Tag: Cinephile
‘I’m not a quitter!’ Rubén Blades, the salsa supremo who acted with Jack Nicholson, inspired Bad Bunny – and served as Panama’s tourism minister | Music
“Well, I’ve been around,” says Rubén Blades, accurately. One of the most influential Latin musicians of the past half-century, the Panamanian singer- [...]
‘We’re up against forces that have all the money in the world’: Erin Brockovich on her battle against AI datacentres | Energy
When Erin Brockovich woke to find 30 emails from people from the same town, she realised something was going on. People email Brockovich all the time [...]
‘I’m a soldier. I don’t have a gun, but I have a pen and a camera’: Mahnaz Mohammadi on fighting the Iranian regime | Film
Mahnaz Mohammadi is a survivor. The Iranian film-maker and women’s rights activist has been arrested on many occasions and imprisoned several times. [...]
‘Our characters like to be naughty’: the makers of the Nirvanna mockumentary on illegal skydiving, taboo-breaking and time travel | Film
If there is ever a Rock & Roll Hall of Fame for fictional bands, the likes of Spın̈al Tap and the Rutles will be guaranteed a place. Less certain is [...]
‘How do I deal with my rage? I put it in everything I do’: Killing Eve’s Sandra Oh on fury, friendship and hitting her prime in midlife | Sandra Oh
Sandra Oh bursts into a back room at the National Theatre in London with wayward post-rehearsal energy. The 54-year-old, long one of the most stylish [...]
Jennifer Siebel Newsom’s novel film shines a delicate on the human cost of unregulated social media | Jennifer Siebel Newsom
Life moves pretty swift. It is Monday lunchtime when Jennifer Siebel Newsom drops into the Guardian’s office in Washington, just a couple of blocks f [...]
‘The masturbation scene wasn’t a massive deal’: Théodore Pellerin on tackling his modern film Nino’s challenges | Film
Just six months after the world rallied to defend indigent Paul Dano, vulnerability may now be a heated commodity for an actor. What is “weak sauce” [...]
‘It goes so hard in both directions’: John Early and Kate Berlant on making you laugh and cry in modern influencer satire | Comedy films
They don’t make film heroines quite like Maddie Ralph any more. As the creation of comedian and actor John Early, the titular character of Maddie’s S [...]
‘Don DeLillo gave me his blessing’: film director Ben Rivers on how fan mail from the Underworld author led to his latest work | Books
Nine-year-old girls reciting the gnomic prose of Don DeLillo – it sounds like an extreme English detention, but for film-maker Ben Rivers this was th [...]
‘Why would you put a toxic product into the hands of a young child?’: director turned activist Beeban Kidron on why gigantic tech needs its ‘tobacco moment’ | Beeban Kidron
Through the open windows behind Beeban Kidron drifts the unmistakable sound of children playing. Her north London office is sandwiched between a sch [...]