‘We said to Natalie Portman, we need you to protect the movie. And she did’
Ugo Bienvenu, director of the Oscar-nominated animated film Arco, on sticking with his creative vision
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Darren Aronofsky: ‘What happened over Covid was the streaming war. That’s what killed cinema’
The director’s latest film, Caught Stealing, keeps more within genre lines (this time, crime caper) than many of his other, less categorisable works such as Requiem for a Dream and Mother!
A biopic of Sinéad O’Connor? There are reasons to want what we haven’t yet got
A film about Sinéad O’Connor could prove welcome
Cannes 2025: An emotional screening of My Mom Jayne, and Kristen Stewart’s ‘big Cannes energy’
Cannes Diary: Plus reviews of The Chronology of Water, Nouvelle Vague and Die, My Love
Domhnall Gleeson on nepo babies: ‘I’ve been so lucky. It’s important you can acknowledge it. Otherwise you’re lying to yourself’
The actor on ‘the Harry Potter thing’, his role in Guy Ritchie’s Fountain of Youth, and the gift that Tom Cruise keeps sending him
Angelina Jolie: ‘It’s usually just me alone with my kids. I actually have quite a private life’
To play Maria Callas in Pablo Larraín’s new film, the star is drawing on her own experience of fame. But she’s far more ordinary than you might think, she says
Fair dues to Nicole Kidman, but who’s watching all the telly she’s in?
With so many services, nobody can absorb this much comedy, drama, reality, documentary, news, sport and movies – or even grasp what’s available
Lady in the Lake review: Natalie Portman casts a potent spell in eerie period thriller
Television: Apple TV’s latest melancholic drama has a nightmarish quality that occasionally verges on the supernatural. It isn’t for everyone
May December: Todd Haynes’s new film is brilliant. But should you really be enjoying it?
Todd Haynes plays wicked games with our appetite for the tabloid cycle in one of the best films of 2023
Joanne O'Riordan: Women’s sport is having its moment – let’s make it last
Women’s events are attracting record crowds – it’s time to build on that success
Directing Halloween Kills: ‘It’s not just a fan-service type of movie’
David Gordon Green on taking up the blood-soaked baton of the slasher film franchise
Barbara Hershey: ‘I wish I could say I breastfed my son on TV for some badass reason’
The Beaches star on Woody Allen, chick flicks v ‘real’ films, and women making movies after 40
Moby on Natalie Portman: ‘The whole thing left me nonplussed’
The musician on cancel culture, the Natalie Portman controversy and disgrace
Olivia Rodrigo: I’m really proud to sing about emotions frowned on as bitchy and moaning
The Drivers License singer on turning her first big breakup into the year’s biggest hit
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