Kim Novak

Kim Novak’s Vertigo review: Fascinating conversation with still astute and connected star

Focus of Alexandre O Philippe documentary changed from Hitchcock’s Vertigo to 93-year-old Novak’s life and extraordinary career

Thu Apr 02 2026 - 05:10

Kim Novak doc maker Alexandre O Philippe: ‘Hitchcock is still playing with us from beyond the grave’

The director of Kim Novak’s Vertigo and the 93-year-old film star at its centre held a seance to consult long-dead ‘master of suspense’ Alfred Hitchcock

Fri Mar 27 2026 - 05:11

At Venice film festival, it can be worth getting soaked to the underwear for a not very good movie

Jay Kelly, starring George Clooney, and After the Hunt, featuring Julia Roberts, were, respectively, pedestrian and dizzyingly incoherent

Thu Sept 04 2025 - 05:03

The ultimate in movie-star glamour: Emma Stone, Julia Roberts and George Clooney get their speedboats ready

Venice International Film Festival 2025 is getting under way – and for Hollywood stars nothing tops arriving on a glossy motor launch

Wed Aug 27 2025 - 05:13

Kim Novak: ‘I inherited mental illness from my father, but the rape must have added to it’

The Vertigo star knew she was too fragile for fame. She talks bipolar, Hitchcock and happiness

Thu Feb 18 2021 - 06:00

Netflix: The best 50 films to watch right now

There’s been another major turnover but catch the classics while you can

Sat Oct 10 2020 - 06:00

Sergio: Unsubtle but efficient biopic of an inspirational UN leader

Review: The screenplay works hard to cram a long career into a fresh, well-meaning whole

Fri Apr 17 2020 - 05:00

Time of my life: ‘The moment I knew I was a filmmaker’

Paul Rowley on how Nicholas Roeg’s ‘Don’t Look Now’ changed everything for him

Sat Mar 17 2018 - 06:00

2016: The 50 best films on Netflix

While some movies have vanished from the streaming service, many have arrived and there are plenty to fill the summer evenings, from comedy classics like ‘Airplane’ to thrillers such as ‘Winter’s Bone’

Fri Jul 29 2016 - 12:30