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‘Has this guy ever made a movie before?’ Francis Ford Coppola’s 40-year battle to film Megalopolis

The director has spent half his life and $120m of his own money to make his sci-fi epic. Just days ahead of its debut in Cannes, some of his crew members are questioning his methods

Published: 14 May 2024

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On Resistance Street review – punkish record of music’s long battle with racism
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The Clash are the touchstone for a story that stretches back to the 50s, told in interviews with many campaigning rockers

Published: 27 Apr 2024
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Weekend podcast: ‘I was hammered on stage’ – David Harewood on racism and success; John Crace on ‘tetchy’ Rishi; the answer to insomnia hell; and Baby Reindeer fall out

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Published: 27 Apr 2024
‘I was only able to go on stage hammered’: David Harewood on acting, racism and his new role at Rada

Published: 23 Apr 2024

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‘Sin is fun!’ Martin Scorsese on brutality, love – and his rebirth on TikTok

At 81, the great film director suddenly has a second career as a social media star. He talks about working with his daughter, the Oscar-nominated Killers of the Flower Moon and his journey from the mean streets of 1940s New York

Published: 12 Feb 2024

‘Who doesn’t think they’re an outsider?’ David Fincher on hitmen, ‘incels’ and Spider-Man’s ‘dumb’ origin story

The director is one of Hollywood’s most unpredictable film-makers. He discusses making a shamelessly pulpy ‘B-movie’, the misogynistic legacy of Fight Club – and the urge to film 100 takes

Published: 27 Oct 2023
Richard Roundtree: how Shaft’s ‘first Black action hero’ changed culture for ever

With his smarts, swagger and unapologetic sexuality, Roundtree – who died on Tuesday aged 81 – spearheaded a new type of Black masculinity in mainstream cinema

Published: 26 Oct 2023
‘It splintered our sense of reality’: how JFK’s assassination spawned 60 years of conspiracy theories

The murder of the US president left millions convinced their government lied and covered up. Decades on, it continues to twist the truth about everything from Covid to G5 to Trump’s defeat at the polls

Published: 26 Oct 2023
‘Who wasn’t complicit?’ How Martin Scorsese won the trust of the Osage Nation

The director brought in Chief Standing Bear as a consultant on Killers of the Flower Moon. When they met, Scorsese made it clear that the crime drama would not be an insensitive Hollywood portrayal of Native Americans

Published: 12 Oct 2023

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