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Peter Bogdanovich arrives at the Venice premiere of She’s Funny Like That Photograph: Gabriel Bouys/AFP/Getty Images The 71st Venice film festival might bill itself as a “festival of discovery” but it can still find some space for the lions of yesterday. Missing believed defunct, the veteran director Peter Bogdanovich rode into town like the ancient mariner. He arrived via water taxi, trailing clouds of glory. Few film-makers enjoyed such an early run of success as Bogdanovich, whose hit movies The Last Picture Show, What’s Up, Doc? and Paper Moon established him as one of the leading lights of 1970s American cinema. Few, too, suffered such an ignominious fall from grace. “Looking back, ...

  The Cannes film festival has awarded its top honour to the film many tipped as winner before it even started. The rest of the jury's picks, however, were less predictable My kingdom may be small but at least I'm the king," boasts the despised landlord at the heart of Nuri Bilge Ceylan's Turkish drama Winter Sleep . In crowning the film with the all-important Palme d'Or award, the Cannes film festival laid on a coronation which suggested that the kingdom may be growing. "This is a great surprise for me," said the 55-year-old Ceylan, who has been a favourite of the Cannes selectors since his acclaimed drama Uzak took the 2002 jury prize. "This year is the 100th year of Turkish cinema and that is a good coincidence, I think." Winter Sleep is the first Turkish film to win the Palme since Yilmaz Guney's political saga Yol, back in 1982. On accepting the award, Ceylan dedicated his prize to the "young people" caught up...