The brief career of an icon: what was James Dean’s best movie?
A short-lived but powerful contribution to cinema.
Author: Scott Campbell Archives: 06/2024
Jamie Uys: South Africa’s most quintessential filmmaker
A figurehead of the nation’s cinematic evolution.
“An unprecedented experience”: the director Scarlett Johansson called “every actor’s dream”
The result was one of her best performances.
“Absolutely nothing to lose”: the co-star Christian Bale called incredibly intense
A trait he’s very familiar with.
Defiant art: The movie Francis Ford Coppola was “constantly damned and ridiculed for”
He likes it, and that’s all that matters.
Jane Fonda names the performance that had a “profound impact on my approach to acting”
Not that she was struggling beforehand.
“I thought it was operatic”: Steven Spielberg named George Lucas’ most accomplished movie
An opinion that may not be reciprocated by many.
An ode to Hollywood: David Lynch names “one of my favourite films”
An opinion he’s held for a long time.
‘Kilroy was here’: the World War II-era meme that became a political statement
When a doodle gains a life of its own.