Tag: Cinephile
Walk on the wild side: Gillian Anderson and Jason Isaacs on their epic hiking movie The Salt Path | Movies
‘I have played a lot of powerful, well-dressed women in my career,” says Gillian Anderson. They flash before your eyes: Margaret Thatcher (The Crown) [...]
‘Space travel is queer’: the unstoppable film-maker skewering Bezos and Musk’s macho fantasies | Movies
‘She’s a great inspiration,” says Nelly Ben Hayoun-Stépanian, picking up a photo she keeps in her wildly decorated office of the scientist Marie Curi [...]
‘My mother didn’t try to stab my father until I was six’: Alan Alda on childhood, marriage and 60 years of stardom | Movies
Alan Alda never expected this. The 89-year-old is back topping the charts with an update of his film The Four Seasons. In 1981, Alda wrote, directed [...]
‘I should really be the world champion’: Ralph Macchio on kicking it as The Karate Kid for 41 years | Movies
‘Sorry to ask such a personal question,” I say to Ralph Macchio, who at 63 we can no longer call The Karate Kid. Let’s go with karate man. He’s in th [...]
‘Grifter loneliness is not for me any more’: Julia Stiles on dance, Dexter and her directorial debut | Movies
Hi Julia. What’s it like being directed by Paul Greengrass with his fast-cut, handheld camera, reportage style? Do you have to approach your acting i [...]
‘I’m less apologetic now’: Kelly Macdonald on her Trainspotting teen highs and hitting her stride in her 40s | Television
One of the good things about playing a therapist, says Kelly Macdonald with a laugh, is that you get to sit down a lot. There’s a fun scene in the up [...]
‘I think of those I left behind in prison’: Iran’s Jafar Panahi on life as a banned film-maker | Jafar Panahi
In February 2023 Jafar Panahi walked free from Iran’s Evin prison after nearly seven months behind bars. Friends and supporters had gathered to greet [...]
‘There is no cure for grief’: Tim Roth on losing his son after making a film about bereavement | Tim Roth
Tim Roth reclines in his chair and exudes an unexpected lightness, as if the Atlantic Ocean is casting a summer spray over this corner of Galway. He [...]
‘Men run away from vulnerability’: The Weeknd on blinding success, panic attacks and why The Idol was ‘half-baked’ | Music
Walking out to perform in front of 80,000 people and finding that your voice has gone: it’s the type of stress dream you have the night before a larg [...]
‘We have to stop what’s going on, it’s insane’: Robert De Niro on battling age, apathy and Trump | Robert De Niro
On the opening night of the Cannes film festival, Robert De Niro takes the stage to accept an honorary Palme d’Or. He embraces Leonardo DiCaprio, tur [...]