Isabel Stevens
All articles by Isabel Stevens
Adventures in mini moviegoing
Films made for children are too often the poor, neglected orphans in critical discussions of cinema, treated as an inevitably candy-coloured, emotionally simplified toy version of the real thing. But the best filmmakers know that children are quick-witted, dark and complicated creatures – and they make movies to match.
By Isabel Stevens
In pictures: How the west was done – Wes Anderson on Asteroid City’s production design
By Isabel Stevens
No man’s land: Céline Sciamma on Portrait of a Lady on Fire
By Isabel Stevens
“It’s almost like a silent movie”: Mark Jenkin on his upcoming 1970s-set horror Enys Men
By Isabel Stevens
The best films of 2021: the year in cinema
By Isabel Stevens
The Cannes dispatch: notes from the riviera
By Isabel Stevens
Come dine with me: in the filmmaker’s house with Marc Isaacs
By Isabel Stevens
Ten key cinema workers on the way out of lockdown
By Katie McCabe and Isabel Stevens
The most anticipated films of 2021
By Thomas Flew, Devika Girish and others
Ten films to watch out for in 2020
By Isabel Stevens, Kaleem Aftab and others
Bacurau first look: a way out weird western for menacing times
By Isabel Stevens
“People need to know this”: County Lines and the teenage trauma of drug running
By Isabel Stevens
Forgotten treasures of the multiplex
By Ryan Gilbey, Nick James and others
“I’m drawn to survivors”: Francis Lee on Ammonite
By Isabel Stevens
Lockdown lessons: BFI CEO Ben Roberts on UK film and the Covid crisis
By Isabel Stevens
I turn my back on you: black movie poster art
By Isabel Stevens
Lockdown lessons: 13 UK film industry leaders on coping with Covid
By Isabel Stevens and Trevor Johnston
No man’s land: Céline Sciamma on Portrait of a Lady on Fire
By Isabel Stevens
Portrait of a Lady on Fire first look: Céline Sciamma conjures an oasis of female freedom
By Isabel Stevens
Parasite first look: Bong Joon-ho builds a wicked bridge over the class divide
By Isabel Stevens
“When you hold a mirror to society it rebels”: Katharina Kubrick on Eyes Wide Shut
By Isabel Stevens
I Lost My Body review: the touching tale of a manus on a mission
By Isabel Stevens
Costume drama: Sandy Powell on designing the costumes for The Irishman
By Isabel Stevens
Alejandro Landes on Monos: “Leave your prejudices at the door”
By Isabel Stevens
Introducing the 2019 BFI London Film Festival: the top titles to see
By Isabel Stevens