Oliver Stone

Trailer for new Oliver Stone film Savages

John Travolta, Uma Thurman and Benicio del Toro star in the director's drug war action movie

10 Apr 2012

It's been a while since Oliver Stone has made an unequivocally brilliant film. Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps was fair, but not brilliant; W. was a bit of a damp squib; World Trade Centre contained graphic scenes of flag-waving; and Alexander was just…

War correspondent Martin Bell to give Oliver Stone another chance

Martin Bell will be introducing Oliver Stone's Salvador at the EIFF

24 Jun 2011

‘I tend to walk out of films about wars that I reported on. I walked out of Oliver Stone’s Salvador when I first saw it in 1986 that’s why it will be interesting to present it and revisit it in Edinburgh. I remember he satirised a female reporter I know…

Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps

17 Sep 2010

(12A) 132min There is something comfortingly old school about Oliver Stone’s Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps. It has all the fancy moves, dazzling montage sequences and polish of a classic Hollywood melodrama. This could be one of those…

South of the Border - Tariq Ali interview

The historian and commentator on making movies with Oliver Stone

23 Jul 2010

The appearance of Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez alongside Oliver Stone at the Venice Film Festival for the premiere of documentary South of the Border was one of the most surreal moments on any red carpet in recent memory. In the background making…

South of the Border

23 Jul 2010

(15) 77min When Oliver Stone made a documentary for HBO about Fidel Castro, his American paymasters accused him of going too soft on the Cuban President and ordered him to go and try again. This time Stone stands firm, doesn’t even entertain the idea…

W.

30 Oct 2008

The American aphorism that suggests 'any boy can grow up to be president' is blandly dramatised in Oliver Stone's outrageously timed film, the first biopic to consider the life story of a sitting US president. Fresh from his deadly pursuit by Anton…

W.

Oedipus Tex

4 Sep 2008

Paul Dale welcomes Josh Brolin’s first lead role and Oliver Stone’s Presidential biopic W. with glee

Stone rolls back round to ‘Nam

30 Aug 2007

Oliver Stone is to return to his favourite subject of all with his new project Pinkville. The Platoon director has already signed up Bruce Willis to star in his adaptation of the life story of General William R Peers, the soldier who launched the My…

World Trade Center

(12A) 129min

18 Sep 2006

REAL LIFE/EPIC Oliver Stone has proved remarkably adept at re-enacting pivotal moments in post-World War II American history, from the death of John F Kennedy to the anti-Vietnam war movement (Born on the Fourth of July) and his intriguing portrayal…