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Portrait of a leading lady: Monica Bellucci

16.10.09
Monica Bellucci and her actor husband Vincent Cassel are known in France as 'Les Glamours'. From a youth spent modelling for Bruce Weber to a film career that spans art-house grit and Hollywood blockbuster gloss, she hasn't put a high-heeled foot wrong... more

Francis Ford Coppola’s The Godfather is a masterpiece

25.09.09
Francis Ford Coppola’s first Godfather is a masterpiece ... more

The grape escape: vineyard holidays

12.06.09
Whether you are partial to a Chilean Malbec or a Californian Chardonnay, there's a domain to suit every taste. Deborah Feldman goes sideways... more

Francis Ford Coppola's comeback

19.05.09
Now, at 70, Francis Ford Coppola is back with Tetro, the kind of small-scale film he started out making — only this time, it's personal.... more

Family fortunes in Francis Ford Coppola's Tetro

18.05.09
Francis Ford Coppola's Tetro is huge in its ambition, frequently operatic in its style and, on balance, impressive in its achievement.... more

Movies to watch out for at the Cannes Film Festival

13.05.09
A total of 1,000-plus films are on offer at this year's Cannes Film Festival. Nick Roddick rounds up a few that might be worth a look... more

Little mags, big ideas

11.05.09
A niche journal by Francis Ford Coppola is spearheading a new genre of intelligent reading, says Jenny Wilhide... more

Sampling Argentina

10.05.09
Horse riding, hiking up glaciers, doing the tango: Argentina was never going to be a relaxing second honeymoon destination for Jackie Annesley... more

Trulli scrumptious Puglia

05.05.09
Puglia, in the heel of Italy's boot, borrows its food and architecture from the Greeks, the Spanish and the Romans, and ends up being out of this world, discovers Lydia Slater...... more

Favourites come out of the cold for Frijj

14.08.08
The Frijj Film Festival offers Londoners the chance to experience again classics such as Francis Ford Coppola's The Godfather.... more

Jaws star Roy Scheider dies, aged 75

11.02.08
Roy Scheider, the American actor best known for his role as the police chief in Jaws, has died aged 75. A one-time boxer famed for his pugnacious acting style in films such as The French Connection, he died on Sunday in hospital in Little Rock, Arkansas... more

Coppola's clumsy comeback

13.12.07
Francis Ford Coppola's first film for nearly a decade, Youth Without Youth, is codswallop and increasingly difficult to follow.... more

For the love of film

03.05.07
Rottentomatoes is the latest movie website to expand with a special UK version. You can find out everything you need to know about cinema on the internet - but where to look?... more

Scorsese's mob rule

21.09.06
The great director's latest gangsters are Jack Nicholson and Leonardo DiCaprio. Here he tells why returning to this dark world echoes the story of his own childhood.... more

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