Mike Mills

Mike Mills: ‘All my films are me communing with someone I really love’

By Hannah Strong

The director explains how fatherhood shaped his latest film, and how creating space is integral to his creative vision.

C’mon C’mon

By Charles Bramesco

Joaquin Phoenix forms a close bond with a precocious whippersnapper in Mike Mills’ gentle family drama.

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C’mon C’mon – first-look review

By Charles Bramesco

Joaquin Phoenix and newcomer Woody Norman play uncle and nephew in Mike Mills’ tender drama about a family in flux.

Joaquin Phoenix reads a bedtime story in the first trailer for C’mon C’mon

By Charles Bramesco

He looks after his precocious young nephew in writer/director Mike Mills’ tender family drama.

In praise of Annette Bening’s difficult women

By Matthew Eng

From Bugsy to American Beauty and now 20th Century Women, the actor has always relished playing characters that ask us to look deeper.

20th Century Women

By Sophie Monks Kaufman

Annette Bening anchors this delightful, deeply personal comedy-drama from writer/director Mike Mills

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Mike Mills: ‘Filmmaking isn’t therapy for me, I don’t cry on set’

By David Jenkins

The director of 20th Century Women discusses his personalised cine-poem written to his late mother.

Watch the first gorgeous trailer for 20th Century Women

By Little White Lies

A stellar female cast head-up this intriguing looking drama from writer/director Mike Mills.

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