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Shame

February 2024

  • Steve McQueen, left, with Chiwetel Ejiofor on the set of 12 Years a Slave.

    Mark Kermode on film
    Mark Kermode on… director Steve McQueen, a boundary-pushing master

    From his feature debut, Hunger, to his new documentary, Occupied City, the Oscar-winning director and Turner prize winner’s work has been a long, lively conversation between art and film

August 2021

  • Eddie Marsan in Deceit.

    TV tonight
    TV tonight: the hunt for the killer of Rachel Nickell

    A dramatisation of the botched 1990s murder investigation begins with a rookie cop going undercover. Plus: Paul Merton and Suki Webster continue their road trip. Here’s what to watch tonight

October 2017

  • Michael Fassbender in The Snowman.

    Film blog
    Can Michael Fassbender survive his year of flops?

    The Snowman is melting at the box office. It only continues what Assassin’s Creed and Song to Song started: threatening to ruin this actor’s previously sparkling career

October 2016

  • Michael Fassbender

    Michael Fassbender: ‘I was a bit of a worrywart. I’ve tried to work on that’

    He does raw and repressed better than anyone, but off-screen the actor is learning how to relax. He talks old friends, forgiveness and on-screen nudity

January 2016

  • Steve McQueen

    The G2 interview
    Steve McQueen on the Oscars whitewash: ‘I’m hoping we can look back and say this was a watershed moment’

    The only black director to win best picture, says change has to happen now. He talks about Hollywood apartheid, being written off as a young black teenager, and his friendship with Kanye West

May 2015

  • Keanu Reeves and Sandra Bullock in Speed

    From The Godfather to Jason Bourne, why Hollywood loves urban transport

    Subway systems, streetcars, buses and ferries appear countless times throughout cinematic history, revealing a lot about our changing attitudes to public transportation – and cities

April 2015

  • CAREY MULLIGAN

    The Guardian profile
    A special intensity: how Carey Mulligan quietly grabbed Hollywood's attention

    Fans include the playwright David Hare and a studio boss but Mulligan is more interested in finding characters with real depth than leveraging her growing fame

December 2014

  • Steve McQueen, film-maker

    Steve McQueen to be honoured at European Film Awards

    British director of 12 Years A Slave, Hunger and Shame to be given award for European achievement in world cinema

June 2014

  • frances ha

    Clip joint
    Clip joint: running to music

    Five of the most memorable film scenes involving characters running to a piece of music. What others are missing from our list?

February 2012

  • Sir Fred Goodwin

    Thinking Aloud with Giles Fraser
    Giles Fraser's Thinking Aloud podcast: how valuable is shame?

    Giles Fraser's Thinking Aloud podcast: How effective is shame as a means of punishment and how valuable is it in shaping social norms?

January 2012

  • Michael Fassbender and Steve McQueen on Shame: 'How can you make a film about sex that isn't sexy?' - video

  • Steve McQueen and Michael Fassbender on the set of Shame

    The Guardian Film Show
    Film Weekly podcast: Michael Fassbender and Steve McQueen on Shame - audio

December 2011

  • Hauser & Wirth's Piccadilly gallery turned into social centre

    Critics' cultural highlights 2011
    The best exhibitions of 2011: Adrian Searle's choice

    The year's highlights for me included Steve McQueen's brilliant Shame, which still rattles me, and Trisha Brown's dancers walking on the walls of the Barbican, writes Adrian Searle
  • Extra Shame

    OFFER EXPIRED Preview screening: Shame

    Be one of the first to see Shame. Directed by Steve McQueen, the film stars Michael Fassbender and Carey Mulligan. The screening will take place at Odeon cinemas around the UK on Tuesday 13 December

  • Preview screening: Shame

    Be one of the first to see Shame. Directed by Steve McQueen, the film stars Michael Fassbender and Carey Mulligan. The screening will take place at Odeon cinemas around the UK on Tuesday 13 December

October 2011

  • Michael Fassbender in Steve McQueen's 2011 film Shame

    Steve McQueen's Shame issued with NC-17 rating

  • Trailer park
    Shame: world exclusive trailer - video

September 2011

  • Tilda Swinton in We Need to Talk About Kevin

    London film festival 2011 preview
    London film festival: Xan Brooks's top 10 picks

    Xan Brooks: From Steve McQueen's Shame to Lynne Ramsay's We Need to Talk About Kevin, these are the films not to miss at the LFF

  • Need to Talk About Kevin

    London film festival 2011 lineup announced

    BFI festival announces full schedule that includes Terence Davies's The Deep Blue Sea, Steve McQueen's Shame and Andrea Arnold's Wuthering Heights among high-profile international films

  • Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy and Shame: 'Two tremendous pictures' at the Venice film festival - video

    The last couple of days at the Venice film festival have seen thunder, lightning and two fantastic new films

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