Leila Latif

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Interview
Sandworms, Spaceships and Special Effects: How VFX Supervisor Paul Lambert brought Dune to life
Leila Latif speaks to the Oscar-winning visual effects supervisor about his work on Denis Villeneuve's sci-fi epic.
25 Feb 2024

Interview
Casting Director Shaheen Baig on Finding Talent For Scrapper
Leila Latif hears from casting director Shaheen Baig about finding talent, doing chemistry tests and the British stars whose careers she helped launch.
13 Aug 2023

Sundance Film Festival
Festival Report: Sundance 2023
After attending America’s premier independent film festival online, Leila Latif shares her impressions on its most talked about movies, from a buzzy erotic thriller to a terrifying horror.
30 Jan 2023

Women Filmmakers
Gina Prince-Bythewood’s Soulful Spectacles
Although The Woman King filmmaker has increased the scale of her films over the years, Leila Latif insists that she always finds tenderness in her narratives, and centres emotion regardless of scale.
04 Oct 2022

Marilyn Monroe
How Blonde Challenges the Cultural Dismemberment of Marilyn Monroe
Rather than offering a paint-by-numbers biopic of the late Hollywood icon, Andrew Dominik’s surreal, often horrifying, new film outlines the human cost of society’s fascination with her, writes Leila Latif.
21 Sep 2022

Nope
Nope & The Daredevils Risking It All For One Perfect Shot
In her spoiler-free piece, Leila Latif looks at the lengths performers have gone to for our entertainment since the birth of cinema
08 Aug 2022