Tag: director
Icons May 2022
Michelangelo and the yearning for tragedy
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‘We lived in silence… He has only one way of expressing himself: his work.” So said Michelangelo Antonioni’s first wife, Letizia Balboni. It’s true, the Italian director was notorious for taking existential inquiry — and his own artistic purity — to another level. But what a legacy of film he left behind…
Icons September 2021
The Director's Cut: John Huston
John Huston — director, screenwriter, ‘compulsive satyr’ — was a legend in his own picaresque lifetime, as much for his high jinks away from the camera as for his achievements…
Code April 2020
Zooming in With Cool-Dude-Filmmaker: Paul Feig
The Rake’s founder Wei Koh interviews distinguished American actor and filmmaker Paul Feig.
Icons March 2018
Gordon Parks: Through the Lens
We examine the work – and exceptional style – of photographer, filmmaker, musician and writer Gordon Parks, whose legacy is being embraced by a new generation of influential artists.
Icons January 2017
The Last Temptation of Martin Scorsese
With the release of Silence later this year, Ed Cripps takes a look at how Martin Scorsese has carved such a successful niche for himself in cinema.
Icons December 2016
Singular Visionary: David Lynch
David Lynch is little short of a cinematic visionary, an individual committed to creative thought and expressionism in a way that few other rakish men have matched, Ben St George…
Icons November 2016
The Sky Devil: Howard Hughes
Pilot, petrol-head and womaniser, Howard Hughes’ had an impressive repertoire, but there was a darker side to the director, The Rake discovers.
Icons November 2016
A World of His Own: Wes Anderson
From Roald Dahl’s Fantastic Mr Fox to The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, Anderson’s contribution to modern cinema brings colour, fantasy and style to a unique formula that equals brilliance.
Icons November 2016
Excess All Areas: Federico Fellini
In a month dedicated firmly to maximalism, The Rake commences a three-part exploration of the life and work of some undisputedly rakish individuals for whom understatement was a foreign concept.
Icons October 2016
Opportunity Comes Once In A Lifetime: Craig Roberts
Who can’t benefit from a bit of Eminem to get them going every now and then? Craig Roberts, the star of Submarine and an emerging director, likes to pay a…
Icons September 2016
The Director's Cut: Vittorio De Sica
The Oscar winning Italian director may have been known for his double life and fiery dual personality, but that didn’t stop De Sica from being heralded as one of the great…
Icons September 2016
Jean Genius: Jean Cocteau
Not only one of the greatest, most multi-talented creative minds of the 20th century, Jean Cocteau evinced elegance in every move, mode and mannerism.
