Category: Films
‘We were the magicians’: cinematographer Phedon Papamichael on 40 years of film-making
Phedon Papamichael is sitting in a sparse hotel room in New York, huddled in a puffer jacket and glancing at the window as his fingers [more…]
Housekeeping for Beginners review – a queer family’s fight to stay together
Each of Goran Stolevski’s films thus far has marked a departure from the last: the bewitching horrors of his debut You Won’t Be Alone; the [more…]
Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes review – future simians swing through cinematic jungle
After four ambitious and successful pictures, the reboot-prequel Planet of the Apes franchise now comes to what could well be the end, approaching the moment [more…]
Susan Buckner, actor known for role in Grease, dies aged 72
Susan Buckner, the actor known for her role as Patty Simcox in the 1978 movie musical hit Grease, died on Thursday at the age of [more…]
Disney to ‘focus on quality’ as it plans to cut output – including Marvel movies
Disney plans to release fewer movies and “focus more on quality” in its key franchises, following of a string of high-profile flops at the box [more…]
‘It was terrifying but screw it’: the director who had to disown her film to qualify for the Oscars
The director Amanda Nell Eu has always been a bit of a rebel, she says over video chat from her home in Kuala Lumpur. “When [more…]
Standing stones, urban hellscapes and male nudes: Derek Jarman’s glorious Super 8 short films
Thirty years after his death in February 1994, it is perhaps unexpected that Derek Jarman – multi-faceted artist, activist, film-maker, socialiser – is probably now [more…]
Billy Connolly: Big Banana Feet review – proto-punk star comic at his 70s peak
Here is a 70s time capsule as pungent as a brimming pub ashtray. Restored and rereleased, Big Banana Feet is the 1976 documentary about Billy [more…]
Hidden City review – Stephen Poliakoff’s convoluted 1980s mystery told with flair
There is great archival and historical interest to the 1987 feature film debut of writer-director Stephen Poliakoff, which now on re-release. It is a peculiar, [more…]
‘It’s not that I’m against story. I like films with stories’: Pat Collins on directing a tale without a plot
For most directors it would be an agonising predicament: how do you translate a novel with no discernible plot, in which nothing really happens, to [more…]
