Film history
The movie brats who changed popular cinema
Paul Fischer celebrates the ‘era of the new Hollywood blockbuster’, exemplified in the films of Steven Spielberg, George Lucas and Francis Ford Coppola
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…
