The latest in our series of writers detailing their most rewatched comfort films is a reminder of Anthony Minghella’s starry, sad and sinister 1999 thriller
Sixteen is a great age to see a movie, ther…
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Obsession, blackmail and Instagram: inside Lurker, the year’s most compelling thriller ○
The Talented Mr Ripley gets an upgrade in a buzzy and biting film about a desperate outsider who infiltrates the inner circle of a singer on the rise
If Tom Ripley lived in LA in 2018 and was really i…
When I moved in with the author of Mr Ripley, friends said they thought she was in love with me. But I was afraid this ill-tempered creator of ingenious murders was going to kill me ○
I first read Patricia Highsmith's novels in the autumn of 1994. I was 20 and living in a room in her house in Tegna, Switzerland, that was plastered with bookshelves.
Unmoored review – Scandi thriller delves into hidden truths of a toxic marriage ○
Atmospheric but unresolved drama pits a seedy academic against his ill-used wife, uneasily staying by him as he faces a rape charge
Expectations are raised high, but not satisfyingly met, in this init…
7 months ago
‘You are living with a difficult person who is waiting to die’: my harrowing time as Patricia Highsmith’s assistant ○
I worked for the author of The Talented Mr Ripley in her final months. She was so mean and secretive, I imagined she wanted to kill me
I first read Patricia Highsmith’s novels in the autumn of 1994. I…
8 months ago
Can I tame my 4am terrors? Arifa Akbar on a lifetime of insomnia – and a possible cure ○
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From Van Gogh’s starry skies to the nocturnal workings of Louise Bourgeois and Patricia Highsmith, sleepless nights have long inspired heightened creativity. Could those artistic impulses actually he…
9 months ago
Emma Jane Unsworth: ‘I blush when I think of Miranda July’s All Fours. I became a changed woman’ ○
The author of Slags on Patricia Highsmith, Judy Blume and her lifelong reaction to Yeats
My earliest reading memory
Probably a Garfield book when I was five or six. I loved Garfield. Mostly because h…
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