Cinema & TV
“I’m attracted to the moral ambiguity”: Director Sara Colangelo on The Kindergarten Teacher
The Kindergarten Teacher is a taut psychodrama of a woman searching for fulfilment along morally ambiguous lines when…
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“It’s about a working-class family hit by the last financial crisis harshness”: Paddy Breathnach on Rosie
Rosie is the Ireland-set, Ken Loach-esque film written by Roddy Doyle (The Commitments, Family, Two Lives: Hell for…
By Sarah Bradbury
Cinema & TV
Border: Director Ali Abbasi and stars Eva Melander and Eero Milonoff discuss outsiders and confronting otherness in their Un Certain Regard-winning film
Ali Abbasi’s Border is the genre-troubling winner of 2018’s Un Certain Regard at Cannes, adapted from John Ajvide…
By Sylvia Unerman
Cinema & TV
“We are holding up someone who prides gentleness as being one of the greatest human qualities”: Woman Walks Ahead director Susanna White on subverting the mindless violence of the Western
Woman Walks Ahead, the beguiling tale of Catherine Weldon (Jessica Chastain), a Swiss-American portrait painter who travels to…
By Ghazaleh Golpira
Cinema & TV
“On paper the film looks like a suicide project”: An interview with Samuel Maoz, director of Foxtrot
Samuel Maoz triumphed at the Venice Film Festival in 2009 with his debut feature Lebanon. Eight years later he…
By Filippo L'Astorina
Cinema & TV
“Now more than ever we need portrayals of strong, independent, beautiful, complex and creative women”: A Private War director Matthew Heineman explains what drew him to Marie Colvin’s story
Academy Award-nominated and Emmy-winning documentary director Matthew Heineman turns his hand to narrative film with his feature debut,…
By Sarah Bradbury
Cinema & TV
That’s the best achievement I believe you can have, that the film brings up emotions, makes you shiver inside, makes you ask yourself something: An interview with Nina director Olga Chajdas
Nina is a drama from first-time Polish director Olga Chajdas, charting the story of a woman (Julia Kijowska)…
By Sarah Bradbury
Theatre
“The joy of Vault is seeing people come for one type of show and then staying and watching something else they would have never seen otherwise”: An interview with the programmers of Vault Festival 2019
In its seventh year, London’s most innovative and exhilarating arts and entertainment event, Vault Festival 2019 presents over…
By Catherine Sedgwick
Food & Drink
“A very enjoyable nightmare”: Rishi Naleendra and Manuela Toniolo on Michelin-starred Cheek by Jowl
Serving up Michelin-starred modern Australian cuisine in Singapore since 2017, Cheek by Jowl is the beloved brainchild of…
By Rosamund Kelby
Cinema & TV
The London Critic’s Circle Film Awards: A chat with Pedro Almodóvar, Richard E Grant and Anya Taylor-Joy
Last night we had the pleasure of being invited to the London Critic's Circle Film Awards at the…
By Sarah Bradbury