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Back to the Stone age

New school Hollywood directors tend to fill interviews with talk of how fabulous it was to work with such a wonderful cast, or how they’d like to do a sequel but, hey, it’s up to the audience.

An encounter with Oliver Stone, a director so old school he makes Eton look like a breeze block comprehensive, delivers no such blandness. With Stone, the talk is of Bolivarian socialism, Friedmanesque economics, and Greek mythology. Oh, and red underwear. Details to follow.