Film

He is a funny character, James McAvoy. I meet him in one of those fancy Soho hotels where the cast of films that...

20. Little Buddha (1993)Bernardo Bertolucci, deep into his picturesque international film-making phase, portrays the search for a reincarnated lama to insipid effect. But...

Do you think hip-hop still has the cultural impact it once did when you first arrived on the scene during the Def Jam...

Werner Herzog has two faces, both wearing the same expression of grave forbearance. To some, he is the formidable adventurer-auteur whose cinematic odysseys,...

I’m watching a clip from the 1969 film Carry on Camping with Valerie Leon. As in, I’m with Leon, in her house in...

The Brothers Quay, identical twins, make marvellous, mystifying films in which eerie stop-motion puppets outnumber the few live performers. These films might be...

Name: George Smiley.Age: It was once observed that Smiley is “one of those ashen Englishmen, like the poet Philip Larkin, who seem to...

Iain Softley, directorI was working at Granada in the 1980s when I came across a photograph of Astrid Kirchherr and Stuart Sutcliffe while...

Shortly after Daniel Reisinger’s mum died, the director found himself howling with laughter. “It was the shittest week of my life,” he explains, over...