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Stranded on Planet Cannes Festival diary: Xan Brooks leaves the Mike Tyson documentary battered and bruised only then to be accosted by Mischa Barton Deal of the day: Che and Salles Podcast: Film Weekly on the Med Full report: Cannes 2008 |
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Club meds Feature: Getting high on screen was once strictly illegal stuff. Now, movie characters are getting their kicks direct from the doctor. Andrea Hubert reports |
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Naked Ambition Interview: Thomas Haden Church got his break in Sideways by stripping for the audition. He tells Ed Pilkington why he's baring all for his new movie |
Hollywood private eye faces life in jail
Seedy side of LA laid bare as Anthony Pellicano found guilty of 76 counts of illegal activity
Honest, Spielberg is making Lincoln
Steven Spielberg's long-gestating biopic of Abraham Lincoln is going ahead at last, with Liam Neeson expected to play the 16th US president
'Sentimental' Sex and the City hits London
Sex and the City: The Movie had its world premiere in London's Leicester Square, with early reviewers griping about extensive product placement and too much testosterone (on the part of reviewers)
In pictures: At the premiere
Video: Hadley Freeman rates the frocks
RFK Must Die: The Assassination of Bobby Kennedy
Film Weekly on the Croisette
This week, Jason Solomons comes to you from the Cannes film festival, which is off to a pulsating start. Which set him thinking, what would be your best Palme d'Or winner?
Bench marking
In the summer of 2006, French football international Vikash Dhorasoo endured a miserable World Cup. But with a Super-8 camera and the help of a film-maker friend, they made Substitute, the strangest football film ever
Oh dear, Ewan ...
So what do you do if you're watching an absolute stinker and tomorrow you are interviewing its star? Simon Hattenstone meets Ewan McGregor
When Che invaded Puerto Rico
Duncan Campbell on the day the Cuban revolution hit San Juan
'I said to Klaus Barbie: I want people to see your human side'
France's most controversial lawyer, profiled in new documentary Terror's Advocate, tells why he defends the world's notorious criminals
A walk through the city of ghosts
A paean to Liverpool, Terence Davies' new movie burns with anger and regret. Frank Cottrell Boyce meets him in Merseyside
The soldier who saw hell
Winter Soldier is a harrowing film in which Vietnam veterans confess to atrocities. How did it come about? John Patterson finds out
'I'd almost forgotten I existed'
British auteur Terence Davies on being selected for Cannes 2008
The films to watch
In pictures: Who's in competition
More about Cannes 2008
The intellectual villain
He is one of France's greatest contemporary actors, so why did Mathieu Amalric agree to star as the baddie in the latest Bond movie?
'Mayor of London? That'd be fun'
His Billy Elliot musical has gone global, Kate Winslet's in his next film, and he's plotting a return to theatre. So why does Stephen Daldry need more challenges? By Maddy Costa
Drenched in the blues
Mable John was at the heart of Berry Gordy's Motown revolution. Now, 40 years on, her role in Honeydripper is winning her new fans. Richard Williams meets her
The victims' witness
Film-maker Lisa F Jackson survived a terrifying sexual assault in New York. But she was still shocked by the tales women told her when she made a documentary about rape in the Congo. She talks to Kira Cochrane
View from the cheap seats
Matthew Sweet on our greatest lost film critic
A taste of love and pain
Eagerly awaited French film Couscous tells the heart-warming, and heart-breaking, story of one man's struggle to save his immigrant family from poverty by opening a fish restaurant
Cut and run
Many film-makers are oddly camera-shy, says Damon Wise. But can one of Speed Racer's directors really have changed sex between pictures?
David Thomson on the Wachowskis
More about Speed Racer
Secrets and Liza
Oscar-winner, alcoholic, drug addict ... sometimes it seems as if Liza Minnelli's whole life has been lived in the public gaze. And yet, do we really know her?
'The bloodshed had to be shown'
At 80, Andrzej Wajda has made the bravest film of his career: a graphic account of the killing of 8,000 Polish officers
Never mind Osama, what about Rumsfeld?
If only ... Morgan Spurlock had set his sights a little closer to home. John Patterson suggests a more realistic quarry for the intrepid film-maker
The greatest story never told
Is it possible to tell the entire history of pop music? Bob Stanley on the riveting highs and hilarious lows of an epic attempt by one British film-maker
Tovarisch, I am released
Try as he might, Stuart Urban could not find a distributor for his documentary about his father, an extraordinary Holocaust and Gulag survivor. So he decided to distribute it himself
Beyond the frame
A new documentary spotlights Edward Burtynsky's photos of vast industrial landscapes. Clare Birchall finds out the stories behind them
'I have no idea how I'm still alive'
In 2004, Hollywood talent agent Pat Dollard turned war reporter and filmed US marines in Iraq. He tells Killian Fox why
Keeping up with Indiana Jones
Harrison Ford tells Chrissy Iley about car crashes, kids and Calista Flockhart
Can films change the world?
Nick Fraser reflects on how powerful movies with a political message always emerge to reflect the days we live in
When will you British learn how to celebrate your success?
It may take foreigners to show the British what's most admirable about their culture, but it's up to the British to stop doing down their best, writes Agnès Poirier
Altered images
Kate Hudson's inadvertent boob job on the ads for Fool's Gold is merely the latest example of when posters go bad. Here are some of our favourites.
Hive mentality
Children's films used to be inspiring, adventurous, and made for kids - not their parents. How did they lose their innocence? By Emily Barr
Michael Hann: I blame Matt Groening
View from the bench
What happens when you decide to film the highlight of your sporting career, but then barely kick a ball? Stuart Jeffries meets the player who turned his rejection into an art form
The secret art of video sniffing
Real-life stars of CCTV
'I wanted to make a film where we could just enjoy ourselves'
Mike Leigh talks about his 'anti-miserablist' film Happy-Go-Lucky in this edition of the Guardian interview at BFI Southbank
You review: Happy-Go-Lucky
Mad about the boy
Andrew Garfield's already got a Bafta but, as Chrissy Iley discovers, it will be a while before the Lions for Lambs star is able to relax into the acting experience
Some like it very hot
Tony Curtis, the Hollywood legend talks to John Patterson
Time for heroes
Iron Man: ally of the United Nations? Don't be surprised: comic-book superheroes have been co-opted for propaganda purposes since the 40s
I gave my right arm to be in this film
Alex Cox recalls how he was slowly dismembered on the set of The Oxford Murders - and made a corpse of John Hurt
Missing in action
Director Kimberly Peirce had a huge hit with Boys Don't Cry - then went awol for almost a decade. Now she's back with a Gulf war drama inspired by her brother
Cinema made simple
Noble and Silver have some thoughts for the modern film-goer
Return of the dandy
Antony Price has been credited with reinventing the suit and fusing pop and fashion. As a new film puts the spotlight on his work, he talks to Chrissy Iley
Pulp fiction
Before pop stardom, Jarvis Cocker wanted to be a director. Smearing reels with Vaseline were his first steps towards celluloid genius ...
Can a feminist really love SATC?
With the film version of Sex and the City set to open, Alice Wignall asks if the series was good or bad for women
My own cinema paradiso
Philip French's passion for film has spanned 70 years. Now, on the eve of a major honour from Bafta, he looks back on his career so far
Interactive: The French collection
I'm non-sticking with you!
Keanu Reeves has starred in countless duds but that doesn't stop Joe Queenan from loving him. Who else can survive any box office bomb?
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Charlton Heston, 1923-2008 Special report: The life and times of the man who played God. Twice David Thomson: God, guns and glory Gallery: 'A representative of American power' |
Before your very eyes
Films in 3D are back - and poised to revolutionise the cinema. And even the new-style specs are comfortable. Jeremy Kay reports
News: Disney and Pixar go 3D-only
The Walt Disney we lost to Canada
Erlend Clouston on Truffaut's favourite animator
You've been framed
Believe the movies and you'd think robbing casinos was all hidden cameras and acrobats. Forget about it, says James Donaghy
Will the real Kevin Spacey stand up?
The Old Vic director makes no secret of his preference for theatre - so what was the allure of his latest film, 21, asks Charlotte Higgins
Balls of steel
Can John Krasinski, the plucky loser in The Office, cut it as a player in George Clooney's gang?
News: Clooney at loggerheads with WGA
