The latest news and comment on film director Alan Parker
January 2023
Brian Tufano obituary
Cinematographer who brought his imaginative sensibilities to films such as Trainspotting, Billy Elliot and Quadrophenia
July 2022
Bugsy Malone review – splurge guns at the ready for a twinkling revival
With charismatic performances and playful effects, Sean Holmes’ slick touring production is escapist fun
May 2021
Black lives
Rikki Beadle-Blair: the brilliant stage and screen writer who should be a household name
He has brought Black, gay and working-class experiences to a massive audience – as writer and director of countless plays and films, and creator of the pioneering TV show Metrosexuality
August 2020
'We were dancing on cars in the epicentre of porn and filth!' An oral history of Fame, 40 years on
It was the late director Alan Parker’s most enduring hit, capturing what it was to be young and ambitious in the hot, gritty New York of 1980. The cast and crew reflect on the acting, fighting, flirting and fallout
Fame star Barry Miller remembers Alan Parker: 'He changed my career, almost instantaneously'
The Tony-award winning actor, who played Ralph Garcia in Parker’s 1980 hit, looks back at a collaboration which was fraught, fruitful – and life-changing
'We all felt like the kids from Fame!' Stage stars on Alan Parker's classic
For Mica Paris, Jenna Russell and Drew McOnie, the hit film was not only an inspiration – it mirrored the exuberant joy and harsh reality of show business
