Rash Reading, Slow Watching with Virginia Woolf and Chantal Akerman

To encounter Virginia Woolf and Chantal Akerman is to be plunged into worlds where women who are mothers are watched by women who are daughters. But centering motherhood in their works is... Read more »

Jeremy Thomas, British producer of The Last Emperor and Sexy Beast, dies aged 77 | Film industry

Jeremy Thomas, the distinguished British producer of films including Sexy Beast, High-Rise and the multi-Oscar-winning The Last Emperor, has died aged 77. A representative for Thomas said he died on Friday “peacefully,... Read more »

Life of M by Rachel Cusk review – is this story of a film star based on Natalie Portman? | Fiction

M is a celebrated film actor. A star since childhood, now the face of a major fashion brand, she has been famous all her life. That her career closely resembles Natalie Portman’s has... Read more »
‘I was hyperventilating and sobbing’: Tomi Adeyemi says Children of Blood and Bone film ‘the worst thing I’ve ever lived through’ | Movies

‘I was hyperventilating and sobbing’: Tomi Adeyemi says Children of Blood and Bone film ‘the worst thing I’ve ever lived through’ | Movies

Tomi Adeyemi, the author of Children of Blood and Bone, has spoken further on the difficult process behind adapting her novel for this big screen, calling it “the worst thing I have... Read more »
A Sudden Flicker of Light by David Thomson review – a brilliantly eccentric history of the movies | Film books

A Sudden Flicker of Light by David Thomson review – a brilliantly eccentric history of the movies | Film books

Film critic, historian and author of more than 40 books, David Thomson is back with another three-hour free jazz solo on the subject of the movies, though it’s a performance delivered with... Read more »
‘Attacked behind the scenes’: Children of Blood & Bone author Tomi Adeyemi distances herself from film adaptation | Young adult

‘Attacked behind the scenes’: Children of Blood & Bone author Tomi Adeyemi distances herself from film adaptation | Young adult

Tomi Adeyemi, the author of the popular YA fantasy Children of Blood and Bone, has distanced herself from the forthcoming film adaptation of her book. “There is a reason I will not... Read more »
Done Quixote? Film archivists on quest to finish Orson Welles passion project | Orson Welles

Done Quixote? Film archivists on quest to finish Orson Welles passion project | Orson Welles

More than 70 years after he shot the first few frames, Orson Welles’s ambitious project to put Don Quixote on the big screen may finally be completed thanks to a consortium of... Read more »
A Sudden Flicker of Light by David Thomson review – a brilliantly eccentric history of the movies | Film books

‘Don DeLillo gave me his blessing’: film director Ben Rivers on how fan mail from the Underworld author led to his latest work | Books

Nine-year-old girls reciting the gnomic prose of Don DeLillo – it sounds like an extreme English detention, but for film-maker Ben Rivers this was the foundation of his new movie, and the... Read more »
Mick Jagger to play Josh O’Connor’s father in new film from Alice Rohrwacher | Movies

Mick Jagger to play Josh O’Connor’s father in new film from Alice Rohrwacher | Movies

Rolling Stones singer Mick Jagger is playing a lighthouse keeper in the new film from Happy as Lazzaro director Alice Rohrwacher, which is currently filming on the Italian island of Stromboli. According... Read more »
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