Tom Cruise, Olivia Colman and the return of Rocky: the best films of autumn 2026
Old favourites Shaun the Sheep, Dune, Jane Austen and Godzilla join Charles de Gaulle, the Peasants’ Revolt and queer identity in Spain
May 2026
Nicolas Winding Refn breaks down at Cannes recalling near-death due to ‘leaking heart’
Her Private Hell review – Nicolas Winding Refn’s shapeshifting fantasia is a dreamy swirl of strangeness
December 2023
‘Something magical’: the Famous Five are back – thanks to a hyperviolent director
He is a Cannes-winning auteur famed for brutality, who once declared: ‘I am a pornographer.’ Can Nicolas Winding Refn really turn The Famous Five into a heartwarming Christmas treat?
June 2023
Lashings and ginger beer: how safe are the Famous Five with Nicolas Winding Refn?
Nicolas Winding Refn to reinterpret Enid Blyton’s Famous Five for the BBC
January 2023
TV review
Copenhagen Cowboy review – Nicolas Winding Refn’s scattershot Netflix series
The hit-and-miss Drive director brings some spellbinding visuals to a new six-part thriller but struggles to make what counts for a plot feel quite as arresting
September 2022
Prada lets it rip with ‘gestures of error’ at Milan fashion week
Prada and Raf Simons added pre-lived defects to their immaculate simplicity, with abstract filmic backdrops by Nicolas Winding Refn
February 2021
'My father and I disagree on the purpose of cinema': Anders and Nicolas Winding Refn on film-making
The two Danish directors have known the joy of success and the pain of failure in their respective careers. Just don’t expect them to see eye to eye on anything else
January 2021
Hear me out
Hear me out: why Only God Forgives isn't a bad movie
In the first of a new series of writers defending mostly loathed films, a plea to reconsider Nicolas Winding Refn’s gory follow-up to Drive
May 2020
Lockdown watch
Nicolas Winding Refn: 'If Pence became president, this is what America might look like'
Booze-fuelled noir, monsters in girls’ schools and Christian propaganda are all on the Drive director’s lockdown viewing roster
June 2019
Is Nicolas Winding Refn's Amazon show an indulgence too far?
The Drive director’s 13-hour LA-set noir Too Old to Die Young has divided critics but the extended format has allowed him to create something striking
May 2019
Too Old to Die Young review - Nicolas Winding Refn's dead-eyed LA nightmare
The Only God Forgives director has made his first foray into TV with a supernatural noir series, and it’s just as horrible and upsetting as you’d expect
April 2019
Cannes film festival 2019: an intriguing lineup, with big-name clout
Asian auteurs bring exciting new work, Céline Sciamma and Mati Diop bring verve to the festival, seasoned directors from Almodóvar to Elia Suleiman add class, and it could all kick off with Maradona
August 2018
Bigelow? Tarantino? Nolan? You share your picks for a Bond director
Our writer picked five possible Bond 25 directors after Danny Boyle left the project and you responded with a long list of alternative picks
July 2018
Nicolas Winding Refn: 'Cinema is dead. And now it is resurrected'
Nicolas Winding Refn: our times need sex, horror and melodrama
June 2018
Preacher writer Mary Laws: 'I'm happy to get angry and deep about faith and God'
As her bloody horror comedy Blueberry Toast is staged in London, the Texan talks about how Christianity informs everything she writes
August 2017
Hollywood at war: when film-makers feud with each other
James Cameron and Patty Jenkins disagreeing over Wonder Woman’s grasp of feminism is not the first and won’t be the last example of directors falling out
May 2017
Cannes 2017 day seven: Charlize Theron and Naomi Campbell on the red carpet – in pictures
Day seven at Cannes was dominated by a ceremony marking the 70th anniversary of the film festival, with hordes of film-world luminaries on hand to celebrate
