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Philip Seymour Hoffman

February 2024

  • Peter Bradshaw

    Ten years on from his death, Philip Seymour Hoffman still shines bright

    Peter Bradshaw
    From an Oscar-winning performance in Capote to a masterly turn in Synecdoche, New York, the unique actor proved the standard-bearer for characterisation

January 2022

  • Down the rabbithole

    Down the rabbit hole
    What links Licorice Pizza to The Gong Show?

    From San Fernando Valley to Chuck Barris via Haim, we go down the rabbit hole with Paul Thomas Anderson’s coming-of-age tale

December 2021

  • Licorice Pizza - film still

    ‘Being in love is the most difficult challenge of your life’: Paul Thomas Anderson and Alana Haim on making Licorice Pizza

  • RELEASE DATE: December 25, 2021 TITLE: Licorice Pizza STUDIO: Focus Features DIRECTOR: Paul Thomas Anderson PLOT: The story of Alana Kane and Gary Valentine growing up, running around and going through the treacherous navigation of first love in the San Fernando Valley, 1973. STARRING: ALANA HAIM as Alana Kane, COOPER HOFFMAN as Gary Valentine. (Credit Image: © Focus Features/Entertainment Pictures)<br>2H728YX RELEASE DATE: December 25, 2021 TITLE: Licorice Pizza film still STUDIO: Focus Features DIRECTOR: Paul Thomas Anderson PLOT: The story of Alana Kane and Gary Valentine growing up, running around and going through the treacherous navigation of first love in the San Fernando Valley, 1973. STARRING: ALANA HAIM as Alana Kane, COOPER HOFFMAN as Gary Valentine. (Credit Image: © Focus Features/Entertainment Pictures)

    Top US films 2021
    The 50 best films of 2021 in the US, No 7: Licorice Pizza

September 2020

  • The cast of Almost Famous.

    Almost Famous at 20: Cameron Crowe's warm-hearted ode to music journalism

    The writer-director’s semi-autobiographical comedy remains a generous and insightful film about growing up on the road

April 2018

  • Recovery mode... Maron, Flaked, Love and Mom.

    From Fun Bobby to Flaked: why sitcoms are sobering up

    Writers such as Sharon Horgan discuss why the ‘lovable drunk’ trope is a thing of the past, as complex comedy heroes are cleaning up

July 2017

  • Laura Linney

    Laura Linney: 'Having a child later in life has been wonderful'

    She was a lying needy sister in Savages, an apple pie innocent in Tales of the City – and now, in Ozark, she’s fleeing Mexican drug barons. The star talks about Hugh Grant’s career, working with the wrong people, and the joys of late motherhood

June 2017

  • Cars Comp Paul Newman and Doc Hudson from Cars 3

    Film blog
    From Bruce Lee to Paul Walker: how Hollywood pulled off its biggest resurrection acts

    Paul Newman is only the latest star to return to the big screen after death. From Philip Seymour Hoffman to Peter Sellers, here are some of the most celebrated performances from beyond the grave

May 2017

  • Composite of the films Fierce Creatures, The Sting, Runaway Bride and Chasing Amy

    When big-screen reunions work … and when they don't

    The team behind Oscar-nominated crime thriller Hell and High Water have just announced a new project, but what can they learn from other re-teams that have and haven’t been successful?

April 2017

  • Unwatchable. Dustin Hoffman and Natalie Portman in Mr Magorium’s Wonder Emporium.

    One for the money: the great actors who slummed it in dumb movies

    Helen Mirren’s appearance in the Fast and Furious franchise is a bit of a surprise. But virtually every notable actor – from Welles to Brando to Blanchett – has cashed in an easy paycheque for a mindless franchise or a duffer

November 2015

  • Philip Seymour Hoffman as Plutarch Heavensbee

    Discretion, not CGI: how Philip Seymour Hoffman was kept in the Hunger Games

    As Hollywood makes more franchise films, it will more often have to deal with the loss of actors during production. Mockingjay Part 2 shows how it’s done

June 2015

  • Stahl with his daugher

    Jerry Stahl: 'Our family business was shame'

    Twenty years ago, Jerry Stahl was injecting heroin as his baby was being delivered. Now, the author of Permanent Midnight is a father again at 59. He talks to Chris Campion about second chances

January 2015

  • Steve Carell and Channing Tatum in Foxcatcher.

    Foxcatcher: the ‘uneasy relationship between money and creativity’

    Director Bennett Miller follows his American football film Moneyball with an altogether eerier exploration of the darker side of sporting triumph

December 2014

  • Phillip Seymour Hoffman

    Obituaries of 2014
    Philip Seymour Hoffman remembered by David Bar Katz

    David Bar Katz wrote this prose poem for his friend Philip Seymour Hoffman, with whom he used to have coffee every morning after dropping off their children

November 2014

  • Ethan Hawke

    Ethan Hawke: ‘Mining your life is the only way to stumble on anything real'

    The star of Boyhood and Richard Linklater’s Before trilogy reflects on his past work, life experience and blurring the lines between reality and fiction
  • The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1

    The Hunger Games: Mockingjay, Part 1 review – Seymour Hoffman brings wit and gravitas to a spiky media satire

    The penultimate instalment of The Hunger Games franchise is lower on action than its predecessors, writes Mark Kermode

    • Film blog
      Mike Nichols: 10 of the best, from Virginia Woolf to Charlie Wilson

    • A Most Wanted Man: my most overrated film

    • Hunger Games actor hopes film franchise will galvanise young voters

September 2014

  • Jennifer Lawrence

    Week in geek
    Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1 will need all J-Law’s superpowers

    If the new trailer is anything to go by, the final instalments will need Arena-style tech to overcome the source material, writes Ben Child
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