Spaceman review – Adam Sandler consoled by unscary giant spider in deep space
Adaptation of Czech absurdist novel finds Sandler on a trippy cosmic mission while his marriage breaks down on Earth
December 2023
2023 in Culture
Best films of 2023 in the UK: No 10 – Marcel the Shell With Shoes On
This whimsical, lovable movie features cinema’s bromance of the year between a human and a seashell as the latter goes looking for his family
February 2023
Marcel the Shell With Shoes On review – bijou stop-motion animation will win you over
What should be an irritating story about a tiny talking shell with shoes trying to find his family is somehow funny and beguiling
October 2020
Isabella Rossellini: ‘Ageing brings a lot of happiness. You get fatter – but there is freedom’
The actor’s latest project is about the joy of sex, as well as its capacity to exploit, control and kill. She discusses the pleasure of life after being written off by Hollywood and the beauty business
August 2020
Wild at Heart at 30: David Lynch's divisive and unruly road movie
It was booed at Cannes and received lukewarm reviews but there remains something compelling about its lurid extremities
April 2020
From the Guardian archive
David Lynch's Blue Velvet reviewed – archive, 1987
9 April 1987 A film that exists both on a level of absolute reality and out-and-out nightmare. Love it or hate it, see it you must, says film critic Derek Malcolm
October 2018
Link Link by Isabella Rossellini review – superstar's pooch steals the show
A cod-scientific lecture on animal behaviour is given a comic twist in a surreal show that is too cutesy
April 2018
Life on a plate
Isabella Rossellini: ‘I’ve learned so much watching – rather than eating – my 120 chickens’
The actor and farmer on her father’s pasta sauce, bee-keeping – and being fed by Martin Scorsese’s mother
February 2018
Isabella Rossellini and Isabelle Huppert take one-woman shows to London
Southbank Centre to host Isabella Rossellini performing with her pet dog and Isabelle Huppert reading from the Marquis de Sade
December 2016
Blue Velvet review – still inventive, sexy and bizarre
Thirty years after its first release, this macabre, intensely 80s drama coolly retains a sense of the toxic fear hiding in plain sight of picket-fence America
August 2016
Ingrid Bergman: In Her Own Words review – super doc with Super 8 footage
Ingrid Bergman: In Her Own Words review – candid tale of Hollywood spite
July 2016
Isabella Rossellini: ‘There is no work between 45 and 60 – you’re in limbo’
At 43, Isabella Rossellini was sacked as the face of Lancôme. Now, 20 years on, she’s been rehired. She talks movies, her mother, Ingrid Bergman, and her rollercoaster life
December 2015
The 50 best films of 2015 in the US
The 50 best films of 2015 in the US: No 9 – Joy
Continuing our countdown of the best movies released in the US this year, we get ourselves in a lather about another electrifying Jennifer Lawrence performance in David O Russell’s inspiring biopic
October 2015
Breakfast of champions
Breakfast of champions: Isabella Rossellini’s goat’s cheese omelette
‘Unlike some members of the fashion and film worlds, Rossellini doesn’t believe in denying herself good food’
August 2015
Isabella Rossellini on Ingrid Bergman: 'Women liked her matter-of-factness'
Ahead of MoMA’s and the Brooklyn Academy of Music’s centennial celebration of Bergman’s career, her daughter reflects on a woman who didn’t care for makeup and who swore by keeping things simple
July 2015
Ingrid Bergman: a life in pictures
Orphaned at the age of 13, Ingrid Bergman went from humble beginnings in Sweden to become one of the world’s most glamorous film actors. On the centenary of her birth, here is a selection of rare off-screen photographs
May 2015
Ban on selfies helps Cannes hold on to that traditional mystique
Catherine Deneuve complained that social media have taken away the glamour of the movies
