Interviews with leading figures from the arts
10 Questions for Mark Gatiss, writer-director of 'A Ghost Story for Christmas: Woman of Stone'
Wednesday, 25 December 2024
There are no white-sheeted ghosts in this year’s A Ghost Story for Christmas. The BBC’s annual adaptations of MR James’s best-known stories have been a holiday favourite since the 1970s.
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theartsdesk Q&A: filmmakers Guy Maddin, Evan and Galen Johnson on 'Rumours'
Saturday, 07 December 2024
Somewhere in Germany, G7 conference leaders including German Chancellor Ortmann (Cate Blanchett) and US President Wolcott (Charles Dance) repair to a gazebo to collaborate on a “clear, but not so clear” communique addressing an unnamed, possibly apocalyptic crisis. Farcically human, they pocket hors d’oeuvres, flirt and pull rank, lose tempers and trousers.
theartsdesk Q&A: filmmaker Payal Kapadia on...
Friday, 06 December 2024
Payal Kapadia’s lyrical fiction feature debut All We Imagine as Light, which received the Grand Prix at Cannes in May, is now accruing end-of-year...
Interview: rising star Chloe Savage on the Arctic...
Thursday, 21 November 2024
How old were you when you first had an image of the Arctic? When you first had that image, what was it that most resonated? Was it its remoteness,...
Interview: Roy Haynes, Jazz Drumming Giant (1925-...
Wednesday, 13 November 2024
Roy Haynes, who had begun to seem immortal, has died aged 99. In this extensive Arts Desk interview from 2011, one of the greatest jazz drummers...
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theartsdesk Q&A: director Jacques Audiard on his Mexican trans gangster musical 'Emilia Pérez'
The French filmmaker concocted an extravagant genre mash-up to confront the tragedy of Mexico's 'disappeared' |
theartsdesk Q&A: Anna Bogutskaya on her new book about the past decade of horror cinema
In time for Halloween, the author discusses 'Feeding the Monster' - and why she thinks horror cinema has entered a new phase |
theartsdesk Q&A: Alice Lowe on 'Timestalker' and what women rue through the ages
The writer, director, and star inserts herself into the history of love |
theartsdesk Q&A: young pianist Ignas Maknickas on appearing at the Roman River Festival and beyond
A rising talent who first performed with the Lithuanian State Symphony Orchestra aged 9 |
The Third Man rides again - 75th anniversary of Carol Reed's noir classic
Script supervisor Angela Allen on Orson Welles and filming in a war-ravaged Vienna |
theartsdesk Q&A: conductor Dalia Stasevska on her new album of contemporary orchestral music
Finnish-Ukrainian conductor looks to bring the music of today to new audiences |
theartsdesk Q&A: David Morrissey on (among other things) the return of 'Sherwood' and 'Daddy Issues'
Liverpool-born actor reflects on a journey from Everyman Theatre to film and TV stardom |
theartsdesk Q&A: violinist Braimah and cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason, guitarist Plínio Fernandes, on their two Fantasia Proms
String siblings and old friend reunite with Tom Fetherstonhaugh's inspiring orchestra |
10 Questions for DJ-producer Dave Clarke
The techno don talks new music, Brexit, cars, Gustav Holst and much more |
theartsdesk Q&A: Lucie Shorthouse is flying high with 'We Are Lady Parts' and 'Rebus'
An actor's progress from Cambridge Footlights to 'Everybody's Talking About Jamie', a female Muslim punk band and crime-fighting in Edinburgh |
theartsdesk Q&A: Viggo Mortensen on 'The Dead Don't Hurt', Westerns and the dangers of patriotism
The star considers romance in Durango, co-star Vicky Krieps, his outsider childhood and taste for adventure |
theartsdesk Q&A: Matthew Modine on 'Hard Miles', 40 years in showbusiness and safer cycling
An eventful journey from 'Full Metal Jacket' to 'Oppenheimer' and 'Stranger Things' |
'I think of her as a proto-punk': documentarist Svetlana Zill on Anita Pallenberg
The co-director considers her revelatory account of the Stones' muse of mayhem |
theartsdesk Q&A: Eddie Marsan and the American Revolution, posh boys and East End gangsters
Versatile actor on playing John Adams opposite Michael Douglas in Apple TV+’s ‘Franklin' |
theartsdesk Q&A: Marco Bellocchio - the last maestro
Italian cinema's vigorous grand old man discusses Kidnapped, conversion, anarchy and faith in cinema |
10 Questions for folk singer-songwriter Olivia Chaney - 'deeply personal songs that open out to the universal'
The Grammy-nominated singer-songwriter on 'Circus of Desire', her strongest album to date |
theartsdesk Q&A: Singer Dee C Lee
The vocalist chats through music, life, love, heartbreak and glorious Eighties times with The Style Council and WHAM! |
theartsdesk Q&A: Musician Karl Wallinger
RIP Karl Wallinger: a 2012 interview with the World Party wizard on aneurysms, Robbie Williams, drugs and fame |
theartsdesk Q&A: Wim Wenders on 'Perfect Days'
The German director explains why he made a drama about a Tokyo toilet cleaner |
10 Questions for 'The Settlers' film director Felipe Gálvez Haberle
Why he made a Western to condemn the Chileans responsible for the Selk'nam genocide |
Scala!!! interview with documentary co-directors Jane Giles and Ali Catterall
How the Scala became London's most infamous repertory cinema |
theartsdesk Q&A: Steven Wilson on Porcupine Tree, 'The Harmony Codex' and electro-dominance
Travelling not arriving drives the reluctant prog star onto fresh musical terrains |
32 Sounds: Interview with innovative documentarian Sam Green about his audio and visual feast
Rare chance to catch a unique documentary that explores the listening world |
10 Questions for the avant-pop icons Stereolab
Laetitia and Tim on Nineties tribes, new-age technology and their lifelong affinity with music |
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