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’

Pornographer-in-Chief

21 January 2016 3:00 pm

Like Black Rod and the Poet Laureate, screenwriter Andrew Davies occupies one of the most colourful and arcane offices in…

Marilyn Chambers at Raymond Revuebar, 1979

A paean to the fleshy delights and tacky excess of Soho

10 December 2015 3:00 pm

The other evening, surrounded by Christmas shoppers in the West End of London, I happened to glance up at the…

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

I reshot Andy Warhol

13 August 2015 1:00 pm

It’s one thing to make the most boring film in cinema history — at least you can kid yourself at…