Odes to cinema from Sam Mendes, Steven Spielberg and Damien Chazelle will jostle for Oscar glory next year – until then, here are 20 of the best films about film-making well worth dimming the lights for
November 2021
Natalie Wood was sexually assaulted as a teen by Kirk Douglas, her sister writes in memoir
In a memoir coming out next week, Wood’s younger sister identifies the actor’s long-suspected assailant
November 2020
Stanley Kubrick and Kirk Douglas wanted Doctor Zhivago movie rights
Director wrote to Boris Pasternak in late 1950s, previously unpublished material reveals
April 2020
The top 25 most compelling Hollywood autobiographies – ranked!
Inspiring, addictive and occasionally gasp-worthy – to mark the publication of Woody Allen’s Apropos of Nothing, we arrange the best Tinseltown memoirs in order of excellence
How Izzy Demsky became Kirk Douglas: the ultimate Hollywood makeover
Kirk Douglas obituary
Film blog
Kirk Douglas: a career in clips
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Hollywood legend Kirk Douglas: his most memorable roles – video
Kirk Douglas, Hollywood legend and star of Spartacus, dies aged 103
Kirk Douglas – a life in pictures
Kirk Douglas: Hollywood's impossibly handsome Colossus of Rhodes
January 2019
Shortcuts
Letters from the teenage fan club
Richard E Grant was 14 when he invited Barbra Streisand to stay with his family in Africa. His is just one of many pieces of fanmail written by people who went on to become famous
May 2017
Daliah Lavi obituary
Glamorous film actor who made her name in spy spoofs of the 1960s
February 2017
The G2 interview
Kirk Douglas: ‘I never thought I’d live to 100. That’s shocked me’
He uses a walker, and a stroke has affected his speech, but the old charm is still there as the actor recalls his old Hollywood friends Burt Lancaster and John Wayne – and how he was never really a tough guy
December 2016
Kirk Douglas at 100: a one-man Hollywood Mount Rushmore
Born the son of an immigrant ragman, the great survivor of film’s golden age – from Detective Story to Spartacus – celebrates his centenary today
