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Oct 1, 2026
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  1. Article · Oct 1, 2026 · Ryan Gilbey

    Sex, drugs and amoebic dysentery: the 20 best making-of documentaries – ranked! (opens the original)

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    From tropical disasters and doomed sci-fi epics to bribing Orson Welles and fending off a puma, we rate cinema’s most revealing glimpses behind the scenes Behind-the-scenes footage from Dawn of the Dead is the highlight of this aficionados-only affair, which follows the 1979 satirical zombie horror all the way through to distribution. Director George A Romero, makeup maestro Tom Savini and the occasional zombie actor shoot the breeze in the deserted shopping mall that provides the movie with i

  2. Article · Sep 28, 2026 · Ryan Gilbey

    ‘We could have had good fun a few decades ago’: Christine Baranski and Richard E Grant on sex scenes, parties and theatre (opens the original)

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    The actors are working together for the first time ever, in Noël Coward’s comedy Hay Fever. Backstage, there’s no stopping their tales of skinny-dipping, fat-shaming and warring co-stars Richard E Grant: Despite our vast combined vintage, our paths have never crossed before, have they? Christine Baranski: Regrettably not. We could have had some good fun a few decades ago. A girl could have got into some real trouble. But here we are, and now we’re the veterans. You’re among the great ch

  3. Article · Sep 14, 2026 · Ryan Gilbey

    Jeremy Thomas obituary (opens the original)

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    Film producer who enjoyed his greatest success with the 1987 epic The Last Emperor for which he won an Oscar Asked whether he had ever cautioned restraint from a director, the film producer Jeremy Thomas replied: “My nature would be to go further and see what we can get away with.” Thomas, who has died aged 77, was an expert in getting away with it. A taste for irreverence ran in his family: he was the son of Ralph Thomas, director of the Doctor … comedies that began in 1954 with Doctor in the H

  4. Article · Aug 25, 2026 · Ryan Gilbey

    John Irvin obituary (opens the original)

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    British film-maker and director of Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy who was described by Alec Guinness as having ‘balls behind the camera’ Bouncing from war zone reportage to cold war espionage, Hollywood horror to Sherwood Forest swashbuckler, Harold Pinter to Arnold Schwarzenegger, the director John Irvin, who has died aged 86, was nothing if not eclectic. “I’m a bit split,” he said. “I like playing with expensive toys, yet I also like the miniatures. I hate being pigeonholed, and I like to do the un

  5. Article · Aug 21, 2026 · Ryan Gilbey

    ‘It is the riskiest film I’ve ever made’: Pedro Almodóvar on being the villain in his own movie (opens the original)

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    As his new film Bitter Christmas is released, the legendary Spanish director turns his fire on Donald Trump, Will Smith, Netflix – and himself Black sunglasses indoors and a tufty cloud of cotton-wool hair: it can only be Pedro Almodóvar, bourgeois arthouse darling nonpareil and master of everything from screwball romps (Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown) to clammy thrillers (Live Flesh, The Skin I Live In) – and sumptuous melodramas such as his 24th film, Bitter Christmas, a cautio

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