Stephen Smith

‘We can really slow down and live with the characters, understand what they’re thinking and feeling’: a scene from the BBC’s adaptation of ‘War and Peace’

‘It’s good to chop out the boring bits!’: Andrew Davies on adapting War and Peace

23 January 2016 9:00 am

What does Andrew Davies have to say to those who accuse him of gratuitous rumpy-pumpy in his adaptations of the classics? Stephen Smith finds out

Marilyn Chambers at Raymond Revuebar, 1979

A paean to the fleshy delights and tacky excess of Soho at Christmas

12 December 2015 9:00 am

This Christmas, says Stephen Smith, we should raise a glass to the fleshy delights of Soho’s Raymond Revueba

The eyes have it: Andy Warhol’s gift for second sight was preternatural

What I learned from reshooting the dullest film ever made

15 August 2015 9:00 am

Stephen Smith finally sees the point of Empire, one of the dullest films in cinema history