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KATZENBERG, JEFFREY : Prince of Egypt
Jeffrey Katzenberg redefined the animation industry during his tenure at Disney. Now the K
in SKG at DreamWorks studio, his latest project, Prince of Egypt, has a lot riding on; can
he do it all again? He believes so, he tells PAUL FISCHER.
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KATZENBERG, JEFFREY – SHREK THE THIRD
Jeffrey Katzenberg is the head of Dreamworks – he is no longer credited as a
producer of any kind on Shrek The Third – he’s just The Boss, as he tells Andrew
L. Urban in an interview that canvasses everything from the irony of his
impatient nature while working in time-consuming animation, to how he gets his
therapy during interviews like this one.
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KEILLOR, GARRISON – A PRAIRIE HOME COMPANION
Garrison Keillor has turned his long running live radio show, A Prairie Home
Cmpanion, into a movie, with the help of Robert Altman, working together being
the ultimate compliment, he tells Andrew L. Urban.
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KEITEL, HARVEY: Three Seasons
"We must travel to understand there is no difference, in terms of humankind and
humankindness," Harvey Keitel tells PAUL FISCHER, as he explains why he is so keen to
support Three Seasons, a film in which he plays a supporting role as an actor, but a large
role as promoter.
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KENAN, GIL – MONSTER HOUSE
A confident mum and a communicative father helped make Gil Kenan a natural
filmmaker, plucked out of obscurity by two cinematic giants, Robert Zemeckis and
Steven Spielberg, to direct his debut feature, Monster House. It’s almost like
an urban legend, he tells Andrew L. Urban.
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KENTIS, CHRIS & RYAN, BLANCHARD – OPEN WATER
After years of struggling to get inside the doors of movers and shakers, the makers and stars of Open Water are finding doors open: director Chris Kentis found himself sitting with Harvey Weinstein and star Blanchard Ryan now goes straight into the director’s auditions, without going through the motions with the assistant casting director, the casting director and the assistant director. Andrew L. Urban talks to the filmmakers during their Sydney visit to promote the film.
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KHYENTSE NORBU – TRAVELLERS AND MAGICIANS
Bhutan is changing, and with the arrival of television come consumer goods like the bra; the country’s only filmmaker, the Buddhist teacher Khyentse Norbu, captures the mindset with his new film, Travellers and Magicians. But his next film may be about a sexually repressed couple, he tells Andrew L. Urban.
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KIDMAN, NICOLE – THE STEPFORD WIVES
Swimming in the ocean, staring into the starry night sky and having family around her make Nicole Kidman the happiest, despite having Oscar at home, she tells Jenny Cooney Carrillo, in between playing a Stepford wife and a bewitched wife, on a career roll that seems unending. But it won’t last for ever, Kidman says.
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KIDMAN, NICOLE: COLD MOUNTAIN
Andrew L. Urban meets the Nicole Kidman conundrum: a mysterious woman who is both mega star and frail female, courted by directors but believing in luck.
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KIDMAN, NICOLE: MOULIN ROUGE
On the eve of her trip to the Cannes Film Festival and then on to Sydney for the
Australian premiere of Moulin Rouge, Nicole Kidman had a candid chat to Jenny
Cooney Carrillo about life after Tom and the movie her director Baz Luhrmann
describes as her shining light. “It’s the best and worst time in my life
coming together,” she says.
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KIDMAN, NICOLE: Moulin Rouge/EWS
Nicole Kidman has started filming the musical, Moulin Rouge, for Australian director Baz
Luhrmann (Strictly Ballroom, Romeo + Juliet) at Sydney's Fox Studios. SUE VERMILIONS
talked to Kidman about how she got the role, what it was like working with Stanley Kubrick
on Eyes Wide Shut and the directors she would love to work with in the future.
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KIGHTLEY, OSCAR & MAGASIVA, ROBBIE – SIONE'S WEDDING
The Samoan wedding comedy is a new and so far small genre, represented by
Sione’s Wedding, but if there are more like this, bring it on! As the film
begins its Australian season, Andrew L. Urban meets two of the Naked Samoans
from the film, Oscar Kightley and Robbie Magasiva. Samoans are visible in New
Zealand – but this time for all the right reasons, they say.
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KINBERG, SIMON - xXx 2: THE NEXT LEVEL
Action scenes should tell us something about character, says screenwriter Simon Kinberg, who has four action films coming out one after the other in Australia, starting with xXx 2: The Next Level, again Samuel L. Jackson, this time with Ice Cube as the special agent. Andrew L. Urban spoke to him from New York.
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KING, JONATHAN - BLACK SHEEP
Scientific experimentation on innocent New Zealand sheep goes wrong, but his
debut feature goes right, as Jonathan King explains to Andrew L. Urban his
relief at getting Weta to do the FX.
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KIRK, JOHN: RESTORING THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE UGLY
After six years of waiting, MGM’s John Kirk finally got the good news that the restoration of Sergio Leonie’s classic, The Good, The Bad and The Ugly could go ahead. Bad news was he only had seven weeks to do it, as he tells Andrew L. Urban while visiting Australia.
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KLINE, KEVIN : In & Out, The Ice Storm
Oscar winner Kevin Kline is as comfortable doing comedy as
he is drama: as the outed school teacher in the hit comedy In and Out,
and as a weak family man in the drama, The Ice Storm. PAUL
FISCHER spoke to the actor at the recent Toronto Film Festival.
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KNIGHTLEY, KEIRA - PRIDE AND PREJUDICE
Keira Knightley, currently working in film after film, has been obsessed with
Pride and Prejudice since she was seven, but afraid of going for the role of
Elizabeth, especially when she learnt that director Joe Wright didn’t want her,
as she tells Helen Barlow.
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KNOCKED UP – interviews with Judd Apatow & Seth Rogan
Writer/director Judd Apatow and star Seth Rogen visited Sydney to promote their
latest comedy, Knocked Up, which has notched up a healthy opening box office in
the US, and some rave reviews. They talk to Andrew L. Urban about the film (not
too seriously) and how it was born.
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KOKKINOS, ANA - BLESSED
It began as a four part play about working class life in Australia in the late
90s and blossomed as a film dealing with the indestructible bond between mothers
and children in the first decade of the new century. Blessed took over eight
years to make the transition to film – and while it was worth the effort,
director Ana Kokkinos, admits in this audio interview with Andrew L. Urban, it
was a huge challenge to make. And below, we publish an Insider Briefing on the
film’s heritage and development.
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KOKKINOS, ANA : HEAD ON
Young people respond eagerly to Head On, sensing it’s
honesty; some people went up to director Ana Kokkinos after its
Melbourne Film Festival Screening, and gave her a warm hug. Older
Greeks find it tough and confronting – hard to take. And
some find the frank sexual content quite a shock. But
no-one’s bored: Andrew L. Urban talks to Kokkinos.
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KOKKINOS, ANA – THE BOOK OF REVELATION
Abducted, chained up and sexually abused by three hooded women, a male dancer is
the victim in the reversal of usual gender roles in The Book Of Revelation, a
sexually graphic and confronting film that’s more psychological mystery than
kidnap thriller, as co-writer and director Ana Kokkinos tells Andrew L. Urban.
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KOLTAI, LAJOS – FATELESS
Oscar nominated cinematographer Lajos Koltai is making his directing debut with the adaptation of Fateless (a Jewish boy’s story by Nobel Prize winning author Imre Kertész) and he’s not getting an easy run, with a 12 week break in production after the money ran out. But filming has restarted and Ennio Morricone has already composed the main theme. Andrew L. Urban meets Koltai in Budapest for this exclusive interview.
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KOOPS, LIZ – PRISCILLA, THE MUSICAL
Priscilla rides again, as one of Australia’s most successful, iconic and loved
films is adapted to the stage for a musical like no other, with 750,000 ping
pong balls on order and all its fun and all its heart intact, producer Liz Koops
tells Andrew L. Urban.
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KRAMER, EDDIE – FESTIVAL EXPRESS
A five day concert tour across Canada in 1970 by Janis Joplin and several major bands of the time aboard a specially hired train was recorded on film, but due to the tour’s financial disaster, it was buried in a vault – now it’s finally assembled with the music restored and remixed by the legendary Eddie Kramer, who tells Andrew L. Urban how he did it.
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KRAVCHUK, ANDREI – THE ITALIAN
The couple who are about to adopt a Russian orphan in The Italian are Italian
because for most Russians, Italy conjures up visions of a warm, sunny and
beautiful place, the perfect escape, the director Andrei Kravchuk tells Andrew
L. Urban.
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KUBRICK, STANLEY: A POSTHUMOUS CONVERSATION
This is the eve of the future – 1999. Upside down it’s 6661. Stanley
Kubrick was a space traveler back in 2001, and is now an atomic blip in the universe, a
cyber-dot perhaps in the galactic milk of our universe – where ANDREW L. URBAN
managed this posthumous conversation.
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KUBRICK, STANLEY– A LIFE IN PICTURES
Stanley Kubrick’s life in pictures is documented by his
widow, 67-year-old Christiane Kubrick, a German-born artist
married to the director for more than 40 years, and her brother
Jan Harlan, who executive produced his movies for more than 30
years. They spoke to Jenny Cooney Carrillo in Los Angeles, on the
eve of the film’s Australian screenings at the Sydney and
Melbourne Film Festivals.
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KUDOH, YOUKI : Heaven's Burning
Beautiful Japanese actress Youki Kudoh may have loved the
Australian landscape working on the controversial Aussie flick
Heaven’s Burning, but as for working with her co-star
Russell Crowe, that’s another story, as she candidly
reveals to PAUL FISCHER.
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KUDROW, LISA: Opposite of Sex
Lisa Kudrow – Phoebe Buffay to you (if you are a fan of the tv sitcom, Friends)
– has a shining role in The Opposite of Sex, playing opposite Christina Ricci and
opposite just about all the characters in the film – but it wasn’t planned, she
tells PAUL FISCHER.
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KURZEL, JUSTIN – SNOWTOWN
A perfect social storm helped propel a vulnerable family in a vulnerable community towards the evils that became known in the 1990s as ‘the bodies in the barrels’ murders – in Snowtown. Director Justin Kurzel explains why he made a film about the horrors to Andrew L. Urban.
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KUSAMA, KARYN: GIRLFIGHT
A powerful vote of confidence (in round one) from filmmaker John Sayle helped writer/director Karyn Kusama pull off her award winning debut feature about an angry young woman who fights her way out of a vacuum into womanhood via the boxing ring, she tells Andrew L. Urban.
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