‘We all loved her, but not enough’: A woman died in her flat and it somehow took three years for anyone to notice The television was still on. We Got This Covered · Oct 22, 2025
Mark Kermode on… British director Carol Morley, who sees the surreal in the real With her latest film, Typist Artist Pirate King, on Netflix, it’s a good time to survey the back-catalogue of one of the UK’s most thrilling film-makers, from a jaw-droppingly personal documentary to a misunderstood neo-noir The Guardian - UK · Oct 5, 2024
TV tonight: the original rock stars of rap tell the story of Run DMC A brilliant three-part documentary starts with Run and DMC. Plus: superior Swedish thriller End of Summer continues. Here’s what to watch this evening The Guardian - UK · Jul 13, 2024
Skywalkers: A Love Story to Mean Girls – the seven best films to watch on TV this week An extraordinarily edgy documentary follows a ‘roof-topper’ couple on their ‘extremely dangerous and illegal’ climbs. Plus: the Plastics are back thanks to Tina Fey The Guardian - UK · Jul 12, 2024
Typist Artist Pirate King review: warm-hearted portrait of outsider artist Audrey Amiss Carol Morley’s fictionalised portrait of an overlooked British artist is generous to its subject but disjointed as a film The Guardian - UK · Oct 28, 2023
It’s time to kick up our (sensible, mid-height) heels again Whether it’s a kitten slingback or block-heeled court, the medium heel is the two-glasses-of-wine, home-by-midnight option. And there’s no shame in that The Guardian - UK · Mar 17, 2023
Typist Artist Pirate King review – generous portrait of neglected artist Audrey Amiss Carol Morley’s warm and sympathetic film imagines the artist, whose mental illness curtailed her ambitions, on a tragicomic road trip to exhibit her work The Guardian - UK · Mar 8, 2023
The week in audio: The Coldest Case in Laramie; Carol and Muriel; The Rabbit Hole Detectives and more The producers of Serial return with a new cold case, while Carol Morley revives the reputation of an Oscar-winning but forgotten film-maker The Guardian - UK · Feb 25, 2023
This obscure portrait gave me goosebumps – but I never expected a bidding war My film about Audrey Amiss was done. Now I had a chance to own a piece of her work, says film-maker Carol Morley The Guardian - UK · Dec 17, 2022
Toilets, towers and Tony Blair: the crazy world of cult film-maker John Smith The director talks about his intellectual, political and hilarious body of work, as a retrospective is staged with contributions from his former students Carol Morley and Jarvis Cocker The Guardian - UK · Sep 30, 2022
‘Godard shattered cinema’: Martin Scorsese, Mike Leigh, Abel Ferrara, Claire Denis and more pay tribute He was the explosively talented film-maker who changed cinema for all time. But what did other directing giants make of this movie legend – and did they find his latter films unwatchable? The Guardian - UK · Sep 14, 2022
James Caan: my lunches, fallouts and golf-shoe hunts with the Hollywood legend When James Caan agreed to be in her movie, director Carol Morley found herself on a rollercoaster ride. She recalls their months of sparring, bonding over avocados – and watching a master give his all The Guardian - UK · Jul 12, 2022
Mark Kermode and Simon Mayo: ‘I’ve never heard us described as an island of joy before!’ Radio’s odd couple take questions from actors, directors and Observer readers about optimism, the films they disagree on – and biscuits The Guardian - UK · May 1, 2022