Cannes 2012: Confession of a Child of the Century – review
Pete Doherty's performance as a philosophising dandy is as catastrophic as the rest of this insufferable filmThere is a long and noble British tradition of musicians becoming absolutely godawful actors. Gary Kemp gave it his best shot; Sting outdid him...
Pass notes No 3,178: Jack Kerouac
The Beat writer's masterpiece On the Road has been made into a film. But why has it taken 55 years to get it on to the screen?Age: Died in 1969, aged 47.Appearance: Dead Beat.Who was he? A leading novelist and poet of the Beat Generation.Oh right....
Duncan Jones to direct Ian Fleming biopic
The creator of James Bond lived more than his own fair share of drama, to be explored in a new 'period action movie' by the director of MoonSome believe he dreamed up James Bond to be the bon vivant, daring and cultivated epitome of masculinity he coul...
Bafta TV special: Jo Brand, Charlie Higson and Rebecca Front
Stars of the small screen reveal their TV secretsThe stand up: Jo BrandJo Brand bats away the suggestion that she's a national treasure. "To me that's someone who has a global reach, like Helen Mirren, or someone who's extremely good, like Stephen Fry....
Outcast of the Islands – Classic DVD
(Carol Reed, 1951, Studio Canal, PG) Carol Reed was acclaimed as an important new talent when Graham Greene, as film critic of the Spectator, reviewed his second film as a director, Midshipman Easy, in 1935. After the second world war they found fame, ...
Word and image: my top 10 books on film
From Christopher Isherwood's 'limbo of mirror-images' to 'the projected film's best-kept secret'We don't have to think about what we like, but thinking can be part of our pleasure, rather than opposed to it. When I was asked to write Film: A Very Short...
Word and image: my top 10 books on film
From Christopher Isherwood's 'limbo of mirror-images' to 'the projected film's best-kept secret'We don't have to think about what we like, but thinking can be part of our pleasure, rather than opposed to it. When I was asked to write Film: A Very Short...
Word and image: my top 10 books on film
From Christopher Isherwood's 'limbo of mirror-images' to 'the projected film's best-kept secret'We don't have to think about what we like, but thinking can be part of our pleasure, rather than opposed to it. When I was asked to write Film: A Very Short...
Word and image: my top 10 books on film
From Christopher Isherwood's 'limbo of mirror-images' to 'the projected film's best-kept secret'We don't have to think about what we like, but thinking can be part of our pleasure, rather than opposed to it. When I was asked to write Film: A Very Short...
Word and image: my top 10 books on film
From Christopher Isherwood's 'limbo of mirror-images' to 'the projected film's best-kept secret'We don't have to think about what we like, but thinking can be part of our pleasure, rather than opposed to it. When I was asked to write Film: A Very Short...
Cannes film festival set to honour the bookworm
Coveted Palme d'Or likely to go to a screen adaptation, with many of this year's entrants borrowing from literatureThe Cannes festival is, famously, the keeper of the flame of the auteur tradition. The ritual of honouring the overarching vision of a si...
The $50m Iron Man: Robert Downey Jr set for Avengers windfall
Actor's profit-sharing deal with Marvel will see his salary dwarf those of his co-stars following success of superhero movieRobert Downey Jr is set to garner a spectacular $50m payday for his turn as Iron Man following the huge box-office success of su...
