TheWrap Screening Series
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John Travolta Swears His Fans Aren’t Like His Character in ‘The Fanatic’ (Video)
Actor discusses why he “believes in fandom” and how he’s become a big fan of Pitbull
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Why ‘Invisible Life’ Director Was Compelled to Make a Portrait of His Mother’s Generation
“It talked about women that probably today who are 90 or 80 years old, and it was important to tell their stories while they are still here,” filmmaker Karim Aïnouz says
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‘I Lost My Body’ Director Didn’t Want Animated Story of a Living Severed Hand to Be Scary or Funny
“You don’t want to make ‘Addams Family,’” Jérémy Clapin says of award-winning film
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‘System Crasher’: Helena Zengel Says Being Able to Cuss Drew Her to Wild Child Role
“I thought, I’m never gonna find a girl who can play that role,” director Nora Fingscheidt tells TheWrap
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‘Les Misérables’ Director Ladj Ly on Gritty Paris Drama’s Real-Life Inspirations
“I want to tell about life there from the inside, without casting any judgement and without taking sides,” Ly said at a screening of the film
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How ‘Queen of Hearts’ Director Made a Feminist Story About a Bad Person
“What can be seen as radical or controversial about that is that we don’t have enough female characters,” filmmaker May el-Toukhy says
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‘And Then We Danced’ Filmmaker Levan Akin on Russia’s Protest of His Historic Gay Love Story
“When they offered me the role I was a little bit intimidated because of this fear from society,” star Levan Gelbakhiani said.
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How ‘Incitement’ Director Didn’t Let the Assassin Become the Film’s Hero
The Israeli drama depicts the 1995 murder of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin from the perspective of his extremist killer, Yigal Amir
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‘Retablo’ Director Was Surprised at How Peru Embraced His LGBT Story
Alvaro Delgado-Aparicio tells TheWrap that he hopes his film can break the taboos surrounding homosexuality in Peru
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‘Commitment’ Filmmaker Says ‘The Real Director’ of Turkish Drama Was an Infant Baby
“The way she was trying to communicate with us without any words directed my story and my movie,” director Semih Kaplanoglu says
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‘Instinct’s’ Halina Reijn On the Directing Advice Paul Verhoeven Gave Her
Dutch filmmaker also tells TheWrap how she made sex scenes feel safe for her actors and discusses how the film has been received
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‘Shindisi’ Director Dito Tsintsadze on Impact of Russo-Georgian War: ‘The Border Is Moving Meter by Meter’
Director speaks to TheWrap about his film set during the week-long 2008 war and the ongoing conflict
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‘Spider’ Director Left Chile Just Before Political Protests Broke Out: ‘I Will Return Tomorrow to Another Country’ (Video)
“How will we direct all that energy will be a huge challenge. But I have a lot of hope,” Andrés Wood says
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Director of ‘Wolkenbruch’ Talks About Breaking the Fourth Wall, Jewish Style
New comedy on Netflix explores cultural clashes through a narrative style used from “House of Cards” to “Deadpool”
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‘Maiden’ Star Tracy Edwards Kept Her Story ‘Messy’ to Serve the Next Generation of Women Athletes (Video)
The sailor and documentary subject avoids airbrushing the details in a “warts-and-all” tale of her historic race around the world
