Category: Films
‘I never let a man carry my double bass’: Oscar-hopeful Orin O’Brien on making music – and history
One of the most fascinating, inspirational and talented creatives nominated for an Oscar this year will not be at the ceremony on 2 March. “Oh, [more…]
‘They wanted to attack me’: Aurore Clément on violent premieres and smuggling bananas for Brando
‘People stood up and started to yell,” says Aurore Clément, remembering the day Les Rendez-vous d’Anna premiered at the Paris film festival and caused havoc. [more…]
Demi Moore, Ralph Fiennes and Gromit: nine key Bafta snubs and surprises
Surprise! Conclave wins best film Everyone expected Edward Berger’s classy thriller to win outstanding British film; in a slightly mediocre year for that prize, it [more…]
‘Dame Judi Dench has just signed on to play the egg timer’: the best quotes from the 2025 Baftas
David Tennant On the audience: “It’s fair to say there might be some people in this room who have had a little freshening up. I [more…]
Baftas 2025: Conclave beats The Brutalist to best picture as Mikey Madison scoops best actress
Conclave, Edward Berger’s Vatican-set thriller starring Ralph Fiennes as a cardinal overseeing the election of a new pope, went into this year’s Bafta ceremony with [more…]
Dreams review – Jessica Chastain channels rich Americans whose charity comes with strings
Mexican director Michel Franco returns with a chilly, angrily intense and deeply pessimistic tale of erotic obsession among the liberal super-rich in Trump’s US who [more…]
Mickey 17 review – Robert Pattinson proves expendable in Bong Joon-ho’s eerily cheery cloning drama
The Korean auteur Bong Joon-ho has delivered his first movie since the Oscar-winning Parasite six years ago, and it’s a great, big, slightly soft-edged, sci-fi [more…]
Ari review – a French primary teacher flunks out in daydreaming misfire
French film-maker Leonore Serraille has come to Berlin with a peculiar, unformed and unsatisfyingly developed feature, something that does not really deliver the truthful insights [more…]
Cate Blanchett: ‘I think you can smell when something is cynical’
The first time Cate Blanchett was cast in The Seagull, she was in Sydney and in her 20s, a young stage actor playing the part [more…]
The Breakfast Club at 40: the teen movie blueprint for better or worse
It is the burden of all art wielding sufficiently vast influence that its revelatory power will be dampened by the many imitators following in its [more…]
