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Cinema takes on the US elections

Amid the mud-slinging and hog-calling of the ’08 race to the Oval Office, a high turnout of politically motivated movies are vying to make the most of election fever. Ben Walters casts his deciding vote

‘Father of Manga’ Osamu Tezuka at the Barbican

The first major UK retrospective of the work of Japanese animator Osamu Tezuka explodes into the Barbican this week. Adam Lee Davies assesses the influence of the revered ‘Father of Manga’

The Directors: John Waters

Born in Baltimore, John Waters began making movies as a teenager with his friend Glenn Milstead, aka Divine. Waters‘ underground features include ’Multiple Maniacs‘ (1970) and ’Pink Flamingos‘ (1972), in which Divine notoriously eats a fresh dog turd; his ’above-ground‘ films include ’Serial Mom‘ (1994) and ’Hairspray‘ (1988), which became a hit Broadway musical in 2003. The musical has now been adapted for the screen itself. Waters has also made ’This Filthy World‘, a record of his one-man stage show

Venice Film Festival report 2008

Despite hints of a fresh approach to programming, the Lido had too little of quality to show for it this year, says Dave Calhoun

Roger Corman: interview

Tom Huddleston talks to Roger Corman about the actors and directors who’ve come a long way since working with the legendary B-movie producer

Juliette Binoche: interview

The great French actress, Juliette Binoche, has come to London to work with ace choreographer Akram Khan while the two-month Binoche season and exhibition gets under way at the BFI Southbank. She discusses film and painting with Dave Calhoun

Sarajevo Film Festival

Dave Calhoun spends a long weekend in the Bosnian capital, where its annual film festival is a testament to the city’s recovery after war – and its love of cinema

Eric Rohmer’s ‘The Romance of Astrea and Celadon’

David Jenkins argues that Eric Rohmer’s latest – and possibly last – film is still very much in his style, despite its somewhat unorthodox tale of druids and nymphs set in fifth-century France

Jonathan Levine on ‘The Wackness’

Director Jonathan Levine talks New York, 9/11 and filming sex scenes with Time Out

Guy Ritchie on ‘RocknRolla’

As famous for his judo, karate and jujitsu skills, his dyslexia and his wife as he is for his pair of London gangster ‘entertainments’, ‘Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels’ and ‘Snatch’, Hatfield-born Guy Ritchie’s film career seemed to take a nose-dive with the undistributed ‘Swept Away’ and Kabbalah-coded ‘Revolver’. Thankfully, writes Wally Hammond, his latest, ‘RocknRolla’ sees him safely back in his old manor, among the familiar carnival of villains, scams and high-octane spills and thrills

John C Reilly on ‘Step Brothers’

John C Reilly is a genuine rarity in Hollywood: a method-trained actor who has successfully crossed over into the world of mainstream comedy. Having worked for directors like de Palma, Scorsese and most notably with Paul Thomas Anderson on ‘Boogie Nights’ and ‘Magnolia’, Reilly surprised many with his stellar turn as Will Ferrell’s dumbbell sidekick in ‘Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby’. Reilly's career now seems focussed around such broad, often largely improvised comedy roles, like his latest role as overgrown...

Saul Dibb on ‘The Duchess’

Oh, no, not another opulent period film with Keira Knightley in a tight-fitting bodice... But, as Dave Calhoun discovers from its director, Saul Dibb, ‘The Duchess’ is far from your typical aristos-in-love movie

Opinion: Can George Lucas still make ‘small’ movies?

With the release of animated spin-off 'Star Wars: The Clone Wars', Tom Huddleston wonders whether George Lucas will ever return to his roots.

David Thewlis on Mike Leigh’s ‘Naked’

As Mike Leigh’s 1993 masterpiece ‘Naked’ is released on DVD for the first time, David Thewlis remembers playing Johnny, the dark Mancunian motormouth who pounds the streets of London – or, as he calls it, ‘the big shitty’

Locarno Film Festival report

Geoff Andrew reviews the first few days of the Locarno Film Festival, where snow was the unlikely connecting theme but the new work by British filmmaker Ben Hopkins received a sunny reception

David Lynch: interview

In an exclusive interview to coincide with the re-release of ‘The Elephant Man’ on DVD, iconic film director David Lynch tells Tom Huddleston about his experiences as a little-known American making a story steeped in the grime and savagery of Victorian London

Director Marc Forster on the new James Bond 007 film ‘Quantum of Solace’

Dave Calhoun catches up with Marc Forster, the director of ‘Quantum of Solace’, as, in a race against time worthy of his fictional subject, he strives to finish editing the latest in the James Bond 007 spy franchise

Guillermo del Toro: interview

Guillermo del Toro, whose ‘Hellboy II: The Golden Army’ is out next week, is the Mexican writer, director and producer who began his career in the early ’90s with the low-budget Spanish-language horror ‘Cronos’. The creative spark evident in that film caught the eye of Hollywood and he was commissioned to make creature-feature ‘Mimic’. He’s since moved back and forth between Hollywood (‘Blade II’, ‘Hellboy’) and Spanish-language films (‘The Devil’s Backbone’, ‘Pan’s Labyrinth’). His latest is ‘Hellboy...

Lucy Walker discusses ‘Blindsight’

British filmmaker Lucy Walker follows an expedition of climbers as they take on Everest’s sister mountain, Lhapka Ri. Only the climbers are young pupils from a Tibetan school for the blind. The film explores their remarkable journeys both in life and up the 23,000-foot mountain

César Charlone on 'El Baño del Papa'

Uruguayan director César Charlone talks Time Out through the making of his excellent new film, 'El Baño del Papa'

Ben Kingsley: interview

Ben Kingsley appears in three films this month. In this week’s ‘Elegy’, an adaptation of Philip Roth’s novel ‘The Dying Animal’, he plays a rakish academic infatuated with a younger woman, in ‘The Wackness’, he’s a dope-smoking, self-medicating psychiatrist and in ‘The Love Guru’, he’s Mike Myers’s cross-eyed mentor. Looking ahead, the Oscar-winning actor who has played Dr Watson, Gandhi, Fagin and Shostakovich is gearing up to star in a film about Shakespeare. Though, at 64, he says he’s still not quite ready for...

Thomas Turgoose on ‘Somers Town’

Thomas ‘Tomo’ Turgoose only auditioned for ‘This Is England’ after someone slipped him a fiver. He’s now teamed up with Shane Meadows again for a film set in London. The teenage truant is testament to what a bit of opportunity can produce, says Cath Clarke

Dana Carvey: A life in film

Time Out wonders what happened to comedy actor Dana Carvey as his one-time partner Mike Myers releases 'The Love Guru' into UK cinemas

Esther Robinson on ‘A Walk into the Sea’

A chance encounter led Esther Robinson to make a remarkable documentary about her late uncle, an artist once connected with Andy Warhol. David Jenkins hears her tale

A tribute to Clint Eastwood

To mark a major Clint Eastwood retrospective at the BFI Southbank, Adam Lee Davies provides a decade-by-decade survey of the great man’s life in film

Gurinder Chadha on ‘Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging’

Gurinder Chadha, the director of Brit hit, 'Bend it Like Beckham' discusses her new film, ‘Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging’ with Wally Hammond

James Marsh on ‘Man on Wire’

James Marsh tells David Jenkins the amazing story of ‘Man on Wire’ and how he saw the Twin Towers go up – and come down

Eddie Murphy's Crimes Against Cinema

We all remember the comic highs of 'Beverly Hills Cop' and 'Bowfinger', but Eddie Murphy has been in a fair few stinkers as well. To celebrate the release of his latest megabudget 'will-this-do?' shrugfest 'Meet Dave', Time Out to presents a handy rundown of his ten darkest cinematic hours...

Ben Burtt: interview

Very few film technicians dominate their field the way Ben Burtt has. The genius behind the light sabers in ‘Star Wars’ and now the voice of ‘Wall-E’, Burtt’s work has revolutionised the way sound and images work together

A Farewell To Tartan Films

To mourn the loss of the great Tartan Films, Time Out remembers a few of the best films to emerge from their impressive canon

Errol Morris on ‘Standard Operating Procedure’

Widely regarded as the father of modern documentary film, Errol Morris – whose new film, ‘Standard Operating Procedure’, opens next week – began his directorial career with 1978’s ‘Gates of Heaven’, a touching portrait of a California pet cemetery, before overturning a real-life miscarriage of justice with his investigative study ‘The Thin Blue Line’ (1988). His highly influential films often blend first-person testimony with deliberately artificial reconstruction. His latest feature is a quizzical meditation on the...

Olly Blackburn meets Nic Roeg

Nic Roeg is the director of ‘Performance’, ‘Don’t Look Now’ and, most recently, ‘Puffball’. Olly Blackburn is the man behind ‘Donkey Punch’, a thriller about a holiday gone wrong. We sent Olly to meet his legendary colleague

Neil Young on ‘CSNY/Déjà Vu’

Tom Huddleston asks musician Neil Young about how his filmmaking alter-ego likes to shake things up

Guy Maddin on ‘My Winnipeg’

Since 1988’s ‘Tales from the Gimli Hospital’, Winnipeg-born director Guy Maddin, whose ‘My Winnipeg’ opens this week, has established himself as one of the world’s most individual cinematic talents. His series of seductive, esoteric and dreamlike movies blend fiction, myth and homages to the silent era with his inimitable brand of puckish humour and visual poetry. With his latest, ‘My Winnipeg’, a ‘docu-fantasia’ on his Canadian hometown, he’s produced his most polemical, amusing and accessible film to date

A final goodbye to VHS

Struggling to hold back the tears, Adam Lee Davies comes to terms with the end of a long love affair – with VHS

Jason Bateman: interview

Jason Bateman – star of next week’s big summer release, ‘Hancock’, alongside Will Smith – is a comedian and actor who found initial fame in the early 1980s with TV shows such as ‘Little House on the Prairie’ and family films such as ‘Teen Wolf Too’. His biggest success came with the surreal cult sitcom ‘Arrested Development’ in 2003 which led to roles in films such as ‘The Kingdom’ and ‘Juno’. In ‘Hancock’, he plays a PR man who tries to flip the poor image of renegade superhero Hancock (Smith)

Set visit: 'The Damned United'

Dave Calhoun gets his training kit on as he visits the set of a new film about football legend Brian Clough’s torrid spell at Leeds United in the mid-1970s

Abdellatif Kechiche: interview

Tunisian director Abdellatif Kechiche discusses his sprawling new family drama 'Couscous' with Time Out

Brian Cox: interview

Brian Cox talks to Time Out about his latest role in the British prison-break actioner, 'The Escapist'

Can eco-films save the planet?

'The Hulk' isn't the only green thing on our screens today. Tom Huddleston tracks the rise of the eco-documentary

Outdoor film screenings 2008

David Jenkins packs his picnic rug, sarnies and brolly and looks ahead to this summer’s alfresco film screenings in the capital

Shyamalan: shaman or schmuck?

Tom Huddleston assesses the career of M Night Shyamalan, whose latest film 'The Happening' is in cinemas now

M Night Shyamalan: interview

We speak to director M Night Shyamalan about his latest disaster movie, 'The Happening'

Charles Burnett on 'Killer of Sheep'

Charles Burnett, an independent black filmmaker born in Mississippi and raised in Los Angeles, made his first feature, 'Killer of Sheep' in 1977 while a graduate student at the University of California in Los Angeles. He is best known in the UK for his follow-up film 'My Brother's Wedding' (1983) and the bluesy 'To Sleep with Anger' (1990).

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