On screen the actor is fearless and Amazonian. Arifa Akbar finds out how the off-screen version measures up

This Parisian pied-à-terre for the Hollywood elite is sparkling once again – and now all are welcome, says Adrian Mourby

The brief rehabilitation of Chinese actress Tang Wei, who was purged for her steamy role in Ang Lee's erotic thriller Lust, Caution, seems to be over, after Chairman Mao's grandson intervened to have her cut out of the propaganda epic The Founding of a Party.

He tells Gill Pringle it's good to turn back the clock

The actress reveals how adapting 'Sense and Sensibility' for the screen helped her to recover from depression

As a huge new book is published about Stanley Kubrick's unmade Napoleon film, Rob Sharp speaks to the director's relatives and collaborators, and gets rare insights into his famously assiduous working methods

Ang Lee (110 mins), starring Demetri Martin, Dan Fogler, Imelda Staunton, Emile Hirsch

Ang Lee was not the most likely director to create a film about Woodstock, and his authentic-looking LSD scene is from imagination not experience, he tells James Mottram

He is one of Taiwan’s greatest film directors who has picked-up the highest honours in cinema over a glittering 20 year career.

All the fun of the festival – courtesy of Ang Lee

World's Strongest Man: Five, Friday

It was an Oscar-winning film lauded for its sensitive portrayal of two lovelorn cowboys and their illicit passion in America's homophobic Midwest. But despite the success of Brokeback Mountain, starring the late Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal, the author on whose story it was based has complained that the tale has become "the source of constant irritation in my private life".

John Woo's epic £40m film has been beset by setbacks and tragedy. Clifford Coonan reports from Beijing

The actress learned English from Eminem CDs and conquered Hollywood. But she's not only an action star