Tag: Cinephile
‘I’m asking people to do a lot, but that’s what it means to be a human’: why one man made the first straight-to-VHS movie in 20 years | Film
The modern film This Is How the World Ends is a fine piece of work; the story of two siblings finding each other at a party held at humanity’s end, i [...]
‘What if I come out with nothing on?’ Marilyn Monroe and the defiance of her final photoshoot | Marilyn Monroe
A few days after doing a nude swimming pool shoot on the set of the 1962 comedy Something’s Got to Give, Marilyn Monroe jumped into her raven black T [...]
‘I felt I could smash my past up through sex’: the ruthlessness and redemption of Rupert Everett | Rupert Everett
Rupert Everett is struggling with the heatwave. It reminds him of the summer of 1976, when he was 17, basking in the sun, serene as a sloth, his futu [...]
Hugh Skinner: ‘My most embarrassing moment? Walking on set naked when I wasn’t supposed to be’ | Life and style
Born in London, Hugh Skinner, 41, trained at Lamda and appeared in the BBC’s Tess of the D’Urbervilles in 2008. From 2014 to 2017, he played Will in [...]
‘Not many people had gay dads who died of Aids’: Andrew Durham and Sofia Coppola on movie memoir Fairyland | Film
When Sofia Coppola logs on to our video call, her friend and fellow film-maker Andrew Durham – whose directorial debut, Fairyland, she has produced – [...]
‘Argentina needs to end its fantasy of being a European country’: Lucrecia Martel on the story of a killing | Film
In one scene from Landmarks, the modern documentary by the Argentinian film-maker Lucrecia Martel, a tour guide shows children a painting on the ceil [...]
‘The days I had to have sex with randoms, I thought thank God!’ Jamie Bell on eye-popping drama Half Man | Television
Not many actors are relieved when they have to film an eye-poppingly explicit sex scene, but that was the case with Jamie Bell on Half Man. His role [...]
Boots Riley: ‘Theft is not outside of capitalism, it’s what it was built on’ | Boots Riley
Don’t call Boots Riley an anti-capitalist, at least not without qualification. “I’m a communist,” he clarifies. “A lot of stuff that calls itself ant [...]
‘I want to hit 100’: Derek Jacobi on Aids, ageing and failing to boil an egg | Film
Derek Jacobi is chatting to the photographer in the living room. His voice is unmistakeable – luxurious, buttered, every sentence beautifully parsed [...]
‘I have a lot of rage inside me’: Bob Odenkirk on Saul, satire and his heart attack | Film
You recently agreed in an interview that “life is a meaningless farce”. How come? benpendreyOh, I don’t know. You need to talk to God about that. I d [...]