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Antonia Bird

May 2016

  • Antonia Bird

    Samantha Morton and Maxine Peake salute the genius of late director Antonia Bird

    As a retrospective of the film pioneer’s work begins at the BFI, star friends pay tribute to her political spirit

December 2013

  • Antonia Bird

    Obituaries of 2013
    Antonia Bird remembered by Irvine Welsh

    Writer Irvine Welsh pays tribute to the inspirational film and TV director whom he was a partner with in the British production company 4Way

October 2013

  • Antonia Bird in 2004.

    Antonia Bird obituary

    Stage, TV and film director motivated by a desire to tell relevant and provocative stories
  • 1999, RAVENOUS

    Antonia Bird was a film-makers' role model of passion and fury

    Zoe Margolis
    Zoe Margolis: This inspiring director's death is a profound loss to film-making, and exposes the lack of women in British film and TV
  • Antonia Bird

    British film and TV director Antonia Bird dies, aged 62

    Director was best known for her work with actor Robert Carlyle on films such as Priest, Face and Ravenous

September 2011

  • film still from United 93

    Film blog
    9/11 films: how did Hollywood handle the tragedy?

    In the 10 years since the September 11 terrorist attacks, film directors have responded in myriad ways. Peter Bradshaw charts the rise and fall of the 9/11 movie

May 2011

  • Julia Leigh's Sleeping Beauty

    Palme pioneers: women directors at Cannes

    The Cannes film festival starts today – with a record four women competing for the main prize. Why so few? The key directors talk to Charlotte Higgins about chauvinism and the Croisette

March 2010

  • United 93

    Film blog
    Is Hollywood finally over 9/11?

    From the angry Fahrenheit 9/11 to the depressing Hamburg Cell, films about September 11 have journeyed through the five stages of grief. Now with weepies Dear John and Remember Me, the movies have come to terms with the defining event of our age

January 2010

  • Beeban Kidron filming Bridget Jones

    Why are there so few female film-makers?

    No woman has ever won an Oscar for directing. Could this be the year that all changes? Kira Cochrane talks to the women cracking the boys' club

November 2008

  • Robert Carlyle

    'This is as good as it gets'

    Robert Carlyle made his name with tough, violent and damaged characters. But it won't stop him appearing in 24 or playing Leonard Rossiter, he tells Kirsty Scott

March 2007

  • Film blog
    Women film directors: a scandalous rarity

    Why is that film-making continues to be the most gender inequitable career in the arts?

August 2005

  • To be and to pretend

    There's a sense of art imitating life when it comes to Robert Carlyle's career path, says Alastair McKay. But if the disaffections of his early years have helped inspire his best known characters, what can be read into his latest venture, which sees him tackling the notion of reconciliation following trauma and turmoil?

August 2004

  • The Hamburg Cell

    UGC, Edinburgh

October 2001

  • Irvine Welsh goes into film production

    The Trainspotting author has joined actor Robert Carlyle, director Antonia Bird and journalist Mark Cousins as a partner in production company Four Way Pictures

August 1999

  • Guardian interviews at the BFI
    Robert Carlyle/Antonia Bird: sound clips

    Robert Carlyle/Antonia Bird: sound clips

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