Tag: HollywoodNews
The full comté: quest to make a semi-hard cheese is French cinema’s breakout hit of the year | Movies
Louise Courvoisier grew up the daughter of farmers in France’s eastern Jura region and, by the time she was 15, was desperate to leave this backwater [...]
‘Drawings do not lie’: film-maker Michel Hazanavicius on his animated feature about the Holocaust | Michel Hazanavicius
When the acclaimed French film-maker Michel Hazanavicius was approached by his parents’ best friend, the author and playwright Jean-Claude Grumberg, [...]
‘I go for the jugular’: Carrie Coon on The White Lotus, female friendship and toxic politics | The White Lotus
Carrie Coon is done with compact talk. “I tend to go right for the jugular,” she grins. The time for conversations about the weather and I like your [...]
‘His genius is elusive’: Harry Lawtey and Toby Jones on bringing Richard Burton back to the screen | Movies
Sandringham Road lies in the east of Cardiff; a still run of Edwardian terrace houses overlooking Roath Mill Gardens. On a behind schedule July day, [...]
Geoffrey Rush on Pirates, Pinter and pugs: ‘Just be happy we evolved on this bit of rock’ | Movies
The Rule of Jenny Pen looks terrifying! Does the prospect of sudden ageing frighten you? BenderRodriguez It’s not sudden. I was in [King] Lear when I [...]
Director Marco Berger: ‘My films make some masculine viewers question if they could be gay’ | Movies
Marco Berger’s films often begin, in one way or another, with a knock on the door. A youthful gay man steps into a summer house, or sometimes a luxur [...]
‘It was not a boyband!’ Micky Dolenz on the madness of being in the Monkees | The Monkees
In 1965, Micky Dolenz was an architecture student and jobbing actor in Los Angeles, doing the rounds of auditions for TV pilots. As a 10-year-old he [...]
‘A kitchen film with no food porn’: how Alonso Ruizpalacios sold Rooney Mara on his abortion drama | Movies
Anyone who visited the Rainforest Cafe, a now defunct Piccadilly Circus tourist trap serving overpriced burgers among plastic foliage and animatronic [...]
Seth Rogen on going from onscreen slacker to studio boss: ‘People really do scream at each other in Hollywood’ | Seth Rogen
Seth Rogen is itemising all the ways in which, when he’s producing a film or TV show, he’s inclined to agonise about his contribution. “Are my notes [...]
‘Just wait until Trump takes away our unions’: Fionnula Flanagan on America, Ireland and acting quiet | Movies
Fionnula Flanagan, the veteran Irish actor, has been a star of stage and screen for more than six decades, earning Tony nominations for her theatre w [...]