The actor Morgan Freeman always wanted to work with: “I’m one of his huge fans”
Even cinema’s elder statesmen have their favourites.
Author: Scott Campbell Archives: 06/2024
“That’s greatness”: Werner Herzog on the only movie that achieves perfect balance
The man knows what he likes.
“You can watch it over and over again”: the movie Sam Rockwell calls “perfect”
If it’s not perfection, it’s pretty close.
The movie Quentin Tarantino called “the exploitation version of ‘Mean Streets'”
It wasn’t lost on Scorsese, either.
The films that shaped an icon: Brian De Palma’s favourite movies of the 1960s
The making of a directorial star.
“Jerry really spread his wings”: How ‘Seinfeld’ changed after Larry David left
The law of diminishing returns is inevitable.
The movie that made David Lean want to retire: “It really had such an awful effect on me”
A rude awakening for a lauded talent.
A little too long in the tooth: the gigantic role Cary Grant turned down
It could have altered the course of history.
The world’s longest bus journey: the regular service between London and Calcutta, India
A replacement service was not offered.
The 10 greatest non-English Shakespeare movie adaptations of all time
Tragedy tends to be universal.
Paul Newman vs Steve McQueen: the pettiest battle in Hollywood history
Figurative dick-measuring on an epic scale.