Tag: Cinephile
‘We’re barely above porn’: why would a film-maker choose to make a deliberately bad ‘mockbuster’? | Film
Directors don’t tend to appreciate having their films eviscerated by critics. And us critics, well practised in lobbing proverbial grenades from the [...]
‘It is the riskiest film I’ve ever made’: Pedro Almodóvar on being the villain in his own movie | Film
Black sunglasses indoors and a tufty cloud of cotton-wool hair: it can only be Pedro Almodóvar, bourgeois arthouse darling nonpareil and master of ev [...]
‘I love provocative stories’: producer Christine Vachon on fighting for her ‘offensive’ movies | Film
Trailblazing producer Christine Vachon bestrides the world of US independent film-making like a colossus. She has championed idiosyncratic American c [...]
‘I’ve always been fond of hairy creatures!’ Visual effects maestro Rick Baker on a monstrously good career | Film
When Rick Baker was 22 years aged and laying the first bricks of what would become one of the great Hollywood careers, he travelled to Hatra in Iraq [...]
Will Poulter on challenging stereotypes in novel opioid drama: ‘Shame on us for stigmatizing people’ | Will Poulter
Every week, Annette Deao, a drug dependency counselor, sits in the county jail and offers incarcerated people in rural Ohio a chance at recovery. One [...]
Imelda Staunton: ‘Umbridge’s giggle needed to be brief and piercing. So I just did a boom, boom’ | Film
You and Bill Nighy were comrades in Pride, but play estranged spouses in & Sons. Was it more fun marching alongside him or giving him a piece of your [...]
‘It was fun to get pushed around’: Andrew Rannells on ‘razzle dazzle’, kissing co-stars and being a better friend to Lena Dunham | Film
Imagine a cute, youthful, gay Jim Carrey with a withering line in put-downs: that is Andrew Rannells. Or rather, it was, back when he starred in Lena [...]
‘I ran away to Paris to be a writer and ended up begging’: Bill Nighy on dashed dreams, golf emojis and playing a cranky novelist | Film
A dying patriarch summons his brood for a dramatic announcement. It may not be the most original starting point for a movie, but & Sons adds an eccen [...]
‘I turned down Gandhi because I’m terrified of snakes’: the amazing movie memories of Bruce Dern | Film
‘Can you take another story?” asks the veteran actor Bruce Dern towards the end of our talk, as though every tale is a drink and the landlord has cal [...]
‘I’ve always felt too aged and too juvenile at the same time’: The Last of Us star Bella Ramsey on swapping child stardom for cult television – and Celebrity Traitors | Bella Ramsey
Bella Ramsey often feels more comfortable around older people. The actor, 22, who is non-binary and uses they/them pronouns, has been working profess [...]