‘Difficult second album syndrome’: why auteurs struggle to follow their debut
Just like the follow-up to Donnie Darko, David Robert Mitchell’s Under the Silver Lake fails to live up to its acclaimed predecessor
April 2015
Observer New Review Q&A
Ger Duany: ‘As an actor, I share my life story with other kids who are struggling’
The Sudanese actor on being a child refugee, the healing power of basketball – and why LA beats NYC…
April 2007
Clooney denies Huckabees leak
George Clooney has made clear he had nothing to do with the public release of embarrassing out-takes showing I Heart Huckabees director David O Russell yelling at actor Lily Tomlin.
March 2007
Film blog
The view: Film blogs on 300 and other gory battles
This week, the gaze of cinematic bloggers fell, inevitably, on Zack Snyder's chest-thumping opus, the less than equanimous set of I Heart Huckabees and the best movie-related action figure ever.
January 2006
The week's highlights
The Romantics | Prison Break | The Virgin Queen | Starsky And Hutch | Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter - And Spring | I Heart Huckabees | Wogan: Now And Then | Storyville: The House Of Chanel | Chappelle's Show
April 2005
I Heart Huckabees
Cert 12
November 2004
Green and pleasant
I Heart Huckabees is a movie about life, the environment and the meaning of Shania Twain. Pretentious? There should be more like it, says Joe Queenan.
I Heart Huckabees
London film festival
'This film is part of me'
David O Russell's new film, I Heart Huckabees, is a post-9/11 screwball comedy about existentialism. And it's based on his experiences of protesting against the CIA in the 1980s, he tells B Ruby Rich.
August 2004
Mike Leigh's Vera Drake opens London film festival
Opening night film is Mike Leigh's abortion drama. Closing night is I Heart Huckabees, by David O Russell
