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Killer Joe, Venice Film Festival - review

08.09.11
First ReviewHe may have just turned 76, but director William Friedkin shows with Killer Joe that he has lost none of his desecratory verve... more

A Room for London: London's view with a room

06.09.11
How a night at London's unique one-room art hotel could be yours - for the price of a brilliant idea... more

Apocalypse Now is one of the best films about war ever made

27.05.11
During the filming of Apocalypse Now, Martin Sheen had a heart attack and Coppola contemplated suicide. By the end, nearly everyone was either sick or exhausted. That is how some masterpieces are made... more

Fergus Henderson: The hip hogtelier

01.03.11
Henderson talks business, bone marrow and bodily fluids with Lydia Slater... more

Like father like daughter in Somewhere

10.12.10
Somewhere is positively languid after Lost in Translation and Marie Antoinette, its long takes trying the patience at times... more

Gem Stone Sharon shines at film awards

15.11.10
Basic Instinct star Sharon Stone was among the star line-up at the second annual Oscars Governors’ awards in Hollywood... more

Francis Ford Coppola goes back to drawing board for Tetro

25.06.10
Francis Ford Coppola returns to his Eighties arthouse roots with a beautifully shot tale of sibling rivalry - Tetro.... more

3D or not 3D: Avatar and Godfather directors go to war over technology

13.05.10
Avatar director James Cameron declares that 3D will become the standard format for movies in 'a couple of years' - but Francis Ford Coppola says it is 'tiresome'... more

Colin Firth and Carey Mulligan honoured by film critics

19.02.10
Colin Firth and Carey Mulligan scooped the British Actor and Actress of the Year awards at the 30th Annual London Film Critics' Circle Awards. ... more

An Education hoping for critics' top marks

18.02.10
Acclaimed movie An Education is hoping for glory tonight as it heads the shortlist for the annual awards of the London Film Critics' Circle.... more

A Prophet is a masterpiece from the margins

22.01.10
French director Jacques Audiard delivers a sharp shock in A Prophet, with his bold and uncompromising study of a modern prison society... more

Quentin Tarantino honoured for "excellence" at film awards

22.12.09
Hollywood director Quentin Tarantino will receive an "excellence" gong at the London Film Critics' Circle Awards.... more

London film look being taken to Hollywood

04.12.09
A new wave of film designers who trained in the capital are taking their radical visions to Hollywood... more

Apocalypse Now is best film of recent decades

01.12.09
Apocalypse Now is the best film of the past three decades, according to critics.... more

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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