Celebrity-studded ‘White Dudes for Harris’ call raises $4m for vice-president
Jeff Bridges, Mark Hamill, Mark Ruffalo and contenders for Harris’s VP pick among 190,000 participants in Zoom call
June 2024
Johnny Depp to play Satan opposite Jeff Bridges as God in Terry Gilliam biblical comedy
Director says The Carnival at the End of Days will begin shooting in January and that Depp’s devil will be trying to save humanity
October 2023
How we made
‘The helmet made my hair fall out’: Jeff Bridges on making cult sci-fi film Tron
‘I was doing a western when I was given the script. I read it while sitting on a horse thinking: “What is this gibberish?”’
February 2023
Stream team
So good, it’s criminal: the ambiguous brilliance of Hell or High Water
Chris Pine and Ben Foster play brothers robbing banks to repay them in this 2016 film hauntingly scored by Nick Cave and Warren Ellis
October 2022
Down the rabbit hole
What links Jeff Bridges to Kendall Roy and Jerry Seinfeld?
The actor’s new Disney+ show The Old Man ignites a chain of circumstance that includes his father, Lloyd Bridges, a clothing line and a mysterious wife
September 2022
TV review
The Old Man review – Jeff Bridges can barely put his socks on, but he sure can shoot
Bridges plays an ex-CIA agent who has been in hiding for decades. Now, he’s paranoid old enemies are out to get him. Are they? Of course!
Weekend
Actor Jeff Bridges, Welcome to ‘First Blokes’ Club, the secret to happiness – podcast
Zoe Williams on the political role of the ‘First Bloke’, Tom Lamont meets the Oscar-winning actor Jeff Bridges, and Bronwyn Adcock gains a little insight into the secret to happiness.
‘Dealing with your mortality, it makes things more precious’: Hollywood legend Jeff Bridges on the gift of life after cancer
After surviving cancer and covid, the fabulous Jeff Bridges is back and relishing every moment. He talks to Tom Lamont
June 2022
TV review
The Old Man review – Jeff Bridges shines in serviceable action series
The 72-year-old actor plays a fugitive of the past in a watchable drama that also works as a fantasy of hyper-competence in the sunset years
October 2021
The Last Picture Show at 50: a melancholic ode to the ghost town
The bleak 1971 drama is an enduring look at a dying small town that finds moments of humanity in among the sadness
February 2021
The Audio Long Read
‘A managerial Mephistopheles’: inside the mind of Jeff Bezos – podcast
The Amazon founder’s relentless quest for ‘customer ecstasy’ made him one of the world’s richest people – now he’s looking to the unlimited resources of space. Is he the genius our age of consumerism deserves?
October 2020
Actor Jeff Bridges being treated for lymphoma
Famous for his role of The Dude in The Big Lebowski, Bridges says the disease is serious but his prognosis is good
March 2020
'He didn't even pretend to let us win'… Growing up with the world's biggest stars, by their children
The sons and daughters of John Wayne, John Lennon, Caitlyn Jenner and others tell us what it was like to grow up with a world-famous dad
October 2019
My best shot
George Clooney with a plaster on his nose: Jeff Bridges’ best photograph
‘This is George Clooney on the set of The Men Who Stare at Goats. I’m playing with the idea of comedy and tragedy – the masks of ancient Greek theatre’
February 2019
Steve Rose on film
Is Matthew McConaughey’s Moondog the last movie stoner?
Harmony Korine’s new film centres around a pothead. Now it’s legal in some states, maybe it’s time to phase out the haze
January 2019
The Dude imbibes – Jeff Bridges returns for Super Bowl beer commercial
Film blog
The Dude is back – but is Jeff Bridges about to pull the rug from under us?
Ben Walters
October 2018
Bad Times at the El Royale review – overlong oddity from Drew Goddard
Bad Times at the El Royale review – kitsch hard-boiled thriller
September 2018
Culture highlights of the week
What to see this week in the UK
From Faces Places to Octavian, here’s our pick of the best films, concerts, exhibitions, theatre and dance over the next seven days
