Irish actor also backs Roman Polanski and Woody Allen at Deauville Film Festival

Todd Phillips’s movie starring Joaquin Phoenix takes the top prize, while Roman Polanski’s An Officer and a Spy was runner-up

The number of female directors in the film business remains stubbornly low

Different cases of Allen and Polanski show how past is now up for vigorous reassessment

Director Quentin Tarantino as enthusiastic as ever but can’t avoid criticism of his past

Review: At Vicar Street on Monday Ansari tackled race, 'cancel culture' and sex assault allegations

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Cannes diary: Polanski’s latest film screens in secret; plus reviews of Portrait of a Lady on Fire and Young Ahmed

The film, set in 1960s LA, stars Brad Pitt, Leonardo DiCaprio and Margot Robbie, will compete for Palme d’Or

Prepare for DiCaprio, Pitt, freaky dancing and an awkward Manson Family association

Donald Clarke predicts next year’s best picture nominees. He used to be good at this...

Memeing of Life: Proven accusations are not actually enough to blacklist people

Test your knowledge of the past 12 months with these 100 questions – and you could win a prize

The silver screen’s spooky best from the last 100 years of cinema

Discrediting of movie stars we admire can be hard to process. But we never really knew them

Exhibition of Manson murder victim Sharon Tate's clothes is ‘honouring her memory’, says museum

‘If you always wanted a convertible and you get one then why should we demean that?’

Director who won Academy award for Rosemary’s Baby dismisses MeToo movement as ‘hypocrisy’

Junk Ensemble’s new production tells the ‘Lolita’ story from the young girl’s perspective

It is 50 years since the 1968 Cannes film festival was called to a halt in solidarity with protesting students – but don’t expect commemorations