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Woman Unknown: May el-Toukhy’s elegant postwar drama thrums with tension but rarely connects to anything deeper
Mathilde Arcel gives a committed performance as a young housemaid haunted by her relationship with a Germain soldier, but el-Toukhy’s Golden Lion-winner fails to give its heroine a personality beyond her predicament.
By Jessica Kiang
“I never made a movie to just go make a movie, it was always an exploration of filmmaking”: our world exclusive interview with Tom Cruise
By Isabel Stevens
Primetime: Robert Pattinson gives a devilish performance as a ‘paedophile-hunting’ TV presenter
By John Bleasdale
Let Us Through, Dear Ancestors: Lav Diaz explores the horrors inflicted upon the Philippine islands in a smart historical epic
By Travis Jeppesen
All about my mother: Annouchka de Andrade on Sarah Maldoror
By Annouchka de Andrade
The making of a super-producer: Jeremy Thomas interviewed in 2014
By Nick James
Dancing at the revolution: the cinema of Sarah Maldoror
By Rachel Pronger
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The making of a super-producer: Jeremy Thomas interviewed in 2014
Legendary British producer Jeremy Thomas, who has died aged 77, helped bring to the screen some of arthouse cinema's most enduring films, from Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence (1982) to The Last Emperor (1987) to Crash (1996) to Sexy Beast (2000). In tribute, we republish this extended interview, conducted in 2014.
By Nick James
The discreet murderer of the bourgeoisie: an interview with Claude Chabrol
By Rui Nogueira and Nicoletta Zalaffi
“He is the blockbuster given human form”: J. Hoberman on Arnold Schwarzenegger
By J. Hoberman
“We wanted the film to have a vibrancy, to be larger than life”: Danny Boyle on Trainspotting
By Geoffrey Macnab
Of monsters and men: Peter Wollen on Jurassic Park
By Peter Wollen
Darkest hour: the first ever film of a solar eclipse
By Bryony Dixon
“It earns every hair it stiffens”: Alejandro Amenábar’s The Others
By Nick James
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