Diane Lane

There are films that are a flash in the pan, and then there are those who live on forever. One of them is a lovely movie from 2003 that still warms our hearts whenever we come across it.

For over 40 years the HFPA has recorded famous and celebrated actresses, actors and filmmakers. The world's largest collection of its kind - over 10,000  items - is now in the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts & Sciences Margaret Herrick Library.

For over 40 years the HFPA has recorded famous and celebrated actresses, actors and filmmakers. The world's largest collection of its kind - over 10,000  items - is now in the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts & Sciences Margaret Herrick Library.

Eleanor Coppola famously directed Hearts of Darkness, behind-the–scenes documentary and companion piece to husband Francis Ford Coppola’s Apocalypse Now, the groundbreaking rethinking of Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness as the ultimate Vietnam-era existential war movie.  At the age of 80 she has now directed her feature film debut, Paris Can Wait starring Diane Lane as a woman of a certain age who takes a wide detour through the French countryside – and the midlife rethinking of her marriage on the way to Paris and perhaps beyond.

Diane Lane reflects on her role in HBO's Cinema Verite, about the making of the 1973 PBS documentary series An American Family.