Interviews

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Writer/Director/ Editor Stephanie Kaznocha Gets Confessional
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Writer/Director/ Editor Stephanie Kaznocha Gets Confessional

Stephanie Kaznocha sat down with Beyond the Cinerama Dome to discuss her career as an editor, the heart of Confessions, and the novel experience of cutting A Nice Indian Boy to the film’s lush, sweeping score. This transcript has been edited for length and clarity.

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Inside Volker Bertelmann's Score for “Conclave”
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Inside Volker Bertelmann's Score for “Conclave”

The election of a new pope is not what comes to mind when most people think of a political thriller, but Edward Berger’s Conclave exemplifies the best of what the genre has to offer. The film is Berger’s follow-up to his highly decorated remake of All Quiet on the Western Front (2022), so who better to compose the score for Conclave than Berger’s frequent collaborator, Volker Bertelmann?

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José Lourenço Brings 1774 Angst to 2024 in “Young Werther”
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José Lourenço Brings 1774 Angst to 2024 in “Young Werther”

After its premiere at the 2024 Toronto International Film Festival earlier this year, Young Werther will begin its theatrical and digital release on December 13. Writer/director José Avelino Gilles Corbett Lourenço sat down with Film Obsessive News Editor Tina Kakadelis to discuss updating a classic, the timelessness of Werther, and the magic of Toronto.

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