Andrea Arnold

The constituency also contains the Red Road high-rise flats, a 1960s symbol of renewal soon to be demolished. The heroine of Andrea Arnold's award-winning 2006 thriller, Red Road, worked in a local block. After 74 years of unbroken Labour...

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...for sound design. Also in the running for best European film 2009 are Stephen Daldry's Oscar winner "The Reader," Scottish director Andrea Arnold's kitchen sink drama "Fish Tank" and Tomas Alfredson's Swedish vampire film "Let the Right...

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...in "Antichrist" and Kate Winslet for "The Reader." Other candidates for best film are: "Fish Tank," from British writer and director Andrea Arnold; "Let the Right One In," a Swedish romantic horror film directed by Tomas Alfredson; "The...

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...by Audi announced the winners of its inaugural AFI Fest New Lights Competition on Thursday. The award was given jointly to Andrea Arnold's "Fish Tank" and Javier Rebollo's "Woman Without Piano," with a special jury mention given to Scandar...

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...a confidence and self-belief that her own mother isn't capable of giving." Q: Is it true that director Andrea Arnold cast you without meeting you, even though she'd planned to cast a non-actor? A: "Yes, she'd seen me in "Wedding Bells,"...

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The drama's writer-director, Tina Mabry, claimed the best screenplay prize. The Silvo Hugo for special jury award went to Andrea Arnold's "Fish Tank," while Marco Bellocchio was awarded the Silver Hugo for best director for...

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...Bellocchio), best actress (Giovanna Mezzogiorno), best actor (Filippo Timi) and best cinematography (Daniele Cipri). Andrea Arnold's "Fish Tank" (U.K.) won the Silver Hugo in the feature category, by way of a special jury prize. The...

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...the end of Fish Tank that we discover the name of the heroine's dog: Tennent's. I'm glad writer-director Andrea Arnold kept this detail quiet; if she had revealed it early on, Fish Tank might have come across as a broad-stroke essay in chav...

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...registered with the site. Film: Andrea Arnold interview From Glasgow's Red Road to London's East End, Andrea Arnold tells Siobhan Synnot how she captures the hearts of people and places IT WASN'T Andrea Arnold who discovered 15-year-old...

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Andrea Arnold's gripping, gritty films have triumphed abroad yet get minimal exposure here. The moment director Andrea Arnold sets foot on foreign soil (especially in mainland Europe) she finds herself acclaimed as a film-maker of...

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