Category: Films
The Room Next Door review – Almodóvar spins a gorgeous, fragile tale of life and death
Pedro Almodóvar’s death-struck new melodrama – the great director’s 23rd feature but his first in the English language – is a hothouse Spanish shrub transplanted [more…]
Pedro Almodóvar: ‘There should be the possibility to have euthanasia all over the world’
The acclaimed Spanish director Pedro Almodóvar has called for euthanasia to be legalised worldwide. Almodóvar was speaking ahead of the world premiere of his first [more…]
‘Let them kick the crap out of the songs’: how we recreated the Beatles to make Backbeat
Iain Softley, director I was working at Granada in the 1980s when I came across a photograph of Astrid Kirchherr and Stuart Sutcliffe while going [more…]
Fitting In review – rare biological condition gets thrown into typical teen movie mix
Older viewers may feel, well, erm, old, to see that this film comes prefaced with a wise statement – handed down as if ’twere written [more…]
Fragile Memory review – a personal tribute to a prolific Soviet film-maker
A labour of love, Ihor Ivanko’s documentary pays tribute to his grandfather Leonid Burlaka, a prolific Ukrainian cinematographer during the golden days of Soviet cinema. [more…]
I’m Still Here review – loving family negotiates the horror of Brazil’s military rule
The Paivas are a liberal middle-class household in sun-splashed Rio de Janeiro, generally joyous in the way of all happy families. They like laughing and [more…]
Don’t believe supposed salary figures for new film Wolfs, says Clooney
Turn up the air con – it’s getting hot in Venice. As the festival sweltered under a prolonged heatwave, the temperature was raised still further [more…]
From Darkness to Light review – Jerry Lewis’ infamous Holocaust film rescued from oblivion
In 1971 Jerry Lewis, America’s most famous comedian, decided to swing for the fences and make his masterpiece. The Day the Clown Cried was a [more…]
‘Like criticising a book that has 700 pages’: The Brutalist director defends long films
How do you properly do justice to the life story of a Hungarian-born Jew who survived the Holocaust and emigrated to the US, where he [more…]
‘Everyone recognises her now – me, not so much’: Arthur Harari on how Anatomy of a Fall catapulted him and Justine Triet to film power couple status
Rising French cinema notable Arthur Harari is a film-maker, screenwriter and actor – but the last of these only occasionally, and with reservations. He has [more…]
