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Adam Sweeting |
If you compiled a list of favourite TV series from the last couple of decades, you’d find that Zoë Telford has appeared in most of them. The Thick of It, Foyle’s War, Ashes to Ashes, Sherlock, Silent Witness, Unforgotten, Death in Paradise, Grantchester, Vera… they all appear on her on CV, with many more besides.
Pamela Jahn |
Gary Oldman has always lived life to the fullest, on screen and off. Maybe that's why he is often at his best in his pitch-perfect portraits of real-life personae such as Winston Churchill in Darkest Hour and Herman J Mankiewicz in Mank. He now stars as the bibulous middle-aged American author John Cheever in Parthenope, Paolo Sorrentino's latest lush homage to Italy's recent past.
Pamela Jahn
One of the most exciting new voices in Eastern European film, Déa Kulumbegashvili is not concerned with conventional shot lengths. She has been…
Pamela Jahn
"Julie's story takes place everywhere", says the writer-director Leonardo Van Dijl, whose psychological drama Julie Keeps Quiet has little to do…
Pamela Jahn
It doesn't take much to get lost in a film by Miguel Gomes. In fact, it's required. Multiple layers, timelines, and perspectives unfold in his cinema…
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Adam Sweeting
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The Georgian filmmaker talks about her award-winning abortion drama, motherhood and her relationship with the unknown
Pamela Jahn
The Belgian filmmaker unfolds an all too familiar tragedy in the world of tennis
Pamela Jahn
The Portuguese director's comic melodrama takes a fantastical journey through Southeast Asia and the history of cinema
Pamela Jahn
The documentary director talks about his ominous first fiction film and why its characters break into song
Nick Hasted
The modern French master reflects on ageing, useful lies and country secrets in his new slow crime film
Pamela Jahn
The actor on her breakout screen performance capturing the frantic pulse of Mumbai, and living and working between London and India
Pamela Jahn
Peck analyses his approach to the anti-apartheid photographer's work and to his methods as a political filmmaker
Pamela Jahn
The much-garlanded actor on what playing the architect László Toth meant to him
Rachel Halliburton
An ominous shift has come with dark patches appearing on the Greenland ice sheet
Nick Hasted
The exiled filmmaker on authoritarian minds, reluctant radicalism and Iran's future
Justine Elias
Gatiss explains why his eerie tale begins with its original Victorian-Edwardian author Edith Nesbit
Nick Hasted
Archetype-bending auteur Maddin and co. discuss their new film's starry, absurd G7, autobiography and artifice
Pamela Jahn
An in-depth conversation with the director of the instant Indian arthouse classic
Rachel Halliburton
Beautiful books take you to worlds that are intricately imagined and a feast for the eye
Pamela Jahn
The French filmmaker concocted an extravagant genre mash-up to confront the tragedy of Mexico's 'disappeared'
Harry Thorfinn-George
In time for Halloween, the author discusses 'Feeding the Monster' - and why she thinks horror cinema has entered a new phase
Justine Elias
The writer, director, and star inserts herself into the history of love
Rachel Halliburton
A rising talent who first performed with the Lithuanian State Symphony Orchestra aged 9
Adam Sweeting
Script supervisor Angela Allen on Orson Welles and filming in a war-ravaged Vienna
Bernard Hughes
Finnish-Ukrainian conductor looks to bring the music of today to new audiences
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Liverpool-born actor reflects on a journey from Everyman Theatre to film and TV stardom
David Nice
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