Difficult, fearsome, aggressive: the Faye Dunaway documentary is unusually frank
Pamela Hutchinson
Unlike many other fawning documentaries about big stars, HBO’s Faye is fascinatingly candid and unvarnished
June 2024
Network review – terrific 1976 news satire is an anatomy of American discontent
Chinatown at 50: has there been a greater screenplay since?
January 2023
Ranked
Faye Dunaway’s 10 best performances – ranked!
Ahead of the Oscar-winning actor’s 82nd birthday this weekend, we mark her finest moments, from camp histrionics to the most archetypal of femmes fatales
September 2021
Mommie Dearest at 40: the derided camp classic that deserves a closer look
Faye Dunaway’s all-guns-blazing performance as Joan Crawford is one of many reasons why the reviled biodrama is not the disaster many have labelled it
July 2021
Faye Dunaway to star in Kevin Spacey comeback film
Producer of Italian paedophilia drama says ‘controversy has generated plenty of interest and has been good for the film’
April 2020
The classic film I've never seen
I’ve never seen … Chinatown
Even if you’re already aware of the ending, the final moments of the ultimate sunshine noir can shock even the most hardened box-set veteran
July 2019
Faye Dunaway fired from Broadway-bound play Tea at Five
Oscar winner has been removed from a production of a one-woman show where she played Katharine Hepburn
June 2019
The warrior critic: in praise of Pauline Kael
The New Yorker’s legendary reviewer would have been 100 this year. Here, fans of her work assess her essential contribution to film journalism
March 2018
Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway to present best picture Oscar again
Bonnie and Clyde pair get second chance after announcing La La Land instead of Moonlight at the 2017 Academy Awards
September 2017
Weekend magazine fashion special autumn/winter 2017
From Goldie Hawn’s eyewear to ditching the skincare routine: this season's fashion trends
What’s hot and what’s not this autumn/winter
August 2017
Bored with blockbusters? Why Hollywood needs another Bonnie and Clyde moment
This weekend marks 50 years since the release of the film that shook up studios and ushered in a new wave of auteurs including Coppola and Scorsese. Does the complacent Hollywood of 2017 need a similar shock?
May 2017
A brush with greatness
The day I fell at Faye Dunaway’s feet
Jobbing actor Phill Langhorne remembers a closer than intended encounter with the diminutive star
April 2017
Faye Dunaway says she felt 'very guilty' about Oscars envelope fiasco
Actor tells NBC she was ‘stunned’ after incorrectly announcing La La Land as best picture instead of Moonlight
Warren Beatty recalls 'chaos' of Oscars night
Actor tells Graham Norton about handing the wrong envelope to Faye Dunaway, who announced the wrong winner for best film
One for the money: the great actors who slummed it in dumb movies
Helen Mirren’s appearance in the Fast and Furious franchise is a bit of a surprise. But virtually every notable actor – from Welles to Brando to Blanchett – has cashed in an easy paycheque for a mindless franchise or a duffer
March 2017
Notebook
Why is my daughter so different to me?
Emma Brockes
As a kid I was always terrified of public attention, so my child’s spontaneous enthusiasm towards an on-stage invite came as a strange surprise
February 2017
Oscars ratings hit nine year low, despite final reel drama
A cliffhanger ending wasn’t enough to stymie another successive drop-off in US TV audiences for the Academy Awards
When gongs go wrong ... a short history of awards being given to the losers
Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway’s epic error in reading out the wrong best picture winner was unprecedented at Oscars. Accuracy at other ceremonies, however, is more erratic …
Moonlight wins Oscar for best picture … two minutes after La La Land
Cockup casts shadow over victory for Barry Jenkins’s acclaimed drama as movie musical is mistakenly named winner by Faye Dunaway and Warren Beatty
