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3 weeks ago | 
bfi.org.uk | Alex Ramon |Dominic Lees |Rachel Pronger |Katie McCabe
Frederic Raphael is a writer so renowned for waspish wit that the prospect of interviewing him is exciting and intimidating in about equal measure. One of his Cambridge contemporaries, Jonathan Miller, identified a “piranha-like savagery” in Raphael’s work.
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3 weeks ago | 
bfi.org.uk | Dominic Lees |Rachel Pronger |Katie McCabe |Isabel Stevens
To discuss the issue of AI, I spoke to Natasha Lyonne, who runs the Los Angeles production company Animal Pictures with fellow actor and comedian Maya Rudolph. Lyonne has been a screen actor since childhood, getting widely noticed in Woody Allen’s Everyone Says I Love You (1996) and reaching wider fame through her work on Orange Is the New Black (2013-19). She recently received her fifth Emmy nomination for Rian Johnson’s crime drama Poker Face.
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3 weeks ago | 
bfi.org.uk | Katie McCabeInterviews |Katie McCabe |Rachel Pronger |Isabel Stevens
The Australian stop-motion animator discusses his latest film, a ‘clayography’ of a snail-loving hoarder whose difficult life has caused her to retreat into her shell. 30 May 2025Sadness is Adam Elliot’s happy place. In his stop-motion animated films, his oddball characters face all manner of misfortunes – a life-threatening lightning strike and testicular cancer for Harvey Krumpet (2003), bully-inflicted hearing loss for Ernie Biscuit (2015), despairing loneliness for Mary and Max (2009).
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1 month ago | 
bfi.org.uk | Sam Wigley |Josh Slater-Williams |Leigh Singer |Katie McCabe
Twenty-five years on from the premiere of In the Mood for Love, Wong Kar Wai looks back on the complicated genesis of his masterpiece of desire and restraint. 20 May 2025The film that premiered at the Cannes Film Festival 25 years ago, on 20 May 2000, was not the one that Wong Kar Wai had envisaged when he set out on the project sometime around 1997. Far from it. In the Mood for Love emerged from a succession of rapidly evolving projects. One was called Summer in Beijing – it was a comedy.
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1 month ago | 
bfi.org.uk | Anton Bitel |Tom Charity |Katie McCabe
Death is patient. Zach Lipovsky and Adam Stein’s Final Destination Bloodlines has been a long time coming, some 14 years after the last in the franchise – and while every entry is inscribed with the sense of an ending, given that they are all chronicles of deaths foretold, Steven Quale’s Final Destination 5 (2011) seemed genuinely to bring the franchise’s narrative arc full circle, looping back to the start of James Wong’s Final Destination (2000).
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1 month ago | 
bfi.org.uk | Josh Slater-Williams |Leigh Singer |Katie McCabe |Lou Thomas
To speak with Fran Rubel Kuzui is to feast on fascinating stories from the international art and film worlds of the late 20th century, to the extent that a full transcript of our entire unedited conversation could plausibly sustain a small fanzine. I mention that specific type of publication for the scrappiness inherent to its form, where vibrant tributes to cultural scenes are born from people pulling together what they can out of sheer love for their subject.
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1 month ago | 
bfi.org.uk | Tom Charity |Katie McCabe |Alex Davidson
It may not feature physical violence, but India Donaldson’s patient story of a teenage girl enduring the petty disputes and selfishness of her father and his best friend during a three-day hike is its own kind of backwoods horror. 14 May 2025The first feature by writer-director India Donaldson makes a virtue of simplicity. It’s set over the course of three days, and for the most part three characters share the screen.
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1 month ago | 
bfi.org.uk | Katie McCabeReviews |Katie McCabe |Alex Davidson |Giovanni Marchini Camia
When the Irish architect and furniture designer Eileen Gray created her first building, a modernist villa in the Côte d’Azur, she coded a romantic gesture into its name: E.1027. It’s significant that she began by asserting her own name, E for Eileen, as the rest is a fusion of two lovers: numbers for her initials, and for that of her partner, the French architecture critic Jean Badovici.
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1 month ago | 
bfi.org.uk | Leigh Singer |Katie McCabe |Lou Thomas |Sam Wigley
After Zoe Flower’s mother Geraldine died, she and her partner Simon Byrt discovered a case of treasured letters, photographs and memorabilia from Geraldine’s life in the 1960s and 70s: heartfelt correspondences from a life of travel and adventure, secrets and passionate love affairs, some even suggesting liaisons with spies… Sharing these with Byrt’s longtime musical collaborator, Icelandic-Italian songwriter Emiliana Torrini, provided the inspiration for an entire new album based on...
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1 month ago | 
hercampus.com | Katie McCabe
As I have grown older, I have truly realized just how powerful the friendships in your life can be. While I feel as though I have always held my friendships close to my heart, experiencing high school, and, recently, my freshman year of college, has made me realize just how important it is to have friends close by while you tackle life head on. More specifically, I am a firm believer in the power and importance of women having strong female friendships.
