Film history
The nightmare of filming A Hard Day’s Night
Hours of footage were lost in the mayhem caused by teenage fans, while even adults ‘descended like flies’ to snatch as souvenirs anything the Beatles had touched
A century of Hollywood’s spectacular flops
From D.W. Griffiths’s 1916 epic Intolerance to Tom Hooper’s hilariously misjudged Cats, 26 films provide cautionary examples of mega-budget hubris
Style over substance
In 2006 the director Christopher Nolan filmed an adaptation of one of my novels, written a decade and a half…
Mr Nice Guy
I’m not making a picture [The Green Berets] about Vietnam, I’m making a picture about good against bad. I happen…
The moving picture of life
Almost 30 years after his death, François Truffaut remains a vital presence in the cinema. Terrence Malick and Wes Anderson…
