Tag: Cinephile
‘I have a lot of sympathy for Elon Musk’: Succession creator Jesse Armstrong on his tech bros AI satire Mountainhead | Mountainhead
When he gets to his London office on the morning this piece is published, Jesse Armstrong will read it in print, or not at all. Though the building h [...]
‘I must have done something right!’: dance master Jiří Kylián on his festival, fierce critics and the Ministry of Silly Walks | Dance
A gang of adolescent dancers, their black costumes offset by colourful hats, cascade down the sloping roof of Oslo’s opera house for a jubilant routi [...]
‘How much can one person take?’: Posy Sterling on her intense portrayal of a mum trapped in custody hell | Movies
Each morning before filming Lollipop, Posy Sterling took a giant bucket outside, filled it with ice and climbed in. Never mind that it was November o [...]
Whatever happened to Billy Bibbit? The extraordinary life of actor Brad Dourif – from Cuckoo’s Nest to Chucky | Movies
Brad Dourif knew it was time to retire from acting when he stopped feeling … well, anything about the parts he was being offered. “I got to a place w [...]
‘A gift of a role for a mother’: Game of Thrones star Natalie Dormer on playing Tolstoy’s tortured Anna Karenina | Stage
It was back in 2019 that the role of Anna Karenina was first mentioned to Natalie Dormer. Six years, many screen roles, one pandemic and two children [...]
‘Chaps frame the buttocks in a beautiful way’: John C Reilly on Magnolia, moving into music – and his nice bum | Music
Your roles fluctuate wildly between the grave and silly. Does one necessitate the other? vammypI’ve always thought it’s all the same. You just try to [...]
‘I’m not The Rock, right?’ Julianne Moore on action movies, appropriate parenting and twinning with Tilda Swinton | Julianne Moore
Julianne Moore has played some right mothers in her time. There was Amber Waves in Boogie Nights, whose pornography career and cocaine addiction cost [...]
‘The risk was worth it’: All Fours author Miranda July on sex, power and giving women permission to blow up their lives | Miranda July
When Miranda July’s All Fours was published in May last year, it triggered what felt like both a impromptu resistance movement and the sort of mania [...]
Is this an artist – or a coffee pot? The great William Kentridge reveals the strange secret to a great self-portrait | Art and design
You only have to glance at William Kentridge’s family tree to realise why he is such an outsider. His maternal grandmother, Irene Geffen, was South A [...]
‘Death is complicated and kaleidoscopically beautiful’: Jerskin Fendrix on his emotional recent album – and life after Oscar success | Pop and rock
The sun is shining, birds are tweeting and a river gently flows just yards away as Jerskin Fendrix tells me about his love of growing up in Shropshir [...]