Tag: Cinephile
‘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 [...]
Stockard Channing: ‘I cried at the election of Joe Biden, thinking we were out of the woods. Wrong!’ | Life and style
Born in New York City, Stockard Channing, 82, played Rizzo in the 1978 film Grease. In 1985, she received a Tony for her performance in A Day in the [...]
Tony Jones: ‘I’m very far from being an activist’ | Australian media
It’s a blindingly dazzling day in Sydney. Sunlight glitters on the tranquil harbour waters, and moored sailboats gently sway beyond the boardwalk at [...]
‘These cooks ripped each other apart’: Dominic Sessa on playing Anthony Bourdain, kitchen bullies and the joys of being a 70s barfly | Film
Despite being just 23, Dominic Sessa is perhaps as intimately acquainted with the 1970s as those who grew up then. Although the New Jersey-born actor [...]
‘They slammed their M16s against his skull’: inside the film about Amy Goodman’s fearless reporting | Film
‘I consider an exclusive a failure,” Amy Goodman says. It is not a typical observation for a journalist to make, but it is the approach at the heart [...]
‘Am I 68? 69?’ Irvine Welsh on growing senior, getting pristine, bashing out his modern novel – and flirting with guns | Irvine Welsh
By rights, Irvine Welsh ought to be photographed somewhere gritty, looking grumpy, he says: “That’s the brand.” Beside a graffitied wall or at the do [...]
Gregg Araki on sex, film and queer resistance: ‘All the terrible shit in the world is because of sexual repression’ | Gregg Araki
Is straight sex the most perverse sex of all? Gregg Araki’s recent film makes a convincing case. Titled I Want Your Sex, the movie is a deliriously f [...]
‘I was born without self-esteem’: Hannah Einbinder on Hacks, her buzzy queer horror – and being Hollywood’s most outspoken star | Film
‘God is good all the time,” laughs Hannah Einbinder. She’s fresh off a plane from Los Angeles and curled up barefoot in an armchair. This, she says, [...]