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Hollywood royalty
by Anne-Katrin Titze
Fernando Trueba on Penélope Cruz and The Queen Of Spain
Back to school for a class act
by Richard Mowe
Lessons in learning from Angel and Forestier
Commanding the keys
by Anne-Katrin Titze
Doug Nichol on the lingering allure of the typewriter
Playing to type
by Anne-Katrin Titze
Doug Nichol on the story behind California Typewriter.
Missing voices
by Jennie Kermode
Rachel Robey, Charlie Swinbourne and Aurora Fearnley on the barriers facing disabled filmmakers
Portrait of an artist
by Amber Wilkinson
Dome Karukoski on his biography of influential gay icon Tom Of Finland
The Escapologists
by Anne-Katrin Titze
Michael Almereyda and Hampton Fancher on Escapes and what pictures reveal
Under the satellite
by Anne-Katrin Titze
Wim Wenders on Sam Shepard, Jeanne Moreau and Until The End Of The World
The invasion that wasn't
by Jennie Kermode
Jody Lambert on the comedy and humanity in Brave New Jersey.
'He was very good as an actor and even better at rewriting scenes'
by Anne-Katrin Titze
Volker Schlöndorff, Joe Lansdale and Hampton Fancher honour Sam Shepard
Invisible Worlds
by Anne-Katrin Titze
Clément Cogitore on Thomas Bidegain, Neither Heaven Nor Earth, and the sound of the Northern Lights.
Moreau - the feminist femme fatale
by Richard Mowe
We look back at the life of France's screen legend.
News of a death
by Anne-Katrin Titze
Lior Ashkenazi on Foxtrot and going to the edge of his emotions
Man on the edge
by Jennie Kermode
Kasra Farahani on emotional disintegration, modern America and Tilt.
Time is on my side
by Anne-Katrin Titze
Michael Almereyda and Hampton Fancher discuss Escapes
Reading the Pulitzer Prize winners
by Anne-Katrin Titze
Kirk Simon on Natalie Portman, Liev Schreiber, Toni Morrison, Jeffrey Eugenides and Nick Ut
The Dreamer
by Anne-Katrin Titze
Hampton Fancher and Michael Almereyda on Blade Runner past and present
White walls
by Anne-Katrin Titze
Barbet Schroeder on Walter Benjamin, Raoul Hausmann, Pink Floyd and the house in Amnesia
The jigsaw puzzler
by Jennie Kermode
Stewart Sparke on Book Of Monsters and interactive filmmaking
Forget me not
by Anne-Katrin Titze
Barbet Schroeder on Amnesia and the true stories behind it
The Pulitzer At 100 redux
by Anne-Katrin Titze
Kirk Simon on Paula Vogel, Thomas Friedman, Nicholas Kristof, Michael Cunningham and Tony Kushner
Inside the Pulitzers with Kirk Simon
by Anne-Katrin Titze
John Lithgow, Helen Mirren, Martin Scorsese, Carl Bernstein, Michael Chabon, and Martin Baron share the spotlight
Atom Egoyan pays tribute to Martin Landau
by Anne-Katrin Titze
"A great actor has left this stage."
Looking glass frame
by Anne-Katrin Titze
Andrew Rossi on Bronx Gothic, The First Monday In May, Okwui Okpokwasili and Le Cirque
Breaking the mould
by Amber Wilkinson
Jackie Clune and Jennifer Joseph on pushing boundaries in Julius Ceasar
Serious about Caesar
by Amber Wilkinson
Karen Dunbar on her role as Casca in Julius Caesar.
Shaking up Shakespeare
by Amber Wilkinson
Director Phyllida Lloyd talks about power, performance and prisons in the all-female Julius Caesar.
A gilded cage
by Anne-Katrin Titze
Michael Mailer and Jennifer Gelfer on Demi Moore and Dylan McDermott in Blind
Body and soul
by Anne-Katrin Titze
Andrew Rossi on exploring the work of Okwui Okpokwasili in Bronx Gothic
Sense and sensibility
by Anne-Katrin Titze
Michael Mailer and Jennifer Gelfer on Alec Baldwin and Blind.
Casey Affleck liberated by ghosts
by Richard Mowe
Star talks Oscars, Rooney Mara and hiding under a sheet
In the city of the world's desire
by Anne-Katrin Titze
Ceyda Torun on KEDi, cats, femininity and the soul of Istanbul.
A nice cup of tea and a murder
by Jennie Kermode
Jamie McKeller on The Book Club, legalising murder, serial killers and cake.
Picturing a life
by Anne-Katrin Titze
Aisling Walsh on Maud Lewis, her home, her paintings and the passing of time.
Completing the trip
by Anne-Katrin Titze
Bertrand Tavernier on Jacques Becker, Claude Sautet, Jean-Pierre Melville and his Journey Through French Cinema.
Shifting identities
by Amber Wilkinson
EIFF's Niall Greig Fulton talks to us about his Brexit-inspired retrospective.
The avenger
by Anne-Katrin Titze
Emmanuelle Devos on playing a woman stalking her son's killer in Moka.
Meeting Maudie
by Anne-Katrin Titze
Aisling Walsh on working with Sally Hawkins and Ethan Hawke, and choosing costumes.
Confessions of a film director
by Anne-Katrin Titze
Roberto Andò on his latest film: money, religion and the end of time as we know it.
For whom the Bell tolls
by Anne-Katrin Titze
Sabine Krayenbühl and Zeva Oelbaum talk Letters From Baghdad, Thelma Schoonmaker, Werner Herzog, Ridley Scott and more.
Kruger returns to her mother tongue
by Richard Mowe
Star on terror attacks, women’s roles, Tarantino and Romy Schneider.
Pattinson has a Good Time changing image
by Richard Mowe
'Invisible' Twilight star goes for grunge in Cannes.
Inside the Quad
by Anne-Katrin Titze
C Mason Wells talks Goldie Hawn, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Immigrant Songs and more.
Sofia gets all her own way
by Richard Mowe
The Beguiled director on Farrell, Kidman and Dunst.
Throwing down the gauntlet
by Jennie Kermode
Lawrie Brewster and Sarah Daly on The Black Gloves.
Elton inspires three young filmmakers
by Richard Mowe
Video shorts evoke singer's classic songs.
'Film is the best way to deliver a powerful message'
by Richard Mowe
Gore on his fight to save planet.
In the spirit of Twin Peaks
by Anne-Katrin Titze
Jon Nguyen on David Lynch: The Art Life, Naomi Watts, and the films that made it all happen.
Kidman out of her comfort zone
by Richard Mowe
Four different faces of star at Cannes
A first time for everything
by Anne-Katrin Titze
C Mason Wells on the joys of First Encounters at the Quad.
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