An Elegy Wrapped in a Comedy
A new book chronicles the rise of Bruce Robinson’s Withnail & I from box-office failure to endlessly quotable classic
No Exit
A great female auteur makes a bold humanist statement in Green Border
Shanti Fiennes
The British actress is taking on the role of Princess Diana in a film that imagines post-divorce Di on a carefree road trip through California
Thick as Thieves
The Gold, a new British heist series, tells the true story of the Brink’s-Mat robbers, who accidentally re-invented modern crime
Lights, Camera, Party
To make the theatrical experience fun again, Lucas King Weber and Keith Herron, two twentysomething cinephiles, are throwing parties at AMC screenings in Manhattan
Poster Boy
A North Carolina–based illustrator reimagines contemporary films as vintage book covers
Ticket to Telluride
America’s most highbrow—and low-key—film festival turns 50
Buckle Up
A new TV series about the short-lived supersonic Concorde is full of crazy twists, turns, and espionage
Exit Laughing
The producer of the legendary comedy show Laugh-In has one regret: allowing Richard Nixon to do a cameo
Barbie Ruins the World
After watching Barbie make its billions, all the toy brands—from Hot Wheels to Play-Doh—want a piece of the action
Emma Seligman
In Bottoms, a comedy about a queer fight club, the young director collaborates with college friends, who happen to be rising stars in Hollywood
An Actor’s Actor
Rob Brydon, who makes a brief cameo as Sugar Daddy Ken in Barbie, discusses choosing his family over his career and the fun of projects outside of Hollywood
After Hours: The Oral History of a Cult Classic
With his career on the ropes, Martin Scorsese fought his way back to the top with a low-budget, surreal black comedy, set in New York’s gritty downtown scene
Lola Tung
The actress returns to her starring role in Amazon’s hit series The Summer I Turned Pretty with the added weight of millions of viewers
A Very British Scandal-Maker
Sam McAlister, the longtime BBC producer who persuaded Prince Andrew to do that car-crash interview, tells all
Sinatra in the Jungle
On the 70th anniversary of Mogambo, John Ford’s 1950s adultery epic set in Africa, a behind-the-scenes look at its stars—Grace Kelly, Clark Gable, and Ava Gardner, married to Frank Sinatra at the time
Grace Edwards
The young actress steps into Wes Anderson’s pastel world to play a young botanist in Asteroid City
Written in the Stars
The seven-time Oscar-nominated writer-director Wes Anderson has made the funniest, most heartfelt, and most poignant film of his career
Laya DeLeon Hayes
For her latest role, the young actress stars in The Angry Black Girl and Her Monster, a modern twist on Frankenstein
On Targets
In 1968, Peter Bogdanovich directed his first film, about what was then an uncommon event: a mass shooting. It haunted him to the end
The Show Won’t Go On
A screenwriter’s dispatch from the Writers Guild of America picket line
I Don’t Know How She Does It
Sally Wainwright, the creator of the hit British crime drama Happy Valley, captures the female experience like no other
Beating the System
When every studio in Hollywood passed on Apocalypse Now, Francis Ford Coppola—the most successful movie director on the planet—became an independent filmmaker
And God Created Brigitte
“Idiotic” is how French bombshell Brigitte Bardot describes a new six-part TV series depicting her life