Lars von Trier

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

In later years his face developed creases like the famous ‘lived-in’ face of Samuel Beckett

Star of Pete’s Dragon Bryce Dallas Howard talks to Tara Brady about imaginary friends, goat poop and post-partum disorders

Nicolas Winding Refn’s feud with fellow Danish director Lars Von Trier shows no sign of letting up. “It is natural for youth to destroy the old”, he says

Jacques Audiard’s Dheepan’ wins Palme d’Or to gasps in the auditorium

It looks like a three-horse race led by Todd Haynes’s ‘Carol’, starring Cate Blanchett, and László Nemes’s ‘Son of Saul’. Could Hou Hsiao-Hsien’s stunningly beautiful ‘The Assassin’ sneak through to win?

Movies are becoming increasingly graphic in their depiction of sex. For actors, it means some very awkward days at the office

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Actress with throaty voice shot to fame in 1944 opposite future husband Humphrey Bogart

Charlotte Rampling has wandered the international cinema scene for a half a century, forever seeking challenges and shrugging off controversy. She talks about her new Irish film, an adaptation of John Banville’s ‘The Sea’, as well as projects both famous and notorious over the years

Post-Oscar, the sky’s the limit for the big winners

Two decades of collaboration with out-there Lars Von Trier has honed Stellan Skarsgård’s Swedish oddball persona to perfection – but deep down he’s really just an ordinary family man with a peculiar sort of career

Lars Von Trier continues on his highly eccentric way with this bold and bonkers epic

Cautious and couched, Emily Watson is an actor who exhibits reason and calm at every turn. So how did such a sober person find herself in such as dangerous business? “I was pretty bloody minded . . .”

"I wouldn’t consider myself a film buff, really,” says the Irish star of Game of Thrones as he talks about his hand-picked selection of classic 1970s flicks screening in Cork

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

Ever since The Sixth Sense, M Night Shyamalan has been known as ‘the scary twist ending guy’. But his new sci-fi adventure, After Earth, starring Will Smith and Jaden Smith, will change all that, says the irrepressibly cheery director

This year’s films have a lot of things going for them, but a cheery view of humanity is not one of them. Just look at Only God Forgives, A Touch of Sin, Inside Llewyn Davis . . .

Hollywood has been trying to get Brady Corbet onside for years, but he’s having none of it. “I was always passionate about movies, not about being in them,” says the star of Simon Killer

Danish drama is on a roll, – and on a screen near you. Tobias Lindholm, director of new thriller ‘A Hijacking’, discusses its unstoppable rise

Former ‘Bond babe’ Olga Kurylenko insists that her days as arm candy are over; the star of new sci-fi blockbuster Oblivion is learning how to fight, and she’s loving it