Amy Heckerling

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‘The area itself was the epicentre of porn and filth and somehow we were dancing on cars’
An oral history of Fame: ‘In between takes it was pretty wild’
  • Film
  • August 24, 2020, 06:00

Forty years ago, Alan Parker’s musical about a group of teenagers at the New York High School for the Performing Arts was released. Originally titled(...)

Anya Taylor-Joy stars in Emma. Photograph: Focus Features
Emma. review: It’s cool but it’s no Clueless

What is that full stop doing there in the title? It seems the latest adaptation of Jane Austen’s fourth novel really does take a period in its title. (...)

Saoirse Ronan at the Little Women premiere in Paris last week. Foreground photograph: Stephane Cardinale/Corbis via Getty
Saoirse Ronan: ‘I can go anywhere. I have a lovely place to come back to’

SAOIRSE RONAN IS SPENDING CHRISTMAS IN IRELAND AFTER AN EXTENDED BREAK FROM ACTING, JUST AS YET MORE OSCAR BUZZ BUILDS FOR HER ROLE IN GRETA GERWIG(...)

Saoirse Ronan attends the 90th Annual Academy Awards Nominee Luncheon in Beverly Hills, California, the US. Photograph: Kevin Winter/Getty Images
Saoirse Ronan: ‘I don’t know where I am from. I’m just Irish’

You wouldn’t guess that Saoirse Ronan carried the expectations of a nation on her narrow shoulders. The art of being Saoirse is, perhaps, the art of n(...)

Steve Martin and Michael Caine are rival con artists scamming wealthy marks on the French Riviera in 'Dirty Rotten Scoundrels'. Their one-upmanship makes for one of cinema’s great comic rivalries
2016: The 50 best films on Netflix

A few years ago, we published a guide to the best films available on Netflix. It proved to be one of our most popular stories ever. Since then many n(...)