MEN 2022
Garland's latest sees Jessie Buckley take a restorative break to a village occupied entirely by... unsettling variations on Rory Kinnear.
"The starting point was [the myth of] The Green Man. This is about the fourth or fifth version of the script I had written. But the first time I wrote a Green Man-based script was between writing Sunshine and Never Let Me Go. So I'd been rewriting scripts based around that imagery since then. There are all sorts of genre tags you could stick on Men, but one of them would be sort of psychedelic folk horror. Or you could just say folk horror, because usually folk horror implies psychedelics for some reason I've never completely understood. I think it's because of the connection with magic. But it's got to have a streak of weirdness running through it! Making it was extremely difficult. I certainly don't mean just for me... but for a really large group of people, particularly including camera, prosthetics, visual effects [departments] and actors. Partly because you have to have actors doing some really quite extreme things, in quite extreme conditions, with very little of what will end up on screen around them. In the end, it really weighs most heavily on the visual effects team. I remember making Ex Machina with a visual effects supervisor called Andrew Whitehurst. We had a conversation saying, essentially, this film won't work unless the visual effects for Ava, the robot, work. I had the same conversation with David Simpson and his team on Men. Because there's no real point in bullshitting. It's a bit like an actor... when the camera is on them, it doesn't matter what everyone else is doing. They then at that moment have to deliver. And they may have three takes and fifteen minutes in which to do that, and then that moment will be gone forever. And that's what David Simpson and his team had to deal with on Men."
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RETURN TO OZ
WICKED Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande defy gravity as the Broadway smash reaches cinemas.
GRIN AND BEAR IT
SMILE 2 Trauma-horror sequel sees the curse latch onto a pop superstar...
BAD ROMANCE
TIMESTALKER Alice Lowe falls in love with the wrong man time and time again...
CLOWNING GORY
TERRIFIER 3 Creator Damien Leone says Art the Clown is coming home for Christmas...
SELF EXPRESSION
LAYLA A non-binary, British-Palestinian drag queen navigates their expression of identity.
GENA ROWLANDS
I like difficult roles,' said Gena Rowlands. No kidding. A stage, TV and film actor whose career spanned more than six decades, Rowlands will be most remembered for the series of coruscating dramas she made with her first husband, actor-turned-director John Cassavetes, between 1968 and 1984.
'NOW NOTHING IS ABOUT LOOKS OR ABOUT BEING A LEADING LADY.AND IT'S VERY LIBERATING' EMILY WATSON
Since breaking hearts in Breaking the Waves, Emily Watson has delivered countless screen masterclasses, from Gosford Park and Punch-Drunk Love to Apple Tree Yard. Now, the English star goes toe-to-toe with Cilllan Murohy in Irish drama Smeal/ Things like hese and fronts 1V prequel Dune: Prophecy. Is it her second coming? It's elementary, my dear Watson...
BLODD PRESSURE
BASED ON STEPHEN KING'S MOST INFLUENTIAL BOOK AND WRITTEN AND DIRECTED BY IT SCRIBE GARY DAUBERMAN, VAMPIRE MOVIE SALEM'S LOT FACED AN UNHOLY FIGHT TO GET TO OUR SCREENS. TOTAL FILM HUNTS DOWN DAUBERMAN AND STARS LEWIS PULLMAN AND MAKENZIE LEIGH TO LEARN ALL THAT WAS AT STAKE...
Lucky Man
He broke out in Beatles jukebox musical Yesterday and has a varied slate of juicy projects on the horizon, including a very different take on a superhero franchise. But, as the everhumble Himesh Patel tells Total Film, he puts a lot of it down to luck...
A BUE ABOVE
WORLD-BUILDER EXTRAORDINAIRE RIDLEY SCOTT IS ALSO THE MASTER OF THE DIRECTOR'S CUT, RESTORING HIS MISHANDLED GEMS INTO MASTERPIECES. WITH THE EXPANSIVE DIRECTOR'S CUT OF NAPOLEON NOW AVAILABLE TO STREAM, TOTAL FILM SPEAKS TO THE GREAT SCOTT ABOUT BLOWING UP BONAPARTE HIS RELATIONSHIP WITH EDITING AND WHY BIGGER IS (USUALLY) BETTER.