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First the actors, then the set… now the world’s unluckiest film loses its backers

15 hours ago (Tuesday, September 7th, 2010 at 12:00 am)

In the annals of silver-screen catastrophes there can be few productions unluckier than Terry Gilliam’s endeavours to make a film about Don Quixote.

Dying Dennis Hopper among the stars of Las Vegas film project

2 days ago (Monday, September 6th, 2010 at 12:00 am)

A belgian film-maker who secretly recorded crowds in Las Vegas with a
hand-held camera has captured the final movie appearance of the late Dennis
Hopper.

British films prove a hit at Venice

3 days ago (Sunday, September 5th, 2010 at 12:00 am)

The titans of cinema dominated the 67th Venice Film Festival yesterday, but they were looking over their shoulders at a phalanx of British film-making talent.

Schnabel’s true romance inspires tale of love across cultural divide

4 days ago (Friday, September 3rd, 2010 at 8:16 am)

The real-life romance behind the film could not have better advertised its subject matter: a Jewish American film director and son of a Zionist mother meets a Palestinian woman at an art exhibition, falls in love, reads about her traumatic childhood under Israeli occupation and brings her moving story to the screen.

Depardieu vs Binoche: feud that’s got France flummoxed

4 days ago (Friday, September 3rd, 2010 at 8:16 am)

The French actress Juliette Binoche, known for her sweetness on and off screen, has gently savaged the actor Gérard Depardieu for publicly questioning her talent. In an interview with an Austrian magazine, Mr Depardieu last week attacked the Oscar-winning Ms Binoche as “an absolute nothing”.

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