Kitty Grady

Made from CCTV footage from the occupation of Chernobyl, ‘Special Operation’ is a Farockian art film that also acts as forensic evidence of crime. 

Shakespearean actor Dame Harriet Walter discusses iambic pentameter, bad mothers, and playing her most evil character to date.

Babygirl opens with an orgasm, but it is by no means the film’s climax. Kitty Grady speaks to the film’s writer and director, Halina Reijn, about working with Nicole Kidman, breaking America, and the beast inside of us all.

The Swedish director discusses Crossing, an undulating tale of a retired Georgian woman’s search for her trans niece in Istanbul.

From a tome on director’s clothing, an academic masterpiece on Yasujiro Ozu and soon-to-be adapted novels, here are the books you should read this summer.

One of the most significant actors in French film history, Jeanne Moreau made her name playing alluring but troubled heroines. Whilst the term femme fatale followed Moreau to the grave, Kitty Grady explores how Moreau brought a more nuanced definition to the age-old archetype, one that coincided with the birth of the French New Wave.

While defined by its relationship to disgust, Ottessa Moshfegh’s writing is also informed by kitschier genres of commercial culture. Kitty Grady caught up with the My Year of Rest and Relaxation author in Paris to talk Yorgos Lanthimos, stand-up comedy, and why she wants to write a book about Gordon Ramsay. 

Jacques Audiard’s subversive musical is deservedly pegged to win the Palme d’Or.

The great writer-director Paul Schrader describes his upbringing, his fascination with metaphors and symbolism, his next feature, Oh, Canada (starring Jacob Elordi) and why cinema has become more prudish.

‘The Sweet East’ portrays a young woman’s maiden voyage through American subcultures. Director and screenwriter Sean Price Williams and Nick Pinkerton discuss road movies, feline characters and creating bad-object movies.

The cinematographer Benoît Delhomme discusses his directorial debut, Mother’s Instinct, a psychological thriller set in the 1960s starring Jessica Chastain and Anne Hathaway. Featuring exclusive illustrations by Benoît Delhomme.

Adapted for screen by Yorgos Lanthimos, Poor Things, Alasdair Gray’s 1992 steampunk novel, references La Salpêtrière, the famous hysteria hospital of late 19th century Paris. Does its heroine Bella Baxter, a 25 year-old woman with the brain of a baby, epitomise the notion of the ‘wandering womb’?

The Canadian photographer discusses Ingmar Bergman, the importance of truth to photography and why he doesn’t have to ‘hunt’ for pictures.

“What if we just kept driving?” Ridley Scott’s 1991 road movie Thelma & Louise is best known for its final shot—a still of the eponymous heroines shooting over the Grand Canyon. A feminist classic celebrating life, love and friendship, as Kitty Grady explores, death and stillness are only ever just around the corner.