Josh Slater-Williams
Filmmaker Rose Glass on making this year’s best horror
Saint Maud — After a lengthy delay, the British writer-director’s unforgettable debut feature is finally in UK cinemas. To mark its release, she explains how she constructed empathetic genre movie concerning mental illness and body horror.
Written by: Josh Slater-Williams
How Robert Eggers made this year’s strangest film
To The Lighthouse — The New Hampshire filmmaker’s second feature is a psychological two-hander about two warring lighthouse keepers. To mark its UK release, he tells us why it probably won’t be for everybody.
Written by: Josh Slater-Williams
Noah Jupe and Lucas Hedges on acting as therapy
Honey boys — The two actors play versions of Shia LaBeouf at different stages of his life, in a film that he wrote in rehab. To mark its UK release, we find about their own relationships with stardom.
Written by: Josh Slater-Williams
The Sundance breakout taking on gentrification
Tales of the city — Ahead of its UK release, the team behind The Last Black Man In San Francisco explain how they made this year’s indie breakout – a story about friendship, solitude and displacement.
Written by: Josh Slater-Williams
Filmmaker Lulu Wang talks laughing through the tears
The Farewell — The writer-director’s tragicomic drama begins with words ‘Based on an actual lie’. Ahead of the film’s US release, she discusses adapting a real-life fib into one of 2019’s most buzzed-about films – one that finds laughter among the melancholy.
Written by: Josh Slater-Williams
Ray & Liz: an exploration of family life in Thatcher’s Britain
On the breadline — In Ray & Liz, photographer turned writer-director Richard Billingham presents a tale of deprivation and loneliness set in the West Midlands – based on his own upbringing.
Written by: Josh Slater-Williams
‘As a woman, I felt uncomfortable with my libido’
Lola Kirke in conversation — In between touring her debut album Heart Head West, the musician and actor takes a break to talk self-promotion, sexual frustration and why she’s convinced that acting is a ‘dying art form.’
Written by: Josh Slater-Williams
The strange story of Orson Welles’ final years
They’ll Love Me When I’m Dead — As the world gears up for The Other Side of the Wind – Orson Welles’ unfinished film, released after 40 years – a new documentary looks back on the decade leading up to his death, as he struggled to complete his magnum opus.
Written by: Josh Slater-Williams