Close up: This week in film

Close up Friday 13 Mar 2015 g Film of the week More » Suite Française review – Michelle Williams sleepwalks through wartime This adaptation of Irène Némirovsky’s acclaimed bestseller about French folk collaborating with the Nazis is flabby, sugary – and passion-free

Editors' picks Ruth Wilson: ‘People know me as my characters. They don’t know me’ Following her Golden Globe-winning turn in US drama The Affair, and her portrayal of a tough farmer’s wife in the forthcoming film Suite Française, Ruth Wilson’s forte for playing strong, complex women is helping her handle fame Juliet Stevenson on the rewards of playing Mother Teresa Actor says she was unprepared for the adulation she received while filming the biopic The Letters in the slums of Calcutta The stunning locations cashing in on Britain’s film and TV fame Tourism chiefs hope ‘set-jetting’ will drive visitors out of London and into the regions as film production in the UK intensifies Fashion icon celebrated in final film by Albert Maysles Iris Apfel, credited with inspiring the current vogue for senior models, is subject of Iris by legendary documentary maker

Top stories More » Hey bro, let it go: how the Frat Pack fell apart In the noughties, Vince Vaughn and buddies including Owen Wilson and Will Ferrell could do no wrong, with megahits such as Wedding Crashers and Dodgeball. But the laughs have dried and the audience withered. What went wrong?  Terence Stamp: ‘I was in my prime, but when the 60s ended, I ended with it’ He was the star of some of the decade’s most memorable films – and dated some of its most beautiful women. With the reissue of 1967’s Far From the Madding Crowd, the actor talks about his friendship with Michael Caine and his topsy-turvy career  Film show More » The Guardian Film Show: X+Y, Suite Française, Run All Night - video review The film team review this week's big releases, including maths romance X+Y and Liam Neeson action-thriller Run All Night  Most read More » Frozen 2 announcement makes little Elsas – and Disney shares – jump for joy Josh Gad, who played snowman Olaf in original blockbuster, confirmed to return, with Idina Menzel and Kristin Bell also expected to join  David Lynch decries 'pathetic' arts funding cuts – and graffiti Twin Peaks director calls for a championing of the arts, but says graffiti has ‘pretty much ruined the world’ at launch of his first Australian gallery show  Real-life Iron Man: Robert Downey Jr gives boy bionic arm Actor and charity present seven-year old Alex, who was born with a partially developed arm, with 3D-printed robotic arm  Interviews More » Ethan Hawke and Seymour Bernstein: Hollywood's unlikeliest double act When the Boyhood actor was suffering a bout of stage fright, he turned to the great concert pianist – and ended up making a documentary about him  Julien Temple: 'Wilko Johnson is like a medieval saint' In an extraordinary new film, the director tracks the former Dr Feelgood frontman from a terminal cancer diagnosis to a remarkable recovery  Adam Horovitz: ‘It’s weird not being a Beastie Boy. It’s all I did for 25 years’ Adam “Ad-Rock” Horovitz plays a forty-something who learns to be less of a kid through fatherhood in Noah Baumbach’s on life without Adam Yauch and why cassette tapes will never, ever be cool  Film blogs More » Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel books another week atop UK box office No room for South African robot caper Chappie as the later-life comedy sequel comfortably matches its own predecessor  What will Marvel hatch next for Spider-Man? Ben Child: With Cabin in the Woods’ Drew Goddard directing the first post-Garfield Spider-Man film, it’s time to hack our way through the web of blogosphere rumours regarding the superhero’s future  Prince of Foxes: Orson Welles is top of the popes in incestuous period soap Welles has fun as stabby cardinal Cesare Borgia in this saga of Renaissance intrigue and politics – but the actual events were yet more extraordinary  Age before bondage: Second Best Marigold Hotel dominates Fifty Shades Good-natured sequel sits on FSoG this week at the UK box office, while Will Smith can’t quite see to the top with Focus  Birdman got it wrong: serious actors love playing superheroes The torment of Michael Keaton’s washed-up thesp grossly exaggerates the gap between arthouse movies and Hollywood’s fantasy blockbusters  Take the quiz More » Liam Neeson: match the threat to the movie - quiz As Liam Neeson's latest thriller Run All Night hits, we can be sure to expect ambitious stunts, a difficult to pin down accent and a series of carefully worded threats. But can you match these intimidating Neeson quotes to the movies they come from?

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