Ryan Gilbey

2 weeks ago | theguardian.com | Ryan Gilbey

Julianne Moore has played some right mothers in her time. There was Amber Waves in Boogie Nights, whose pornography career and cocaine addiction costs her access to her child. Or Maude, the outre artist – “My work has been commended as being strongly vaginal” – whose determination to conceive drives much of in The Big Lebowski.

2 weeks ago | msn.com | Ryan Gilbey

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2 weeks ago | theguardian.com | Ryan Gilbey

Asked how she would know when she had hit the big time, the beguiling actor Taina Elg, who has died aged 95, said: “When people no longer trip over my name.”When she arrived in the US in 1954 at the start of her contract with MGM, a newspaper campaign engineered by the studio and sponsored by Armour Star meat products offered readers the chance to win a six-room house or $25,000 cash by proposing a new name for this latest exotic star-in-the-making.

2 weeks ago | theguardian.com | Ryan Gilbey

25. Portrait of a Lady on Fire (2019)One detractor called it “a Shawshank Redemption for progressive millennials”. But the force of Céline Sciamma’s lesbian love story about an artist and her unwitting sitter on a remote island in 18th-century Brittany is undeniable. As is the integrity of its central dynamic, stripped of power imbalances, hierarchies – and men. 24.

3 weeks ago | independent.co.uk | Ryan Gilbey

In Focus‘Femme’, a violent erotic drama starring Nathan Stewart-Jarrett and George MacKay, hit a handful of cinemas in 2023. And its tortured journey to release – as well as its rejection by elite institutions in the British film industry – speaks to the incredibly narrow and polarised landscape for queer stories today, writes Ryan GilbeyIn 2023, the British filmmaker Campbell X put out an invitation on social media to “please share with me your most controversial take on LGBTQI films”.