All articles by Lou Thomas
The Most Beautiful Boy in the World directors: “The film industry has a history of sad stories about child actors”
At 15 years old, Björn Andrésen was dubbed the “most beautiful boy in the world” by director Luchino Visconti, who cast him as the object of desire in Death in Venice. But instant fame weighed heavily on the young star, as filmmakers Kristina Lindström and Kristian Petri reveal in their new documentary.
By Lou Thomas
“I love playing the rascal”: William H. Macy looks back at Fargo
By Lou Thomas
10 great American neo-noirs of the 1990s
By Lou Thomas
50 years of Get Carter: a new interview with director Mike Hodges
By Lou Thomas
Scenes from the world in 2020: Kevin Macdonald on his new Life in a Day project
By Lou Thomas
The murky world of video nasties: Prano Bailey-Bond on her gruesome retro-horror Censor
By Lou Thomas
British films at Sundance 2021: What to watch out for
By Lou Thomas
Soul’s afterlife body-swap comedy shows Pixar still has it
By Lou Thomas
Kristen Wiig: 6 essential performances
By Lou Thomas
On the phone to Werner Herzog: ‘A deep existential solitude is coming at us’
By Lou Thomas
Riz Ahmed on Mogul Mowgli: ‘It was like a Curb Your Enthusiasm moment put through a Muslim filter’
By Lou Thomas
Nine discoveries from the 2020 Berlinale
By Ela Bittencourt, Jamie Dunn and others
No Hard Feelings director Faraz Shariat: ‘Racism is a tool that structures our entire society’
By Lou Thomas
Onward review: Pixar’s fantasy quest uncovers brotherly love
By Lou Thomas
British films at the Berlin Film Festival 2020: what to look out for
By Lou Thomas
British films at the Berlin Film Festival 2020: What to look out for
By Lou Thomas
From Kubrick to Mad Max: 8 films that influenced Birds of Prey
By Lou Thomas
From Kubrick to Mad Max: Eight films that influenced Birds of Prey
By Lou Thomas
Daniel Isn’t Real review: an enjoyably edgy psychological horror
By Lou Thomas
The Report director Scott Z. Burns: ‘In the paranoia and fear after 9/11, we lost the plot’
By Lou Thomas
Ken Loach on Sorry We Missed You: ‘I want to be part of the world, not somehow locked away’
By Lou Thomas
The Last Black Man in San Francisco: Jimmie Fails on his gentrification drama
By Lou Thomas
Willem Dafoe on The Lighthouse: ‘It’s a good discipline to know how to be by yourself’
By Lou Thomas
It Chapter Two review: a pungently nostalgic pop-horror epic
By Lou Thomas
Joanna Hogg on The Souvenir: six visual influences
By Lou Thomas
Katie Puckrik on The Word: ‘The show is responsible for the 90s’
By Lou Thomas
90 great films of the 1990s
By Peter Hill, Georgia Korossi and others