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      • One Cut of the Dead
      • One Day
      • Two Days, One Night
      • 3D Sex and Zen: Extreme Ecstasy
      • 7 Days In Havana
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      • Seven Swords
      • 009 Re: Cyborg
      • 11 Minutes
      • 12 Years A Slave
      • 13
      • 24 Weeks
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      • '71
      • 99 Homes
      • 300: Rise Of An Empire
      • 303
      • 20,000 Days On Earth
      • 8 Million Ways to Die
    • A >
      • A Bigger Splash
      • A Bronx Tale
      • A Cat In Paris
      • A Few Best Men
      • A Field In England
      • A Ghost Story
      • A Hard Day
      • A Lonely Place to Die
      • A Love Song
      • A Man's Flower Road
      • A Million Ways To Die In The West
      • A Monster Calls
      • A Prayer Before Dawn
      • A Second Chance
      • A Separation
      • A Single Shot
      • A Spanking in Paradise
      • A Thousand Times Good Night
      • A Walk Among The Tombstones
      • A White, White Day
      • Abduction
      • About Ray
      • Act of Valour
      • African Cats
      • Afro Samurai
      • After the Wedding
      • Alice Through the Looking Glass
      • All In Good Time
      • Alleluia
      • Allied
      • American Heist
      • American Pie: Reunion
      • Ana, Mon Amour
      • Anarchy
      • Anchor and Hope
      • Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues
      • Angelica
      • Animal Kingdom
      • Animals
      • Anna Karenina
      • Anomalisa
      • Ant-Man
      • Arctic
      • Argo
      • Arrival
      • Asako I & II
      • Avengers: Age of Ultron
    • B >
      • Baby Driver
      • Babycall
      • Bacurau
      • Bad Neighbours
      • Bad Words
      • Bait
      • Banshee Chapter
      • Barbara
      • Barrage
      • Barry
      • Bastards
      • Bastille Day
      • Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice
      • Beasts Of The Southern Wild
      • Beatriz at Dinner
      • Beauty And The Beast
      • Bee Movie
      • Before Midnight
      • Before We Go
      • Belle
      • Benny & Jolene
      • Berlin Syndrome
      • Big Eyes
      • Big Game
      • Big Hero 6
      • Bitch
      • Black 47
      • Black Coal, Thin Ice
      • Black Eagle (R2B: Return To Base)
      • Black Panther
      • Black Rain
      • Black Sea
      • Black Sheep
      • Blackfish
      • Blackhat
      • Blade of the Immortal
      • Bleed for This
      • Blue Is The Warmest Colour
      • Bobby Fischer Against the World
      • Boca
      • Bodies Bodies Bodies
      • Bones and All
      • Bonsai
      • Boomerang Family
      • Border
      • Borgia
      • Boyhood
      • Brave
      • Brawl in Cell Block 99
      • Breaking Bad
      • Breakup Buddies
      • Breathe In
      • Breathing
      • Brian and Charles
      • Bridesmaids
      • Bright Nights
      • Britain from Above
      • Broken City
      • Bullhead
      • Bunraku
      • Burning
      • Bushwick
    • C >
      • Caesar Must Die
      • Cafe De Flore
      • Cake
      • Calvary
      • Can A Song Save Your Life?
      • Candy
      • Captain America: Civil War
      • Captain America: The Winter Soldier
      • Captain Phillips
      • Carrie Pilby
      • Carnage
      • Casa De Mi Padre
      • Cashback
      • Castle in the Sky
      • Catfight
      • Central Intelligence
      • Chasuke's Journey
      • Chef
      • Chrysalis
      • Cinderella
      • Cleopatra
      • Climax
      • Close Encounters of the Third Kind
      • Clouds of Sils Maria
      • Coin Locker Girl
      • Cold Eyes
      • Cold In July
      • Cold War
      • Collective Invention
      • Colonia
      • Color Out of Space
      • Colossal
      • Comes A Bright Day
      • Compliance
      • Computer Chess
      • Conan the Barbarian
      • Confession Of A Child Of The Century
      • Contraband
      • Corporate Animals
      • Cowboys and Aliens
      • Crazy, Stupid, Love
      • Crown Heights
      • Crying Fist
      • Crystal Swan
      • Cuban Fury
      • Cuckoo
      • Cyber City Oedo 808
    • D >
      • Daddy's Home
      • Damsel
      • Dangerous Liaisons (2012)
      • Dark River
      • Darkest Hour
      • Dawn Of The Planet Of The Apes
      • Days of Heaven
      • Day Watch
      • Dead Snow 2: Red Vs Dead
      • Dear Prudence
      • Death Proof
      • Death Watch
      • Deep End
      • Deerskin
      • Delicacy
      • Demolition
      • Dennis Rodman's Big Bang in Pyongyang
      • Deranged
      • Desierto
      • Despicable Me 2
      • Destroyer
      • Detachment
      • Devil's Knot
      • Dheepan
      • Dirty Grandpa
      • Disobedience
      • Disorder
      • Disturbia
      • Divines
      • Django
      • Django Unchained
      • Dogman
      • Don Jon
      • Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far on Foot
      • Dora or the Sexual Neuroses of Our Parents
      • Double Impact
      • Downsizing
      • Dreamgirls
      • Dreileben
      • Drive
    • E >
      • Eagle vs. Shark
      • Earth 2
      • Earth To Echo
      • Earthquake Bird
      • Elephant Song
      • Elite Squad: The Enemy Within
      • Elles
      • Elysium
      • Ema
      • Empire of the Sun
      • End Of Watch
      • End of Winter
      • Ender's Game
      • Entanglement
      • Epic
      • Equals
      • Escobar: Paradise Lost
      • Essential Killing
      • Europa Report
      • Euthanizer
      • Even The Rain
      • Every Thing Will Be Fine
      • Exodus: Gods and Kings
      • Eye in the Sky
    • F >
      • Fading Gigolo
      • Far From the Madding Crowd
      • Farewell To The King
      • Fast & Feel Love
      • Fast & Furious 6
      • Fast & Furious 7
      • Fast Girls
      • Fear And Desire
      • Felicite
      • Felony
      • Final Destination 5
      • Final Portrait
      • Fist of Legend
      • Flight
      • Flu
      • Flyboys
      • For Ellen
      • Forgetting Sarah Marshall
      • Frances Ha
      • Francine
      • Frank
      • Free Agents
      • Free Birds
      • Free Men
      • Fright Night
      • From Up On Poppy Hill
      • Frozen
      • Fuck For Forest
      • Fukushima, Mon Amour
      • Funny Cow
    • G >
      • Gang Story
      • Gemini Man
      • Genius
      • Gimme The Loot
      • Goat
      • God Bless America
      • Godzilla
      • Golden Exits
      • Good Kill
      • Grave of the Fireflies
      • Great Expectations
      • Gravity
      • Green Room
      • Grindhouse Trailer Classics 3
      • Guilty of Romance
      • Guns & Talk
    • H >
      • Hacksaw Ridge
      • Haemoo
      • Hammer Of The Gods
      • Happy Feet Two
      • Happy New Year, Colin Burstead
      • Happy People
      • Hardcore
      • Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Part 2
      • Headshot
      • Heavenly Creatures
      • Hell
      • Hellboy II: The Golden Army
      • Hemel
      • Her
      • Hereditary
      • Hide And Seek
      • Hill of Freedom
      • Hitchcock
      • Hollywoo
      • Holy Rollers
      • Homefront
      • Hope Springs
      • Horns
      • Horrible Bosses 2
      • Hostel: Part II
      • Hostiles
      • How I Spent My Summer Vacation
      • How to Re-Establish a Vodka Empire
      • How to Train Your Dragon
      • Hyena
      • Hysteria
    • I >
      • I Could Never be Your Woman
      • I Lost My Body
      • I Love You, Daddy
      • I Saw the Devil
      • I Saw the Light
      • I, Tonya
      • I'm So Excited
      • If Beale Street Could Talk
      • Immortals
      • In Darkness
      • In Fabric
      • In Order Of Disappearance
      • In Search of a Midnight Kiss
      • In the Aisles
      • In The Bedroom
      • In the Heart of the Sea
      • In the Name of the King: A Dungeon Siege Tale
      • Inside Llewyn Davis
      • Inside Out
      • Insyriated
      • Interstellar
      • Ip Man 3
      • Iron Man 3
      • Isle of Dogs
      • It Follows
    • J >
      • J. Edgar
      • Jack Goes Boating
      • Jack Reacher
      • Jackie
      • Jackpot
      • Jayne Mansfield's Car
      • Jersey Boys
      • Jin
      • Jiro Dreams Of Sushi
      • John Dies At The End
      • Joker
      • Jonathan
      • Journey's End
      • Journeyman
      • Juan Of The Dead
      • Jupiter's Moon
      • Just Do It
    • K >
      • Kaboom
      • Kenny
      • Khodorkovsky
      • Kick-Ass 2
      • Kill List
      • Kings
      • Klokkenluider
      • Klown
      • Knight of Cups
      • Knives Out
      • Kodachrome
      • Kosmos
      • Kumiko, The Treasure Hunter
      • Kundo: Age Of The Rampant
    • L >
      • La Belle Epoque
      • La La Land
      • La Piscine
      • Lady Bird
      • Lady Chatterley
      • Lara
      • Largo Winch: Deadly Revenge
      • Largo Winch: The Burma Conspiracy
      • Las Acacias
      • Last Flag Flying
      • Last Night
      • Last Vegas
      • Laurence Anyways
      • Le Havre
      • Le Mans '66 / Ford v Ferrari
      • Le Week-End
      • Learning to Drive
      • Leave No Trace
      • Legend of the Fist: The Return of Chen Zhen
      • Les Affames
      • Les Miserables
      • Lethal Weapon
      • Liberal Arts
      • Life Of Crime
      • Life Of Pi
      • Like Father, Like Son
      • Limitless
      • Lincoln
      • Lion
      • Logan
      • Lone Survivor
      • Looper
      • Lore
      • Love & Mercy
      • Love Crime
      • Love Is All You Need
      • Love Punch
      • Loveless
      • Loving
      • Lucky Them
      • Lust, Caution
    • M >
      • Mad Max: Fury Road
      • Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted
      • Madeline's Madeline
      • Maggie's Plan
      • Magic Trip
      • Maleficent
      • Man Of Steel
      • Man Up
      • Manchester by the Sea
      • Manhunt
      • Maps To The Stars
      • Marjorie Prime
      • Marrowbone
      • Mary Goes Round
      • May the Devil Take You
      • McCullin
      • Me and Orson Welles
      • Me And You
      • Medusa Deluxe
      • Mercy
      • Metallica Through The Never
      • Michael Clayton
      • Midnight Special
      • Miles Ahead
      • Minions
      • Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol
      • Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation
      • Mister John
      • Moana
      • Molly's Game
      • Monsieur Lazhar
      • Monsters University
      • More
      • Morris from America
      • Mother And Child
      • Mr. Brooks
      • Mr Holmes
      • Mr Long
      • Mr. Nobody
      • Much Ado About Nothing
      • Muppets Most Wanted
      • Museo
      • My Days of Mercy
      • My Entire High School Sinking Into the Sea
      • My Friend Dahmer
      • My Great Night
      • My Neighbour Totoro
      • My Neighbours The Yamadas
      • My Soul to Take
      • My Voyage to Italy
      • My Way
      • Mystery Science Theatre 3000: The Movie
    • N >
      • Nasty Baby
      • Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind
      • Need For Speed
      • Never Goin' Back
      • New World
      • News from Planet Mars
      • Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb
      • Nightbirds
      • Nightcrawler
      • Nim's Island
      • Nina Forever
      • No
      • No Escape
      • No One Lives
      • Noah
      • Nocturnal Animals
      • Norman
      • Nostalgia For The Light
      • Nymphomaniac Volume 1
      • Nymphomaniac Volume 2
    • O >
      • Olympus Has Fallen
      • On Body and Soul
      • On Chesil Beach
      • Once
      • Only God Forgives
      • Oranges and Sunshine
      • Orion
      • Our Little Sister
      • Out Of The Furnace
      • Outrage Beyond
      • Outside In
    • P >
      • Pacific Rim
      • Papillon
      • Passport To Pimlico
      • Patti Cake$
      • Penguins of Madagascar
      • Perfect Sense
      • Pete's Dragon
      • Petra
      • Phoenix
      • Ping Pong
      • Piranha
      • Planes
      • Planet Terror
      • Pokemon Detective Pikachu
      • Polisse
      • Populaire
      • Porco Rosso
      • Possession
      • Potiche
      • Powder Room
      • Preggoland
      • Prince Avalanche
      • Princess Mononoke
      • Project Nim
      • Project X
      • Punishment Park
      • Pusher
    • Q >
      • Queen of Earth
      • Queen of the Desert
      • Quest For Fire
    • R >
      • R100
      • Racer and the Jailbird
      • Raid on Entebbe
      • Ran
      • Ratatouille
      • Ready Player One
      • Real Steel
      • [REC] 3 Genesis
      • Red 2
      • Red Dawn
      • Red White & Blue
      • Renoir
      • Requiem For A Killer
      • Requiem For A Village
      • Reservation Road
      • Resistance
      • Results
      • Return to Montauk
      • Revenge Of The Electric Car
      • Revivre
      • Revolution
      • Revolutionary Road
      • Riddick
      • Rise of the Planet of the Apes
      • Roman J. Israel, Esq.
      • Romantics Anonymous
      • Rurouni Kenshin 2: Kyoto Inferno
      • Rurouni Kenshin 3: The Legend Ends
      • Rush
      • Rust And Bone
    • S >
      • Safe
      • Safe House
      • Saint Amour
      • Salmon Fishing In The Yemen
      • Salt and Fire
      • Salt of Life
      • Samsara
      • Savages
      • Sawako Decides
      • Season of the Witch
      • See [seasons 1-2]
      • Seeking A Friend For The End Of The World
      • Selma
      • Shadow
      • She's Funny That Way
      • Shepherds and Butchers
      • Sherlock Holmes - A Game of Shadows
      • Short Term 12
      • Shotgun Stories
      • Sightseers
      • Simon Killer
      • Sing
      • Sister
      • Skate Kitchen
      • Sleeping with Other People
      • Sleuth
      • Small Apartments
      • Snitch
      • Snowpiercer
      • Snowtown
      • Sonatine
      • Son of a Gun
      • Son of Saul
      • Soul Surfer
      • Source Code
      • Southern Comfort
      • Soy Nero
      • Spartacus: Vengeance
      • Spartacus: War Of The Damned
      • Special Forces
      • SPL 2: A Time for Consequences
      • Spooks: The Greater Good
      • Spoor
      • Spotlight
      • Spring
      • Spy
      • Stake Land
      • Stalingrad
      • Stan & Ollie
      • Star Trek Beyond
      • Star Trek Into Darkness
      • Starbuck
      • Strange Weather
      • Submarine
      • Suite Francaise
      • Summer In February
      • Sunshine On Leith
      • Super
      • Superbad
      • Superman Returns
      • Sweet Country
      • Synchronic
    • T >
      • Taken 2
      • Taking Off
      • Tales from Earthsea
      • Tatsumi
      • Taxi
      • Taxi: Season 1
      • Ted
      • Terminator 2: Judgment Day
      • Terminator Genisys
      • Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles
      • Testament of Youth
      • Tetsuo: The Iron Man
      • That Awkward Moment
      • Therese Desqueyroux
      • They Came Together
      • Things to Come
      • This Is The End
      • Thor: The Dark World
      • Thoroughbreds
      • Those Happy Years
      • Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
      • Three Christs
      • Throne of Blood
      • Tiger Girl
      • Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
      • Tiny Furniture
      • Tokyo Ga
      • Tokyo Godfathers
      • Tokyo Tribe
      • Tomboy
      • Tomorrowland
      • Toni Erdmann
      • Total Recall
      • Tragedy Girls
      • Train to Busan
      • Trance
      • Transformers
      • Transformers: Age Of Extinction
      • Transit
      • Transit [2018]
      • Trespass Against Us
      • Triangle
      • Triangle of Sadness
      • Troll Hunter
      • Tron: Legacy
      • Truman
      • Tumbbad
      • Two Lovers and a Bear
    • THE >
      • The Amateurs
      • The Arbor
      • The Assault
      • The Autopsy of Jane Doe
      • The Avengers
      • The Awakening
      • The Baader-Meinhof Complex
      • The Bacchus Lady
      • The Bad Batch
      • The Ballad of Narayama
      • The Bar
      • The Bay
      • The Baytown Outlaws
      • The Be All And End All
      • The Beaver
      • The Belko Experiment
      • The Beloved
      • The Berlin File
      • The Big Sick
      • The Bookshop
      • The Boy and the Beast
      • The Brawler
      • The Breadwinner
      • The Breaker Upperers
      • The Cabin In The Woods
      • The Captain
      • The Castle of Cagliostro
      • The Cat Returns
      • The Chamber
      • The Children Act
      • The Climb
      • The Cobbler
      • The Commune
      • The Conjuring 2
      • The Counsellor
      • The Croods
      • The Current War
      • The Danish Girl
      • The Daughter
      • The Day After
      • The Dead
      • The Debt
      • The Devil's Double
      • The Dinner
      • The Dinosaur Project
      • The Doom Generation
      • The Drummond Will
      • The Dyatlov Pass Incident
      • The East
      • The Edge of Seventeen
      • The Evil in Us
      • The Expendables 3
      • The Extraordinary Adventures of Adele Blanc-Sec
      • The Fake
      • The Family Fang
      • The Farewell
      • The Favourite
      • The Fighter
      • The Five Year Engagement
      • The Front Runner
      • The Girl
      • The Girl in the Photographs
      • The Good Dinosaur
      • The Grand Heist
      • The Grandmaster
      • The Greasy Strangler
      • The Great Beauty
      • The Greatest Movie Ever Sold
      • The Guest
      • The Guilty
      • The Gunman
      • The Hateful Eight
      • The Heiresses
      • The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies
      • The House That Jack Built
      • The Housemaid
      • The Hunger Games
      • The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1
      • The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 2
      • The Hunter
      • The Huntsman: Winter's War
      • The Iceman
      • The Imitation Game
      • The Incredible Jessica James
      • The Informer
      • The Innkeepers
      • The Interrupters
      • The Intervention
      • The Judge
      • The Keeper Of Lost Causes
      • The Killer Inside Me
      • The King
      • The Last Stand
      • The Legend of Bruce Lee
      • The Lighthouse
      • The Little House
      • The Little Tailor
      • The Lives of Others
      • The Lone Ranger
      • The Look Of Love
      • The Lost Okoroshi
      • The Man from Nowhere
      • The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
      • The Mercy
      • The Mind's Eye
      • The Miseducation of Cameron Post
      • The Mist
      • The Molly Dineen Collection Volume Three
      • The Motive
      • The Mule
      • The Muppets
      • The Necessary Death Of Charlie Countryman
      • The Nice Guys
      • The Nightingale
      • The Northman
      • The Numbers Station
      • The Other Side of Hope
      • The Overnight
      • The Panic in Needle Park
      • The Party
      • The Patriarch
      • The Place Beyond The Pines
      • The Prey
      • The Proposition
      • The Purge: Anarchy
      • The Raid
      • The Raid 2
      • The Railway Man
      • The Reach
      • The Rebound
      • The Red Turtle
      • The Reef
      • The Resident
      • The Return Of The Living Dead
      • The Revenant
      • The Rig
      • The Sapphires
      • The Saragossa Manuscript
      • The Satellite Girl and the Milk Cow
      • The Secret in Their Eyes
      • The Selfish Giant
      • The Sentinel
      • The Shameless
      • The Shape of Water
      • The Shining
      • The Signal
      • The Skin I Live In
      • The Source
      • The Stag
      • The Strange Little Cat
      • The Summit
      • The Taste Of Money
      • The Thieves
      • The Thing
      • The Third Murder
      • The Tree
      • The Tribe
      • The Two Faces Of January
      • The Truth
      • The Upside
      • The Veteran
      • The Villainess
      • The Voices
      • The Walking Dead season two
      • The Watch
      • The Water Diviner
      • The Wave
      • The Way
      • The Way Way Back
      • The Whistlers
      • The Widow of Saint-Pierre
      • The Wind Rises
      • The Wolverine
      • The Woman in Black: Angel of Death
      • The Woman in the Fifth
      • The World of Kanako
      • The World's End
      • The Yellow Sea
      • The Young And Prodigious T.S. Spivet
    • U >
      • Unbeatable
      • Unbroken
      • Underground
      • Underwater Love
      • Unforgiven
      • Unicorn Store
      • Unicorn Wars
      • Unknown
      • Unmistaken Child
      • Unsane
      • Unstoppable
    • V >
      • Vehicle 19
      • V/H/S
      • V/H/S/2
      • Victoria
      • Vidal Sassoon The Movie
      • Villain
      • Vinyl season one
      • Visitors
      • Viva La Liberta
      • Vox Lux
    • W >
      • Waitress
      • Walking Out
      • War Dogs
      • War Horse
      • War of the Arrow
      • War on Everyone
      • Warrior
      • Watcher
      • We Are the Flesh
      • We Are The Night
      • We Gotta Get Out Of This Place
      • We Steal Secrets: The Story Of Wikileaks
      • Weekend
      • Weird: The Al Yankovic Story
      • Weirdos
      • Welcome To New York
      • West is West
      • What If
      • What Maisie Knew
      • What We Do In The Shadows
      • While We're Young
      • White God
      • Who Killed The Electric Car?
      • Who We Are Now
      • Widows
      • Wiener-Dog
      • Wild Mouse
      • Wildlife
      • Willow Creek
      • Wish I Was Here
      • Woman at War
      • Wonderstruck
      • Woochi: The Demon Slayer
      • Woody Allen: A Documentary
      • Words And Pictures
      • World War Z
      • Wreck-It Ralph
      • Wuthering Heights
      • Wyrmwood
    • X >
      • X-Men: Apocalypse
      • X-Men: Days Of Future Past
      • X+Y
    • Y >
      • Yardie
      • Yatterman
      • Yojimbo
      • You Are Here
      • You Instead
      • You Were Never Really Here
      • You're Next
      • Young Adult
      • Your Sister's Sister
    • Z >
      • Zathura
  • THEATRE & ARTS
    • A Walk On Part: The Fall Of New Labour
    • Akram Khan: Homeland
    • All New People
    • Andre Gregory and Wallace Shawn in Conversation
    • Battle Angel Alita: volume 1
    • Battle Angel Alita: volumes 2, 3 & 4
    • Battle Angel Alita: volumes 5, 6, 7, 8, & 9
    • Brian Wilson
    • Cantina
    • Derren Brown - Svengali
    • Fourth Dimensional Minds Eye Summoning
    • Gilbert & George
    • Jumpy
    • Let The Right One In
    • Lisa Appignanesi
    • Mary Queen Of Scots Got Her Head Chopped Off
    • My Girlfriend's Boyfriend
    • Othello: The Remix
    • Philip Pullman
    • Posh
    • Rob Delaney
    • Ronin
    • Sunken Garden
    • Sutra
    • The Book Of Mormon
    • The Great Gatsby
    • The Master And Margarita
    • The Silver Linings Playbook
    • The Thinking Drinker's Guide To Alcohol
    • Thriller Live
    • Touched...Like A Virgin
    • Travelling Light
    • Wah! Wah! Girls - A British Bollywood Musical
    • Wild Swans
  • FEATURES-INTERVIEWS
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    • 2010 in Review
    • 2011 In Review
    • 2012 In Anticipation
    • 2012 In Review: Part One
    • 2012 In Review: Part Two
    • Alternate Summer 2011
    • Ang Lee: A Life In Pictures
    • Atmosphere of the Berlinale
    • Autumn at the Multiplexes
    • BBC 4 World Cinema Award 2006
    • Berlin Film Festival 2011: Part One
    • Berlin Film Festival 2011: Part Two
    • Berlin Film Festival 2011: Part Three
    • Berlin Film Festival 2012: Part One
    • Berlin Film Festival 2012: Part Two
    • Berlin Film Festival 2012: Part Three
    • Best Films of 2013
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WHEN HEMANTH MET LAURA HARRIS, STAR OF SEVERANCE

25 June 2006
By Hemanth Kissoon
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Hemanth: You have a real eye for cult projects, e.g. Suicide Kings, The Faculty, Dead Like Me, and Severance is likely to join them. What goes through your mind when picking a film/TV show?  

Laura: What goes through my mind is I’d really like to work, please hire me. That’s what goes through my mind [laughs]. I don’t know if I’ve planned my career as much as that but Severance was something I read that I really loved. The last few years I’ve been educating myself more and more about film, screenwriting and scripts and everything else. I never had that education before so I would essentially just audition and work or if I was lucky enough to be offered something do that as well. Now I read something I actually have a grasp on its value to me or in general, and that grasp grows of course as you learn more and more. So something like Severance is just a fucking kick-ass script, totally awesome and the role is awesome and the people involved are awesome – it’s win-win.
 
Hemanth: There are so many horror films being made at the moment especially in America and Japan, but what drew you to come to Britain to do one which is not renowned for horror movies?  
 
Laura: My first boyfriend at age 12 our relationship consisted of him on the phone doing hours of Monty Python bits just reciting them and I would laugh and laugh and laugh - funniest thing in the world, and Blackadder, and Kids in the Hall which is very Canadian – the irony that it’s very similar humour, which the movie obviously has in abundance. And my two best friends are English and my room-mate’s English, they are all from London, so I almost feel more comfortable here than I do anywhere in America. My history is mostly Scottish, and English, to be accurate. It just feels comfortable, and I’ve been lucky enough to come out here and work a couple of times.

Hemanth: What is it that you love about movies?  

Laura: I think they are just an absolutely incredible medium to impact people, whether it’s just for fun or for something really serious; and what I love about them is that they can do all of that, and you can even do all of that in one line, you can do of all that in one scene, or pick a topic and do it in a movie. So much can be accomplished, so many people come together to do this beautiful thing, and I love that teamwork part of it as well.


Hemanth: What with Hostel, and now Severance, Eastern European tourist boards must be up in arms at their portrayal as a haven for lawlessness and psychotic murderers. What was your experience of filming in Hungary?
 
Laura: We were in the middle of nowhere so just beautiful forests. I don’t think I would be able to give you a fair idea of what Hungary is like at any level, except there are incredible insects. There are these lush forests and insects the size of your hand everywhere. But that’s not telling you anything.
 
Hemanth: So Severance wasn’t like a documentary? No psychos running round the woods?
 
Laura: Not that I met. No more psychos than in Los Angeles.
 
Hemanth: Horror as a genre seems to be consistently doing well at the box-office. Why do you think it is really popular at the cinemas at the moment?
 
Laura: I don’t know how to answer that. I’m not enough of a film student to be able to give an accurate idea, however I’m learning and I’m interested. I love listening to Chris Smith [writer-director] talk about it because he is such a film geek and he really knows what he’s talking about. He’s actually answered that question and what he said was, we are dealing with different topics right now - Eastern Europe being broken open, and terrorism – there is something going in the atmosphere of the world that can maybe be expressed easily through these horror films. And it’s being expressed in every genre. People are discussing it. But it definitely lends itself to some interesting slasher stuff as well.

Hemanth: Yeah, Night of the Living Dead in the 60s was about racism and Dawn of the Dead in the 70s was about consumerism. Definitely post 9/11 people have different takes, that’s why I was interested in what you thought.
 
Laura: To me this isn’t a very gory movie. I can’t watch a lot of sheer violence because I take it on. I feel sick for days. I can’t reject it, I can’t watch it and say that’s fabulous blood, but I do love doing it, being covered in blood. I love being heavily physically pretend injured. It’s interesting, it’s so animal so it’s really fun to do.
 
Hemanth: Sometimes in horror films, especially in B movies, the leading ladies tend to be bimbos but this role is more close to Ridley Scott’s Alien with Ripley. Did you enjoy that aspect?
 
Laura: I watched that movie repetitively and also watched //Kill Bill// repetitively and also watched Working Girl. So a little bit of Melanie Griffiths but not from Jersey from Michigan, with the Alien construction – because she’s not really a big part of the initial part of that film. She’s making really great choices. You are introduced to her but you have no idea she’s the one that’s going to live which is very similar. And it’s not gory, there’s something different going on. These people are fighting for their lives and it’s a scenario that they were sort of gypped by essentially. They didn’t have responsibility and they didn’t know everything that was going on. What I liked about this scenario is that individuals do have responsibility for what they do in their lives and so potentially they’ve created a monster that’s coming back to bite them.

Hemanth: With most horror-comedies like Scream and recently Slither there’s a mixture of the two, but here there seems to be a clear delineation – first half is funny and the second half is scary. It’s an interesting structure. Did you notice that in the script or was that put together later? 

Laura: That was definitely in the script. It is like a political-comedy-slasher. To me it was not horrific. The comedy really spoke to me, and the politics really spoke to me, and the horror was a great way to show it.


Hemanth: You are only young but you have been in the industry for at least 20 years, how has your opinion of the film and television business changed in that time?

Laura: Wow, well, my opinion, actually I wrote an essay [laughs]. Briefly, in Canada it’s very different working there. There’s no star structure. I never saw anything I did from the age of 5 to the age of 15. I did American series but never saw them. So it was all about the experience of working. I wasn’t watching what I was doing or seeing the commercials and understanding the business side of it at any level. At 19 I went to America and still didn’t really watch TV and just never really involved myself with that side of it. Recently I’ve been trying to be really an adult about the whole thing and understand about it. The only thing I’ve noticed since I started paying attention is this awesome shift that film actors can now do television. Meryl Streep is on HBO, Al Pacino is on HBO, that’s awesome. Not great for people trying to get into the business, because essentially if movie stars can do television then a lot of television actors aren’t going to be working. But what is really cool about it is that you can just do whatever work you want to as long as it’s good. That is really exciting to me, and the internet – the content. Having as many mediums as possible is incredibly exciting.
 
Hemanth: Have you found it easier to get the work that you want to get as you’ve progressed or is it still as challenging to break down the barriers to the best work?

Laura: I think the more I’ve paid attention the better my career has become, because I now have a clearer idea when I read something the value of it.
 
Hemanth: Pay attention in what sense?
 
Laura: Pay attention to understanding if a script is good, whether television or film. Understanding what makes something good and what gives it value, and having reference points to cinema and television and good work. To be able to understand why it’s good what makes it good, essentially like any kind of film study. I never had any of that. So having done that my career has gotten better since I have been paying attention to that stuff. And it makes sense. I read American Beauty. This is horrible. I can’t believe I’m going to say this but I read the script to audition for it, ‘Oh yeah I don’t want to do nudity – for Mena Suvari’s role – I can’t do nudity, I’m sick of doing nudity, I can’t do nudity anymore’. That movie is so not about her being naked. It is so stupid. When I watch the movie I go ‘Oh shit I need to understand what a good script is’, because if I’m turning down that audition I’m an absolute moron. It was a great revelatory moment of ‘Now like you’ve got to get down and do some studying’.
 
Hemanth: Arguably your highest profile success is 24 season 2. You were a kick-ass bad guy. One of the reasons is that it comes out of nowhere. What do you think about that role?
 
Laura: I loved it, it was such a privilege. I had two lines and was hired to do one or two episodes and they just run with it. It’s pure creativity happening there and it’s really informed with facts. The writers’ room is just really fucking intelligent people, scientists and all sorts of interesting people. So it’s not just a Hollywood fuck-fest [laughs]. They’re really trying to do something interesting. So to be involved with something that creative there is nothing better. And the excitement of getting each new script, not knowing what’s going to happen is thrilling, because you never know what you’ll be doing in the next episode.
 
Hemanth: Did you know that you were going to be bad?
 
Laura: No, I had no idea. I read it I was totally shocked. It was completely so exciting it’s ridiculous. So cool.
 
Hemanth: How’s it feel to be tortured by Jack Bauer?

Laura: It was so hot, so sexy. There’s just something kinky about it, that whole scene. I don’t know what it was. It was dramatic and painful and everything else but what was really happening for me every time he was this close to my face I was like ‘Oh my god you are the most fucking gorgeous creature I have ever seen’. His voice is like melted butter and it’s just like soaking all over your face. That’s how I felt.
 
Hemanth: Great answer. It’s huge, as such has there been a tangible impact to your career?
 
Laura: 2, definitely. That kind of visibility really helps. I immediately went into another series – Dead Like Me. After Dead Like Me I pretty much had to take a year off, I just took offers. I did this [Severance] that year, that was last year. So being able to work that way is a privilege and that definitely stems from 24.

Hemanth: Probably a lot of fan boys have a crush on you because you do a lot of horror [Stephen King’s IT, Habitat, The Faculty] and sci-fi [The X-Files, Sliders, The Outer Limits]. What draws you to those genres?

Laura: They shoot all that stuff in Vancouver so I grew up doing it, that’s just what you do. Now I’m really fascinated by the mythology of sci-fi, and I’ve actually met a lot of comic-con-geek-cinephile guys and I fucking love those dudes. I feel like I am like them in a girl’s body and just want to soak up the information so badly. It’s interesting there’s just a huge body in me that lives as them [laughs]. When I hear Chris go off or anyone who’s a cinephile they’re just shaking with the joy at just how much they love every tiny detail there’s nothing I love more. I think it’s so cool.


Hemanth: You were also in A Mighty Wind. Christopher Guest is a legendary satirist. What was your experience on that film?
 
Laura: My experience was that he wasn’t hiring actors; but I’m such a huge Christopher Guest fan and a friend (I can’t say who it is) they were looking for this girl who they couldn’t find to play the tambourine girl, and they put a regular photo, no head shot, on his desk and he was like fine hire her essentially. I was like ‘Oh my god!’ That was like one of the best moments for me. So for a couple of days we did photo shoots and learned a couple of songs and got up there and did it. I had no real contact, I mean he was there and directing us but it was very much just sit and row, simple stuff.
 
Hemanth: Robert Rodriguez has done some patchy films but after Desperado and Sin City he has become a legend. What was it like on The Faculty? You had a lot of people building their careers on that film Josh Hartnett, Usher and yourself to a certain extent.
 
Laura: He’s like the coolest guy in the world. He was truly the first auteur I ever worked with. Chris I would say is the second. To work with one at all in a lifetime is real a gift. I didn’t know horror at all back then, I didn’t appreciate it like I do now. I kind of wished that I had because that movie had so many odes to like Invasion of the Body Snatchers and The Thing, etc. etc. but I didn’t know it. But even not knowing that, even not understanding how cool it was to be there I loved him deeply and his wife. They are just a dynamic force. And he’s another uber-cinephile-geek, so that energy is very similar to Chris’s energy actually. He’s a little calmer, he like plays the guitar and is a fucking cool guy, and handsome as shit – and everything he tells you to do you’re like ‘Ok, tell me again’ [mock-swoon].
 
Hemanth: Another cult thing of yours I liked was Suicide Kings. We didn’t get a proper release but when I was in New York a long time ago I rented it out. I saw on the cover all these guys I recognized – Christopher Walken, Jay Mohr and a grown up Henry Thomas, etc.
 
Laura: That was my first job in LA. I moved down there and after a month and a half I booked that and I was like ‘This is the coolest thing, I can’t believe I’m working here!’ I think it actually cost me money. I had to get a work permit to do it, I didn’t have a Green Card which cost like $1600. It was a really low budget movie. I was like ‘I’ll pay for my work permit’. They were amazing. It was a small part but it’s kinda real neat introduction to LA as your first gig. I couldn’t do TV for years, I had to do only movies in order to get the work permit because you need the time to get the work permit.
 
Hemanth: The UK is pretty fashionable for filming at the moment e.g. Woody Allen, Batman Begins, Basic Instinct 2, plus the theatre too. Have you any plans to come back again to work?
 
Laura: I would love to work here non-stop. If I could live and work here I would be the happiest person alive. I love it here, my soul thrives here. I just want to like move into the Tate Modern and have a little corner in the top floor [laughs]; go to work every day with English crews.
 
Hemanth: I know it’s tough, but have you thought about branching into theatre? It seems to be a rite of passage almost for many actors.

Laura: I haven’t thought about it but I love going to the theatre. I watch tons of theatre and I enjoy it immensely. I have so much respect, like for good screenwriters, that you’re doing so well why would I come along and fuck it up [laughs]. If it was to happen I would never reject the idea of it essentially to reject the idea of it. I have so much to learn right now even in the film medium, so much to learn and to accomplish, and maybe if I feel if I had got to a point there and it made sense to make a turn in that way I would definitely do it.
 
Hemanth: You’re doing some interesting work, you have got a TV film with Callie Khouri [Thelma & Louise] coming up, have you got anything else in the pipeline that you can talk about?
 
Laura: That’s it, no, there are just those two things that we’ve already finished. So when I get back I sort of have to hit the ground running, I’ve been told [laughs]. I actually did three films in a row but I didn’t have to audition. The hardest work I think is auditioning; putting yourself out there in that climate of rejection, and doing the monkey dance is very hard, for me anyway. I have to go at it full force now.
 
Hemanth: You have a production company and produced Come Together.
 
Laura: It wasn’t released. We went to a bunch of festivals. That company doesn’t exist anymore, and that was however many years ago. I just really believed in that film-maker so essentially I gave him money to make a movie, but didn’t even want to produce it, it just happened that way.
 
Hemanth: That was five years ago, when you were only 24, I wondered if you had caught the bug to produce, write or direct?
 
Laura: No, I caught the bug to act [laughs]. I was like oh what a privilege what it is we do. I kinda realized the beautiful value of an actor, because until that point coming from a socialist place I was like ‘Why don’t they pitch in more? Why are actors are so protected and left in their trailer, and put in their trailer essentially?’ And I came to understand there is a value that everyone has and I began to really truely understand from every perspective which is the great gift of it.
 
Hemanth: If your fairy godmother came down and waved a wand over you and you could work with three directors on film or TV who would you choose?
 
Laura: Steven Soderbergh, Ang Lee – who I dig every single film and I am just crazy for, and Alfonso Cuarón.
 
Hemanth: Fingers crossed!

Laura: 2007 here I come [laughs]!

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