TheWrap Screening Series
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TheWrap Screening Series: ‘Home Care’ Director Joins Oscar Race With ‘Anti-Czech Movie’
First-timer Slávek Horák, himself a Czech, wants to infuse the foreign film race with the spirit of the nation’s 1960s New Wave
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TheWrap Screening Series: ‘Baba Joon’ Filmmakers on ‘Lyrical’ Father-Son Journey
Yuval Delshad reveals actors spoke different languages when he cast them as family
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‘Birdman’ Duo Michael Keaton, Alejandro González Iñárritu on Sony Hack Attack: ‘It’s a Perfect Satire’ (Video)
The director of film said he does not think anyone should have to apologize for private conversations that were illegally obtained
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TheWrap Screening Series: ‘Red Princesses’ Filmmaker Reveals Secret to Directing First-Time Child Actresses
Laura Astorga also explains the hardest part of making the $500,000 feature that was selected as Costa Rica’s Academy Awards submission
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TheWrap Screening Series: ‘Wild’s’ Laura Dern on Emotional Role: ‘My Heart Was Cracked Open’ (Video)
The actress and producer Bruna Papandrea both open up about adapting Cheryl Strayed’s bestselling book
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TheWrap Screening Series: Cold War Plays Out on Ice in ‘Red Army’
Director Gabe Polsky discusses his hockey documentary and its far-reaching political influences
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TheWrap Screening Series: ‘Gett: The Trial of Vivane Amsalem’ Reveals Helplessness of Israeli Women Seeking Divorce
Co-director Shlomi Elkabetz says the divorce drama is already changing attitudes when it comes to women in The Holy Land
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TheWrap Screening Series: ‘Imitation Game’ Filmmakers on Casting Benedict Cumberbatch and Going Indie (Video)
Director Morten Tyldum, screenwriter Graham Moore and the film’s producers discuss doing it on their own after a Warner Bros. deal fell apart
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TheWrap Screening Series: Nas Delivers Powerful Doc ‘Time Is Illmatic’ (Video)
Rapper screens and discusses with TheWrap his film about the making of the 1994 classic “Illmatic,” and his legacy as a seminal hood poet
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TheWrap Screening Series: ‘Human Capital’ Director Explores ‘Wealth Without Happiness’
“It was a way for us to make a film about modern Italy, which has now changed,” director Paolo Virzi says of his film
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TheWrap Screening Series: Jeff Garlin on Producing Doc ‘Finding Vivian Maier’ for Free – ‘There Was No Ego’ (Video)
“I love this movie so much because I had nothing creatively to do with it,” the actor says
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‘How to Survive a Plague’ Has a Message for the Young: AIDS Isn’t Over
At the finale of TheWrap's awards screening series, the "Plague" filmmaker told of whittling through hundreds of hours of ACT UP footage to preserve a historical record
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‘The Imposter’ Director Bart Layton: Making the Film Was ‘A Bewildering Experience’
At TheWrap screening series, documentary filmmaker Bart Layton describes the difficulty of achieving objectivity when all have their own version of the truth
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Chen Kaige on Going Viral in China and His Oscar Entry ‘Caught in the Web’
At TheWrap's screening series, director Chen Kaige spoke about his foreign Oscar entry, "Caught in the Web," the Cultural Revolution and going viral in China
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‘Beasts of the Southern Wild’ Borrowed Obama’s Grassroots Strategy to Land Young Star Quvenzhane Wallis
From canvassing the countryside for amateur actors to turning baby pigs into mythological creatures, "Beasts of the Southern Wild" odd path to indie-film glory