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Big-screen wipeouts
Hollywood Don't Surf! is an acerbic documentary about how movies get the art of surfing all wrong.
Keep them guessing
The director Rafi Pitts talks about his latest film, The Hunter, unresolved endings, and the next wave of Iranian filmmaking.
Mesrine: Public Enemy Number One
The director Jean-Francois Richet slows the pace in the second of two films about the terrorist Jacques Mesrine.
The Last Station
Tolstoy's last days come over as a domestic drama with added rhetorical bombast.
Gerard Depardieu: Larger than life
Gerard Depardieu talks about his new film Mammuth, his foodie obsessions and his unique outlook on life.
Movie review: Splice
A DNA-era variation on the Frankenstein theme, Splice is a cut above the usual horror fare.
Visible Africa: Cannes winner Mahamat-Saleh Haroun
The Chadian director of A Screaming Man says African directors 'need to make more ambitious films' if they want to be in Cannes.
Magic moments: Jean-Pierre Jeunet
The director of Amelie, Delicatessen and The City of Lost Children turns fantasy into reality with an unlikely plot in his latest film, Micmacs.
The Karate Kid: a new lick of paint but no match for the original
With the film being aimed at a tween audience, everything has been made smaller rather than bigger.
In tandem: dual stars, dual films, one story
The married stars Aishwarya Rai and Abhishek Bachchan on working together on both Tamil and Hindi versions of the Bollywood blockbuster Raavan.
His master's voice: a cartoon homage to Jaques Tati
Sylvain Chomet's fimmaking brush with the daughter of the great Tati turned The Illusionist into pictorial reality.
Still calling the shots
The documentary filmmaker Leon Gast has an eye for maverick characters. His most famous film When We Were Kings captured Muhammad Ali in full pomp.
Action Woman
Driven to abstraction
The director Apichatpong Weerasethakul talks about his childhood in Thailand, how he fell in love with cinema and the project that inspired his dreamlike, Palme d'Or-winning film.
