Tag: Cinephile
‘Musicals can be quite sinister’: Tilda Swinton and Joshua Oppenheimer on bonkers bunker singalong The End | Tilda Swinton
Time is miniature for the family at the heart of Joshua Oppenheimer’s fresh film. Mother, Father and their adult son eke out their days in an undergr [...]
‘I told Charlotte Rampling’s agent: I want to see her doing the vacuuming’: François Ozon | Movies
You’ve had such an eclectic career. Is there any particular genre that you haven’t tackled already but would like to? LickyKickyI don’t care about ge [...]
‘I never thought about Oscars’: Brutalist composer Daniel Blumberg on the happiness and horror of his gigantic win | The Brutalist
Daniel Blumberg hands me his Oscar, as surprised as he is chuffed. Bloody hell, it’s bulky. Is it real gold? “I wish it was,” says the latest winner [...]
‘I’m all for strange’: Sister Midnight’s Karan Kandhari on his punk rock debut, two decades in the making | Movies
One of the most powerful scenes in Sister Midnight is also a silent and unexpected one. The protagonist, Uma, sits idly with her neighbour Sheetal ou [...]
‘Everything is so fragile’: Cate Blanchett on marriage, #MeToo and the state of the world | Cate Blanchett
Cate Blanchett saw in the New Year in the Arctic, with her husband and four children, by cutting a hole in the ice and jumping in. It was -30C and sh [...]
‘One agency called me Thunder Thighs’: Twiggy and Sadie Frost on sexism, self-esteem and the swinging 60s | Documentary films
The woman in the jade-green suede biker jacket and tartan trousers sticks out her hand. “’Allo, I’m Twig,” she says. The name still sounds entertaini [...]
‘She was so much fun to play’: Ella Lily Hyland, breakout star of Black Doves, on her wise-cracking assassin | Television
As Ella Lily Hyland poses for photos, her black spaniel Nina trots about the studio, stopping occasionally to be stroked. “She always wants to be clo [...]
Ron Perlman on Hellboy, the LA fires and Trump: ‘A snake-oil con-artist who’d sell you bad vodka and swampland in New Jersey’ | Movies
Ron Perlman could be mistaken for Will Ferrell’s grumpy older brother. Today, however, he mostly looks trapped. That slab of a face, frosted with a w [...]
Mischa Barton: ‘I’m a huge Oasis fan. What kind of self-respecting Brit would I be if I wasn’t?’ | Movies
What was it like working with Richard Attenborough in Closing the Ring, Bruce Willis in The Sixth Sense, and Hugh Grant in Notting Hill? Also why the [...]
David Wenham on the return of Johnny ‘Spit’ Spitieri: ‘Every second day someone comes up to talk about him’ | Australian film
David Wenham avoided wearing thongs for 22 years. That’s ever since an iconic scene in the 2003 heist caper Gettin’ Square, in which he slapped his w [...]