INTERVIEW: ELLEN BURSTYN

"Ellen Burstyn is  the kind of actress who in England who would have been made a dame long ago: elegant of bearing,  regal of poise, bu...

PROFILE: STEVEN SPIELBERG

'When Steven Spielberg is enthused, which is often, his sentences pick up speed and momentum, the words seemingly unable to leave his mo...

On my iPod: July 2nd 2016

1. Sunday Love — Bats for Lashes 2. Best to You — Blood Orange 3. Juno — Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross 4. Sledgehammer — Rihanna 5. Runaway ...

PROFILE: MELISSA MATHISON

'Such intimacy of collaboration between a writer and director is rare. The days of Howard Hawks playing backgammon on set with Ben Hecht...

Best things I've seen in 2016 so far

1. Ralph Fiennes in A Bigger Splash 2.  The night time car rides in Midnight Special  3. Riley Keogh in The Girlfriend Experience  4. The tr...

GABLER'S BARBARA STREISAND

'Like the novels of Henry James, the philosophy of Arthur Schopenhauer and the  Times  crossword puzzle, the modern diva thrives on diff...

Quentin Tarantino Top Ten

As is my tradition when starting a new book on a filmmaker, my list of Tarantino movies, ranked (to see if there are any changes once I'...

INTERVIEW : ANNE TYLER

'Nearly all of her books are set in Baltimore, concern large families, marking time with the usual watersheds of family life — courtship...

Trump and the art of the braggart

'Trump’s MO is much the same as Clay’s: constant declamation of his own worth ( “I will be the greatest jobs president that God ever cr...

INTERVIEW: KATE BECKINSALE

'England can be a little proprietorial about its actresses. Reading between the lines of the stellar reviews ( “the most entertaining p...

The death of the big screen

“That's certainly what the movie philosophers are thinking,“ says Lynda Obst veteran producer of Sleepless in Seattle and last year’s  I...

PROFILE: TERRENCE MALICK

'The new Terrence Malick film  Knight of Cups  arrives in cinemas this week. Or perhaps it would be more accurate to say “the ongoing Te...

Top Ten Prince tracks

1. Sign O' The Times 2. Kiss 3. When Doves Cry 4. Raspberry Beret 5. If I Was Your Girlfriend 6. Let's Go Crazy 7. Sexy Mothafucker ...

On My iPod: April 15th 2016

1. Laser Gun — M83 2. Waves (Tame Impala Remix) — Miguel 3. The Sound — The 1975 4. Everything I Have is Yours  — Villagers 5. Never Knew Yo...

REVIEW: 'UNFINISHED' at the MET

'A whole room could have been put together from the subset of works interrupted by the French revolution, including   David’s portrait o...

REVIEW: MIDNIGHT SPECIAL (Nichols)

'The director Jeff Nichols  has rather crept up on us, much like his films. He has made four of them — “Shotgun Stories” (2007), “Take S...

BEST FILM SCORES of 2015

1. Carol — Carter Burwell 2. The Revenant — Ryuichi Sakamoto 3.  The Danish Girl  — Alexandre Desplat 4.   Inside Out  — Michael Giacchino 5...