Scarlett Johansson: ‘I had a very formidable grandmother who I was incredibly close with’
The actor has taken up directing with her debut Eleanor the Great, about an elderly woman who inadvertently ends up in a support group for Holocaust survivors
Cannes film festival
Cannes: 15 of the most unforgettable looks, from Pedro Pascal to Rihanna
Actors, musicians and models mostly adhered to the French film festival’s new ‘no nudity’ rule on the red carpet
The Last of Us finale review: A nerve-shredding, bloody conclusion that leaves us wanting more, and soon
Television: The series has delivered a riveting portrayal of the tragically unintended consequences that can flow from revenge
Cannes 2025: Clapologists get it wrong, an acidic Israeli satire is too hot to handle, and Scarlett Johansson serves up schmaltz
The French film festival’s 78th edition was strong if rarely spectacular – but still threw up a few surprises
Iranian director Jafar Panahi wins Palme d’Or at Cannes for It Was Just an Accident
Harry Lighton’s Pillion, produced by Dublin-based Element Pictures, takes award for best screenplay in the Un Certain Regard section
Benicio Del Toro: ‘I do movies that are more than just shooting and killing’
Benicio Del Toro and Michael Cera speak about their roles in Wes Anderson's latest film
Cannes 2025: Julian Assange makes for unlikely new star, walkouts at warts-and-all Shia LaBeouf film - and Brigitte Bardot is back
Cannes Diary: Plus reviews of Alpha, Highest 2 Lowest and Pillion
Paul Mescal tries hard but ultimately The History of Sound is flimsy
Cannes Festival: Adaptation of Ben Shattuck’s musically themed short story brings Mescal together with Josh O’Connor
Cannes 2025: An emotional screening of My Mom Jayne, and Kristen Stewart’s ‘big Cannes energy’
Cannes Diary: Plus reviews of The Chronology of Water, Nouvelle Vague and Die, My Love
The Phoenician Scheme review: Beautiful to look at, but like a museum vase – pretty, pristine and hollow
Wes Anderson’s film, starring Benicio Del Toro and Mia Threapleton, makes little advance on the director’s recent airless productions
No popcorn, no phones, no buckets of fast food: you realise how bad Irish cinemas are when you see films in ideal surroundings
Going to the movies was never so idyllic as old bores pretend. But handheld devices and noisy food have made it so much worse
Bono at Cannes: ‘You wrote this story. The Edge wrote this story. Adam and Larry wrote this story. McGuinness wrote this story’
The film version of the singer’s stage show Stories of Surrender received a seven-minute standing ovation
Cannes 2025: Tom Cruise’s death-defying wing-walking, and the festival’s ban on an actor accused of assault
Cannes Diary: Plus reviews of The Sound of Falling, The Left-Handed Girl, and Two Prosecutors
Cannes film festival 2025 quiz: What is the Palme d’Or-winning film on this year’s poster?
To tie into the 78th edition of the festival, a special all-Cannes query
First Look: Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning: Tom Cruise gets all sentimental amid some suave mayhem
Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning at Cannes film festival: the closing film in the Tom Cruise series takes itself far too seriously
Cannes 2025: DiCaprio pays moving tribute to De Niro, Binoche passes verdict on Depardieu, and I avoid red-carpet nudity
Cannes Diary: French film festival’s opening day contends with news from Gérard Depardieu’s sexual-assault trial
Cannes film festival 2025 red carpet looks: Halle Berry among stars caught out by stricter dress code
No nudity or voluminous gowns rule sees last-minute change by Oscar-winner, while Juliette Binoche welcomed a shift on heels
Cannes 2025: Will Paul Mescal scoop an award, how will Bono’s film go down, and 10 other questions
The Cannes film festival is back at the centre of the movie world thanks to recent Oscars success
‘We would go to motels to have sex. In Brazil, as in every Catholic country, there’s a huge degree of hypocrisy’
Film-maker Aïnouz talks about Berlin parties, taking back Brazil from the military and coming to see cinema as an artform that can change the world
Grand Tour review: An epic, enchanting globe-trotting adventure
The Portuguese auteur Miguel Gomes thoroughly deserved his best-director award at Cannes
Julie Keeps Quiet director Leonardo Van Dijl: ‘I didn’t want to make a film about a hashtag’
The director’s debut feature is a gripping post-#MeToo drama about a teenage tennis prodigy. Has she been groomed?
Grand Tour star Crista Alfaiate: ‘Portuguese cinema has this beautiful heritage – the sense of freedom’
Miguel Gomes won the best director award at Cannes for a film that is properly strange, in a way you don’t get from the mainstream
Cannes film festival 2025: Bono, Paul Mescal and Element Pictures to fly flag for Ireland
Documentary based on U2 frontman’s memoir will premiere in Cannes, while Paul Mescal will attend for The History of Sound
Sister Midnight review: An endlessly inventive marriage of perfectly pitched comedy and deranged ambience
Radhika Apte plays an irrepressible oddball driven to the edge of sanity (and maybe beyond)
Sister Midnight director Karan Kandhari: ‘I don’t know how, but we snuck this film through the British system’
An extravagantly original fable about marriage, bad housekeeping and some kind of vampirism
What follows the best-picture Oscar? Fame, fortune and perhaps even a Baggot Street nightclub
The Academy Award can help move a director to the top of the heap – or make everyone involved lose the run of themselves and deliver a catastrophic flop
Netflix’s Emilia Pérez was tipped as a big Oscar winner – then an unexpected scandal erupted
Oscars 2025: What has gone wrong for Emilia Pérez after its 13 nominations and triumphant awards season?
A flogging and eight years in prison: The risks Mohammad Rasoulof ran to make the Oscar-nominated Seed of the Sacred Fig
The nail-biting thriller is one of the most-lauded films of the past year - and making it involved secret shoots as well as interrogation by Iranian authorities
Mike Leigh: ‘I did a film in Northern Ireland about Catholics and Protestants. I did a play about Jews. To me it’s about people’
Hard Truths is as moving and acute a film as the 82-year-old has ever made. The director talks about rejection, vindication and never changing his approach to movie-making
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
All We Imagine as Light director Payal Kapadia: ‘In India we have fables because women can’t always express their feelings’
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
Steve McQueen: ‘It was always Saoirse Ronan and her mother. So there was this bond. There’s this kinship’
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
Bird director Andrea Arnold on Barry Keoghan: ‘I thought he had the most incredible face. Wow. What a man’
The English film-maker talks about tough shoots, her working-class background and working with Irishmen Keoghan and Robbie Ryan
Anora director Sean Baker: ‘What Mikey Madison did was so impressive. She shadowed lapdancers. She spent time in the club’
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
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