Katie McCabeInterviews

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).

2 months ago | bfi.org.uk | Katie McCabeInterviews |Katie McCabe |Lou Thomas |Sam Wigley

Dea Kulumbegashvili’s debut feature, Beginning (2020) announced a new voice in Georgian filmmaking from its opening scene with the sight of a Molotov cocktail smashing through the window of a Jehovah’s Witness hall, engulfing a terrified congregation in smoke as they try to escape the flames.

Oct 9, 2024 | bfi.org.uk | Katie McCabeInterviews |Katie McCabe |David West |Lou Thomas

Kathy Burke will never do anything she doesn’t want to do. Unfortunately for the rest of us, that includes acting – most of the time. Throughout the 1990s, she was one of the most recognisable faces in British comedy. You couldn’t turn on a TV without catching a glimpse of her as the brilliantly horrible Linda in Gimme Gimme Gimme (1999–2001) or as hangdog teenage boy Perry – a part she embodied with unbelievably funny, Stanislavskian conviction – in Harry Enfield and Chums (1990-1997).

Jul 30, 2024 | bfi.org.uk | Katie McCabe |Geoff Andrew |Alex Davidson |Katie McCabeInterviews

With I Saw the TV Glow, director Jane Schoenbrun has crafted a cult hit from a love of cult media. Their first feature We’re All Going to the World’s Fair, about a young teen participating in an online role-playing horror game, was a sublimely creepy exploration of what it was like to grow up on the internet. Now, they’ve made a film about spending adolescence glued to a cathode-ray TV screen, searching for escape from an ill-fitting identity.