Total Film - October 2022

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Welcome to
CALL SHEET
THIS ISSUE’S EXTRAS
It was a real honour to
close the loop on Laurie
Strode with Jamie Lee
Curtis for our Halloween
Ends feature. She gave
me an “A++ with extra
NEWS EDITOR
credit” for one of my
JORDAN FARLEY
questions, which I will be
@JORDANFARLEY
dining out on till I retire.
Interviewing Emma
Mackey gave me the
excuse to finally catch
up with Sex Education
S3 – in one sitting.
Time well spent, I’d say.
DEPUTY EDITOR
Read what she had to
MATT MAYTUM
say about Emily and
@MATTMAYTUM
Barbie on page 58.
If you want to see women taking charge and
changing their destiny, look no further than I had the pleasure
of attending the
this issue. Laurie Strode (the always-fun-to-
House Of The
interview Jamie Lee Curtis) is about to lay her Dragon premiere
particular brand of Final Girl to rest in the last (or in Leicester Square
and sitting on the
is it?) Michael Myers stabbing-spree instalment, CONTRIBUTOR
throne at the centre
ASHANTI OMKAR
Halloween Ends. She had a lot to say about what Laurie stage for a moment.
@ASHANTIOMKAR
A grand affair
stands for when news ed Jordan caught up with
her – and she’s not the only feminist determined to
change things in this issue’s pages. I talked to Olivia Palme d’Or winner
Ruben Östlund told me
Wilde about her new film, Don’t Worry Darling, which
Triangle Of Sadness’
was hard to do given the spoilery nature of the big argument scene was
based on a row he had
takeaways from watching it. But we still managed to
with his now-wife. The
complain about the heat, discuss sex scenes (why so CONTRIBUTING EDITOR 50-euro note stuck in
JAMES MOTTRAM
little oral for women in mainstream cinema?) and a lift shaft in Cannes
@JAMESMOTTRAM
might still be there.
the ‘assholes’ she’s worked with through the years
who’ve taught her how not to run a set. Talking to her
in Berlin was genuinely inspiring as we got stuck into Congratulations were in
order for Aubrey Plaza
the patriarchy, female body autonomy and how we
who had got married
only have, on average, around 4,000 weeks of life to and been cast in the new
Francis Ford Coppola film
live so we better make the most of them. This issue,
since I last interviewed
I can assure you, is a great use of your time… CONTRIBUTING EDITOR
her. She said she
LEILA LATIF
manifested both under a
@LEILA_LATIF
“super full blood moon”.
The film geek in me
Enjoy the issue!
always gets a thrill
walking around the
Sony Pictures lot in LA.
Enjoyed my time in the
edit bay for Lyle, Lyle,
HOLLYWOOD CORRESPONDENT
Crocodile and my quick
ADAM TANSWELL
spot of the Ecto-1 as I
@ADAMTANSWELL
walked back to my car.
JANE CROWTHER, EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
@TOTALFILM_JANE
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Contents
#329 OCTOBER 2022
THIS ISSUE TEASERS
32 HALLOWEEN ENDS 7 TRIANGLE OF SADNESS
Jamie Lee Curtis and David Ruben Östlund’s hilariously
Gordon Green on the night pointed satire.
he came home… for the
11 THE MENU
last time. Plus, James Jude
Be Ralph Fiennes’ guest for
Courtney on how he gets
a twisted culinary thriller.
into The Shape.
12 YOU TALKIN’ TO ME?
44 GREATEST ENDINGS
Clerks III director Kevin
We jump to conclusions to
Smith faces the film quotes.
salute the best film finales.
14 THE BANSHEES
52 BROS
OF INISHERIN
Billy Eichner and Nicholas
Colin Farrell, Brendan
Stoller on their ground-
Gleeson and Martin
breaking bromcom.
McDonagh are not in
58 EMMA MACKEY Bruges anymore…
New Maeve. TF meets the 26 WELCOME TO
Sex Education star to talk CHIPPENDALES
Emily and Barbie. Kumail Nanjiani and co
strip back the story.
62 DECISION TO LEAVE
Director Park Chan-wook 28 IT SHOULDN’T HAPPEN
unpacks his genre-defying TO A FILM JOURNALIST
Oscar hopeful. Our Jamie on the terror of
compiling a top 10.
66 EMILY THE CRIMINAL
Aubrey Plaza commits the 31 CHARLOTTE RAMPLING
perfect crime in her latest On risks, Robert De Niro
acting/producing gig. and Dune: Part Two.
70 CALL JANE
How to turn a story about TOTAL FILM BUFF

harrowing circumstances
106 IS IT BOLLOCKS?
into feelgood inspiration.
Is Bullet Train’s boomslang
110 SPIELBERG ON E.T. a real threat? Or a whole
Raiding the vaults to see clot of rubbish?
what Steven Spielberg
107 10 OF THE BEST
said about his alien pal
Cocktails! From shaken
40 years ago.
and stirred, to slurped from
a can on the train.
EVERY ISSUE
120 OBITUARIES
3 EDITOR’S LETTER
Bidding a fond farewell to
The team’s shenanigans.
Olivia Newton-John,
74 TOTAL FILM INTERVIEW Anne Heche and
Olivia proves she’s Wolfgang Petersen.
still Wilde at heart.
124 INTERMISSION
128 DIALOGUE A TF writer sheds light on
You write. We reply. horror’s healing power.
SCAN TO GET
OUR WEEKLY
NEWSLETTER
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52
‘WE’RE
SCREEN
CULMINATING 58
84 DON’T WORRY
DARLING
44 YEARS OF THIS
Pugh, what a scorcher? Or
EXPERIENCE all Styles, no substance?
BETWEEN LAURIE 86 MOONAGE DAYDREAM
David Bowie doc is far from
STRODE AND
a godawful small affair.
THE SHAPE’ 87 THE LOST KING
Could this Richard III yarn
be an awards contender?
Remains to be seen.
87 FUNNY PAGES
Portrait of the comic-book
artist as a young man.
88 MRS. HARRIS GOES
TO PARIS
110 [Booming trailer voice]
“Academy Award nominee
Lesley Manville is... THE
DIOR HUNTER.”
89 AFTER YANG
Colin Farrell has some
robot-childcare issues.
90 CATHERINE
CALLED BIRDY
Dunham gets medieval on
the teen-movie genre.
91 FLUX GOURMET
‘Sonic catering’? Hope no
hedgehogs were harmed.
92 SEE HOW THEY RUN
It’s Theatreland of blood in
this 1950s-set caper.
32
95 CLERKS III
Another Quick Stop on
Kevin Smith’s cine-journey.
97 JACKIE BROWN
TILL DEATH DO THEM PART Absolutely, positively has to
Michael Myers is back for a be seen on the big screen.
final stab at Laurie Strode and,
98 THE PIANO
naturally, there will be blood.
Jane Campion’s 1993 awards
magnet gets a 4K tune-up.
100 CLASSIC TV
The show with the saltiest
74
balls in televisual history.
102 SOUNDTRACKS
The best of Harold F.
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EDITED BY
JORDAN FARLEY
@JORDANFARLEY
SICKENINGLY RICH
TRIANGLE OF SADNESS Ruben Östlund’s queasy
Cannes-winner turns on the one per cent…
Ipushed it as far as I could,” says Ruben Östlund, talking about his new film The Admirable Crichton, the 1957
Triangle Of Sadness. “I didn’t have any limit. I wanted to do the first film comedy in which a group of aristos
scene in the world where someone actually is shitting and throwing up at the are shipwrecked and turn to their
same time. And I have never seen that before.” Neither has Teasers. In a sequence butler to help them survive.
that makes Mr. Creosote’s vomiting in Monty Python’s The Meaning Of Life look like The starting point came after
a mild case of indigestion, passengers on a luxury yacht buffeted by a violent Östlund’s wife, who works as a fashion
storm are soon hurling their haute cuisine. And it goes on. And on. And on. photographer, gave insight into the
industry – in particular the way male
Then again, this should be no Triangle…, joining that rarefied group of models are treated. “They have to deal
surprise. This is the Swedish director filmmakers to twice win Cannes’ top with the fact that their sexuality and
of The Square, the scathing satirical stab prize, confirms him as one of world their beauty is a currency. And it can
at the art world that took home Cannes’ cinema’s hottest directors. This time, be a door-opener. If you sleep with the
Palme d’Or in 2017. That Östlund he aims his broadsides at the super- right, powerful homosexual guy in the
repeated the trick this year for wealthy, in a story that has echoes of industry, it can be a door-opener
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Models Yaya (the late Charlbi
Dean) and Carl (Harris Dickinson)
are invited on a luxury trip
they’ll never forget.
that makes a career push. So since
I wrote a lot of the script during Me Too,
it was just a mirror of what was going
on for women in this world.”
It led to the creation of Carl, a male
model played by British actor Harris
Dickinson (The King’s Man). “Ruben is
very wonderful at picking holes in our
behaviour and our egos and I think with
this character I really had to try and let
go of that,” says Dickinson. “And allow
The film examines
myself to be pathetic, and offer myself
hierarchies of passengers
up as a piece of meat.” After the film
(Sunnyi Melles) and staff
opens at a fashion cattle-call, together
(Alicia Eriksson).
with his model-influencer girlfriend
Yaya (Charlbi Dean, whose unexpected
death aged 32 following a sudden illness
was announced as TF went to press), out that we have a lot of similar
Carl’s invited on a cruise populated viewpoints on politics. He also did a lot
by an ultra-rich array of oligarchs, of research, when he got the part, and
entrepreneurs and arms dealers. told me many interesting things that I
With the ship run by a Marxist didn’t know about Marx.” As Harrelson
captain (Woody Harrelson) with a adds, “I love the character. I do think
drinking problem, the story flips on its that, in a lot of ways, he let my
head after the aforementioned storm character be the voice of some of the
leaves a handful of survivors stranded. message of the film. So that was cool.”
“I thought it would be fun to have But what is that message? Does
a movie that takes place first in the Östlund hate the rich? On the contrary,
fashion world, then on a luxury yacht he argues. “If you explain the world in
and then on a deserted island,” says a simple way… ‘Oh, poor people are
Östlund. “Don’t you want to click on nice, they are generous, they take care
that? That was my idea. To look at of each other, and rich people are
hierarchies and structures. There are egoistic and superficial,’ it’s a cliché,
such strong hierarchies on a yacht and and it’s completely wrong. I’ve met so
in the fashion world… to take them many billionaires after The Square, and
away when you get to the deserted they are very nice. But what do you
island, it made sense for me.” want them to do? Give the money to
In this case, the equivalent to The charity? It’s a system thing that
Admirable Crichton’s butler is the yacht’s we have to deal with.”
toilet cleaner Abigail (Dolly de Leon), He feels left-wing intellectuals
the only one of the group with the “have forgotten about Marx”, instead
skills to fish for food and keep everyone believing that problems are individual
alive. Suddenly, this lowly domestic in nature. “[There are] so many
worker is in a position of power. “It’s Hollywood films where there is one evil
interesting to talk about equality and capitalist that is abusing power… and if
inequality,” says Östlund. “My mother, we take him away, everything can
a communist, always talked about continue,” he says, rubbishing the very
when we reach a communistic society, idea. If the film questions the
then we will be equal forever. But very economic fabric that
it doesn’t work!” society is built on, so it Passengers on the
The film’s politics come spoken should, says Dickinson, yacht are in for a shock
through Harrelson’s character. “He who believes audiences in a when a storm hits.
knows a lot about Marx,” says Östlund “post-Covid world” will crave
of the star. “When I approached him the substance that Östlund
and asked him about the part, it turns delivers. “It’s almost like,
‘What is gonna matter after
‘Ruben is wonderful
this? What are people going to
at picking holes in our
want to see?’And I think and
behaviour and our
hope that Triangle… is one of
egos… I had to allow
those films.” JAMES MOTTRAM
myself to be pathetic,
and offer myself up as TRIANGLE OF SADNESS
a piece of meat’ OPENS IN CINEMAS
HARRIS DICKINSON ON 28 OCTOBER.
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Woody Harrelson plays
the heavy-drinking
yacht captain.
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MARGARET QUALLEY
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between the ever-fruitful Coen Tarantino, who cast Qualley as Pussycat, also filming Yorgos Lanthimos’ The Favourite
brothers be dramatically punctuated one of the fiery members of the Manson follow-up Poor Things with Emma Stone,
by Shakespeare. With 2021’s The Tragedy Of family in his lavish 2019 ensemble piece, Mark Ruffalo and Willem Dafoe.
Macbeth, Joel Coen wiggled comfortably in Once Upon A Time… In Hollywood. The secret of powering through such
a roomy director chair that once fit two, Following this prestigious launchpad, a busy schedule, according to Qualley, is
and now his younger sibling, Ethan, is set Qualley found her stride. The actor has connecting to the raw positive energy of a
to do the same with an untitled project that recently been nominated for a Primetime child. “I feel like the big goal in life is to be
recently found one of its two leads in the Emmy for her moving turn in the Netflix looking at the world like a kid as much as
increasingly popular Margaret Qualley. drama series Maid (where she shares the you possibly can,” Qualley told W magazine.
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