Some of the finest lines in cinema history were supposed to be outtakes or were mere unserious improvisations. “Bring me ...

This article originally appeared in Empire magazine, issue #97 (July 1997). “It was always going to be set here," mutters an obviously knackered Luc Besson, negotiating his way through the diminishing ...

Owing principally, but not exclusively, to the stark dedication with which it begins and the crushing letter with which it ends, Philippe Besson’s eighteenth book, just published in the United States ...

Nine years ago, Luc Besson came across a theory that humans only use 10% of their brain capacity. A quick Google search would have informed the French filmmaker responsible for cult classics like La ...

Big badaboom! In a world where the dystopian gloom of "Blade Runner" long defined the look of movie sci-fi, French auteur Luc Besson's gleefully ridiculous space opera "The Fifth Element" was an ...

On the 20th anniversary of space opera "The Fifth Element," it's become clear how much it shares with Besson's latest passion project, "Valerian." Luc Besson was born to make “Valerian and the City of ...