Orlando

‟There could be no doubt about his sex, despite the feminine appearance.” These words open Sally Potter’s 1992 film Orlando, taken loosely from the opening sentences of the Virginia Woolf novel from w

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

The recording artist Simon Fisher Turner wields an impressively varied CV. Entering showbusiness as a child actor, he endured a brief spell as a teen pop idol before evolving into a sharp-eared curato

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

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