Bruni gets a big break for the silver screen

First Lady of France accepts Woody Allen's invitation to appear in his next film but fears she may be 'completely hopeless'

Harry Potter’s US cousin is a Greek demigod

A film about a boy who turns out to be the son of the Greek god Poseidon is provoking howls of plagiarism from Potter fans

Dispute threatens to scupper Little Prince film

The biographer of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry has discovered that his widow forged inheritance documents to cash in on the book

Where the Wild Things Are comes to the cinema

Director Spike Jonze tells how he turned his favourite childhood book by Maurice Sendak into a film with James Gandolfini

Nightmarish power of Maurice Sendak's classic

Where The WIld Things Are, now a Spike Jonze film, is disturbing and dark: precisely what today's children need

Get reel: Isabelle Huppert

The French icon on her new film The Sea Wall

Marilyn and Ella: the odd friendship

Marilyn Monroe helped to kickstart Fitzgerald’s career, but these Fifties icons shared more than a love of jazz

Film: Debbie Isitt on Nativity

The director is following in Richard Curtis’s footsteps with a film on the anarchy of nativity plays. There were plenty of on-set calamities too

Vampire phenomenon that might bleed you dry

The latest 'Twilight' vampire film arrived in Britain yesterday, accompanied by an unprecedented merchandising blitz

The Red Shoes artwork goes on show at BFI

Original paintings for Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger’s 1948 masterpiece are to be exhibited at BFI Southbank

Machan

Uberto Pasolini, a producer of The Full Monty, makes directorial debut with another story of men hatching an unusual plan

A Serious Man

This film from Coen brothers Joel and Ethan plays out like one of those smart, offbeat and funny HBO television series

The Twilight Saga: New Moon

In Stephenie Meyer’s saga Bella (Kristen Stewart) looses Edward (Robert Pattinson), but is comforted by a 'werewolf'

The Sea Wall

This drama is based on the memoir by Marguerite Duras. Huppert has a thankless role, but she plays it unapologetically

The Twilight Saga: New Moon

Chris Weitz attacks the source material with verve; his evocation of teen heartbreak is brilliantly, wittily done