Acclaimed director Isao Takahata’s first film in fourteen years is the Academy Award nominated The Tale of The Princess Kaguya. In 1985, Takahata was one of the founding fathers of animation hothouse Studio Ghibli along with fellow director Hayao Miyazaki and producer Toshio Suzuki. Miyazaki, 74, announced his retirement in 2013 and

Jane wrote Olive Kitteridge, and this chat was back in Venice, September 2014 Q: What does it mean to bring Olive Kitteridge here to the Venice Film Festival? JA: Fran [McDormand] and I have been really curious to see how European press will respond to this deeply American story, and we’re hearing that

RICHARD JENKINS chats in Venice, September 2014 Q: Did this turn out how you hoped it would? RJ: It did. They sent it to us at home, so my wife and I sat down and watched it. We thought, ‘Oh, we’ll watch the first couple hours, and then tomorrow night we’ll watch the rest.’

John V. Knowles describes himself as "Geek. Atheist. Cyberpunk. Film nerd. Sci-Fi & Horror nut. Mac addict. Typophile. Coffee enthusiast". Together with his wife Lotti he runs the production company Weirdsmobile which produces shorts & features. John recently had his feature-film directorial debut with the horror/comedy 'Chastity Bites'. See our full

It Follows is released in UK cinemas by Icon on February 27th We spoke to Maika Monroe. Quite a hard movie to categorise this one. How would you describe it? Oh god! It’s a bit of a mix. It’s so funny, because you do a lot of interviews about this movie and it’s almost