The latest news and comment on the artist and film-maker formerly known as Sam Taylor-Wood
June 2024
Best culture of 2024 so far
The best films of 2024 in the UK so far
Seduced by Sam Taylor-Johnson’s woozy Amy Winehouse biopic and kicked into tomorrow by Dev Patel’s Monkey Man, we replay six fantastic months of film
April 2024
‘The house was small, the life was big’: how Amy Winehouse’s homes were recreated for Back to Black
Set designers Katie Spencer and Sarah Greenwood went from Barbie to the darker world of the Winehouse biopic. They explain how even a Smeg fridge evokes the singer’s dreams
Back to Black review – wildly uneven portrait of Amy Winehouse
Marisa Abela goes all out in a valiant attempt to capture the late singer’s unique charisma – and voice – in Sam Taylor-Johnson’s misjudged biopic
It’s a grotesque insult for Back to Black to suggest Amy Winehouse died of heartache over her childlessness
Laura Snapes
Back to Black review – woozy Amy Winehouse biopic buoyed by extraordinary lead performance
Sam Taylor-Johnson on art, age gaps and Amy Winehouse: ‘Filming sucked me to a place I didn’t know how to get out of’
February 2024
Nick Cave and Warren Ellis to score Amy Winehouse biopic Back to Black
Full trailer for Amy Winehouse biopic Back to Black released
January 2024
Back to Black: first trailer for Amy Winehouse biopic from Sam Taylor-Johnson released
The film, starring Marisa Abela, has the blessing of the Winehouse estate, and will be released in April
January 2023
The media exploited Amy Winehouse’s life. A new biopic looks set to do the same with her death
Shaad D'Souza
Amy Winehouse biopic: first photo released of Marisa Abela as late singer
October 2022
Portraits by Chris Floyd: from Sheridan Smith to civil rights icon Claudette Colvin – in pictures
In his latest book, Not Just Pictures to be published by Reel Art Press, the celebrated British photographer shares more than 250 images of extraordinary people: Hollywood stars, artists, actors, athletes and musicians. Here, he tells the stories behind some of those shots
July 2022
Sam Taylor-Johnson to direct authorised Amy Winehouse biopic
The film, Back to Black, will tell the singer’s story with the Fifty Shades of Grey director at the helm
June 2022
Notebook
Succumbing to workplace stress? We’re now supposed to suffer in silence
Tim Adams
Grievances about our jobs were once aired collectively on the picket line. Not any more
Project aims to find meaning in age of greenwashing in collaboration with artists such as Jeff Koons
September 2020
'He came out of the womb dancing!' Stars relive their wild times with Michael Clark
Baryshnikov couldn’t keep up, Sam Taylor-Johnson had a panic attack and Sarah Lucas built him the rudest stage set ever … as a new show celebrates the dance legend, stars pin down his punk genius
June 2020
Class of 2020: a Weekend magazine graduate special
‘We were let loose’: my art school days, by Peter Blake, Sam Taylor-Johnson, Steve McQueen and more
Eight great British artists on graduating, and their advice for the Class of 2020
January 2020
Anatomy of an artwork
Sam Taylor-Johnson’s David: sleeping beauty
The English film-maker echoes the work of Michelangelo and Warhol in her intimate video portrait of David Beckham
December 2019
Anna Karina, Catherine Deneuve: how movies malign women by calling them muses
Male directors have often diminished the highly creative women who inspired them. Will the rise of female film-makers revolutionise the role of ‘muse’?
August 2019
A Million Little Pieces review – glossy addiction drama rings hollow
Ultra-hunky Aaron Taylor-Johnson plays a crack addict at death’s door in this adaptation of James Frey’s ‘memoir’
