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Shatner’s Bassoon: Michael Cumming on the making of Brass Eye
First aired on Channel 4 in 1997, Brass Eye remains the north star of modern British TV satire, influencing everything from Look Around You to The Thick of It to Charlie Brooker’s Screenwipe. Viewed...
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Alice Lowe: ‘I do want to make something timeless’
We have been negatively conditioned into expecting way too much from our filmmakers. If a director doesn’t deliver a new movie on the dot of two years since the last one, then snipey little...
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‘It completely changed the course of my life’– Shane Meadows on Dead Man’s...
“It was probably the happiest shoot of my life,” says Shane Meadows of Dead Man’s Shoes, his hard-hitting revenge drama that reminds us all why we shouldn’t mess with Paddy Considine. “There was so...
View ArticleMati Diop: ‘We’re witnessing an awakening of consciousness’
French director Mati Diop returns to the big screen with her hotly-anticipated follow up to the 2019 Senegalese coming-of-age ghost story Atlantics. With Dahomey, the Berlin Golden Bear winner, Diop...
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‘I watched the film crash and burn at the box office’– Jang Joon-hwan on Save...
It was in early 2005 that I first stumbled across the unlikely image of a costumed Korean man lassoing planets in a fit of giddy mania in my local HMV. The DVD in question had ‘Tartan Asia Extreme’...
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Andrea Arnold: ‘I’m very interested in the sensual world’
Andrea Arnold’s sixth feature, Bird, follows Bailey (Nykiya Adams) as she navigates life in a squat in Kent with her father Bug (Barry Keoghan) and her brother Hunter (Jason Buda). Her relationship...
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Barry Keoghan: ‘I have my own method; I’m still learning and discovering’
Barry Keoghan is someone who has built a cottage industry around making sure that when he’s on the screen, we’re watching intently to see exactly what he’ll do next. His ascent through the industry...
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Franz Rogowski: ‘If you talk about birds, you always talk about ethereal energy’
If there is one contemporary German actor whose name you ought to know, it’s Franz Rogowski. Thanks to a background in dance, the physical virtuosity of his performances is often the first thing to be...
View ArticleTyler Taormina: ‘The soundtrack is one of the germinating seeds of the work’
One of the supreme highlights of my 2024 Cannes experience was discovering the films of New York filmmaker Tyler Taormina. Christmas Eve in Miller’s Point is presented through its marketing as a...
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Magic and Loss: On the making of Queer
While it was I who wrote ‘Junky’, I felt that I was being written in ‘Queer’,” William S. Burroughs reflected in 1985, when his novella was finally published some 33 years after it was written. A...
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