Dublin Film Critics Circle awards 2024: The Zone of Interest and Kneecap big winners
Critics also favoured Ralph Fiennes in Conclave and Mikey Madison in Palme d’Or-winning Anora
Critics also favoured Ralph Fiennes in Conclave and Mikey Madison in Palme d’Or-winning Anora
The acclaimned film-maker on the dynamics of Mumbai, the significance of rice cookers and why doesn’t mind being overlooked in India’s Oscar race
Director’s film Blitz, starring the Irish actor, focuses on a tight family of three trying to keep heads aloft as the bombs fall in London in 1940
The English film-maker talks about tough shoots, her working-class background and working with Irishmen Keoghan and Robbie Ryan
The US director used to be one of indie cinema’s best-kept secrets. Now his funny, sexy, action-packed new film is frontrunner for the best-picture Oscar
Sean Baker’s Palme d’Or winner doesn’t waste a single one of its 140 minutes. No wonder it’s the favourite for the best-picture Oscar
The French-Senegalese film-maker won this year’s Golden Bear in Berlin for her breathtakingly imaginative new release
‘Grey areas make for great cinema,’ director Cédric Kahn says about the Pierre Goldman case
Chinese director Wei Shujun was surprised to hear that his critical hit at last year’s Cannes film festival was being viewed as an American-style murder mystery
If you thought their Oscar-winning collaboration Poor Things was unconventional, wait for the full-throttle madness of Kinds of Kindness
The French press have found a new auteur hero in the American director of a 1980s-tinged film about a wilder kind of childhood
What comes after Bride, Son, Ghost and a meeting with the Wolfman?
A volley of superb late entrants, including Anora and All We Imagine as Light, created one of the closest races in decades
Donald Clarke: Cannes film festival has gone wild for the biggest star of 1995. Will she build on the success? What does history tell us?
Kinds of Kindness, latest collaboration between Dublin’s Element Pictures and Yorgos Lanthimos, scoops award for Jesse Plemons’s performance
Reviewer Tara Brady has her pick for the Palme d’Or and Seán Baker miraculously resurrects the screwball comedy
Ali Abbasi film starring Sebastian Stan and Jeremy Strong zones in on a twisted early Trump mentor
Cannes Diary: First three-hour instalment of Costner’s old-school western is confounding; Kinds of Kindness may be Yorgos Lanthimos’s weakest film
Donald Clarke: At Cannes, be prepared for often humdrum occasions to turn into the most surreal and uncomfortable events
Cannes diary 2024: Meryl Streep ‘didn’t quite nail’ the Australian accent and Megalopolis staggers its way to nowhere worth going
Film showcases director Andrea Arnold’s gift for artful shepherding of apparent chaos, while allowing new and surprising elements
Test your movie mastery with our 2024 Cannes film festival special quiz
Cannes Diary: Juliette Binoche was choked up, Meryl Steep was classy and Greta Gerwig didn’t hold back
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Film director Marco Bellocchio on Edgardo Mortara, a ‘baptised’ Jewish boy taken from his family, and scandal that weakened power of pope
The octogenarian auteur’s fourth feature is a languorous consideration of time, memory and cinema
Three Element Pictures productions will feature in official selection, with Yorgos Lanthimos’s Kinds of Kindness competing for the Palme d’Or
Whether in Nobody Knows, Shoplifters or Like Father, Like Son, the Japanese auteur can dramatise children’s inner lives like no other film-maker
He missed out on a Poor Things prediction this year – how successful will he be for next year?
Donald Clarke: Her Eras Tour became the highest-grossing concert film ever. She was Time magazine’s person of the year. But another woman had an even better year
Eye surgery curtailed the German director’s appearances recently but he’s back on track with two films, Anselm and Perfect Days
It is often observed that no one knows what a marriage is like except the two people in it, but in Justine Triet’s film that number may be too high
The director of the remarkable Anatomy of a Fall likes to work on the boundary where fact and fiction blur into one another
‘Nobody really knows how life is here in Romania, and especially cultural life. There are still people believing that we speak Russian or that it’s very cold’
The director on his new film, The Old Oak, set in a ravaged mining community in northeast England, and why he may wrap up the film-making at 87
Japan’s master of outrageous tragedy on incorporating sign language into new film Love Life, complicated humans and his goal of depicting life as it is
Hollywood stars may be missing but competition will be fierce for the Golden Lion
Sinéad Gleeson reviews impressive new books on art by Lauren Elkin and Laura Cumming
Box office is booming, powered by a handful of smash hits. But look around, especially in art houses and on streamers, and you’ll find plenty of great movies
New film Elemental struggled at US box office but its makers believe there’s something special about the animation studio
The 80-year-old star returns as Indiana Jones and he seems to be enjoying himself while reflecting on the state of the world
The Wes Anderson ensemble on how they made the Amerindie’s 11th feature.
Cannes Festival’s 76th edition didn’t disappoint, consistently keeping the cinematic spirits aloft
The Grand Prix, essentially runner-up, went to The Zone of Interest by Jonathan Glazer
Cannes diary: Jonathan Glazer’s The Zone of Interest has generated the most buzz, but plenty of rivals could bag the prize instead
Cannes diary 2023: Kidnapped is a film that you’ll bawl at least once and feel enraged for the rest of it
From Natalie Portman to Gigi Hadid and Helen Mirren: What celebrities wore to this year’s glamorous festival
Cannes diary 2023: The actor, whose father opened this year’s festival, is dismissive of accusation of disruption on the set of her HBO show The Idol
In competition at Cannes, the director’s 11th feature is an aesthetic triumph. But Anderson’s trademark deadpan silences have seldom felt longer
Cannes diary 2023: Michelle Yeoh does not mince her words, dog vomit and the biggest laughs of the festival so far
Cannes diary 2023: Festival director Thierry Frémaux has an exchange with police and one film festival tradition becomes annoying
Arguments about a decline in enthusiasm for cinema seem flawed when you feel as if you’re stuck in a perpetual high-end beach brawl
Cannes 2023: Starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Robert De Niro, the film rates high in the 21st-century Scorsese canon, but it asks for substantial patience
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