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Maggie Cheung: Why the Asian star is turning her back on film

Published: 10 April 2007

I'm at the Edinburgh Filmhouse to meet one of the stars of world cinema. As a chill spring wind filters through a window, Maggie Cheung wafts in, looking so slight and delicate I fear she might be blown over in the breeze, but she strides to the sash window and lifts it wide open with surprising ease. The Chinese superstar smiles and shakes hands, takes cigarettes from her jeans, sits by the window, and asks if it's OK to smoke.

Immortal Combat: How the Chinese martial-arts epic triumphed over the musical

Published: 08 April 2007

The classic film musical died decades ago. But its spirit lives on in an unlikely form: the martial-arts epic, with its lavish set-pieces and to-die-for fight scenes. Shane Danielsen heads East...

Lon Chaney: A monochrome chameleon

Published: 06 April 2007

As Quasimodo or Dracula, Lon Chaney was a celebrity. But who was the man behind the make-up? By Geoffrey Macnab

John Travolta goes the whole Hog with his new hit movie

Published: 06 April 2007

John Travolta has been a heartthrob, a cult, and a joke. But with a new hit movie, he has the last laugh. By Lesley O'Toole

Murphy's lore: Meet the action hero who looks on the verge of tears

Published: 31 March 2007

Cillian Murphy has eyes that pierce to your very soul, lips that Angelina would be proud of - and as for those cheekbones... But they want him to play action heroes? John Walsh is entranced

Gay Film Festival: Pride and prejudice

Published: 30 March 2007

This year's London Lesbian & Gay Film Festival is proving as eclectic and entertaining as ever, writes Geoffrey MacNab

The private world of Dirk Bogarde

Published: 28 March 2007

He was Britain's most complex and elusive screen idol - phobic about allowing outsiders to glimpse the man behind the roles. But now a treasure trove of photographs and notebooks reveal Dirk Bogarde as never before. Louise Jury reports

The French connection: How our film industry is changing

Published: 27 March 2007

They're buying up old British films, adapting English literary classics - and funding big hitters like 'The Queen'. Geoffrey Macnab on the Gallic invasion

Thelma Schoonmaker: Life on the cutting edge of film

Published: 25 March 2007

Thelma Schoonmaker, winner of three Oscars, is Martin Scorsese's editor and was Michael Powell's wife. She tells Cathy Pryor about her work, and how to handle a temperamental genius

Days of Glory: Plight of Algerian war heroes comes to our screens

Published: 23 March 2007

A film about the forgotten Algerian heroes of the Second World War has prompted President Chirac to redress a 60-year wrong. Sheila Johnston reports

Mark Wahlberg: Always making his mark

Published: 23 March 2007

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Criminal, singer, model, actor - Mark Wahlberg constantly transforms himself. Hence, Gill Pringle meets Mark the producer

Preview: A Rendez-Vous With French Cinema, Curzon Mayfair, London

Published: 21 March 2007

It's time for French film, n'est pas?

Performance: Anita Pallenberg talks about the notorious Sixties film

Published: 16 March 2007

At the centre of international counter culture for the last 40 years, Anita Pallenberg co-starred in two of the most stylish and influential films - Barbarella and Performance. She came to the attention of the British public as the girlfriend of the Rolling Stone Brian Jones, whom she left for Keith Richards - the father of her two children, Marlon, now 37 and Angela, now 35.

How black and Asian women are bringing their experiences to film

Published: 16 March 2007

Women make up 38 per cent of the film industry, with just 7 per cent coming from an ethnic minority; the first Hollywood studio feature film to be directed by a black woman was Euzhan Palcy's A Dry White Season as recently as 1982. But two women's film festivals have emerged since then to bring attention to the cinematic contributions of black and Asian women.

Celebrating 50 years of the rock'n'roll film musical

Published: 13 March 2007

Andrew Roberts looks back on the birth of a hip-swivelling, lip-curling, toe-tapping genre

Nollywood dreams: Nigeria's film industry aims for world stage

Published: 09 March 2007

Three police officers stand in a dusty road in Lagos, waving guns. One flags down a Mercedes and the ranking officer - Sergeant Lucas - asks for its passengers' "particulars". "These papers are fake," he says, before demanding 10,000 naira (£40) to let them pass. But the passenger is the commissioner of police and Lucas swiftly loses his job.

Steven Soderbergh: Success dies like videotape

Published: 09 March 2007

Steven Soderbergh, once king of the Hollywood hill, hit bottom with recent movies, but he can rise again, says James Mottram

Preview: Bradford International Film Festival, Various Venues, Bradford

Published: 07 March 2007

Listen to the sound of the high seas

Preview: Bird's-Eye View, Various Venues, London

Published: 06 March 2007

Directors of a feather flock together

Laura Dern: My life as a muse

Published: 06 March 2007

Hollywood's quirkiest actress has teamed up once again with its strangest director. But even Laura Dern can't tell Stephen Applebaum what 'Inland Empire' is all about

Famous lives on screen: Did the queen see 'The Queen'?

Published: 03 March 2007

We have grown used to seeing living public figures portrayed by actors on screen and stage. But how does it feel for the subjects - if they dare watch at all? Ed Caesar finds out

Move over, James Bond: Serious, gadget-free spy films are back

Published: 02 March 2007

There are spy movies, and then there are spy movies. This year, as if to counter the derring-do of James Bond and Jason Bourne, there have been a number of films about the world of espionage and counter-intelligence from the perspective of the functionaries behind desks.

Hilary Swank: How she's being forceful again

Published: 02 March 2007

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This time the actress plays a teacher in gangland LA. She talks role models with Chris Sullivan

Martin Scorsese: Hollywood's most consistent and passionate auteur

Published: 27 February 2007

Brash, noisy, and streetwise - for more than 30 years his films have defined the way we see modern America. As the Academy Awards finally honour Hollywood's most consistent and passionate auteur, Geoffrey Macnab puts Martin Scorsese into focus

The Golden Groans: The best of the worst of the Oscars

Published: 24 February 2007

It's a night of glitz, glamour and, all too often, cringe-making gaffes. On the eve of the 79th Academy Awards, Ed Caesar nominates the all-time lows in Oscar history
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