Francis Ford Coppola

Gremlins director talks Spielberg, low-budget horror and ‘bizarre’ film market

How Martin Scorsese and other crime tales raised the stakes for filmmakers to come

The force behind many Hollywood hits lived a life of unlikely success and drug-fuelled decline

Firefighters race to cut defensive lines against a wildfire in Sonoma County’s famed wine country

Donald Clarke: Kids’ movies are becoming the only cinema many punters will pay to see

The Hollywood veterans are back on screen together for Martin Scorsese’s The Irishman

The director’s on working with Brad Pitt on Ad Astra, being ignored in America and making movies in Northern Ireland

Francis Ford Coppola’s disaster-struck Vietnam epic has had yet another recut

In July 1969, Dennis Hopper’s movie baffled the suits, freaked out audiences and made a fortune

Dublin International Film Festival: Composer David Shire on his life in the movies

Alita: Battle Angel director on his guerilla approach to making the long-awaited anime film

Oscar winner Bernardo Bertolucci was one of Italy's great post-war directors

Director of Bram Stoker’s Dracula says 1992 film starring pair included a real wedding

Former Marine best known for turn as volatile gunnery sergeant in Kubrick film

The upcoming ‘The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society’ is so bad it's good

Xavier Legrand’s scintillating ‘Custody’ dramatises the horror of domestic violence

Hollywood has a habit of capturing the political mood before it has emerged

An app that tells you when to nip out during the three-hour ‘The Godfather’? What a relief!

Landau won an Oscar for his performance as Bela Lugosi in Tim Burton’s Ed Wood in 1994

Trumpian subtexts, breathtaking visuals and an Oscar-worthy turn from Andy Serkis

Coppola's latest film ‘The Beguiled’ sees Dublin actor Colin Farrell stirring passions in an all-girls school during the US Civil War

A blend of everything that Noma has learned from four continents over 14 years

An Oscar-winning performance in Woody Allen’s ‘Annie Hall’ changed everything for Diane Keaton

Francis Ford Coppola recalls that Paramount wanted to make something ‘quick and cheap’

The Oscar-winning film-maker also directed acclaimed films Philadelphia, Something Wild and the Talking Heads concert documentary Stop Making Sense

The director of Thunderbolt and Lightfoot, The Deer Hunter and Heaven’s Gate was an unrepentant risk-taker

Every now and then, the Cannes Film Festival’s top prize anticipates a movement

The actor with a five-decade mean streak of a career shows little signs of mellowing. 'I took on the ups and downs," he says. 'Sometimes they won. Sometimes I won'

Tehran’s Fajr film festival will show country’s own version of how Islam’s most revered figure lived

Russian Bolsheviks and Indian nationalists among those inspired by seminal revolt

Grandpa Francis may have lit the spark, but director Gia Coppola takes most of the inspiration for her debut film from the writing of good friend James Franco, she tellsDonald Clarke

The Northern Irish set of Universal’s latest take on a horror legend seems to hark back more to a place called Westeros than to 15th-century Romania

Human catastrophe has always loomed large in Dardenne movies, but now, after decades of onscreen misery, the Belgian brothers are begining to let in a little light

Puccini in the open air, earn rewards for writing reviews, eat well in Bologna and stay with the Coppolas

1969 piece raises bar and becomes most expensive work ever sold at auction

Cannes it ain’t: the purist Colorado festival is the kind of place where you might spill Salman Rushdie’s cocktail, startle Michael Fassbender and Brad Pitt, or get your film praised by the screenwriter of ‘The Graduate’