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Being John Malkovich

March 2024

  • Steve! (martin) a documentary in 2 pieces.

    The seven best films to watch on TV this week
    Steve! (Martin) to Emily the Criminal: the seven best films to watch on TV this week

    A thrilling documentary about the wild life of Steve Martin, the first comic ever to sell out stadiums – and Aubrey Plaza is electric as always playing a food delivery driver turned fraudster

July 2020

  • Charlie Kaufman.

    Charlie Kaufman: 'Making people laugh makes me feel validated as a human'

    The screenwriter behind Being John Malkovich, Adaptation and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind has written a novel - about a film critic who hates Charlie Kaufman

October 2019

  • Being John Malkovich, 1999

    Being John Malkovich at 20: why the surrealist comedy demands a rewatch

    One of the most fascinatingly strange and unpredictable films of 1999 still carries with it more pleasures to be discovered

November 2018

  • Lakeith Stanfield.

    Is Lakeith Stanfield the coolest actor of 2018?

    He’s the sharp-dressing eccentric who’s appeared in landmark films and TV shows, from Get Out to Atlanta. So why is he Hollywood’s ultimate outsider?

September 2017

  • Uma Thurman in Pulp Fiction.

    Pulp Fiction to Magnolia: the best films of the 90s – as chosen by critics

    Five critics choose their favourite film of the decade, from Charlie Kaufman’s surreal journey into John Malkovich’s mind to Baz Lurhmann’s Shakespearean tragedy with guns and Hawaiian shirts

March 2017

  • Just Call Me God starring John Malkovich

    John Malkovich: ‘Politics has gone through a portal into an alternate universe’

    After musical dramas featuring a serial killer and a notorious libertine, the actor returns to the stage as a tyrant. He talks about playing sociopaths and why he gave up voting

December 2015

  • Alec Guinness as Lady Agatha D’Ascoyne in Kind Hearts and Coronets.

    Readers suggest the 10 best …
    Readers suggest the 10 best actor transformations

    Last week we brought you our 10 best transformations by actors in film. Here you suggest who should have made the list.

September 2013

  • Spike Jonze

    Film blog
    Spike Jonze on letting Her rip and Being John Malkovich

    Chris Michael: When voice-operated software went mainstream, Jonze feared for his artificial intelligence love story. With Joaquin Phoenix and Scarlett Johansson in his corner, he needn't have worried

August 2013

  • Joaquin Phoenix in Spike Jonze's Her

    Film blog
    Her: what do you make of the trailer for Spike Jonze's computer love story?

    Feast your eyes and ears on the latest from the Being John Malkovich director, with Joaquin Phoenix as a man who falls for his computer (which sounds like Scarlett Johansson)

October 2011

  • Catherine Keener and John Cusack in Being John Malkovich

    Charlie Kaufman: why I wrote Being John Malkovich

    The cult screenwriter relives his big breakthrough – and offers a few writing tips

May 2009

  • Samantha Morton and Philip Seymour Hoffman in Synecdoche, New York

    In a New York state of mind

    Brainmelt master Charlie Kaufman's latest, Synecdoche, New York, is his most confusing yet. Damon Wise is your guide

June 2008

  • Film blog
    The view: has Charlie Kaufman lost the plot?

    The writer of Being John Malkovich makes his debut as a director with Synecdoche, New York. The blogs are ablaze with anticipation - but I'm just not excited...

February 2003

  • Who's the proper Charlie?

    Film's smartest writer Charlie Kaufman and director Spike Jonze are back with a movie that opens on the set of their last hit, Being John Malkovich. They tell Sean O'Hagan how they turn reality into fiction - and back again

September 2002

  • In brief: Kate Winslet to star in Being John Malkovich follow-up

    Plus: Can Jim Carrey challenge the mighty Harry Potter?, Annette Bening leaves Freaky Friday, Julia learns to flirt and Ron Howard to direct a western

July 2002

  • Are you pulling my leg?

    In this exclusive extract from his memoir, former PolyGram head Michael Kuhn tells how he tried to block Being John Malkovich - and how his dream of a major European studio was finally ruined

May 2002

  • 'Hit him in the nuts'

    He's given us Jackass, Being John Malkovich, some deeply freaky music videos - and now a spoof documentary about a washed-up rapper. Kathy Sweeney enters the weird world of Spike Jonze.

September 2000

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April 2000

  • The best Catherine Keener scene

    Being John Malkovich

March 2000

  • The best monkey scene

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