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The misfits of Zwigoff: a visit to the set of Ghost World
With Ghost World, Terry 'Crumb' Zwigoff, comics auteur Daniel Clowes and Thora Birch set out to reinvent the teen movie. SF Said visited the set for our August 2000 issue.
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Mare’s Nest: Ben Rivers has produced his most hopeful film to date
By Joseph Fahim
“It’s never quite brutal enough for Chris”: The Odyssey cast reveal how they created Christopher Nolan’s epic adventure
By Lou Thomas
10 great Greek myth adaptations
By Richard Pickard
Take It Or Leave It, starring Madness, coming back to cinemas in a new restoration
Take It Or Leave It, starring Madness, coming back to cinemas in a new restoration“I use musical theory to shoot an action sequence”: an exclusive online interview with John Woo
By Matthew Thrift
How Sam Neill’s 1990s documentary Cinema of Unease reckoned with New Zealand’s film history
By Carmen Gray
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Oscar-winning cinematographer Roger Deakins and his long-time creative partner James Ellis Deakins discuss their collaboration at BFI Southbank, ahead of a screening of the Coen brothers’ Fargo.
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