Nick Chen
Writer at Freelance
Film Editor-at-Large at Dazed Magazine
Freelance journalist available for work. Film editor-at-large @Dazed. Screenwriter: @TheAcademy Nicholl Fellowship semi-finalist 2021 & 2024. Sold a film once!
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dazeddigital.com | Nick Chen
‘It would be irresponsible for us to make this easy’: Co-directors and co-writers Alex Garland and Ray Mendoza discuss their punishing new movie about the Iraq War, which strives for realism rather than entertainment It’s rare when conducting interviews in five-star London hotels that a filmmaker will ask with complete sincerity if anyone’s fired a gun at you.
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dazeddigital.com | Nick Chen
“People always fear that sports movies can’t be arthouse,” says Leonardo van Dijl, a 31-year-old Belgian director whose debut feature,Julie Keeps Quiet, is a sports movie that’s defiantly arthouse. “And then the joke is that Luca Guadagnino didChallengers.
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dazeddigital.com | Nick Chen
The Cannes Film Festival only screens the best of the best. Well, theoretically. For two weeks in May, the most acclaimed auteurs screen their latest masterpiece, visionary voices are discovered, and arthouse cinema is treated with the glitz and glamour usually reserved for Tom Cruise – except, this year, Cruise will be promotingMission: Impossibleon the Croisette, but you get my point.
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2 weeks ago |
dazeddigital.com | Nick Chen
Louise Courvoisier’s latest film follows 18-year-old Totone as he falls in love with a local farmgirl – and attempts to create a prize-winning cheese – in the wake of his father’s death6 Images Holy Cow is such a poignant, authentic teen drama, it was awarded a special, one-off “Youth Prize” at Cannes last year.
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dazeddigital.com | Nick Chen
Finnish filmmaker Mikko Mäkelä talks about his new film Sebastian, which follows an aspiring writer in London who turns to gay sex work Mikko Mäkelä knew what he was setting himself up for whenSebastian, his second feature as a writer-director, has a novelist turn to the camera to exclaim, “You can ask me anything!” Starring Ruaridh Mollica as the Hackney-based author Max,Sebastianis about the ethics of writing, the quest for authenticity, the perils of delving too far into research – or...
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.............I spoke to Gints Zilbalodis about how "Flow" is Noah's Ark-house cinema: https://t.co/E6riuF4pm9
.................I spoke to Ondi Timoner about "DIG! XX" (her new version of "Dig!"), losing her house to the LA fires, & why she won't be redoing her Russell Brand documentary: https://t.co/rpLkZnMqDz
.............Leonardo van Dijl told me that if "Challengers" is "brat", then "Julie Keeps Quiet" is "demure and mindful": https://t.co/y1SI4ajx1L
