Star-studded cast of Bill Murray, Adam Driver, Tilda Swinton and Chloë Sevigny light up red carpet

Time will tell about the quality of the films – but the programme does not disappoint

Big-name auteurs in Croisette line-up, but only four films by women in competition

Two decades after the Phantom Menace teaser, they are our age’s internet art form

Lukas Dhont’s Girl, inspired by Nora Monsecour, has a cisgender lead. Does it matter?

Director Wim Wenders says pope answered every question ‘spontaneously and in-depth’

Sara Driver’s film focuses on the underground scene that shaped Jean-Michel Basquiat

Sara Driver has made a fascinating chronicle of the late American artist’s formative years

The ‘Betty Blue’ actor on her love affair with Rupert Everett and why Jesus is sexy

Everyone loves Jim Jarmusch’s ‘80s playlist but our correspondent remains unexcited by the PR for ‘Climax’

The distinguished film-maker continues her experiments in the unpredictable with her latest work – just don’t go asking what it’s like being a female director

Let’s never speak again of her turns as a tattooed English punk and a bearded hobo

The ‘Star Wars’ actor on leaving the marines, filming nude and getting to know his dark side

Katherine Bigelow’s furious new film, ‘Detroit’, tackles historic racism and strikes some shocking notes. But the ‘Zero Dark Thirty’ director has been taking fire for even taking on the project

Finnish auteur Aki Kaurismäki’s film is filled with curious oddballs, but there are also many ethical connundrums to contend with

Culture review 2016: The surge in Irish cinema continued with cracking diverse domestic films, and getting to see the Oscars in the flesh was a treat

A blind homeowner vs home invaders in a superbly made thriller that turns the genre on its head

Solondz is back with another grimly original funny drama. ‘Lassie Come Home’ it’s not

Unabashedly sentimental Japanese film exhorts everybody to follow their dreams

Aaron Brookner’s film Uncle Howard is about his late film-maker uncle – but it is also about Aids, a disappeared New York and the dangerous Burroughs

Director’s new film receives abysmal reviews, while Iggy Pop shows his lust for life

Maren Ade’s ‘Toni Erdmann’ is a strong early contender for Palme d’Or

Woody Allen in line to set record while Pedro Almodóvar and Cristi Puiu eye Palme d’Or

The actor, who is an early Oscar tip for Loving and also stars in the ‘entrancing’ Iona, talks about the ‘white Oscars’ controversy and her desire to move home

The indie workhorse may be directing bigger names on more generous budgets, but his lo-fi auteur sensibility remains firmly in place

La Roux is the latest dissatisfied diva to diss her record company over disappointing sales

Human catastrophe has always loomed large in Dardenne movies, but now, after decades of onscreen misery, the Belgian brothers are begining to let in a little light

Donald Clarke and Tara Brady cast eyes towards the coming year’s cinematic treats

As his three-hour love story arrives in Irish cinemas weighed down with awards – and ongoing allegations of exploitation – director Abdellatif Kechiche ponders the dynamics of love and betrayal with Donald Clarke

As the one and only Loki returns to the big screen in Thor: The Dark World, actor Tom Hiddleston explains to Donald Clarke that you don’t have to go to Eton to be a good baddie

Cate Blanchett's latest performance in Woody Allen’s ’Blue Jasmine’ – as a vodka-and-Xanax-swilling woman on the brink of breaking point – must have been quite a stretch for the immaculately casual mother-of-three

Photographer Anton Corbijn has been taking pictures of Tom Waits for more than 35 years. Now the pair have produced a limited-edition book

From its all-star cast and super-yacht backdrops, to the grit and grime of its underground market, Cannes is still the world’s most important film festival

The veteran actor returns to Dublin to perform ‘Krapp’s Last Tape’, in a role he has been developing for more than a decade