL: Junk Mail
Norwegian filmmaker Pal Sletaune has made his first feature
film about a fictional postman but the character came first and
the occupation second, he tells PAUL FISCHER.
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SLUTSKY, ALLAN – STANDING IN THE SHADOWS OF MOTOWN
One of his best friends left Allan Slutsky “a going away present on the way up to heaven,” he tells Andrew L. Urban: a chance to have Slutsky’s story about the little known but legendary Funk Brothers put onto film, Standing In The Shadows Of Motown.
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SMITH, KEVIN: Chasing Amy
One of the big hits at this year's Sundance Film Festival was
Chasing Amy - the story of a comic book artist who falls in love
with a lesbian. It's the third and most successful film for
writer/director Kevin Smith who breaks new ground with this
unusual slant on a popular genre. At the Festival, PAUL FISCHER
spoke to director Smith as well as the film's hot new stars, Joey
Lauren Adams and Ben Affleck for some personal observations on
this film.
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SMITH, CLINTON: SAMPLE PEOPLE
What was nearly a $60,000 mistake turned into a feature film co-starring Kylie Minogue
and a group of great actors, directed by newcomer Clinton Smith, who tells ANDREW L. URBAN
how it came about.
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SMITH, MEL: BEAN
Mel Smith is best known for his hilarious on-screen jibes
in such landmark television shows as the classic Not the Nine
O'Clock News and Alas Smith and Jones. But the chubby-faced comic
is now busy behind the camera, teaming up with TV alumni Rowan
Atkinson to directed Bean - the movie. Mel Smith talks to PAUL
FISCHER.
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SMITH, WILL: ALI
When he began training for the role of Muhammad Ali, he was told that it was for real:
actors should go home. But he persevered and overcame the pain threshold and it made him a
better man. And then one day he dropped a guy in the ring and felt his ‘fangs
grow’. Andrew L. Urban meets Will Smith.
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SOBIESKI, LEELEE : Soldier's Daughter Never Cries
It was meant to be…14 year old Leelee Sobieski’s life was like a rehearsal
for her role as Channe in A Soldier’s Daughter Never Cries, she tells PAUL FISCHER.
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SODERBERGH, STEVEN : Out of Sight
With his award-winner "sex, lies and videotape", Steven Soderbergh emerged as
one of the freshest and most distinctive voices in American film. Even at his most
mainstream - such as his latest film Out of Sight - Soderbergh has been able to maintain a
distinct perspective on the American dream. He spoke exclusively to PAUL FISCHER in Los
Angeles.
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SODERBERGH, STEVEN – BUBBLE
The title, Bubble, just popped into his head in one of those creative mysteries,
but the making of the film was very down to earth - a direct descendant of his
iconic debut, sex, lies and videotape, Steven Soderbergh tells Andrew L. Urban.
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SORVINO, MIRA: At First Sight
Mira Sorvino is one of Hollywood's hot properties. Starring opposite Val Kilmer in
the romantic drama At First Sight, Sorvino also stars in Spike Lee's drama, Summer of Sam.
PAUL FISCHER spoke to her in Los Angeles' perennially lush Four Seasons Hotel.
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SPACEY, KEVIN: ALBINO ALLIGATOR
Academy Award winning actor and first-time director Kevin Spacey (pictured with Faye Dunaway) in Australia to promote his film Albino Alligator, gave a polished performance at his press conference in Brisbane, with his engaging
manner and an obvious enthusiasm for his art. DAVID EDWARDS
reports:
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SPENCER, MEGAN - REVELATION FILM FESTIVAL 2007
Incoming Artistic Director Megan Spencer is energised by taking the reins for
the 10th Revelation Film Festival, of which she has always been a big fan. She
tells Urban Cinefile about her dedication to this milestone event, which
champions risk taking filmmakers.
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SPIELBERG, STEVEN: A.I
Making AI, Steven Spielberg had two stories to tell: his own and that of the late Stanley
Kubrick, who conceived the project. The director tells Jenny Cooney Carrillo how he walked
the line.
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SPIELBERG, STEVEN: MINORITY REPORT
It’s got to be either selfish pleasures, or something worthwhile to say that drives Steven Spielberg’s film decisions, he tells Jenny Cooney Carrillo, on the eve of the Australian release of his latest film, Minority Report (selfish pleasure) – which explores whether we are in full control of our lives or is there a destiny already mapped out for us.
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SPIELMAN, DAN – ONE PERFECT DAY
Dan Spielman’s feature film debut starring in One Perfect Day began with a spiritual meeting and continued with a supportive but brutally direct director, ending with Spielman’s scepticism about filmmaking turning to excitement at its opportunities, as Andrew L. Urban discovers.
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SPIERIG, PETER AND MICHAEL: UNDEAD
The young Spierigs’ debut feature, Undead, breathes life into the neglected horror genre in Australian filmmaking, the work of twins Peter and Michael who are like clones in synch, thinking and working as one, as Andrew L. Urban discovers when he meets them.
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SPINER,BRENT : Star Trek Insurrection
He was voted King of the Nerds at high school, but Star Trek's favourite humanoid,
Data, managed to make the leap from musical theatre to the USS Enterprise, in one fell
swoop. PAUL FISCHER was given an audience with His Nerdic Majesty.
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SPURLOCK, MORGAN – WHERE IN THE WORLD IS OSAMA BIN LADEN?
Spurred on by the success of Supersize Me, Morgan Spurlock set off on a Middle
East adventure in search of Osama bin Laden – and found more than he expected,
he tells Andrew L. Urban.
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STAMP, TERENCE: THE LIMEY
Andrew L. Urban had coffee at Bondi Beach with Terence Stamp, on the eve of the Australian
release for the highly acclaimed The Limey, in which Stamp plays a the chap he played in
Poor Cow – only 35 years older and wiser. Then he’s off again to breach the fear
barrier.
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STANGE, MAYA: GARAGE DAYS
The usually cerebral philosophy student and actor Maya Stange discovers her foxy side in Garage Days, she admits to Andrew L. Urban, and also finds herself less obsessive about her work, as she heads for Los Angeles.
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STANTON, ANDREW & UNKRICH, LEE : FINDING NEMO
Writer/director Andrew Stanton found Nemo in a book and sent him on an adventure from the Great Barrier Reef to Sydney Harbour – all inside a stack of computers at California’s Pixar Animation, with the help of co-director Lee Unkrich. The pair made a very real visit to Sydney to talk about their new film, with Andrew L. Urban.
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STATE OF PLAY – KEVIN MACDONALD INSIDER BRIEFING
State of Play was to star Brad Pitt and Ed Norton – but fate intervened and
instead, it’s Ben Affleck and Russell Crowe – who surprised director Kevin
Macdonald with the lengths to which he went in creating his character, as
Macdonald explains in this Q&A.
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STAUNTON, IMELDA - TAKING WOODSTOCK
Oh no, she cried when she got the script for Taking Woodstock, but it was a
challenge and she had to do it, says Imelda Staunton, who plays the grumpy mum
to the young man who cut the deal to have the legendary music festival in their backyard.
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STENDERS, KRIV – LUCKY COUNTRY
The irony of its title gives Lucky Country a texture that begins with its
unexpected use of a dark Australian landscape that subverts the usual image of
this country, as director Kriv Stenders explains to Andrew L. Urban.
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STEWART, ROB – SHARK WATER
Documenting the plight of sharks at the hands of organised criminals hunting
them for their fins has turned photographer Rob Stewart into a filmmaker – and
revolutionary, he tells Andrew L. Urban
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STILLER, BEN AND WILSON, OWEN alias STARSKY AND HUTCH
Good friends and frequent big-screen collaborators Owen Wilson and Ben Stiller recreate Starsky & Hutch on the big screen. If you don’t know what that is, you weren’t watching TV in the 70s. Jenny Cooney Carrillo checks out the new versions and discovers they played it like the actors who were fired from the pilot episode.
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STILLER, BEN: MEET THE PARENTS
Real life invaded his movie life when Ben Stiller was shooting Meet the Parents with
Robert DeNiro: his personal version was easier, he tells Jenny Cooney Carillo.
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STILLER, BEN: Zero Effect
He confesses to being lazy, but in Zero Effect comic actor
Ben Stiller plays a smart lawyer – nothing like his real
persona: PAUL FISCHER met the actor in Los Angeles.
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STILLMAN, WHIT : Last Days of Disco
Writer/director Whit Stillman discusses disco with PAUL FISCHER, in a chat about his
latest film, The Last Days of Disco.
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STONE, SHARON - CASINO ON DVD
Sharon Stone recalls working on Casino with Robert De Niro, Joe Pesci and James Woods, in a role for which she won her one Oscar nomination. Best of all, she loved working with men who had the balls to be bad and dangerous on screen, she tells John Millar.
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STONE, SHARON: The Mighty
She's been described as powerful, ballsy and intellectual - and remains one of Hollywood's
most influential stars, as PAUL FISCHER discovered when he had a rare opportunity to meet
her in Los Angeles for this intimate view of the woman and the actress.
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STORARO, VITTORIO: APOCALYPSE NOW REDUX
Oscar winning cinematographer of Apocalypse Now, Vittorio Storaro, tells Andrew L.
Urban how he danced for Marlon Brando – and how he danced for joy at the chance to
restore and complete the film for its Redux release.
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STRATTON, DAVID – I PEED ON FELLINI
Peeing on Fellini was accidental, but it when he peed on Australia’s censorship
regime in the 1960s, it was entirely deliberate, David Stratton tells Andrew L.
Urban on the publication of his memoirs.
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STURGESS, JIM: 21 - HE GOT GAME
Keeping a couple of smuggled Cuban cigars going was difficult for both the
real man and the actor who portrays him on screen, 21 star Jim Sturgess. But
that helped to develop their bond as Robert Newton discovers.
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STYRON, SUSANNA: Shadrach
Unable to forget the short story, Shadrach, by her father, Susanna Styron has finally
turned it into a film after she had herself become a parent and went about casting it
against type, she explains to PAUL FISCHER.
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SWAIN, DOMINQUE: LOLITA
As the political climate hots up around the release of Adrian Lyne's Lolita, its star,
18 year old Dominque Swain is fiercely defensive of the film and its position against
paedophilia. She speaks from her Malibu home to LOUISE KELLER.
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SZABO, ISTVAN - BEING JULIA
Legendary Hungarian director István Szabó, who won an Oscar in 1982 for Mephisto, has made films in English before. But Being Julia, based on a short novel by Somerset Maugham, is his first comedy. Nick Roddick talks to him about timing, working from someone else’s screenplay - and the difference between a soufflé and a cake.
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SZABÓ, ISTVÁN: SUNSHINE
Moral responsibility is undeniably one of the great issues of modern Europe
(indeed, the world) and Szabó István addresses it in a powerful, moving and epic drama
starring Ralph Fiennes, ironically titled Sunshine. Strangely, though, it was not a
cathartic experience, he tells fellow Hungarian, Urbán András.
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SZABÓ, ISTVÁN: TAKING SIDES
Taking Sides explores how artists cope with living in a dictatorship that is anathema to art itself, renowned Hungarian director István Szabó tells Andrew L. Urban, a subject of eternal fascination for the filmmaker, who is familiar with the subject first hand.
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SZAPIRO, DEBORAH: JAPANIME 2002
Animation is not just for kids, and it offers filmmakers a different set of values to work with; for Japanese animators, it is full of subtexts and symbols, as Japanime 2002 curator Debora Szapiro tells Andrew L. Urban, and comes direct from the imagination. (Pic. Spirited Away)
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