We Need to Talk About Kevin - Lynne Ramsay interview

The Ratcatcher director discusses adapting Lionel Shriver's best-seller

‘Every film has its ups and downs. Each time it seems like pushing a boat over a mountain. I worked on The Lovely Bones for five years before my involvement fell apart. I am committed when I make a film and if it takes a long time I would rather wait. I…

Paradis Regained: Heartbreaker

Matching up diminutive Gallic songstress Vanessa Paradis with hunky acting heavyweight Roman Duris may not have been an obvious fit, but the combination has proved electric. Richard Mowe talks to both actors ahead of the EIFF screening of their film…

Profile - Tarsem Singh

Name Tarsem Singh Born 6 May 1961 Background Against the wishes of his pilot father, who wanted him to attend Harvard Business School, Singh made his way instead to Los Angeles and won a scholarship to the Art Center College of Design. After…

The Fall (Myrin)

FANTASY Extravagant, self-indulgent, amazing, eye-catching, confusing: the second feature by Tarsem Singh, the Indian-born director who gave us the wacky The Cell with Jennifer Lopez, warrants all these adjectives and more. By the end of it all, you…

Robert De Niro

Family affair

What better way to kick off a preview of this autumn’s movie highlights than with a bona-fide legend, Robert De Niro. The two-time Oscar winner has always been notoriously reticent about his private life, but here Richard Mowe finds him playing a family…

Summer Film Special - Audrey Tautou - Priceless

She scurries into the opulent embrace of the Grand Hotel in Paris, leaving behind the hubbub of the city, and plonks herself down in a capacious settee, legs decorously crossed, for a morning of interviews. The arresting brown eyes still exude a…

Top Gere

Outside the Hotel de Russie in Rome there’s an army of screaming women interspersed with Roman youths feigning curiosity. Film star Richard Gere appears mildly astonished at the state of siege. You suspect that all this attention could not fail to…