Sy Sar, subject of a dramatic documentary, was plucked from Cambodia by an American patron who turned him into an international ballet star. His journey, he tells Neil Norman, was sometimes painful - and always emotional
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Film review: A Concert For George is a filmed record of the Albert Hall concert in November 2002 in which a group of old musos got together to pay tribute to their friend, the late former Beatle, George Harrison
Film review: A filmed record of the Albert Hall concert in November 2002 in which a group of old musos got together to pay tribute to their friend, the late former Beatle, George Harrison
Details of the altercation between bully American film director Larry Clark and his erstwhile British distributor Hamish McAlpine in a restaurant last Saturday night are still hazy.
The question everyone's asking is: will Eminem attend the Regus London Film Festival screening of his new movie 8 Mile?
Sam Mendes isn't the first director to attempt to rewrite the American gangster film - since the early days of cinema, it has been one of Hollywood's obsessions, says Neil Norman.
As classic heist movie Rififi sees a re-release, Neil Norman looks at cinema's classiest crooks and asks why it's a genre we all love so much.
With American teen horror a dime a dozen, it's a relief that Victor Salva's movie is scarier than most. Salva delivers the goods more or less straight, in spite of the fact that his teenage protagonists are a lively, educated brother-and-sister act who have clearly seen their fair share of horror films.
Guy Ritchie's latest film featuring his wife Madonna still hasn't got a UK release date while reports from the previews described it as a "mess". Neil Norman chats to Mr Ritchie and finds out just why it is proving to be such a "hot potato".
Never mind Cannes - the French film festival favoured by Hollywood's glitterati is the Deauville Festival of American Cinema.
Now the ban has been lifted on Straw Dogs, Neil Norman tells the story of how its star Susan George and director Sam Peckinpah could never escape the film's shadow.
Daryl Hannah will never forget the first time she saw a girl take her clothes off professionally. "I'd never been into a strip club before," she says. "I was so scared I took guy friends with me. I got so sick, I vomited."
As the critics bemoan Britain's film industry, Brit writer-director Christopher Nolan is dazzling the film world after only three movies.
Kenneth Branagh is being hotly tipped to direct the third Harry Potter movie. The actor is in the frame after Chris Colombus decided to hang up his wand after the second movie, to be released later this year.
Legendary director Roman Polanksi's new film The Pianist, premiered at Cannes, could rid him of his tarnished reputation and allow him finally to return to America for the first time in 25 years.
The last time Timothy Spall was due in Cannes was in 1996 when Mike Leigh's Secrets and Lies was in competition. Days before he was due to fly out, he was diagnosed with leukaemia. His absence was the talk of the festival and, in a twist of ironic poignancy, Secrets and Lies won the Palm d'Or. As he prepares to fly out for this year's Mike Leigh movie, All or Nothing, Spall is mindful of the moment. "I don't want to tempt fate," he tells me, "but it is six years - almost to the day - that I had my ill-ness. So, on a personal level, it means a lot to go back to Cannes with a Mike Leigh film."
Nick Moran made his name as the star of Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels - but his latest role is a far cry from the East End lad of old.
Like Frankenstein's monster, the British horror movie refuses to stay dead - and the latest revival is the godfather of Brit Horror... Hammer Films.
Leonardo DiCaprio looks younger than ever in his latest film, Catch Me If You Can.
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