Barbara Celis

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Interview: Michael Haneke (Funny Games U.S.)

I think if you have already seen the original it is a special case. You will see the movie because you are curious to compare. It is more an intellectual exercise than anything else for whoever knows it.

Interview: Brett Morgen (Chicago 10)

Memory is an interesting thing. All these events happened forty years ago, every defendant has written its own book about the subject and everybody remembers it in their own way. That’s why I decided to base the film entirely only primary sources..

Interview: Cao Hamburger (The Year My Parents Went on Vacation)

These two extremes could be considered metaphors for our lives. Sometimes the sky is gray but in the middle of a gray day the sun shines. This is our life, we always have dark periods but you can always find something that makes you feel happy. Politics and soccer in the movie play in that way.

Interview: Juan Antonio Bayona & Sergio Sanchez (The Orphanage)

This year, director Juan Antonio Bayona and screenwriter Sergio G. Sanchez are Spain's most talked about filmmakers. Their feature film debut, The Orphanage, has became in less than three months, the highest grossing movie in the history of Spanish cinema, let alone in the history of Spaniard horror film movies, which was almost nonexistent until a Alejandro Amenábar started the trend with thesis film almost a decade ago.

Interview: Diablo Cody (Juno)

Despite of the current strike, Diablo Cody’s skyrocketing career is one of those phenomenons that could fit perfectly into a Hollywood script: Girl without big ambitions is looking for money and takes a job as a stripper. From her experiences she writes a book, Candy Girl, a Year in the Life of an Unlikely Stripper. Then starts a blog. Some guy who would later become her manager, reads it, finds out about the book, gets it published and suggests her to try her hand at scriptwriting. She hesitates, but finally throws herself into it while working as a sex phone operator. The outcome is called Juno and

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