Fresh from its nomination at the Oscars, ‘Mustang’ opens the Cork French Film festival, writes Helen Barlow

Culture bores suggest a movie simply can’t match the sensory experience provided by the depth and breadth of a novel, Declan Burke says Fifty Shades of Grey has already put the old canard to bed.

Robin Wright wishes she could watch her children grow up all over again.

Emma Watson has addressed rumours that she is to star in 'The Little Mermaid'.

The cult of celebrity is at the heart of Sofia Coppola’s The Bling Ring (15A), which is based on a true story.

Mrs Daniel Craig wins best dressed on the red carpet at the premiere of her movie The Bourne Legacy.

Emma Watson is to star in burglary drama 'The Bling Ring'.

Filmmaker Sofia Coppola is going back to her roots, getting married today in the remote, southern Italian town where her great-grandfather was born.

Sofia Coppola will marry longterm boyfriend Thomas Mars this summer.

Today

NARNIA is by any reckoning a strange place.

It could quite easily have been titled ‘Lost in Translation 2’ … since it comes from the writer and director of that original, breakthrough film, we see Coppola continuing to craft works well outside of the Hollywood mainstream and more towards the European mindset.

THE Corona Cork Film Festival was launched yesterday evening at the Bodega Bar in Cork. The festival runs from November 7-14.

Val Kilmer is to play the lead role in Francis Ford Coppola’s ‘Twixt Now and Sunrise’.

A FILM by American director Mark Romanek based on the novel Never Let Me Go by Booker- winning author Kazuo Ishiguro is to open Cork Film Festival.

Francis Ford Coppola doesn’t want to make big movies.

APOCALYPSE NOW is the best film of the past three decades, critics said yesterday.

Actor Nicolas Cage is being sued by his former business manager, who claims lavish spending, not his advice, is to blame for the actor’s financial problems.

The first two 'Godfather' movies have been restored and are returning to the big screen.

Director Francis Ford Coppola's family was stunned he became a big star, because he grew up an ugly, untalented "black sheep".

Actress Kathleen Turner has turned theatre director and is thrilling audiences at the Williamstown Theatre Festival in Massachusetts with her stage-directing debut.

Francis Ford Coppola will follow-up his directorial return “Youth Without Youth” with a vaguely autobiographical film, the director said.

Sofia Coppola has vowed to never let her scripts be directed by anyone else - for fear they wont do her written work justice.

A stylish biography of the ill-fated French queen who lost her head – in many ways – during the Revolution.

Sofia Coppola is seven months’ pregnant with a baby girl.

Sofia Coppola is seven months pregnant with a baby girl, her spokesman, Robert Garlock, confirmed today.

Pregnant Marie Antoinette director Sofia Coppola wants to have more children - especially as pregnancy allows the star to feast on cakes.

Movie-maker Sofia Coppola was thrilled to be given the keys to the Palace of Versailles in France for the filming of Marie Antoinette because it meant she could shoot eerie scenes in the very rooms where they took place 220 years ago.

Filmmaker Sofia Coppola is pregnant with her first child, according to reports.

Director Sofia Coppola is expecting her first child with boyfriend Thomas Mars.

Movie-maker Sofia Coppola has defended her new period drama Marie Antoinette after it was booed during a press screening at the Cannes Film Festival.

Director Sofia Coppola’s hotly-awaited new movie Marie Antoinette was booed at its debut screening in Cannes today – but the French stopped short of calling for the director’s head.

Oscar winner Nicolas Cage has laughed off his fans' perception he regularly enjoys family get-togethers with his film-making family the Coppolas, insisting everyone is too busy to meet.

Godfather director Francis Ford Coppola is to return to directing after an eight year break – with a low-budget film starring British actor Tim Roth, it emerged today.

Kirsten Dunst says her role as Claire in Cameron Crowe’s new film, Elizabethtown, was one of the best female parts she’d read in ages.

Jack Kerouac’s Beat generation classic On the Road is finally being made into a Hollywood film.

Screen veteran Bill Murray credits director Sofia Coppola with re-inventing his career when she cast him in her 2003 film Lost In Translation.

Scarlett Johansson has Sofia Coppola and movie photographer Lance Accord to thank for her sex symbol tag, because she fears she'd never have been noticed had it not been for a scene in which she wears sheer underwear in Lost in Translation.

He was the cruel taskmaster who made Harrison Ford hang with snakes and rats, required Robert Duvall to shave his head and turned Carrie Fisher and Mark Hamill into Pez dispensers.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has praised Francis Ford Copolla during a visit by the American director to Moscow to receive a prestigious film award.

Kirsten Dunst is to star in a new Hollywood film about the life of Marie Antoinette.