The Favourite was savage, Eighth Grade gave us hope, Apollo 11 was cool and magical

Dublin International Film Festival: Paul Duane’s What Time Is Death? charts Bill Drummond and Jimmy Cauty’s latest singular project

Actor, who was diagnosed with cancer, was a key figure in German cinema

Review: The director embraces all his worst instincts in this horrible film

The arch provocateur on his divisive film The House that Jack Built, misogyny and Björk

Toronto film festival: Natalie Portman dazzles in Vox Lux as Irish films continued to premiere at another busy Tiff for domestic cinema

Review: This biopic reminds us what a terrifying place American high school can be

Cannes diary: our film correspondent meets the controversial director and rounds up the rest of the news

There was plenty of Hollywood bling – and anger – at this year’s festival but new movies from Hirokazu Kore-eda and Ryusuke Hamaguchi were quieter highlights

Cannes diary: Protests against Gaza killings and racism also take centre stage

Cannes diary: Spike Lee’s black Klan comedy, Wim Wenders’s Papal pic and Lars von Trier’s latest outrage

Protests, Directors’ Fortnight and the race for the Palme d’Or

Despite a dispute with Netflix and films not being ready in time, the competition is one of the funkiest, least creaky in years

In conversation: Tara Erraught and Fergus Sheil

Programme flush with exciting talent but only three of 18 films competing for Palme d’Or have female directors

Kristin Scott Thomas on how French cinema has better roles for women, playing Churchill's wife – and Brexit

Patrick Freyne previews this year’s Christmas TV and gives away some plot twists

After just three weeks Noel Edmonds’s odd new show may be facing cancellation – and not because it’s cheap cheap cheap

Trey Shults dark, brilliant film about the suspicion of strangers gets us right inside the mind of the suspicious

Honorary Irishman was among the cleverest actors of his (or any other) generation