Mark Kermode on… Kathryn Bigelow, a stylish ruffler of feathers

From vampire noir to Bin Laden, Point Break to Detroit, the first woman to win an Oscar for best director has never pulled her punches Watching new Jeff Nichols release The Bikeriders , starring Austin Butler and Tom Hardy as 60s Chicago greasers, I was reminded of two other movies: László Benedek’s 1953 Marlon Brando vehicle The Wild One , explicitly cited as an inspiration, and The Loveless , the 1981 feature debut of Kathryn Bigelow , the American film-maker (b.1951) who would go on to become the first woman to win a best director Oscar with her 2008 war drama The Hurt Locker . A symphony of leather-clad posing (with just a touch of Kenneth Anger ), The Loveless was a staple of the late-night circuit in the 80s, often on a double bill with David Lynch’s Eraserhead . Sharing directing credits with Monty Montgomery, Bigelow playfully deconstructed masculinity and machismo in a manner that was one part wry to two parts relish. I remember seeing The Loveless at the Phoenix in East

Margot Robbie Has Stated That She Was Terrified When A Large Crowd Of People Surrounded The Set Of “Barbie” In Los Angeles

This year, images of the Amsterdam actress, 32, and Ryan Gosling, together with their brightly coloured costumes, were on full show while shooting in and around the Los Angeles area. As a result, the photos quickly went viral on the internet virtually every day. Robbie opened up to Jimmy Fallon, the presenter of The Tonight Show, about how she truly felt about the paparazzi images taken behind the scenes of the production during their appearance on the show this week. By the way, I can't tell you how embarrassed we were about this, she remarked, as Fallon brought out one of the images of them dressed in fluorescent outfits and rollerblading. Although it may appear that we are laughing and having a good time, the truth is that we are slowly breaking down on the inside. Dying. I thought to myself, This is the most embarrassing thing that has ever happened to me in my whole life. Robbie mentioned that she was taken aback by the amount of attention the pictures received on the internet and that she had not anticipated it. I mean, I was aware that we would be shooting some exterior scenes in the Los Angeles area. I should have known that once you started doing exteriors, you were going to get papped. Because, you know, those clothes cause us to stick out a little bit from the crowd a little bit, there is definitely going to be a tiny crowd of people who are going to take note. Therefore, I was aware that there would be some attention, and it was quite likely that some photographs would be distributed, but I did not anticipate the extent to which they would receive such attention. It was insane. It seemed as though there were hundreds of people observing at all times.

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