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Lynne Ramsay

May 2024

  • The Matrix.

    Party like it’s 1999: 10 movies that encapsulate one of the greatest years for cinema

    It was the year when arthouse brains met Hollywood brawn. But what made the last 12 months of the 90s so special? These films tell the story

April 2024

  • Trance-like … William Eadie as James Gillespie in Ratcatcher.

    Ratcatcher review – Lynne Ramsay’s haunting debut is a hallucinatory wonder

    Ramsay’s brilliant rendering of a child’s experience during the 1975 Glasgow bin-collectors’ strike, spiked with a horrifying twist of fate, remains masterly

January 2024

  • Joker: Folie à Deux film still

    2024 culture preview
    From Megalopolis to Joker 2: the 2024 films Guardian writers are most excited about

    With major new films from Lynne Ramsey, Francis Ford Coppola and Robert Eggers, the year promises a feast for fans

November 2022

  • ‘A poet of the dark side of Manhattan’ … Martin Scorsese in Rome in 2019 for the premiere of The Irishman.

    Martin Scorsese at 80: Francis Ford Coppola, Steve McQueen and Woody Allen on the ‘greatest director alive’

    Ahead of his birthday next week, directors including Tim Burton, Edgar Wright, Lynne Ramsay and Luca Guadagnino reveal their favourite scenes – and what Scorsese’s work means to them

September 2021

  • Michael Winterbottom (right) directs Angelina Jolie (left) in A Mighty Heart.

    Michael Winterbottom: why British independent cinema resembles an abandoned building site

    The director of The Trip and Greed has spoken to 15 successful directors to find out what we can learn from the films that – through industry reluctance and obstruction – were never made

September 2019

  • From left: Moonlight, The Handmaiden, There Will Be Blood, Under the Skin

    Best culture of the 21st century
    The 100 best films of the 21st century

  • Lynne Ramsay, film director

    'I'm a perfectionist' – director Lynne Ramsay on delays, self-image and dancing with Joaquin Phoenix

August 2018

  • 2015, JAMES BOND: SPECTRE<br>DANIEL CRAIG Character(s): James Bond Film ‘JAMES BOND: SPECTRE’ (2015) Directed By SAM MENDES 26 October 2015 SAO56703 Allstar/UNITED ARTISTS **WARNING** This Photograph is for editorial use only and is the copyright of UNITED ARTISTS and/or the Photographer assigned by the Film or Production Company &amp; can only be reproduced by publications in conjunction with the promotion of the above Film. A Mandatory Credit To UNITED ARTISTS is required. The Photographer should also be credited when known. No commercial use can be granted without written authority from the Film Company.

    Bigelow? Tarantino? Nolan? You share your picks for a Bond director

    Our writer picked five possible Bond 25 directors after Danny Boyle left the project and you responded with a long list of alternative picks

April 2018

  • Lean on Pete<br>Lean on Pete

    Found in translation: how British film-makers are capturing America

    Andrew Haigh’s Lean on Pete is the latest in an increasing line of films from British directors finding new ways to reflect life in the US

March 2018

  • “Blue Planet II” - World Premiere - Red Carpet Arrivals<br>LONDON, ENGLAND - SEPTEMBER 27: Jonny Greenwood from Radiohead attends the World Premiere of “Blue Planet II” on September 27, 2017 in London, United Kingdom. (Photo by Jeff Spicer/Getty Images)

    Film blog
    'The hardest member of Radiohead? Ed's probably tasty' – Jonny Greenwood answers readers' questions

    Fresh from an Oscar nomination for Phantom Thread and with Lynne Ramsay’s You Were Never Really Here in cinemas, the film composer and Radiohead guitarist discusses his two-pronged career
  • Black Panther

    Box office analysis: UK
    Black Panther still purring at UK box office as it passes $1bn worldwide

    Marvel’s groundbreaking film profits from the dearth of new releases, while renewed controversy for Woody Allen may have affected his latest Wonder Wheel
    • Mark Kermode's film of the week
      You Were Never Really Here review – a hitman with a conscience?

    • Joaquin Phoenix: ‘There was a period when I wanted out. I wanted my life back’

    • You Were Never Really Here review - Joaquin Phoenix turns Travis Bickle

February 2018

  • Lynne Ramsay, photographed in February 2018 in Glasgow by Katherine Anne Rose for the Observer New Review.

    Director Lynne Ramsay: ‘I've got a reputation for being difficult – it's bullshit’

    The acclaimed film-maker talks about the movie she walked out on, her ‘Shirley Valentine’ moment and working with Joaquin Phoenix on her new thriller, You Were Never Really Here

January 2018

  • Clockwise from top left: Annihilation, Black Panther, Early Man and Red Sparrow

    Unmissable culture of 2018
    Prowling panthers, paranormal spies and vengeful ice-skaters: must-see movies of 2018

    The Black Panther roars, Matt Damon shrinks, Aardman go stone age and Jennifer Lawrence takes spying into a new dimension – we preview the best cinema of the new year

December 2017

  • Peterloo (2018) Neil Bell, John-Paul Hurley, Philip Jackson, Rory Kinnear, and Tom Gill

    Film blog
    The most exciting films of 2018 by big-name directors

    Damien Chazelle heads for space, while Gravity’s Alfonso Cuarón comes back down to Earth – and Terry Gilliam fulfils his Don Quixote fantasy after 28 years

May 2017

  •  (L-R) Joaquin Phoenix, Best Actor award winner, director Lynne Ramsay, Best screenplay award winner, director Ruben Ostlund, Palme d’Or award winner for his film “The Square”, Diane Kruger, Best Actress award winner, Director Leonor Serraille, Camera d’Or award winner and actress actress Laetitia Dosch pose on the stage

    Cannes 2017 day 12: Palme d'Or and award winners – in pictures

    The Cannes film festival has reached its final night, with awards dished out to Ruben Östlund for The Square, Joaquin Phoenix and Lynne Ramsay
  • Closing Ceremony - The 70th Annual Cannes Film Festival<br>CANNES, FRANCE - MAY 28: Director Ruben Oustland celebrates on the stage after receiving the Palme d'Or for the movie "The Square" at the Closing Ceremony during the 70th annual Cannes Film Festival at Palais des Festivals on May 28, 2017 in Cannes, France. (Photo by Pascal Le Segretain/Getty Images)

    Film blog
    Cannes 2017 awards: visceral power overlooked in favour of bourgeois vanity

    The Square was a decent pick for the Palme d’Or but there were disappointments: notably the jury’s failure to get fully behind the outstanding Russian film Loveless
  • French actress Eva Green poses as she leaves the Festival Palace on May 27, 2017 following the screening of the film 'Based on a True Story' (D'Apres une Histoire Vraie) at the 70th edition of the Cannes Film Festival in Cannes, southern France.  / AFP PHOTO / LOIC VENANCELOIC VENANCE/AFP/Getty Images

    Cannes 2017 day 11: Eva Green and Joaquin Phoenix on the red carpet – in pictures

    Cannes is nearly at an end: it’s the last two big premieres, Based on a True Story, directed by Roman Polanski, and Lynne Ramsay’s You Were Never Really Here
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