Tuesday 21 February
With the film festival season kicking off in late January with Sundance and pretty much wrapping up with the Oscars this weekend, Thanksgiving in film land comes early.
Friday 26 March
No right-thinking New Zealander would deny their country owes much to director Peter Jackson.
LA’s KCRW sounds like the future of radio. Small, perfectly formed and with an influence that travels far beyond its American HQ, the station breaks bands and sets the soundtrack for Hollywood’s films and its residents…
Film producer Sisse Graum Jørgensen exemplifies the hard graft that goes into getting films onto the big screen in a timely and cost-effective fashion. She tells Monocle about winning an Oscar, shunning Hollywood and…
Thursday 12 January
Have you seen the film The Artist? You know, the one with the cute dog in it? Yes, it’s also the silent film that’s in black and white.
Tuesday 6 December
In Finland there are Ridges, Brookes and Frodos, all queuing to get their names changed at the local registry offices.
Across the world there are people who are literally being John Malkovich. Or Homer Simpson or Paris Hilton. And in their home nations the voices of dubbing artists are more famous than those of their Hollywood counterparts…
Is the US Constitution still an inspiration? We also find out how Hollywood is influencing Cambodia and look ahead to the headlines in Asia.
Saturday 28 January
This weekend’s highlights include an outdoor exhibition in São Paulo, a Dutch design special in Eindhoven and a re-release of a Hollywood classic.
The Swedish company teaching Hollywood a ting or two with the A-Cam, the smallest 16mm cinema camera in the world.
The Hollywood actor, director and fashion designer shares his ‘last meal’ in a restaurant built into the rocks near his home in Provence.
Our favourite new music releases, films and books. And culture editor Robert Bound's column on tear-jerking Hollywood films.
We discuss Brazil’s first ambassador to Iraq in more than 20 years and learn why London locations are being used by Hollywood film studios.
We analyse the South African mining clashes, speak to Sarah Grainger about world fuel prices, and discuss Hollywood studios’ attempts to attract new television shows.
We head to Hollywood to shoot the world's most celebrated photographic art fair, this year taking place for the first time at Paramount Pictures Studios in LA.
Sunday 2 May
As Gordon Brown blunders his way across Britain, party spin-doctors have called in Stephen Hopkins, director of the nail-biting television series 24, to take charge of election videos. But Labour should be looking to Hun…
Hollywood and the rest of the world are paying close attention to the films coming out of Taiwan, South Korea and Japan. Even Vietnam is getting in on the act. Monocle takes a seat at Korea’s Pusan International Film Fes…
Chinese contemporary artist Yue Minjun may command millions for his paintings overseas but at home he is dogged by a growing trade in cheap copies of his work. While Microsoft, Louis Vuitton and Hollywood studios have been…
Monocle visits architect and author James Sanders to discuss his exhibition, Celluloid Skyline, at Grand Central Station, New York. It's the story of how New York City was constructed in the movies, through the imagination…
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