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  • The world according to Brady Corbet

    Hollywood has been trying to get Brady Corbet onside for years, but he’s having none of it. “I was always passionate about movies, not about being in them,” says the star of Simon Killer

  • Ginger Baker: Born to be wild

    When it came to making a film about hellraising drumming legend Ginger Baker, 6ft 5in ex-boxer Jay Bulger was definitely the right man for the job

 
Baz Luhrmann, Tobey Maguire and Leonardo DiCaprio watch some 3D playback on the set of The Great Gatsby DiCaprio and Luhrmann on Gatsby: ‘The novel both celebrates and is an indictment of the American dream’ Donald Clarke - Chief Film Correspondent Donald Clarke Chief Film Correspondent

Great Scott! Luhrmann’s latest labour of love has arrived.

A detail from the original poster for 1962’s Eegah It’s alive! The rise of Slum Cinema

A love of cult movies has turned into a semi-regular night of great bad films

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Baz Luhrmann, Leonardo DiCaprio and Tobey Maguire attend the ‘The Great Gatsby’ Press Conference during the 66th Annual Cannes Film Festival at the Palais des Festivals last Wednesday. (Photo by Vittorio Zunino Celotto/Getty Images) Gatsby’s last-gasp review blackout

 

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Cannes Review of Seduced and Abandoned

Odd couple James Toback and Alec Baldwin deliver an amusingly slippery study of cinema's current discontents
Cannes Review of Inside Llewyn Davis

The Coen brothers deliver big time with their serious comedy set in New York's 1960s folk scene

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