Chronicler of the making of her husband’s Apocalypse Now whose footage and recordings were the basis for a documentary and book
October 2023
Mean Streets review – Scorsese’s miraculous early masterpiece is a blistering classic
Mean Streets at 50: Martin Scorsese’s personal, powerful masterwork
May 2023
Thelma and Louise review – punchier, bolder, hotter and sweatier than ever
Callie Khouri’s feminist crime classic is a masterclass in narrative and character development and director Ridley Scott delivers pure action brio
November 2022
Explain it to me quickly
Goncharov: why has the internet invented a fake Martin Scorsese film?
Thousands of Tumblr users have been making posters, soundtracks, drawings and fan fiction for a 1973 Scorsese film starring Robert De Niro – but it never existed
October 2022
Reservoir Dogs at 30: Tarantino’s canny contained act of provocation
The violent caper exploded on the scene back in 1992, causing admiration and annoyance, kicking off a new wave of imitators
June 2021
Fatima review – miracle movie plays down the transcendence
Fatima review – holy mother miracle retold with unbreakable faith
November 2019
This much I know
Harvey Keitel: ‘I’ve never played a violent character’
Steve Rose on film
Martin Scorsese: is The Irishman director becoming more radical with age?
September 2019
The Painted Bird review – savage, searing three-hour tour of hell
Stellan Skarsgård, Harvey Keitel and Udo Kier star in this phantasmagorical horror about eastern Europe that saw half the Venice audience walk out. I couldn’t look away
July 2018
Madame review – Toni Collette's modern Pygmalion is a farce without force
A starry cast, including Harvey Keitel and Rossy de Palma, can’t save this sentimental tale of super-rich Americans in Paris
June 2018
The Piano review – Jane Campion's drama still hits all the right notes
Rereleased after 25 years, this literary work about a mute woman in 19th-century New Zealand remains full of extraordinary images and enigmas
February 2018
Lies We Tell review – culture clash in Bradford
A Pakistani lawyer deals with incriminating film footage in a crime thriller hindered by some clunky dialogue
Lies We Tell review – gangland romance lacks thrills despite its talented cast
Gabriel Byrne is drawn into the dark world of his ex-boss’s girlfriend in a leaden drama hampered by a cheesy score
Lies We Tell: how a Bradford double-glazing salesman got Harvey Keitel and Gabriel Byrne to star in his debut film
Mitu Misra had never been on a film set before – so how did he persuade Keitel and Gabriel Byrne to star in the British-Asian drama he wrote and directed?
September 2017
Isle of Dogs: watch the trailer for Wes Anderson's dystopian canine epic
Set in a future Japan where dogs have been banished to an island of garbage, the film features the voice work of Bill Murray, Tilda Swinton and Yoko Ono
April 2017
Quentin Tarantino remembers Reservoir Dogs: 'I counted the walkouts'
Director tells Tribeca Festival first public screening of his debut was ‘a fucking disaster’ but revels in memory of dancing when Harvey Keitel came onboard
March 2017
Chosen review – starchy heroics in ponderous second world war film
This unfocused drama about a Hungarian Jewish lawyer who joins the resistance in 1944 only ever scratches the surface. And Harvey Keitel’s appearance is disheartening
February 2017
Taxi Driver review – Scorsese's sleaze is still the bee's knees
The rereleased 1976 shocker in which Robert De Niro roams night-time New York is fixed firmly in the past – but its visceral horror remains undimmed
