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Interviews
Alice Lowe on her time-skipping mortality comedy Timestalker: “Why don’t we make more fantastical things in the UK?”
Following its world premiere at SXSW Film Festival, we sat down with writer-director Alice Lowe for a frank discussion about reincarnation, the burden put on female directors and why we need more colour and fantasy.
By Lou Thomas
Alice Lowe on her time-skipping mortality comedy Timestalker: “Why don’t we make more fantastical things in the UK?”
Interviews
Robot Dreams: how we made our animated love letter to 1980s New York
By Lou Thomas
Festivals
Layla: Amrou Al-Kadhi on their sparkling drag queen romance
By Lou Thomas
Festivals
Janet Planet: Annie Baker’s warm, understated portrayal of a mother-daughter relationship
By Lou Thomas
Interviews
Stephen Fry on his new Holocaust survivor drama Treasure: “A script can be idea-shaped or human-shaped. This was human-shaped”
By Lou Thomas
Interviews
Felipe Gálvez on his Tierra del Fuego western The Settlers: “It’s like shooting in hell”
By Lou Thomas
Interviews
On Irish-language hip-hop drama Kneecap: “When people start having a pop at something they’ve not even seen, that’s just ignorance”
By Lou Thomas
Festivals
Between the Temples: Nathan Silver’s strange, sweet natured comedy has echoes of Harold and Maude
By Lou Thomas
Interviews
Cillian Murphy and Emily Blunt: how we made Oppenheimer
By Lou Thomas
Interviews
Paul King on Timothée Chalamet as Wonka: “This movie allowed him to scratch an itch that he’s probably had for a long time”
By Lou Thomas
Festivals
Despatches from Mumbai Film Festival 2023
By Lou Thomas
Interviews
Fingernails: director Christos Nikou on modern dating and his Black Mirror-style love-test drama
By Lou Thomas
Interviews
“It’s an examination of untruth, and he is our guide”: Errol Morris on John le Carré and The Pigeon Tunnel
By Lou Thomas
Interviews
Occupied City: Steve McQueen and Bianca Stigter on their chronicle of Amsterdam during wartime
By Lou Thomas
Interviews
Gareth Edwards on his futuristic AI war film The Creator: “You’re always looking for that thing that’s not been done in science fiction. The little gap on the Blu-ray shelf”
By Lou Thomas
Reviews
The Lesson: Richard E. Grant is delightful as a vain novelist in this serviceable literary thriller
By Lou Thomas
Interviews
Talking with Tim Burton: “I’m like a vampire. I’ve been killed and resuscitated many times”
By Lou Thomas
Interviews
Charlotte Regan on Scrapper: “I’d love to see more working-class films that are happier”
By Lou Thomas
Interviews
“Talk to Me is a bit of an ouija board. It’s connected to the dead”
By Lou Thomas
Features
Mission: Impossible stunts – ranked for danger
By Lou Thomas
Interviews
Harka: how we made our Tunisian smuggling drama
By Lou Thomas
Interviews
How we put Berlin’s gay clubbing scene on film
By Lou Thomas
Festivals
#Manhole: a taut situational nail-biter
By Lou Thomas
Interviews
Hirokazu Koreeda on Broker: “I’m interested in this innate human desire to form a familial unit”
By Lou Thomas
Festivals
Kill Boksoon: a tremendously exciting Korean assassin thriller
By Lou Thomas
Festivals
Four Little Adults: an engaging polyamory drama
By Lou Thomas
Interviews
Darren Aronofsky on The Whale: “No one’s seen this side of Brendan”
By Lou Thomas
10 great
10 great films of 1998
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