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The Word On...Changeling
Friday, 5 December 2008
"Throughout 'Changeling', you can feel Clint Eastwood's sense of accomplishment. There he is behind the lens, champion of women's rights, exposing injustice. What he doesn't see is that he's detracting from Christine Collins' plight by oversimplifying... Eastwood has turned the truth into a bad joke." - Joseph, imdb.com
Hollyweird: Russ Columbo
Friday, 5 December 2008
The story of the demise of Russ Columbo is one of the weirdest in Hollywood history.
Indian stunner: Danny Boyle's Oscar winner?
Wednesday, 3 December 2008
Danny Boyle's latest film, set in the Mumbai slums, is his most exciting yet. And it's a hot tip for the Oscars, says Geoffrey Macnab
From Marseilles to Baltimore: The French Connection and TV dramas
Monday, 1 December 2008
As The French Connection gets a new release, its director William Friedkin tells James Mottram how it paved the way for TV dramas from 24 to The Wire
Culture: Why I was wrong about the Baftas
Sunday, 30 November 2008
As a member of Bafta, I'm currently being bombarded with emails inviting me to screenings of films that distributors believe are in the running for awards. This is a reminder that, for industry insiders, the awards season has already begun, even though the first big "kudosfest" isn't until 11 January when the Golden Globes are broadcast.
Can a new German film rescue derring-do on snowy peaks from the clutches of the Nazis?
Sunday, 30 November 2008
Beautiful Aryans, snowy peaks, heroic deeds...No wonder Leni Riefenstahl and Hitler loved mountaineering films. But can a hotly anticipated new German movie rescue this genre from the dark crevasse of its Fascist past?
Memphis belle: Ginnifer Goodwin on how to dress like a film star
Sunday, 30 November 2008
Designer Tom Ford has cast her in his first film and she's the 'Face of the Future' for superbrand MaxMara. As fast-rising Southern actress Ginnifer Goodwin proves, it helps to be fashion-savvy if you want to star in Hollywood
Tilda Swinton: 'I'm not interested in acting skills'
Sunday, 30 November 2008
Tilda Swinton has never tried to fit in. She wins Oscars but describes her work as 'clowning'. She flits from obscure indie films to Hollywood blockbusters. And then there's her 'scandalous' love life...Jonathan Romney meets a British actress with attitude
One Click Wonder: Star Trek
Sunday, 30 November 2008
Pointy ears at the ready! After a long hiatus from the silver screen, Star Trek is back in the New Year, with ‘Lost’ creator J J Adams at the helm of a prequel about the young James Kirk and Spock. Here we celebrate all things Trekkie.
African cinema: The fight is not over
Friday, 28 November 2008
From Tarzan to Blood Diamond, Hollywood's view of the continent has been slanted for white audiences. Thankfully, African directors have been making passionate and truthful movies of their own, says Keith Shiri
Hollyweird: Baby Peggy
Friday, 28 November 2008
Child actors have always had it hard. Just take Danny Bonaduce's (post-Partridge Family) alleged assault of a prostitute and alcoholism as one example. It seems that a good proportion of them end up in trouble of one kind or another.
Story of the Scene: Amadeus (1984)
Friday, 28 November 2008
Mozart (Tom Hulce) is directing the premiere of Don Giovanni in Prague as his rival Salieri (F Murray Abraham) plots his end.
Sigourney Weaver: 'I've never been babe material'
Friday, 28 November 2008
Really? Sci-fi fans wouldn't agree – and the alien-battling Ripley launched a stellar career. Sigourney Weaver talks to Gaynor Flynn
Top dogs: Hollywood's canine Oscars
Tuesday, 25 November 2008
The Oscars may be competitive, but the Fido cinema awards are strictly dog eat dog. By Gaynor Flynn
A beautiful life: Paul Bettany a successful acting export
Monday, 24 November 2008
He used to be a busker, but now Paul Bettany is one of our most successful acting exports. Just don't mention the bald patch, he tells James Mottram
Bolly good: The vivid posters that take Mumbai's movies to the masses
Saturday, 22 November 2008
The area of South Delhi known as Hauz Khas village is a window-shopper's delight, a haven of quiet but expensive arts and antiques shops, restaurants and galleries.
It's (credit) crunch time for the film industry
Friday, 21 November 2008
The horror isn't just in Hollywood's films any more, the whole industry is jumpy as the money stops rolling in. Geoffrey Macnab reports from the gloomy Santa Monica gathering of producers and distributors
Reese Witherspoon: Petite but very powerful
Friday, 21 November 2008
Oscar-winner Reese Witherspoon has survived a difficult divorce but now the diminutive star is back – and the best-paid woman in Hollywood. She opens up to Lesley O'Toole
France forgets giants of British cinema
Friday, 21 November 2008
No wonder Peter O'Toole looks shocked: the prestigious Cahiers du Cinema has revealed its list of the 100 greatest films of all time – and not one of them was made here. John Lichfield reports
Making movies the Afghan way
Thursday, 20 November 2008
Robert Fisk: Cinema was banned under the Taliban, but film-makers are once again at work inside Afghanistan.
Going on vacation on location
Wednesday, 19 November 2008
Why book a holiday from a brochure when you can journey through scenes from the silver screen? As Baz Luhrmann's Australia lures visitors Down Under, Tim Walker follows the stars
Could Valkyrie be Cruise's Downfall?
Tuesday, 18 November 2008
Guy Adams: For Tom Cruise and MGM, much is riding on the success or failure of a film about a foiled plot to kill Hitler.
Man of the world: Leonardo DiCaprio
Monday, 17 November 2008
He's box-office gold. He's a favourite of Scorsese and Scott. He's the critics' darling – and he's dating a lingerie model. So why isn't Leonardo DiCaprio a little bit happier? Gill Pringle meets a Hollywood star on a mission.
Culture: Why pornography doesn't always pay
Sunday, 16 November 2008
In a recent interview with the New York Times, Kevin Smith, the writer and director of Zack and Miri Make a Porno, pays tribute to Judd Apatow for proving that sexually explicit films can make over a hundred million dollars at the box office. Without the success of The 40 Year Old Virgin (2005) and Knocked Up (2007), according to Smith, he would not have been able to make a mainstream, commercial film about a couple of friends who decide to make a porn movie.
Parties: Stars fall for dominoes
Sunday, 16 November 2008
Dominoes has hitherto not been known as the game of the rich or idle, having little to recommend it except its brevity. But all that's changed with the arrival of "Hollywood Domino", a new take on the game dreamed up by Inge Theron and Daya Fernandez one night in Beverly Hills. Its launch in London certainly drew a star crowd to Mosimann's restaurant off Belgrave Square.
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