Capture the spirit of kitschy Vegas at Caesars Palace as you sit by the Garden of the Gods pool oasis, surrounded by Greco-Roman statuary, while being offered frozen grapes by a goddess in a skimpy toga.

BBC: Mini guide to Las Vegas

To walk in the footsteps of legionaries and the Roman elite, with their strange gods and oddly familiar habits, is both exhilarating and humbling.

BBC: Walking Hadrian��s Wall

Interviewed about their irrational love of film are Francis Ford Coppola (who says cinema is "given by the gods"), Roman Polanski, Martin Scorsese, Ryan Gosling, Bertolucci and Cannes director Thierry Fremaux.

NPR: Toback, Baldwin Eye Cannes Movie-Making Underbelly