Stephanie Bunbury

Film and Culture Writer at Sydney Morning Herald

Film and Culture Writer at The Age

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The mother in this film is so awful she couldn’t be anything but real

1 week ago | smh.com.au | Stephanie Bunbury

, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. When a movie starts with a declaration that it is based on a true story, Lars Eidinger usually feels a rising irritation. “OK, why are they telling me that?” he asks himself. “What difference does it make?”But in Matthias Glasner’s Dying, where Eidinger plays a character whose tormented relationship with his family is based word-for-word on the director’s real life, he saw the point.
After 14 years as Vera, Brenda Blethyn finds out why she got the role

1 week ago | smh.com.au | Stephanie Bunbury

, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Ann Cleeves, the deceptively mild-mannered crime novelist who created DCI Vera Stanhope, eponymous star of the long-running TV series, says she didn’t go on set too often. Even though they filmed around where she lives in Northumbria, she would drop in only once during each of its 14 seasons. That was enough, however, to give her a sense of the company’s esprit de corps.
From Snowtown to Narrow Road, Justin Kurzel has found his way home

2 weeks ago | watoday.com.au | Stephanie Bunbury

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From Snowtown to Narrow Road, Justin Kurzel has found his way home

2 weeks ago | smh.com.au | Stephanie Bunbury

, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Justin Kurzel and his wife Essie Davis were in London in 2019 to share the thrill when their friend Richard Flanagan scooped the Booker Prize for fiction with The Narrow Road to the Deep North. The story drew on Flanagan’s father’s experiences working as a Japanese prisoner of war on the Burma Railway.
Cillian Murphy interview about his new film Small Things Like These

2 weeks ago | watoday.com.au | Stephanie Bunbury

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Cillian Murphy interview about his new film Small Things Like These

2 weeks ago | smh.com.au | Stephanie Bunbury

The Oppenheimer star went straight back to the low-key life he loves. In his latest film, he delivers his best performance yet. , register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Having an Oscar, says Cillian Murphy, hasn’t really changed anything for him. Two weeks after the ceremony in 2024, where he was named best actor for his lead performance in Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer, he was back on a film set.
No plot, no conflict, no drama: How Samantha Harvey crafted an unlikely Booker Prize winner

1 month ago | smh.com.au | Stephanie Bunbury

, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. There is no way Samantha Harvey would ever head into space. “I am so spectacularly not an astronaut,” she said, the day after her novel Orbital won the Booker Prize. “I’m so unadventurous, so unaudacious, so impractical, cowardly, anxious.
‘Why would you make us do it again?’: the secret to Toni Collette’s acting success

1 month ago | watoday.com.au | Stephanie Bunbury

‘Why would you make us do it again?’: the secret to Toni Collette’s acting successThe Aussie actor jumped at the chance to work with South Korean master Bong Joon-ho on new film, Mickey 17. “I never want to work any other way”: Toni Collette talks up Mickey 17 at the Berlin Film Festival. SaveNormal text sizeLarger text sizeVery large text sizeAs an actor, says Toni Collette, you know when you’ve got a scene. At that point, she says, it’s time to move on.
‘Why would you make us do it again?’: the secret to Toni Collette’s acting success

1 month ago | smh.com.au | Stephanie Bunbury

, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. As an actor, says Toni Collette, you know when you’ve got a scene. At that point, she says, it’s time to move on. “A lot of directors, when you get it, still want to labour it. Even if you nail it, they’ll say ‘let’s get another one for safety’, which is my least favourite thing in the world,” she says. “You’re never going to get the mystery of whatever happened in that moment again.
A film villain finally gets to play the hero. Just don’t hold his hand

1 month ago | smh.com.au | Stephanie Bunbury

Dark, handsome and vaguely dangerous, Claes Bang has embodied some of the most odious men on screen. William Tell makes a pleasant change. , register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Claes Bang was 50 when Ruben Ostlund’s The Square won the Palme D’Or at the 2017 Cannes Film Festival.