Jason Ward

INFREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS #5: PINING FOR THE FJORDS / OH COMELY

You die on a Tuesday, which surprises you for several reasons. Over the years before that fateful weekday you had generally avoided contemplating

When we think about physical performance, we have a tendency to ignore the journey in favour of the result: how much, how high,

After several years as a comic actress and writer, Alice Lowe was ready to take the next step and direct a film. The

The reed bends with the wind, so says the parable, while the oak tree breaks in the storm. This is a lesson about

Toni Erdmann doesn’t quite exist. Maren Ade’s third feature isn’t named after either of its main characters but rather a mid-film persona adopted

In the introduction to Animal: The Autobiography of a Female Body, Sara Pascoe writes, “I’m not attempting to be the last word in

The end of the line. The final stop. This bus terminates here. There is a place where each of us is heading, a

“Jason, can you hear me?”, I said to the empty bedroom. “Are you there?” Apparently I was not. I got up from my

I was sitting in a Pizza Hut in the past, waiting to be disappointed. The conversation turned – as conversation inevitably does when

“It was wonderful. It was terrifying.” Bebe Cave’s description of filming Tale of Tales could be a blanket statement for her current state