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The one movie Francis Ford Coppola wishes he never made: “It cost me everything”
“There’s one movie I wouldn’t have made because it cost me everything, and that was one of the movies I made at a time when I had to make a movie every year to just keep my house and my household ...
Why Ana de Armas almost turned down her breakthrough role: “I passed on it twice”
Ana de Armas soared to global fame seemingly overnight, but the actor revealed how she almost rejected one of her most loved roles.
The movie Martin Scorsese made as a nihilistic form of therapy: “He saw the humour in it”
Martin Scorsese has made some of the greatest films of all time. Taxi Driver and Raging Bull heralded a new wave of American cinema, and his influence on future filmmakers cannot be overstated. Now in ...
“Found our focus”: David Gilmour on the moment Pink Floyd kicked into gear
Pink Floyd had the face the nightmare of moving on without Syd Barrett, but David Gilmour felt that they were on the right track once they had the right song.
The forgotten collaboration between Audrey Hepburn and Steven Spielberg: “One of the best times of my life”
More than two decades after she had semi-retired, Audrey Hepburn came back for one last role for Steven Spielberg, of all people.
The role Judi Dench kept trying to quit: “She keeps threatening but I won’t let her”
Dench began her career on the stage rather than the screen, becoming a stalwart feature of the Royal Shakespeare Company and the National Theatre Company. It was here that the actor gained vital ...
What was the best-selling album in 1968?
The Beatles’ The White Album was the absolute staple in securing the fact that the Fabs were set on being the biggest band who ever lived, and with genre-defining hits like ‘Hey Jude’ and ‘While My ...
Five times John Lydon proved his hypocrisy
Was John Lydon ever a genuinely subversive character who asked important questions on people's moral compasses, or was he just after the attention ...
Kuunatic – ‘Wheels of Ömon’ album review: a mythological journey mixing psychedelia with Japanese tradition
‘Yew’s Path’: Kuunatic emerge into their own mystical world, introducing the album with an eight-minute epic. It is a brooding epic awash with a dark atmosphere, providing an intriguing opening to ...
The Led Zeppelin song Jimmy Page considered perfect: “It sounded bloody marvellous”
Boasting a voluminous hard rock body of work, guitarist Jimmy Page to one early cut which he felt was Led Zeppelin's most perfect studio moment.
The best director Liam Neeson ever worked with: “He’s still the bar by which I judge”
The downside is that whether they like it or not, anyone Neeson has been directed by in the 30+ years since has been compared to Spielberg. “He’s still the bar by which I judge,” he admitted to Cigar ...
“I didn’t give it all away”: the album Stevie Nicks called the beginning of her life
Stevie Nicks was always bound to be that kind of star before she started her career, but she had a lot of growing up to do ...