Festival: The Movie

22/03/2009 … You probably wouldn’t have noticed her among the hundreds of desperate performers thronging Edinburgh’s Royal Mile during last year’s festival.

I'm not that interested in comedy..

In Small Time Crooks, out now on DVD. Woody Allen returns to his slapstick roots as Ray, a petty criminal who longs for the bigtime score. This is what he had to say when the original film was released

22/03/2009 … Small Time Crooks is more reminiscent of your earlier films, more slapstick and less serious.

Apocalypse now

The League of Gentlemen talk about their big-screen debut

22/03/2009 … The League Of Gentlemen’s first movie Apocalypse opens next month; and yesterday some of the team held a Q&A session for invited journalists in central London.

Meet the makers

How The Guide was rewitten...

22/03/2009 … It might seem like sacrilege to its legions of fans, but the new Hitchhikers’ Guide To The Galaxy movie has taken liberties with the characters, lines and script…

'It's hard not to become the Chucke Brothers...'

Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon in A Cock And Bull Story

22/03/2009 … Late autumn light filters through the great oaks surrounding Felbrigg Hall in Norfolk, a little-known National Trust gem that is one of the most authentic 17th Century…

Filth sells!

Interview with Aristocrats director Paul Provenza

22/03/2009 … It’s changed Hollywood attitudes and altered the landscape of stand-up comedy.

Pure filth

Film makers Paul Provenza and Penn Jillette talk about their movie The Aristocrats - a documenary about the world's dirtiest joke

22/03/2009 … Can you explain the joke that’s the subject of The Aristocrats for those who haven’t heard it? PENN: You get to hear it a lot in the movie, so why ruin it here.

Acting funny

Dylan Moran's movie debut

22/03/2009 … Dylan Moran is making his movie acting debut opposite Michael Caine in the new comedy The Actors in a story, by Conor McPherson and Neil Jordan, of two dead-end…