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PODCAST | Angelo Acerbi interviews André Orvedal, director of the film Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark.

Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark: The year is 1968 in the United States, and the winds of change are blowing strong, while far from the uprisings of the major urban centres lies the town of Mill Valley, over which the Bellows family has for generations cast its long shadow: in their house, located on the edges of the city, Sarah, a girl who conceals terrible secrets, has transformed her tormented existence into a series of scary stories, written in a book that has reached beyond the boundaries of time, stories that become all-too realistic for a group of young people who, on the night of Halloween, delve into Sarah’s terrifying case, to solve the mystery that surrounds several macabre deaths that have taken place in their town.

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PODCAST | Angelo Acerbi interviews Carolina Hellsgard, director of the film Sunburned.

Sunburned: Claire is on vacation with her sister Zoe and la mum Sophie at a resort in southern Spain. Abandoned by the family, Claire befriends Amram, a young street vendor of origin Senegal. With the deepening of their friendship, Claire tries to help him but accidentally ends up to exacerbate his already difficult situation. When the family organizes a trip to Morocco across the Strait of Gibraltar, Claire hides Amram in the cabin of their boat hoping desperately to have done the right thing.

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PODCAST | Sarah Bradbury interviews Alicia Vikander, actress of the film Earthquake Bird.

We hit the red carpet for the premiere of Earthquake Bird at the BFI London Film Festival. Lead actress Alicia Vikander told us why she wanted to play the role in the 1989 Japan-set film and her experience of preparing for playing the cello and speaking Japanese. Director Wash Westmoreland told us what inspired him to tell the story while actor Naoki Kobayashi explained why he wanted to be involved.

Earthquake Bird: Lucy (Vikander) is a buttoned-up, MUJI-clad translator who has been in Japan for five years and is desperate to blend in. Her reticent nature hides old scars. There’s also the fact that people around her keep dying – accidentally or otherwise. After a street encounter with hot photographer Teiji (Naoki Kobayashi), she quickly finds herself under his spell, despite all the warning signs. And the pot is stirred further when American nurse Lily (Riley Keough) – all blowsy sexual confidence and cultural naïvety – arrives in town and Lucy experiences some frightening impulses. Wash Westmoreland (Colette) has crafted a moody and intriguing update on 1980s psycho-sexual thrillers, shifting the emphasis onto the psychology of the female protagonist. Alicia Vikander is astonishing in a role that explores cultural fascination, belonging and obsession.

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PODCAST | Angelo Acerbi interviews Rian Johnson, director of the film Knives Out.

On the red carpet for the gala premiere, Rian Johnson talks about his passion for whodunit tales and Agatha Christie and the pleasure of directing such a diverse and impressive cast.

Knives Out: Murder mystery novelist Harlan Thrombey (Christopher Plummer) is a veritable one-man crime-fiction industry and his adult children – and their children – have been living off him for years. When he turns up dead, the apparent victim of a murder, it seems that no-one has a motive for killing the golden goose. At least, that’s what the detectives assigned to the case think. But Benoit Blanc (Daniel Craig) – the debonair ‘Kentucky-fried’ private investigator mysteriously hired by an anonymous source – has other ideas.

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PODCAST | Angelo Acerbi interviews Ram Bergman, producer of the film Knives Out.

Ram Bergman has been producing Rian Johnson’s films, since the beginning. Growing in budgets and in cast, every movie presents the same challenge, and the joy and the stays the same. Here the major issue has been coordinating all the actors schedule, that with a cast of 9 lead characters was not exactly a piece of cake…

Knives Out: Murder mystery novelist Harlan Thrombey (Christopher Plummer) is a veritable one-man crime-fiction industry and his adult children – and their children – have been living off him for years. When he turns up dead, the apparent victim of a murder, it seems that no-one has a motive for killing the golden goose. At least, that’s what the detectives assigned to the case think. But Benoit Blanc (Daniel Craig) – the debonair ‘Kentucky-fried’ private investigator mysteriously hired by an anonymous source – has other ideas.

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PODCAST | Sarah Bradbury interviews Sally Hawkins, actress of the film Eternal Beauty.

We hit the red carpet for the premiere of Eternal Beauty at the 63rd BFI London Film Festival. We had the privilege of speaking to British talent, Sally Hawkins, about playing June and tackling mental health on the big screen. We also spoke to director Craig Roberts about how a person in his own life with a “superpower” inspired the story and that he wrote the script specifically with Sally in mind.

Eternal Beauty: Sally Hawkins is a schizophrenic woman coping with a hallucinatory existence in Craig Roberts’ bold, sometimes hilarious and disturbing exploration of mental illness. Jilted as a young woman on her wedding day, the outsider in a fragmented family and beset with anxieties both real and imaginary, June has a life of constant struggle. Pills offer a possible solution and her relationship with vagrant musician Mike (David Thewlis) might be another. But does the medication and even love just exacerbate June’s delusional state of mind? Following his 2015 directorial debut Just Jim, Submarine star Craig Roberts’ sophomore feature is a true high-wire act, depicting the unstable perceptions of a fragile persona with delirious colour and design across ever-shifting time frames. Sally Hawkins’ fearless performance again confirms her as one of Britain’s best, and an ace supporting cast – Alice Lowe, Billie Piper, Penelope Wilton – prove equally committed to Roberts’ singular, humane vision.

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PODCAST | Angelo Acerbi interviews Imogen Poots, actress of the film Vivarium.

Imogen Poots talks with FRED Film Radio, on the red carpet for the premiere of Vivarium at the London Film Festival, about the character in the film and the shifting of many moods she has, and the construction of the chemistry with her partner Jesse Eisenberg.

Vivarium: Young professionals Gemma and Tom are looking to buy a home together. When their local estate agent informs them of a new housing development, the enigmatically named Yonder, they ignore their initial reservations and decide to check it out. But this cautious couple should have listened to their instincts, quickly finding themselves unable to escape the seemingly endless maze of picture-perfect streets. As the weeks pass, they are forced to accept they are trapped inside this manufactured utopia. Then, one day, a baby boy is mysteriously delivered to their doorstep.

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PODCAST | Angelo Acerbi interviews Jonathan Aris, actor of the film Vivarium.

Jonathan Aris talks with FRED Film Radio on the red carpet of the premiere of Vivarium at the London Film Festival; his character is the weirdest, the most disturbing and slightly frightening in the film and he tells how he built it and what inspired him.

Vivarium: Young professionals Gemma and Tom are looking to buy a home together. When their local estate agent informs them of a new housing development, the enigmatically named Yonder, they ignore their initial reservations and decide to check it out. But this cautious couple should have listened to their instincts, quickly finding themselves unable to escape the seemingly endless maze of picture-perfect streets. As the weeks pass, they are forced to accept they are trapped inside this manufactured utopia. Then, one day, a baby boy is mysteriously delivered to their doorstep.

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PODCAST | Angelo Acerbi interviews Lorcan Finnegan, director of the film Vivarium.

On the red carpet for the premiere of his film Vivarium at the London Film Festival, Lorcan Finnegan talks about the idea for such an entertaining but disturbing film and the importance of the art direction in this particular creative situation.

Vivarium: Young professionals Gemma and Tom are looking to buy a home together. When their local estate agent informs them of a new housing development, the enigmatically named Yonder, they ignore their initial reservations and decide to check it out. But this cautious couple should have listened to their instincts, quickly finding themselves unable to escape the seemingly endless maze of picture-perfect streets. As the weeks pass, they are forced to accept they are trapped inside this manufactured utopia. Then, one day, a baby boy is mysteriously delivered to their doorstep.

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PODCAST | Sarah Bradbury interviews Alejandro Landes, director of the film Monos.

We hit the red carpet and the 63rd London Film Festival to hear from the judges and recipients of the film awards for 2019. Director Alejandro Landes and producer Santiago A. Zapata told us about their winning film, Monos. Yance Ford told us about heading up the jury for documentary film, Rubika Shah explained how it felt to win for White Riot. Wash Westmoreland stopped to tell us about leading the feature film jury.

Monos: High in the mountains of South America, above the billowing clouds but with gunshots heard in the distance, a motley group of child and teenage soldiers train and wait for instruction. They stave off boredom by fucking, playing and fighting. This might be some teen rave gone feral, but for the deadly seriousness underlined by the presence of an American hostage, the Doctora. Monos has inspired feverish buzz wherever it has screened this year and comparisons to Apocalypse Now and Lord of the Flies are not off the mark in mapping out the film’s terrain. But this is also a wildly original vision from Landes and screenwriter Alexis dos Santos, referencing horrors on their own continent. The camera prowls over mud and organic decay, cutting swathes through the jungle, all to the strains of Mica Levi’s visceral score. Monos sparks with dark adrenal electricity and it’s completely, utterly thrilling.

Monos is released in UK cinemas across UK and Ireland on 25th October 2019. For more information visit the official website here, or visit the Facebook page, and find on Twitter #MONOSFILM.

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