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<p>Francis Ford Coppola pictured in March 2022</p>

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Megalopolis shows why Francis Ford Coppola will always be an outsider

Despite 50 years in the business and multiple Oscar wins, the veteran director still struggled to get funding for his latest film, which will make its debut at Cannes. Here, Geoffrey Macnab looks at why the man who brought us ‘Apocalypse Now’ and ‘The Godfather’ will always be an outsider

<p>‘The blood started to run in my veins again’: Martin Scorsese and Michael Powell on the set of ‘The King of Comedy’ </p>

How Scorsese helped rescue two of our best filmmakers from anonymity

<p>Liam Neeson as Qui-Gon Jinn in ‘The Phantom Menace’</p>

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Star Wars: The Phantom Menace has finally proved the haters wrong

<p>‘I learnt about classism from a very young age – that my circumstances weren’t good enough for some people’</p>

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Hilary Swank: ‘I take the high road on a lot of things, but not that’

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<p>Dunaway as Bonnie Parker, the role that made her famous around the world </p>

Faye Dunaway, the screen star punished for her independent spirit

Ahead of a new film about Dunaway premiering in Cannes, Geoffrey Macnab looks at how the ‘Bonnie and Clyde’ actor went from the A-list to appearing in B-movies – a cautionary tale of how Hollywood often marginalises strong women

<p>‘Women in Love’ stars left to right: Oliver Reed, Glenda Jackson, Alan Bates, Jennie Linden and Eleanor Bron</p>

Why Women in Love is one of Britain’s most misunderstood masterpieces

A newly restored version of the 1969 romantic drama arrives at the BFI this week. Geoffrey Macnab looks back at a film that was as profound as it was provocative, by a maverick director who was never given his due...

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<p>One of the apes of ‘Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes’, as played by Eka Darville</p>

Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes has great apes, but stale humans

<p>Josh O’Connor in ‘La Chimera’ </p>

Josh O’Connor embarks on a treasure hunt in the dreamy La Chimera

Interviews

<p>‘In those moments, you’re so heated up’ – Tatiana Maslany reflects on calling Disney CEO Bob Iger ‘out of touch’ </p>

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She-Hulk star Tatiana Maslany on Marvel, Mark Ruffalo and child acting

<p>Billie Piper stars in ‘Scoop’, about the BBC’s quest to interview Prince Andrew: ‘I realised, Oh my God, there are these unsung women behind the story’ </p>

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Scoop’s Billie Piper: ‘Any abuse of power makes me feel sick and furious’

<p>‘I have a soapbox to stand on and something worth saying’ </p>

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Olivia Williams on playing Queen Camilla and her ‘harrowing’ time on Friends

<p>‘We’ve seen the celebration of being gay, of gay marriage, of having children and all of those wonderful things, but not so much the splitting up’ </p>

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Luke Evans on fashion, marriage and body image: ‘I wasn’t pretty or flawless – I looked like a bloke’

<p>Ernie Hudson: ‘We can say it’s a racial thing, but I think if Eddie Murphy had played the role I played, he would have been paid very well’ </p>

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Ernie Hudson on the new Ghostbusters sequel and the ‘disappointing’ 2016 reboot

<p>‘The most important thing for me in my career was to have arrived playing someone like that – a free woman’</p>

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The White Lotus’s Simona Tabasco on fame, sex scenes and being buried alive for her new film

<p>Scream queen: Caroline Munro in the classic Hammer horror film ‘Dracula AD 1972’ </p>

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Hammer Horror icon Caroline Munro on sex, violence and 007

<p>Viswanathan: ‘I have such a baby face... you can dress me up, dress me down, do whatever you want’</p>

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Drive-Away Dolls’s Geraldine Viswanathan wants to be your next romcom queen

Features

<p>Desk becomes her: Daisy Ridley as office worker Fran in ‘Sometimes I Think About Dying'</p>

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Has Daisy Ridley beaten the Star Wars curse?

<p>‘There was no way I was going to get into anything that was scandal-based or disrespectful’: Marisa Abela and Jack O’Connell as Amy Winehouse and Blake Fielder-Civil in ‘Back to Black’ </p>

‘Approval from the family? That wouldn’t work for me’: Inside the making of Back to Black

<p>Hinata Hiiragi and Sōya Kurokawa in the award-winning Japanese drama ‘Monster’</p>

Inside Monster, the groundbreaking new film exploring queer childhood

<p>The title screen for the cult 1992 video game ‘Dune II: The Battle for Arrakis’</p>

How a revolutionary video game rescued Dune from obscurity

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<p>Dark side of the moon: Sofia Boutella portrays the troubled rebel Kora </p>

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Rebel Moon is a Star Wars rip-off that breaks George Lucas’s rules

<p>Don’t call it a comeback: Mel Gibson in ‘The Beaver’, Johnny Depp in ‘Jeanne du Barry’ and Lindsay Lohan in ‘The Canyons’ </p>

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Johnny Depp and the rich history of the shambolic comeback film

<p>Once upon a time in southern France: Quentin Tarantino at the Cannes Film Festival in 2023</p>

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Quentin Tarantino’s ‘10 films’ rule will ultimately damage his legacy

<p>Bored, games: Margot Robbie has announced she is developing a film adaptation of Monopoly</p>

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Margot Robbie’s Monopoly movie is a very depressing idea

Flashbacks

<p>Gorgeous, willowy and insouciant: Anna May Wong in ‘Island of Lost Men’ </p>

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Anna May Wong and the mystery of Hollywood’s first Chinese-American star

<p>Nineties greats: Ryan Phillippe, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Reese Witherspoon and Selma Blair lead the cast of ‘Cruel Intentions’</p>

How Cruel Intentions compiled the best soundtrack in teen movie history

<p>Lead duo Cleavon Little and Gene Wilder, neither of whom were the first choice for their roles </p>

Blazing Saddles at 50: The story of the wackiest western ever made

<p>Fond of your face: Bridget Fonda at a premiere in 1999, and in films ‘Single White Female’, ‘Scandal’ and ‘Jackie Brown’</p>

Bridget Fonda at 60: the Nineties great who vanished without a trace

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