Skip to main contentSkip to navigation

Queen of the Desert

August 2016

  • Gertrude Bell exhibition at the Kirkleatham Museum

    Gertrude Bell’s wartime history was less than benign

  • Gertrude Bell on horseback in Baghdad, 1917

    Gertrude of Arabia: the great adventurer may finally get her museum

April 2015

  • Jenny Agutter at home in London

    Jenny Agutter: ‘I’m not that young woman people have fantasised about’

    The knicker-waver from the Railway Children has been acting for 50 years. She talks about her new movie Tin, her optimism about roles for older women – and why fish and chips can be just as good as caviar

February 2015

  • Dakota Johnson, Jamie Dornan, Sam Taylor-Johnson and EL James at the Fifty Shades of Grey premiere

    Berlin Film Festival 2015 round-up – Grey… and greyer?

    Fifty Shades of Grey steals the limelight, but a more authentic intimacy is to be found in Andrew Haigh’s extraordinary 45 Years, starring Charlotte Rampling
  • Queen of the Desert film still

    First look review
    Berlin 2015: Queen of the Desert review – a towering Nicole Kidman goes there and back again

    Peter Bradshaw: Werner Herzog’s biopic of English adventurer Gertrude Bell is impeccably mounted, competently made, entirely respectable – and a bit of a plod
  • James Franco, Nicole Kidman, Damian Lewis and Werner Herzog at the premiere of Queen of the Desert.

    Werner Herzog: Gertrude Bell biopic contains most erotic scene I've shot

    The German director says Nicole Kidman-starring explorer biopic will be the first of many female-led movies, but that current situation in Middle East means events depicted in film should be treated with caution
  翻译: