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19 January 2012 8:56 AM, PST | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »

There's no denying it - awards season is finally upon us. Dust off that tux and/or tiara, and join the party

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You couldn't escape it: this was the week when the awards season (for so we must describe it) kicked into high gear. On Sunday night, we had the Golden Globes, which was monitored in a fantastically popular liveblog by Hadley Freeman and Joshua Alston. It was the first major red carpet splurge of the season, and – as was widely expected – French silent film The Artist walked off with the biggest haul of gongs. Ricky Gervais tried but failed to disgrace himself, Hollywood's finest graced the podium, and, if you still want to know, the full list of winners is here. Then 48 hours later it was back to London, as the nominations for the 2012 Baftas were announced. Again, The Artist did best, but Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy »

- Andrew Pulver

14 January 2012 4:11 PM, PST | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »

(Francis Ford Coppola, 1982, Studio Canal, 12)

The most ambitious film-maker of the 1970s, Francis Ford Coppola had a string of critical and box-office successes before his triumph with Apocalypse Now. But he actually achieved disaster with One From the Heart, a grand folly comparable with Spielberg's 1941 and Scorsese's New York New York.

The film helped bankrupt Coppola's Zoetrope Studios on whose sound stages he'd extravagantly recreated an astonishing surreal Las Vegas, setting for a modest tale of the romance between a likable, unprepossessing couple - Hank, the proprietor of a junkyard called Reality Wrecking (Frederic Forrest), and his live-in lover Frannie (Teri Garr), who works at the Paradise Travel agency. They split up on 4 July, believing that "life has to be more than this", have brief affairs with exotic partners and then reunite, having discovered they're meant for each other.

Alternating between the banal and the sublime, One From the Heart »

- Philip French

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