Category: Interviews
‘I’m not a commercial director – I’m not even a professional film-maker’: Jim Jarmusch on the seven-year journey to make his novel film | Jim Jarmusch
In 1991, Jim Jarmusch was casting for his anthology film Night on Earth. The premise was basic: five taxi drivers in five cities pick up passengers, [...]
Paul Dano: ‘Nobody needs to know about my high-school band!’ | Film
You were wonderful as Brian Wilson in Love & Mercy. Did you get any feedback from the great man himself? Fran2016 and Aubrey26Thank you. I spent a bu [...]
Legendary Disney composer Alan Menken on winning Oscars, Razzies and his ‘filthy’ rock musical | Music
In early 1991, the composer Alan Menken took a keyboard to St Vincent’s hospital in New York to visit his friend and original partner, the lyricist H [...]
‘Coke and booze didn’t lend a hand my creativity’: Joe Eszterhas on his wild times – and his supernatural, anti-woke Basic Instinct reboot | Film
Joe Eszterhas was the swaggering pitchman of 80s and 90s Hollywood; the king of the high-concept, precision-tooled blockbuster. He wrote Jagged Edge, [...]
My mother, Audrey Hepburn: the star’s son Sean on her movies, marriages, good works and fascist parents | Audrey Hepburn
Growing up, Sean Hepburn Ferrer says he never felt like the son of a movie star – but he very much is. His mother was Audrey Hepburn, one of the bigg [...]
Monica Barbaro: ‘Yesterday I went home thinking I’m a terrible actor and they’re finding out’ | Theatre
“I feel like I’m imitating an American accent, but it really is mine,” Monica Barbaro jokes. The actor has spent the morning rehearsing in an English [...]
‘It’s the year of gay Brazilian cruising!’ The makers of Night Stage on public sex and their ‘deranged erotic thriller’ | World cinema
You wait for ever for a visually electrifying Brazilian film featuring scenes in a gay cruising ground, then two come along at once. First, the Oscar [...]
‘We got cancelled and we’re still here!’ Michael Patrick King on The Comeback – and why And Just Like That will age well | Television
TV veteran Michael Patrick King has had a long, lively career, writing, directing and producing on shows including Murphy Brown, Will & Grace and 2 B [...]
James McAvoy: ‘I’ve been “that Scottish person”, reduced to a noise that comes out of my mouth’ | James McAvoy
It’s the final night of the Glasgow film festival and James McAvoy is a wee bit out of breath. His directorial debut, California Schemin’, is playing [...]
‘I considered starting over as a farmer’: Masao Adachi on political cinema, revolution and Japan today | Film
Last month, on the same day that Revolution+1 – a fictionalised account of the life of Tetsuya Yamagami, the man who assassinated the former Japanese [...]