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?
Cannes film festival
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
Anora: A stripper, Russian heavies and an oligarch’s son – what more do you need for a knockout comedy?
Sean Baker’s Palme d’Or winner doesn’t waste a single one of its 140 minutes. No wonder it’s the favourite for the best-picture Oscar
Dahomey director Mati Diop: ‘I felt I had the responsibility to make sure a new wave of African cinema exists’
The French-Senegalese film-maker won this year’s Golden Bear in Berlin for her breathtakingly imaginative new release
The Goldman Case: A French intellectual’s double murder trial is sensationally re-created in a thrilling courtroom drama
‘Grey areas make for great cinema,’ director Cédric Kahn says about the Pierre Goldman case
‘I didn’t know anything about noir’: director Wei Shujun on Only the River Flows, his highly regarded thriller
Chinese director Wei Shujun was surprised to hear that his critical hit at last year’s Cannes film festival was being viewed as an American-style murder mystery
‘The intimacy co-ordinators are kind of unshockable’: Emma Stone on her new film with Yorgos Lanthimos
If you thought their Oscar-winning collaboration Poor Things was unconventional, wait for the full-throttle madness of Kinds of Kindness
‘I wanted it to feel like a kids’ movie made by kids’: Weston Razooli on his Cannes-wowing film Riddle of Fire
The French press have found a new auteur hero in the American director of a 1980s-tinged film about a wilder kind of childhood
The Movie Quiz: Who won the Palme d’Or at Cannes 2024?
What comes after Bride, Son, Ghost and a meeting with the Wolfman?
Cannes 2024 felt like a dud. But then the Palme d’Or race took off – and a great new talent arrived
A volley of superb late entrants, including Anora and All We Imagine as Light, created one of the closest races in decades
Demi Moore has just made one of the great film comebacks. How did that happen?
Donald Clarke: Cannes film festival has gone wild for the biggest star of 1995. Will she build on the success? What does history tell us?
Cannes 2024: Sean Baker’s screwball comedy Anora wins Palme d’Or
Kinds of Kindness, latest collaboration between Dublin’s Element Pictures and Yorgos Lanthimos, scoops award for Jesse Plemons’s performance
Cannes 2024: Stars get shady on the carpet as the Nicolas Cage renaissance rages on with Irish director Lorcan Finnegan
Reviewer Tara Brady has her pick for the Palme d’Or and Seán Baker miraculously resurrects the screwball comedy
Cannes 2024: The Apprentice review – Long shadow of Succession hangs over controversial Donald Trump biopic
Ali Abbasi film starring Sebastian Stan and Jeremy Strong zones in on a twisted early Trump mentor
Cannes 2024: Kevin Costner’s epic sprawl, Julianne Moore’s return and Kermit’s green coat
Cannes Diary: First three-hour instalment of Costner’s old-school western is confounding; Kinds of Kindness may be Yorgos Lanthimos’s weakest film
Sardines, trawlers and ‘sympathising a little bit with Hitler’: The agony of the press conference
Donald Clarke: At Cannes, be prepared for often humdrum occasions to turn into the most surreal and uncomfortable events
Barry Keoghan on playing a working-class dad: ‘I see a lot of traits in Bug that remind me of home. He’s a pure chancer’
Cannes diary 2024: Meryl Streep ‘didn’t quite nail’ the Australian accent and Megalopolis staggers its way to nowhere worth going
Cannes 2024: Bird review – Barry Keoghan excels as a likeable dad geezer
Film showcases director Andrea Arnold’s gift for artful shepherding of apparent chaos, while allowing new and surprising elements
Cannes 2024 Movie Quiz Special: How many women have won the Palme d’Or for directing?
Test your movie mastery with our 2024 Cannes film festival special quiz
Cannes 2024 opens with tears, #MeToo, a Palme d’Or for Meryl Streep and plenty of Irish
Cannes Diary: Juliette Binoche was choked up, Meryl Steep was classy and Greta Gerwig didn’t hold back
Cannes 2024: 12 things you need to know about this year’s film festival
From the unstoppable Irish to the return of Mad Max, we have all the inside info from the Côte d’Azur
Kidnapped: The extraordinary story of the six-year-old abducted by the Catholic Church
Film director Marco Bellocchio on Edgardo Mortara, a ‘baptised’ Jewish boy taken from his family, and scandal that weakened power of pope
Close Your Eyes: Spanish master Víctor Erice returns after a 31-year hiatus
The octogenarian auteur’s fourth feature is a languorous consideration of time, memory and cinema
Cannes 2024: Irish films to have unprecedented prominence at festival
Three Element Pictures productions will feature in official selection, with Yorgos Lanthimos’s Kinds of Kindness competing for the Palme d’Or
Monster director Hirokazu Kore-eda: ‘The eyes of children offer a clearer view of the world than the eyes of adults’
Whether in Nobody Knows, Shoplifters or Like Father, Like Son, the Japanese auteur can dramatise children’s inner lives like no other film-maker
Oscars 2025: Donald Clarke predicts these 10 films will get best-picture nominations
He missed out on a Poor Things prediction this year – how successful will he be for next year?
Who won pop culture in 2023? It was so nearly Taylor Swift – but she was pipped at the post
Donald Clarke: Her Eras Tour became the highest-grossing concert film ever. She was Time magazine’s person of the year. But another woman had an even better year
Wim Wenders: We couldn’t continue living in a country without a past. We had to somehow face it
Eye surgery curtailed the German director’s appearances recently but he’s back on track with two films, Anselm and Perfect Days
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