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London's first in-store cinema

Later this month, Wimbledon will play host to the country’s first in-store cinema. Dave Calhoun was given an exclusive guided tour of a work in progress

Time Out's 50 greatest animated films, with added commentary by Terry Gilliam

In celebration of the release of Pixar's 'Up' and Wes Anderson's beautiful stop-motion rendering of Roald Dahl's 'The Fantastic Mr Fox', Time Out ushers in the help of master animator Terry Gilliam – whose own partially animated 'The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus' opens in cinemas this month – to run down 50 of the greatest animated features of all time

Wes Anderson: interview

Casually departing the world of live-action filmmaking, Wes Anderson's latest is a stop-motion retelling of Roald Dahl's much-loved children's book, 'Fantastic Mr Fox'. Dave Calhoun meets him to discuss how he undertook such a huge project

Paddy Considine: interview

When Paddy Considine works with his friend Shane Meadows you know what you're going to get: insecure bullies who discomfort you as much as they amuse you. So it is with 'Le Donk & Scor-Zay-Zee', an ultra-low-budget, faux-doc riff on the music biz in which Considine plays a past-it roadie looking to steal glory from a talented, unknown rapper

Director Robert Guédiguian discusses his 'Army of Crime'

The French director of ‘Army of Crime’ has ventured out of modern Marseilles to tell the story of the resistance from a new angle

Agnès Varda on 'The Beaches of Agnès'

Agnès Varda made her first film in 1954 and has now made an honest and playful study of her own life. But is it a documentary?

London Film Festival: Critics picks

Before you max out the credit card on LFF tickets this year, take a look at our handy critics picks first...

Corinna McFarlane: interview

One half of the directorial duo behind mysterious festival exposé 'Three Miles North of Molkom' talks to Dave Calhoun about the making of the film

Joe Wright: interview

British director Joe Wright shot to prominence with 2007's award-winning Ian McEwan adaptation 'Atonement'. His latest film, the Hollywood-produced 'The Soloist', stars Jamie Foxx as a homeless musical prodigy befriended by Robert Downey Jr's LA Times journalist. Dave Calhoun spoke to Wright on the eve of the film's UK release.

Andrea Arnold: interview

Andrea Arnold's second feature 'Fish Tank' may be the finest British film of the year. Following an Oscar winning short and 2005's moody 'Red Road', Arnold is developing into one of our finest filmmaking talents

Nora Ephron: interview

Journalist-screenwriter-director Nora Ephron's latest film is 'Julie & Julia', an interweaving of the story of Julia Child, whose cookbook taught post-war America about French food, and Julie Powell, who in 2002 found fame blogging about working her way through Child’s entire cookbook

Venice Film Festival 2009

After last year's disappointing crop of new films, the Venice Film Festival is bouncing back with an extraordinary lineup for 2009, including new films by George Clooney, Werner Herzog, George Romero, Michael Moore, Giuseppe Tornatore and Oliver Stone. Over the next week, David Jenkins will be posting exclusive first-look reviews of all the biggest films.

Dorian Gray: set visit

Next week sees Ben Barnes and Colin Firth come to our screens in a new version of Oscar Wilde’s classic novel 'The Picture of Dorian Gray'. Dave Calhoun visits the set of the film in the East End

Greg Mottola: interview

After making a splash directing ‘Superbad’, Greg Mottola returns to his indie roots with 'Adventureland' - a self-scripted film about teenagers sentenced to gruelling summer jobs at a low-rent fairground

Time Out's 50 greatest directorial debuts of all time

To celebrate the release of Neill Blomkamp's ferocious debut movie, 'District 9', Time Out lists the 50 finest, most fully formed and influential debut movies of all time

What the hell is District 9?

You might have seen the adverts, visited the website or even been tempted to phone the mysterious information line. But, asks Tom Huddleston, what is ‘District 9’? And will this heavy duty marketing campaign actually sell tickets?

Cinema's best stand-ups

As 'Funny People' hits cinemas, Adam Lee Davies looks back over a century of cinematic stand-ups

Pedro Almodóvar discusses 'Broken Embraces'

The veteran Spanish director releases his seventeenth movie at the end of August. He tells Dave Calhoun why you really should see it twice

Penélope Cruz interview

Penélope Cruz, star of Pedro Almodóvar's new film 'Broken Embraces', tells Dave Calhoun about sneaking on to set aged 14 to spy on the director at work, being a bad actress and learning what it is to be 'raunchy'

Judd Apatow: interview

He wrote and directed ‘The 40-Year-Old Virgin’ and ‘Knocked Up’. He co-scripted ‘Pineapple Express’. He produced ‘Anchorman’ and ‘Superbad’. Now Judd Apatow talks to Tom Huddleston on the release of his latest, ‘Funny People’

Kathryn Bigelow: interview

Kathryn Bigelow discusses 'The Hurt Locker', the film that's being called the best fiction film on the Iraq war

Michel Legrand: interview

Legendary 77-year-old composer Michel Legrand's career has spanned six decades, writing music for everyone from Jean-Luc Godard to Orson Welles, from Agnes Varda to Clint Eastwood. As Jacques Demy's joyous 'Les Demoiselles de Rochefort' returns to the BFI, Legrand spoke to David Jenkins about his work on this classic musical

FrightFest preview

The tenth annual horror weekender returns to London - we look forward to the gore in store at this year's event

The Locarno film festival

Dave Calhoun discovers the international indie spirit at this Swiss film festival - including the saccharine-heavy '(500) Days of Summer'

The 50 greatest World War Two movies: part one

As Quentin Tarantino's outrageous men-on-a-mission epic 'Inglourious Basterds' hits our screens, we at Time Out (with the assistance of Tarantino himself) thought it would be a fine time to revisit that most cinematic of conflicts. Some of our choices are stone-cold action classics, others are arthouse masterpieces, but all are worthy of celebration. Sign up today!

'Nowhere Boy' to close 2009 London Film Festival

Sam Taylor-Wood’s John Lennon biopic will close 2009 London Film Festival

Clooney, Damon and Firth all head for Venice

The line-up for the 2009 Venice Film Festival has been announced. Here’s a rundown of what we’ll be looking out for when Time Out heads to Italy on September 2-12

'Cemetery Junction': set visit

Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant are currently shooting their first movie together. Tim Arthur reports from the set of 'Cemetery Junction'

Anne Fontaine: interview

It's not easy forging your way as a woman in a man's world – whether that is the world of fashion or film. Actor-turned-director Anne Fontaine, whose latest work is the handsome Coco Chanel biopic, 'Coco Before Chanel', tells Nina Caplan how it's done

'Antichrist' cinematographer Anthony Dod Mantle: interview

The Oscar-garlanded cinematographer talks to Time Out about the challenges of working with Lars von Trier on his controversial new film 'Antichrist'

Vincent Cassel: interview

French actor Vincent Cassel, star of ‘La Haine’ and ‘Eastern Promises’, talks to David Jenkins about his latest role - playing notorious ’60s Parisian criminal Jacques Mesrine

Sam Rockwell: a life in film

Sam Rockwell shows us his acting mettle in 'Moon', but isn't it high time he made it on to the Hollywood A-list?

Daniel Radcliffe: interview

Time Out catches up with Daniel Radcliffe as he returns to play the world's most famous boy-wizard in 'Harry Potter and the Half-blood Prince'. The star of the JK Rowling adaptations talks to us about growing up in the spotlight and taking washing round to his parents' house

Director Courtney Hunt discusses 'Frozen River'

Courtney Hunt is a Tennessee writer and director whose debut film, ‘Frozen River’, received two Oscar nominations: Best Actress and Best Original Screenplay. She talks to Time Out about getting it right first time...

Duncan Jones talks ‘Moon’

All the talk has been of his rock-star father, but Duncan Jones really does deserve the attention he’s getting for his debut feature, ‘Moon’

Anders Østergaard: interview

‘Burma VJ’ uses footage shot by clandestine cameramen to tell the story of Burma’s 2007 uprising, when Buddhist monks led protests against the country’s repressive government. Danish filmmaker Anders Østergaard tells us what led him to compile this footage into a film as exciting as it is informative - and about the drastic lengths to which those who shot it went to smuggle it out of the country.

Gay for pay: when straight actors play gay

With 'Bruno', Sacha Baron Cohen has made us reconsider gay stereotypes in cinema. Time Out looks at how other straight actors have played gay for the camera

The ultimate 'Harry Potter' crib sheet

Our resident Potter professor, Wally Hammond, offers the ultimate introduction to 'Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince'

Bruno: interview

Dave Calhoun speaks to Austria's premiere gay fashionista Bruno about London, holidays and Prince Harry

Lars von Trier's 'Antichrist': joke or masterpiece?

It's the least summery thing you'll experience all month: Lars von Trier's 'Antichrist' is a hellish exploration of grief that shocked and wowed audiences in Cannes. Dave Calhoun invites seven experts to watch the film and share their reactions

Has Michael Mann lost it?

Adam Lee Davies mourns the passing of a major Hollywood talent as Michael Mann's 'Public Enemies' sees the great director still running on empty

The Informant: trailer preview

Steven Soderbergh is at it again, this time with a screwball corporate caper starring Matt Damon called 'The Informant'. View the trailer here...

Claire Denis: interview

The French filmmaker Claire Denis speaks to Dave Calhoun about her new film, '35 Shots of Rum', a tender portrait of a father-daughter relationship in Paris, which is set to be one of the (quiet) hits of the summer

An interview with the directors of Ice Age 3

Carlos Saldanha and Mike Thurmeier, the directorial team on 'Ice Age 3', talk to Time Out about 3D, Looney Tunes and how they both got into the animation business

Edinburgh Film Festival 2009: round-up

Trevor Johnston spends ten days in the Scottish capital, where the British films weren't so strong but Shane Meadows and Paddy Considine offered light relief with 'Le Donk & Scor-zay-zee'

What are the ‘Arrested Development’ alumni up to now?

Teen star Michael Cera appears in 'Year One' this week. Time Out remembers when he first struck comedy gold in sitcom 'Arrested Development', and decided to look how the members of its perfectly balanced ensemble have fared since the show's cancellation in 2006.

Richard Stanley: interview

With ‘Hardware’ now reissued on DVD, we spoke to director Richard Stanley about his memories of shooting in London

When more is more: ten OTT movie classics

Master of disaster Michael Bay's 'Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen' throws in everything but a robot that turns into a kitchen sink in its pursuit of audience-bludgeoning cinematic excess (and massive box office returns). To celebrate, we pick ten totally OTT films that push the boundaries of taste, decency, budget and common sense...

Abbas Kiarostami: interview

The latest work by the Iranian director, a stark procession of women's faces reacting to a piece of cinema, has divided critics. But here, Kiarostami reveals that his actors had something other than film in mind – and how Juliette Binoche got involved

What Thomas Clay did next

His first film 'The Great Ecstasy of Robert Carmichael' was likened to 'a stilted media studies project' by Time Out on its release. Here, the Brighton born director talks to Time Out about how and why he followed it up with 'Soi Cowboy,' a Thai-set alterno-romance filmed in stark black-and-white

Nick Moran discusses 'Telstar'

Joe Meek produced hit singles from above a shop on the Holloway Road. Trevor Johnston talks to Nick Moran about bringing his life to the big screen

John Woo: interview

A sprawling military epic with a cast of thousands, ‘Red Cliff’ marks an impressive return to form for 62-year-old action legend John Woo. After more than a decade of diminishing returns in Hollywood directing films such as ‘Mission: Impossible II’ and ‘Paycheck’, Woo returned to his native China to make this film based on one of the country’s best-known historical legends.

Ten Great Morning After Films

In Todd Phillips's new comedy 'The Hangover', three men wake up after a drunken bender in Vegas with no idea what happened to them. In that spirit, Time Out pops a couple of Nurofen and lists some of the other great 'morning after' movies...

The make-up guru from 'Drag Me to Hell' on blood, guts and that prosthetic penis

A film industry legend, make-up maestro Greg Nicotero has worked on more than 150 movies, from horror classics like ‘Evil Dead 2’ and ‘Scream’ to Oscar-winning dramas like ‘Pulp Fiction’ and ‘Milk’. Sam Raimi’s slapstick splatfest, ‘Drag Me to Hell’, is his latest assignment. Here, he takes us through his favourite moviemaking experiences

Gideon Koppel: interview

Director Gideon Koppel’s first feature documentary, ‘Sleep Furiously’ is a lyrical meditation on a disappearing way of life in a mid-Wales community, Trefeurig.

Dustin Hoffman: interview

In ‘Last Chance Harvey’, Dustin Hoffman plays a divorcee who arrives in London for his daughter’s wedding only to find himself on the edge of things. He meets a stranger, Kate (Emma Thompson), with whom he’s able to share feelings of loneliness and disappointment as they wander about the city together. The film was nominated for a Golden Globe in the comedy/musical category, but British writer-director Joel Hopkins is as interested in characters and emotions as laughs

Ten memorable movie mentors

Eric Cantona appears as an imaginary life guru in Ken Loach's 'Looking For Eric', so Time Out list ten more classic movie mentors

50 essential sci-fi films

With JJ Abrams's 'Star Trek' already making waves and McG's 'Terminator Salvation' peeking up over the horizon, Time Out thought it would be a perfect time to select 50 essential sci-fi films, some of them classics, some not so classic, but all need to be seen...

Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck: interview

Time Out talks to Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck about their new movie 'Sugar', a follow-up to 2007's 'Half Nelson'. Just don't call it a baseball movie...

Cannes 2009: Final round-up

2009 was a vintage year for Cannes. Dave Calhoun presents the prizewinners, including the Palme d’Or for Michael Haneke, and looks back on a great festival

Interview: Charlie Kaufman

In a Time Out exclusive, Charlie Kaufman, writer of ‘Being John Malkovich’ and ‘Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind’ – and now writer and director of ‘Synecdoche, New York’ – explains why messing with an audience’s mind comes naturally to him

On set with Eric Cantona in 'Looking for Eric'

Ken Loach and Eric Cantona’s ‘Looking for Eric’ has its world premiere in Cannes this week. Dave Calhoun travelled to Manchester to watch Loach coax words of wisdom from the philosophising footballer

What the hell happened to horror?

Released this week in cinemas, Sam Raimi’s ‘Drag Me to Hell’ is a bold attempt to show modern horror filmmakers and torture porn stars how they used to do things back in the day: splat, saliva and flying eyeballs; smash editing, in-camera effects and crazed invention

Simon Pegg: interview

Simon Pegg has risen to fame via cult hits 'Spaced' and 'Shaun of the Dead'. The writer and actor tells Time Out, through a mouthful of crisps, why we’re past postmodernism and why his wife walked out of the premiere of his new film, ‘Star Trek’

Werner Herzog: interview

Werner Herzog has forged a prolific, uncategorisable career spanning fiction and documentary. His association with remarkable leading man Klaus Kinski in the likes of ‘Aguirre, Wrath of God’ and ‘Fitzcarraldo’ remains a career highlight, yet recent docs, including ‘Grizzly Man’ and his latest release ‘Encounters at the End of the World’, show his powers still undiminished

Is 'Fifty Dead Men Walking' really based on truth?

Martin McGartland, whose memoir forms the basis for 'Fifty Dead Men Walking', talks to Time Out about how he believes he's been inaccurately portrayed in the film

The secrets behind 'Let the Right One In'

Tomas Alfredson, director of excellent Swedish vampire film 'Let the Right One In' discusses the weird ways he approaches filmmaking

Viggo Mortensen: interview

Time Out talks to Viggo Mortensen about playing a sympathetic Nazi in his new film, 'Good'

Armando Iannucci on 'In the Loop'

'The Thick of It' creator, Armando Iannucci talks to Dave Calhoun about 'In the Loop', his new film in which the brilliant Peter Capaldi returns as vicious, foul-mouthed Whitehall spin doctor Malcolm Tucker

The toys that should be films

With the impending release of a second 'Transformers' film and 'GI Joe', Time Out selects some other classic toys and turns them into movies

Nicolas Cage: a life in film

To celebrate the release of his latest movie, 'Knowing', Time Out takes a look at the enduring box office appeal of Nicolas Cage

'Chéri': on location with Stephen Frears

Belle époque Paris. An ageing courtesan and a youthful, spoilt suitor. Stephen Frears’s new movie, ‘Chéri’, is a wry, romantic tale. Filmmaker Don Boyd visits the set, exclusively for Time Out

Mike Leigh on fifty years of Nouvelle Vague

It's the 50th anniversary of the French film revolution known as the Nouvelle Vague – when critics such as Jean-Luc Godard and François Truffaut picked up cameras and took to the streets. Trevor Johnston reflects upon the revolution and, with the help of Mike Leigh, examines the effect films such as 'À Bout de Souffle' had on British cinema

Interview: Tony Gilroy

Time Out meets Oscar-nominated writer-director Tony Gilroy to talk about his follow-up to corporate thriller 'Michael Clayton', Julia Roberts/Clive Owen heist caper 'Duplicity'

Interview: Andrew Eaton

Who’s the driving force behind the films of Michael Winterbottom? Time Out catches up with the UK’s busiest film producer, Andrew Eaton, who’s also reeling from the success of his ‘Red Riding Trilogy’ for C4

David Frankel on cinema's great journalists

The two most recent films by David Frankel have been about journalists. ‘The Devil Wears Prada’ (2006) was set in the offices of fictional fashion glossy Runway, while ‘Marley & Me’ tells the story of South Florida Sun-Sentinel columnist John Grogan (Owen Wilson) and his relationship with his hyperactive dog. Here, Frankel, whose father Max worked at the New York Times for 50 years, talks us through his favourite films about hacks

Paolo Sorrentino on 'Il Divo'

Can a movie about a notorious Italian prime minister be exciting for a UK audience? Absolutely, says Wally Hammond, talking murder, corruption and political intrigue with Paolo Sorrentino, director of 'Il Divo'

Interview with Jennifer Lynch

Director Jennifer Lynch, daughter of David, has spent the past decade and a half years out of the limelight following the critical savaging received by her debut film, 'Boxing Helena'. But now she's ready to face critics and public alike with the release of her sophisticated thriller 'Surveillance'. So what's changed?

Interview: Kelly Reichardt

Time Out talks to Kelly Reichardt, American director of 'Wendy and Lucy'

Film production preview 2009

Right, that’s the tears and tantrums of the Oscars out of the way – time to concentrate on what matters: movies. Dave Calhoun and David Jenkins pick out the most promising UK, European, US and Asian films in production right now

Interview: Gerald McMorrow

Read our interview with Gerald McMorrow, debut director of British sci-fi Movie 'Franklyn'

Footlight follies - films ripe to be made into musicals

With Clint Eastwood's 'Magnum Force' set to make the transition from screen to stage musical, Time Out offers some other suggestions for films that that could be given the all-singing, all-dancing Broadway treatment...

Berlin Film Festival 2009 report

Our verdict on the best and worst new cinema from the 2009 Berlin Film Festival

Laurent Cantet discusses his latest film 'The Class'

Wally Hammond speaks to filmmaker Laurent Cantet whose award-winning school drama ‘The Class’ is a thrilling example of ensemble drama played by kids in a real French school

Anvil: audio interview

Time Out sat down with members of the band Anvil and director Sacha Gervasi to discuss their rockin' (and sweetly funny) new doc, 'Anvil! The Story of Anvil'

The Time Out cinema dating service

As St Valentine’s Day approaches, our thoughts inevitably turn to romance. But what about those poor fictional figures out there in movie land with no one to hold this February 14? With them in mind, Time Out unveils its exclusive movie character dating service…

Nuri Bilge Ceylan on 'Three Monkeys'

Acclaimed Turkish director Nuri Bilge Ceylan has a new film out, 'Three Monkeys', and a photography exhibition on the BFI Southbank. See both and your experience will be all the richer, says Dave Calhoun

Rotterdam Film Festival 2009 Report

Time Out ventured to icy Holland for the 38th Rotterdam International Film Festival

Director Kim Jee-Woon on 'The Good, the Bad, the Weird’

Korean director Kim Jee-Woon ('A Tale of Two Sisters','A Bittersweet Life') on his new film, 'The Good, the Bad, the Weird'

David Fincher on 'The Curious Case of Benjamin Button'

David Fincher’s new film, ‘The Curious Case of Benjamin Button’, marks something of a departure for the director of ‘Se7en’, ‘Fight Club’ and ‘Zodiac’: it’s a sweeping, generation-spanning, epic drama in the grand old Hollywood tradition and is a showcase for new technology and make-up effects as we watch Bard Pitt’s main character age – backwards, from an old baby, to a young geriatric – over several decades.

Pixar director John Lasseter on the future of animation

Pixar animation guru John Lasseter, director of 'Toy Story' and 'Toy Story 2' and now, creative head of four (count ’em) studios, has big 3D plans for the future. Wally Hammond meets the California dreamer

The 2009 Oscars: Time Out's reaction

'Slumdog Millionaire', 'Benjamin Button' and 'Doubt' are all in the running for prizes at this year's Oscars. Tom Huddleston offers his two cents on the nominations

Surviving the pre-Bafta/Oscar logjam

In their desperate rush to release awards contenders just before the major gongs are dished out, do film studios shoot themselves in the foot? Cath Clarke bemoans the pre-Bafta/Oscar logjam

The return of the 'Dad Movie'

Bryan Singer's 'Valkyrie' heralds a return to the old-fashioned historical suspense thrillers that were popular in the '70s. Time Out takes a deep look at the stalwarts of the Dad Movie genre

Gus Van Sant on 'Milk'

Gus Van Sant’s ‘Milk’ is about the political life of gay San Francisco supervisor Harvey Milk, who was assassinated in 1978. The film stars Sean Penn in the title role and marks a stylistic U-turn for the director, whose recent films include the experimental likes of ‘Elephant’, ‘Last Days’ and ‘Paranoid Park’

Arnaud Desplechin on 'A Christmas Tale’

Widely regarded as one of France’s leading contemporary filmmakers, writer-director Arnaud Desplechin has become known for expansive character dramas such as his 1996 breakthrough ‘Ma Vie Sexuelle’ and ‘Kings & Queen’. His latest is ‘A Christmas Tale’, with Catherine Deneuve as the matriarch requiring a bone marrow transplant and Amalric as her least favourite son – the suitable donor

Mickey Rourke: a life in film

To celebrate the release of 'The Wrestler', Time Out takes a look at the highs, lows and many middles of the career of Mickey Rourke

Stephen Rea: interview

Stephen Rea discusses his new film, low-budget thriller 'Stuck'

The return of the 'Dad Movie'

Bryan Singer's 'Valkyrie' heralds a return to the old-fashioned historical suspense thrillers that were popular in the '70s. Time Out takes a deep look at the stalwarts of the Dad Movie genre

'Milk': preview

Paul Burston, Time Out’s Gay editor, revisits milestones in gay cinema and new flick ‘Milk’, an ‘extraordinary, Oscar-worthy’ biopic of gay US politician Harvey Milk

The softer side of Sam Peckinpah

Sam Peckinpah’s reputation as the master of mayhem was forged in films like ‘The Wild Bunch’ and ‘Straw Dogs’, and by his reputation as an alcoholic, womanising control freak with a mile-wide violent streak. But there was another side to Bloody Sam: a love of whimsy and elegiac nostalgia and a real empathy for humanity, in all its flawed glory. As a new retrospective season begins at the BFI, the Time Out team pick out a few of Peckinpah’s gentler moments

Arnaud Desplechin on 'A Christmas Tale’

Widely regarded as one of France’s leading contemporary filmmakers, writer-director Arnaud Desplechin has become known for expansive character dramas such as his 1996 breakthrough ‘Ma Vie Sexuelle’ and ‘Kings & Queen’. His latest is ‘A Christmas Tale’, with Catherine Deneuve as the matriarch requiring a bone marrow transplant and Amalric as her least favourite son – the suitable donor

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