No beef but I’m struggling to understand why Beyoncé, who has half a billion dollars, would accept 20 million dollars to make her debut performance of the Renaissance album, a record which lifts heavily from queer culture, in Dubai, a country where LGBT rights aren’t recognised.
for my very first
@NYMag
cover story 🥲I spent time this summer with Ayo Edebiri, Rachel Sennott & Emma Seligman, drinking, doing Kate Bush karaoke, eating, wandering around the city, talking about their fucked up hilarious gay bloody movie, Bottoms:
She knew something the rest of us didn't; created a musical and queer legacy far greater than her peers. Words can't fully describe the audacity of an artist who intelligently bent the boundaries of pop and electronic music like she did. What a crushing loss. SOPHIE FOREVER.
Charlotte Wells has a talent I actually fear. Like, I don’t know how someone was capable of tapping into human emotion so profoundly on their FIRST feature.
🌍 WHOLE NEW WORLD 🌍
@Maisie_Williams
fronts the first issue of SUPER.
OUR COVER FOLDS OUT INTO A BIG FUCKING POSTER, FFS!
Shot by Richard Dowker
Interview by
@Georgie__Wright
As we approach Christmas day, this is my reminder to you that boiling any vegetable that's not peas is a sin. Roast those sprouts and carrots, I literally beg you!
Is it just me whose never seen anyone allude to harry styles wearing anything as "femme representation", "non binary" or "ground breaking"? Like he is just a man who is dressed very, very well in the things he wants to wear lol
Fans be like
When Harry Styles wear a dress: yesss femme representation non binary boots the ground breaking house down truly a celeb we need in these times
When drag queens wear a dress: TOOT OR BOOT
*EXCLUSIVE* Official poster for The Sweet East, the directorial debut from cinematographer Sean Price Williams.
Now playing in select cities from
@utopiamovies
, expanding in theaters nationwide starting January 26. Learn more at
I commission film writing for i-D and I like people with interesting, thoughtful and left field ideas. If something’s been on your mind – films new or old – and you think the i-D audience would be interested in it, let me know.
Waiting for the moment movie studios realise that jamming six influencer interviews into a slot that one respected publication could produce a thoughtful and engaging piece of journalism with - filmed or otherwise - is not worth anyone’s time!
Just when I thought the marketing for Poor Things (“Bella Baxter is a feminist hero for the ages!”) was rubbish, I run into THIS banger on the underground.
So many people saying “She didn’t perform anything from Renaissance though!” – does that actually make a difference? She’s in cycle for an album indebted to queer culture. The question should be: why didn’t she? Could she?
Making the Amazon MGM parallel, CHALLENGERS has outgrossed SALTBURN’s entire global theatrical box office takings in just three days. The latter movie set the internet on fire for what felt like weeks.
So, the big question--Is a $15M debut for a $55M+ film a success? Your challenge--if you choose to accept it--is to keep these PR points in mind when making your conclusion:
1) The films theatrical only drives revenue and also positions the film as a highly anticipated title
I had a couple of lovely conversations with the incandescent, foul-mouthed Paul Mescal, and profiled him for the
@NYTimes
.
Thanks to Charlotte Wells, Barry Jenkins, Rebecca Frecknall, Olivia Colman and Saoirse Ronan for their contributions.
It hasn’t exactly left our cultural consciousness yet but we should talk about Call Me by Your Name, which came out six years ago today in the US, felt like a really seismic moment in arthouse filmmaking that, imo, hasn’t been matched since,
ALL OF US STRANGERS is excellent, one of the best films I’ve seen this year. A film about how death starves us of conversations we never got to have. Made, as Haigh always does, with such strong emotional acuity. Andrew Scott’s best performance by a long shot.
.
@KaceyMusgraves
is back. For my first cover story with
@CrackMagazine
, I spent time with America's great new singer-songwriter. We discussed the years since Golden Hour and her forthcoming new record, which will move and surprise you in equal measure.
Wow an
@NME
cover! I always wanted be voted “worst band/artist” at the NME awards but I guess they have other plans....much nicer ones.... head to their website to check out genuinely one of my favorite interviews I’ve ever done. Love always. Thanks guys. 🖤
Bella Ramsey is brilliant in HBO's The Last of Us. I met her last month and profiled her for the
@NYTimes
. We spoke about the perils of joining a juggernaut series, her journeys with her gender and faith, and growing up.
I'm *astounded* by the number of people who inevitably looked at this Edinburgh Tram safety campaign and thought: 'Yeah, looks v clear to me. Send the posters to print!'
.
@HaileeSteinfeld
is joining me on NOTHING TO Hi-DE tomorrow to talk about her new EP which I can assure you is very great indeed. 6:30pm BST over on
@i_D
's IG. All are welcome. x
On its penultimate day, Cannes finally gets one of those modest films that this festival is made for: ALL WE IMAGINE AS LIGHT, Payal Kapadia’s film about love and friendship against the shifting tides of culture. Positions her as a brilliant new auteur. I think it’s a masterpiece
@jessicakiang
Heard at a Q&A that most of the children’s performances were improvised. The scene of the younger brother imitating the sounds of the furnaces was entirely his own doing, and he couldn’t even hear that as a reference because all of the sound was added in post.
THE BRUTALIST is one of those staggering feats of modern cinema; so exacting, so big and sure of what it wants to be – and pulls it off. A film that presents an artist so in love with his craft that he becomes a psychological masochistic for it. Selfless; thrilling. A masterpiece
Waking up to images of dead limbless children and videos of the assault on Rafah interspersed with Super Bowl ads, with Joe Biden in fucking meme mode. Wondering what is wrong with us all to be, in the moment it’s happening, ignoring one thing and fawning over the other.
CHALLENGERS: a big, throbbing, American, capital-M Movie - made, naturally, with the kind of sexual electricity only an Italian, only Guadagnino, could bring to the table. His most technically sophisticated. Its stars are on fire. WOW.
Girls Aloud were responsible for so many young queers' formative pop cultural experiences. SOTU: the first single my mum (who died of breast cancer 18 yrs ago) ever bought me. A disease that hurts short term but never taints the legacies of those who fight it. RIP Sarah Harding.
Since everyone else has broken the embargo: I think DON’T WORRY DARLING is wildly entertaining and unique in the sense movie of this ilk seldom get made anymore. Pugh MVP; Harry holds it well. It’s like Soho House Jonestown. Full review dropping after the… actual embargo?
Open for pitches! Op-eds, listicles and reported features for
@i_D
online. Spotted a cool trend? Keen to write about a film or TV show coming out from an off-kilter angle? Email moi: douglas.greenwood [at] i-d [dot] co
Three years after its release, I wrote about why statues and sales figures are mere footnotes in the life of Lorde's Melodrama, an era-defining album for people (read: me and half my followers) who tweet memes about our depression.
@i_D
Coppola hired the CGI team for MEGALOPOLIS in 1996 and just kept them there. What a gloriously sad shame that this is so inept and messy! I’m not sure its big ideas are even there? I had a really terrible time with it and, while I’m here, I hope Shia LaBeouf never works again.
Sorry posting this on all socials just so everybody and their extended family know I was in the presence of
#popstar
@troyesivan
today lmao words coming soon etc etc
Earlier this summer, in the days leading up to the birth of his first child, I spent a Sunday afternoon with Barry Keoghan. I met his girlfriend, we went boating together, and he told me about his childhood, The Batman and The Banshees of Inisherin.
Another year, another round of Juergen Teller for W Best Performances portfolio discourse. The man is a genius and these photographs are ingenious and spontaneous in a manner most studio-obsessed image makers genuinely fear.
Rachel Aviv’s investigation into the Lucy Letby case is one of the finest pieces of journalism I’ve read all year. After the Zac Brettler story, it’s the 2nd time that one of the most baffling stories about the United Kingdom’s failing justice system has come from the New Yorker.
How lovely it is to see a stylist's flare filter through the artists they work with while still feeling unique to each person.
@JoshOConnor15
in Loewe by
@harry__lambert
. Stunnique!
Pitch me for
@i_D
! End of year reflections, spicy takes, listicles, profile pitches of genuinely excited talents on the precipice of greatness and fame. No personal essays! douglas.greenwood [at] i-d [dot] co
THE FRENCH DISPATCH: colourful, warm, engaging and inventive even by Wes' standards. A briefly bookended triptych of stories that rely on the dedication and penmanship of great journalism. Yes, Chalamet is very good; so is Swinton, Wright, McDormand and Del Toro.
#Cannes2021
Can’t believe that Jonathan Ross, who used to host the biggest film show in the country and is hosting the British coverage of the Oscars, can’t even pronounce the title of the Best Picture frontrunner.
Have to say, it’s been a while since I’ve witnessed a scene in a horror movie that’s made my body recoil in on itself and made me think “fucking hell, make it stop”. TALK TO ME has about five of those.
Happy new year! Getting a few DMs responding to this piece, so I guess maybe some folk are discovering it in the “what am I doing?” panic of a new life chapter. You got this!
Those who run stan and update accounts dedicate their lives to someone they love and admire. I wanted to know how things change after that person passes away. Thank you to
@NayaRivera_Team
and
@CameronBoyceBR
for being so candid. ❤️ (
@i_D
)
I profiled
@TroyeSivan
for my
@Vulture
debut. We spoke about heartbreak and body image and strange, pathless futures. I asked his good friends Ariana Grande, Charli XCX and Oscar Görres to take part in this too.
Would make sense, if they find the submarine with the occupants still alive within it, if they are made to pay back the money spent on the search and rescue operation for their needless, reckless and expensive holiday imo
UNDER THE SILVER LAKE: a mysterious cocktail of Pynchon and Lynch that's weird, unsettling and seriously entertaining. A strange cult movie (in more than one way) that proves Mitchell is one of America's strongest voices in cinema. Garfield is gooooood!
#Cannes2018