• Interview: Never Let Me Go Director Mark Romanek [Part 1]

    By Peter Sciretta September 9th, 2010

    After the Telluride Film Festival premiere of his latest film, I had the opportunity to sit down and interview director Mark Romanek for a long-form interview. It was a collaboration between Alex from FirstShowing and myself, which explains how we were able to get so much time with the filmmaker. Mark Romanek is one of…

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  • Never Let Me Go To Open BFI London Film Festival

    By Russ Fischer August 6th, 2010

    Briefly: The BFI London Film Festival is getting a little bigger every year. Last year it was given a push when Wes Anderson's Fantastic Mr. Fox debuted at the fest. This year, the festival will open on October 13 with the European premiere of Mark Romanek's new film Never Let Me Go, which adapts the…

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    New Poster: Mark Romanek's 'Never Let Me Go'

    By Russ Fischer September 4th, 2010

    I hadn't seen a proper projection of the trailer for Mark Romanek's new film, Never Let Me Go, until I sat through the Trailer Park exhibition in Hall H at the San Diego Comic Con. Talk about weird -- Romanek's very quiet movie was sandwiched in between a lot of big-ticket films, and the contrast…

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  • Mark Romanek To Adapt Never Let Me Go

    By Peter Sciretta December 2nd, 2008

    Mark Romanek has signed on to direct a big screen adaptation of Kazuo Ishiguro's novel Never Let Me Go. According to Production Weekly, Beach author and 28 Days Later/Sunshine screenwriter Alex Garland penned the adaptation. Romanek is probably best known for his music video work. He directed the video for Michael and Janet Jackson's "Scream"…

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