From the start, I knew the British director Andrea Arnold had captured something volatile and splendid in Fish Tank. A girl named Katie Jarvis plays 15-year-old Mia, who in the first shots stares out ...

Lucia Debernardini is a Features writer for Collider, as well as a London-based screenwriter and filmmaker. Her short comedy film Finsta has been showcased at the Aesthetica Film Festival and won the ...

Here’s what interests the supremely talented British director Andrea Arnold: ordinary people’s lives, poised between transformation and despair; the dire landscapes of sub-middle-class contemporary ...

"Fish Tank" is not a film for the faint of heart. This dark portrait of a teenage girl growing up in working-class England is harrowing in its brutal honesty. Writer-director Andrea Arnold offers a ...

No matter what happens Oscar night for Kathryn Bigelow, director of “The Hurt Locker,” we’re witnessing a watershed moment for female filmmakers. It’s not simply that new talent is arriving, though it ...