Orlando magic

Call her a chameleon, call her a shape-shifter, call her the heir apparent to transformative performers from Lon Chaney to David Bowie: since the start of her screen career Tilda Swinton has taken joy

John Maybury was a fellow graduate of the Derek Jarman school of filmmaking, and it was in those heady, early days that he first became aware of Tilda Swinton. The pair worked closely on two challengi

Tilda Swinton was 12 years old when David Bowie released the album ‘Aladdin Sane’, his follow-up to the monumental ‘The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars’. When Swinton saw the

My memories of living in Calgary, the Cowboy Capital of Western Canada, where I was born and lived until the age of five, are few and far between. Naturally, only the most significant moments of that

The very first moment we see Tilda Swinton in the history of cinema is just off-screen in Derek Jarman’s Caravaggio, looking like any one of a rabble of young men who are watching a fist fight and che

Does a newly found Nicholas Hilliard miniature portray Shakespeare’s patron the Earl of Southampton?