Tag: Cinephile
‘We laced Nicole into her corset and her rib broke again’: Moulin Rouge at 25 – an oral history by cast and crew | Film
Moulin Rouge! was a whirlwind of a film, an extravagant assault on the senses that reinvigorated the musical. The doomed love affair between Satine ( [...]
Deborah Mailman: ‘There’s almost a permission now – people can just be incredibly cruel and racist’ | Australian film
Deborah Mailman sat in rusty red sand on Arrernte Country in Central Australia, and she felt her character’s deep grief. She was filming a scene in W [...]
‘The folk scene is very middle class. The divide is huge’: Jim Ghedi, the Sheffield singer bringing his doomy music to the movies | Folk music
Last year, Jim Ghedi was having a chicken dinner at his mother’s house in Sheffield when he checked his phone. “This director started following me on [...]
Harvey Fierstein on Kinky Boots, addiction and survival: ‘When you get sober, it takes five years to get your marbles back’ | Stage
I hear Harvey Fierstein’s inimitable rasp as soon as I enter Cotton Candy Fabrics quilt store in Connecticut. The walls are lined with spirited fabri [...]
‘It needs to be loud’: Jozef Van Wissem’s one-man mission to make the lute rock again | Music
Nobody can accuse Jozef Van Wissem of doing things by halves. The musician, very likely the world’s most notorious contemporary lutenist, owns a soni [...]
Severance star Adam Scott: ‘There’s nothing wrong with being told that you resemble Tom Cruise’ | Film
The way your face changes in the Severance elevator is incredible. Are you thinking about anything in particular when you do it? Lott49We worked on t [...]
Taraji P Henson: ‘It’s exhausting to have to fight for my worth’ | Taraji P Henson
On a Wednesday evening in midtown New York, generations X through Z spill out of the Ethel Barrymore Theatre to cluster around the venue’s side stage [...]
‘I’ve had white knuckle moments’: Michael Socha on This Is England, his patchy beard – and seedy fresh casino thriller The Cage | Drama
Michael Socha is about to jump on a train to Wales. The impressively bushy beard he’s got is for his role in The Witch Farm, a dramatic adaptation of [...]
‘Such a water-cooler show!’ Jane Krakowski on Ally McBeal – and life as the world’s biggest scene-stealer | Stage
‘I’ve been on three television shows that moved the needle a little bit,” says Jane Krakowski. “It sounds obnoxious for me to say it, so hopefully yo [...]
‘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, [...]