What follows the best-picture Oscar? Fame, fortune and perhaps even a Baggot Street nightclub
The Academy Award can help move a director to the top of the heap – or make everyone involved lose the run of themselves and deliver a catastrophic flop
Peter Biskind
Film critic and historian
Easy Rider at 50: ‘Unwatchable’ – unless you’re stoned
In July 1969, Dennis Hopper’s movie baffled the suits, freaked out audiences and made a fortune
Paul Schrader: ‘I have lived in the sweet spot of human history’
He will always be introduced as the screenwriter behind ‘Taxi Driver’, but there are many more points of interest to Paul Schrader
Warren Beatty: ‘I’ve had 16 books written about me. All baloney’
Warren Beatty, a true Hollywood maverick, sets the record straight on his six-decade-long career and the state of cinema today
The Ireland of Orson Welles was inhabited by mean men and wanton women
America Letter: The film director’s views on the Irish form part of a new book
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