Director Ridley Scott shared a heated behind-the-scenes moment from the film "Gladiator." Scott said Joaquin Phoenix nearly refused to play his villainous role, Commodus, in the 2000 action film.
A festival dedicated to films about music—it sounds like a perfect pairing of form and subject, and an excuse to watch a bunch of fun movies too. Yet until 2000 no one had really made a go of it.