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Italian towns prepare for bling and glitter of celebrity weddings
Petra Ecclestone and Sofia Coppola to marry in lavish ceremonies in Bracciano and Bernalda this weekendBrash British bling and Hollywood style will vie for attention in Italy this weekend as two...
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Why Nicholas Ray is in a class of his own
Where does a maverick film-maker such as Nicholas Ray go after directing Rebel Without a Cause? Back to school, says Geoffrey MacnabNicholas Ray wasn't the sort of film-maker ever to go quietly into...
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Tom Waits: 'I look like hell but I'm going to see where it gets me' – interview
It's decades since Tom Waits had a drink and his music has just got weirder and better. With his 17th album out, he heads for his local roadhouse (for coffee) and talks about songwriting, hard living...
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The Conversation
(Francis Ford Coppola, 1974, Studiocanal, 12)In an amazing creative outburst between 1970 and 1979, Francis Ford Coppola scripted Patton and The Great Gatsby, produced George Lucas's THX-1138 and...
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American Zoetrope: In a galaxy not from from Hollywood …
If there had been no Zoetrope, the film studio founded by Francis Coppola and George Lucas in San Francisco in 1969, there would be no Star Wars, argues John PattersonIn April 1979, Francis Ford...
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Hammett
(Wim Wenders, 1982, Studiocanal, 12)Modelling his career on Dashiell Hammett's, Joe Gores first worked as a private detective in San Francisco before turning to crime fiction. In 1975 he wrote Hammett,...
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My favourite film: Koyaanisqatsi
In the latest of our writers' favourite film series, Leo Hickman is bowled over by the elemental force of Godfrey Reggio and Philip Glass's 1982 environmental masterpieceWant to set the world to...
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One From the Heart
(Francis Ford Coppola, 1982, Studio Canal, 12)The most ambitious film-maker of the 1970s, Francis Ford Coppola had a string of critical and box-office successes before his triumph with Apocalypse Now....
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The film that changed my life: John Madden
The Conversation (Francis Ford Coppola, 1974)The Conversation works as the best kind of psychological thrillers do – on the heart and the head and the guts all at the same time, pulling you deeper and...
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Eiko Ishioka obituary
Art director who created striking designs for Francis Ford Coppola, Björk and the Beijing OlympicsPerformance in Japan has always depended on graphic design: the climaxes of kabuki and noh theatre are...
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Corman's World: Exploits of a Hollywood Rebel – review
This lively documentary traces the remarkable career of the independent American film-maker Roger Corman, a tall, handsome Stanford engineering graduate who has produced and directed several hundred...
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Why Bertolucci's The Conformist deserves a place in cinema history
The Italian director's 1970 expressionist masterpiece offered a blueprint for a new kind of Hollywood film, which is why Coppola, Spielberg, Scorsese and co owe him a huge debtBernardo Bertolucci's...
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Jay McInerney: why Gatsby is so great
F Scott Fitzgerald's novel set amid the riotous frivolity of the jazz age defines the American psyche, says author Jay McInerneyThe Great Gatsby seems to be enjoying a moment, what with the success of...
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The Dark Knight trilogy as our generation's Godfather
The fact that national politics has run up against Batman is further proof that Christopher Nolan, as outsider, has drilled into the fevered brow of post-9/11 America as few others haveA billion...
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How we made ... Francis Ford Coppola and Stewart Copeland on Rumble Fish
The director explains why his film about gangs and brothers needed fast clouds and fake sweatFrancis Ford Coppola (director)I shot Rumble Fish back-to-back with The Outsiders, in the same location....
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Sam Riley – interview
Having stunned us as Ian Curtis in Control, Sam Riley is now starring as Jack Kerouac in On the Road. Could he get any cooler? Tim Adams finds outIn 1957 Jack Kerouac, suddenly famous as the authentic...
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Why On The Road's journey is a bumpy ride
It's no surprise that the film adaptation of Kerouac's book is rocky: the Beats have rarely fared well on the big screenThe Beat generation was vibrant for just a short cultural moment, proclaiming a...
View ArticleGrins, gowns and gaffes at the 2013 Oscars afterparties - in pictures
From Elton John's annual Aids Foundation bash to the Governors Ball and the Vanity Fair afterparty, the stars stayed out in force after Oscar said goodnight
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Film-makers need to trust the audience | Adam Mars-Jones
Scarecrow and The King of Marvin Gardens– quirky, unstylised films made in the 60s and 70s that refused to smooth their rough edges. This bravery, Adam Mars-Jones argues, is what film-makers are...
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After Earth: keeping it in the family
Almost as old as Hollywood itself, nepotism has had the movie industry stitched up for decades and Will Smith's family are keeping up the traditionSeriousfacing its way into cinemas this weekend, After...
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