How do you leave the office politics of ‘Mad Men’ behind? Starring opposite the late Philip Seymour Hoffman is a smart move. TV's `embodiment of beauty’ talks about saying goodbye to Joan, surviving high school and the power of hair colour

An anti-hero like only the Coens could create, downtrodden folk singer Llewyn Davis has been described as one of the biggest a**holes ever put on film. Oscar Isaac sees it differently, however. "He’s not all that selfish. He spends almost the whole movie trying to take care of this f**king cat”

It was a spectacular year for cinema – but once again, many of 2013’s best offerings made little or no impact on the mainstream. Plus ça change . . .

‘Drive’ director Nicolas Winding Refn’s new thriller, ‘Only God Forgives’, finds Ryan Gosling seeking revenge in Bangkok. Oddly, the controversy has been about its lack of dialogue rather than its ultra-violence

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 . . .

Only God Forgives is not as accessible as Drive, but is a step above

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