How Jonathan Glazer is one of UK cinema’s least prolific but most idiosyncratic and visionary talents
1 year, 8 months ago

How Jonathan Glazer is one of UK cinema’s least prolific but most idiosyncratic and visionary talents

The Independent  

The maverick British director Jonathan Glazer is back at the Cannes Film Festival next month with his first new film in 10 years, The Zone of Interest, based on Martin Amis’s 2014 novel. “Here’s to waiting” was one of the slogans in Glazer’s famous late 1990s Guinness commercial, Surfer, often voted the greatest ad of all time. The first shot in Glazer’s debut movie Sexy Beast is of a near-naked Ray Winstone, roasting himself in the sun beside the swimming pool of his Spanish villa as the Stranglers’ lecherous ballad “Peaches” plays on the soundtrack. open image in gallery Nicole Kidman in ‘Birth’ where she plays a widow convinced that a 10-year-old boy is the reincarnation of her late husband Glazer didn’t write Sexy Beast.

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‘These people absolutely could be us’: Jonathan Glazer on his film about the mastermind of Auschwitz
11 months, 4 weeks ago

‘These people absolutely could be us’: Jonathan Glazer on his film about the mastermind of Auschwitz

The Telegraph  

At a small north London cinema in the spring of 2014, Jonathan Glazer’s family and friends filed into the auditorium to watch their boy’s latest film. As the credits rolled, 108 minutes later, just after Johansson’s alien temptress had been burnt alive in a forest by her would-be rapist, Glazer’s family filed back out to meet the director in the …

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