Getty ImagesThe cult classic's guerilla techniques and daring subject matter helped to kickstart a new era. Just before its release in 1969, the BBC interviewed its director, Dennis Hopper, discovering an actor as idiosyncratic as his film.On 17 October 1969,...
Bloomsbury Press, University of California Press, W W Norton & Company(Credit: Bloomsbury Press, University of California Press, W W Norton & Company)From the pursuit of happiness to the economy – in the run-up to the election, here are some books...
Apple TVApple TV+'s latest starry drama sees the Oscar-winner play a famous journalist terrorised by a vindictive man via a self-published novel. It's intelligent and beautifully shot.In Alfonso Cuarón's most dazzling films, including Children of Men, he trusts his audience...
Alamy(Credit: Alamy)As a new hip-hop musical adaptation of the cult French classic opens in Paris, the film's director Mathieu Kassovitz talks about the issues that inspired him – and sadly remain.Barely a week after Mathieu Kassovitz had announced on social...
Serenity Strull/ BBC/ Bella Freud/ Getty Images(Credit: Serenity Strull/ BBC/ Bella Freud/ Getty Images)With her intimate new podcast, Fashion Neurosis, British designer Bella Freud is exploring what we wear and why. She talks style, 'emotional health' – and her famous...
Apple TVPremiering at the London Film Festival, Steve McQueen's sprawling drama tries to shine new light on what happened, but has "many of the clichés of a traditional period piece".As the director of the Oscar-winning 12 Years a Slave, Steve...
Hulu/Disney+(Credit: Hulu/Disney+)The TV adaptation of Jilly Cooper’s bonkbuster is full of "terrible people" and "inappropriate jokes" – it's also brilliant fun.If you're not yet familiar with the fictional worlds of British author Dame Jilly Cooper, then the opening sequence of...
Alamy(Credit: Alamy)The comic book sequel has bombed at the box office – but what makes its performance even more catastrophic is its astronomical cost, estimated to be more than three times the original.It's one of those debacles that must have...
Getty ImagesReleased in this week in 1959, Pillow Talk challenged Hollywood's conservative morality, cleverly navigating restrictions on how bedroom activities could be portrayed. In the 1980s its stars talked to the BBC about how the film mirrored the attitudes of...
Andrew Corrigan(Credit: Andrew Corrigan)The British post-punk band's 1979 LP was a revolutionary mix of abrasive guitar and subversive societal observations. As well as inspiring everyone from Kurt Cobain to Frank Ocean, 45 years on, it still speaks powerfully to today's...
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