‘I was just a very confused actor. But I was really keen to learn’

Mark Rylance on his unlikely road to Hollywood stardom, and why Brits love an underdog

Todd Haynes: ‘I was consciously making a film that I wanted kids to see’

The director has flipped the script once again with his latest project ‘Wonderstruck’, a proper grown-up film about and for children

Joan As Police Woman: Damned Devotion review – understated and underrated

Brexit is chasing away the snake-hipped Frenchmen from a favourite restaurant

London Letter: Two of the waiters were sharing a room in a flat, each paying £650 a month

Violette review: a biopic with a storming performance at its heart

White truths: why novelist Edmund White believes love is worth dying for

Candour and honesty define the life and work of Edmund White, the prolific American novelist with a genius for expressing the agonies of human sexuality

Brendan’s tragic voyage: Behan in the USA: The Rise and Fall of the Most Famous Irishman in New York

Review: The deterioration of Behan’s health and talent during his three-year love affair with the US is the subject of a fascinating book

Account of a not so young man in Paris

A wonderfully eccentric, conversational and personalised cultural history of Paris