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Hay film festival 2005

June 2005

  • In Cat Ballou jeans at 67, Fonda wows the west

    The queen of this year's Guardian Hay book festival - the largest literary festival in the world - arrived on its closing day with blond-highlighted hair and turquoise earrings in a beige suede trouser suit, to discuss her autobiography, My Life So Far, and was taken to the hearts of listeners who have grown up repeating her lines.
  • How Goldfinger nearly became Goldprick

    The story of the Erno Goldfinger's vehement reaction when the author Ian Fleming appropriated his name - and aspects of his character - with deliberate savagery for the villain and title of the James Bond novel was disclosed to the Guardian Hay festival yesterday.
  • Nicolas Roeg.

    Nicolas Roeg interview: his brilliant career

    How did Nicolas Roeg go from lowly cameraman to the legendary director of Don’t Look Now, Performance and The Man Who Fell to Earth? In a rare interview, he tells all to Jason Wood. Read the full, unedited transcript.

May 2005

  • 'People with a political agenda will attack you'

  • Hawn's sunny glamour melts her interrogators

  • The big league

  • Trials by fire

April 2005

  • Guardian interviews at the BFI
    Abbas Kiarostami

  • 'I didn't want to make something without hope'

  • The producers

  • 42 and all that

February 2005

  • Guardian Hay festival turns to film

    The Guardian Hay Festival this summer is to offer film events as well as the usual banquets of literature, comedy, cabaret, politics, art, music and children's entertainment.

January 2005

  • The white stuff

    Celebrated documentary-maker Angus Macqueen spent 18 months on the cocaine trail across Latin America from the dirt-poor valleys of Peru to the shanty towns of Rio. Here he recalls the journey that revolutionised his views and explains why he believes 'the dandruff of the Andes' should be sold in Boots.

November 2004

  • From Grange Hill to the valleys

    She used to play the school goody-goody on television, but now Amma Asante has made a powerful first film about racism in Wales - without a single black character in it. She talks to Bonnie Greer.

August 2004

  • Inside the mind of a terrorist

    On the eve of the third anniversary of 9/11, a compelling new film goes inside al-Qaeda's Hamburg cell, the group of Islamic radicals who changed the world with their ruthless suicide attacks. Ronan Bennett, who wrote the film, explains what drove them to martyrdom.

May 2004

  • Cast into darkness

    Frequently lauded as one of the best British films ever made, Performance is being released again. Michael Holden explores some of the myths surrounding the troubled cult movie

November 2003

  • Real to reel

    Is documentary-making dying? No, says Molly Dineen, who tonight wins an award for her portraits of British life. Here she talks to Maggie Brown.

May 2003

  • The pick of the world's documentaries

    The film-maker Nick Broomfield has scoured the globe for a group of films to include in a special season at the Hay festival. Here he explains his choices - and tells Duncan Campbell why, even after the success of Bowling for Columbine, the genre is not in a healthy state.

January 2003

  • The peasants' revolt

    A powerful new documentary reveals the story behind the 'illegal immigrant' headlines. Angus Macqueen recorded life in a Romanian village as its young people risked their lives making the journey to the West. Tim Adams reports

December 2000

  • Journeys into space

    He staged his first Hamlet when he was seven. Now 75, he is one of the world's great theatrical innovators and his quest for truth has embraced eastern mysticism and hallucinogens. Michael Billington reports

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