Cannes 2019: Jim Jarmusch’s The Dead Don’t Die gets festival off to glittering start

Star-studded cast of Bill Murray, Adam Driver, Tilda Swinton and Chloë Sevigny light up red carpet

Cannes 2019: A busload of auteurs and pizzazz aplenty

Time will tell about the quality of the films – but the programme does not disappoint

Cannes 2019: New Pedro Almodóvar, Terrence Malick, Ken Loach films, but no Tarantino

Big-name auteurs in Croisette line-up, but only four films by women in competition

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Trauma porn or delicate portrayal? Filming the trans experience

Lukas Dhont’s Girl, inspired by Nora Monsecour, has a cisgender lead. Does it matter?

Pope Francis documentary: A film that could buttress the case for sainthood

Director Wim Wenders says pope answered every question ‘spontaneously and in-depth’

Boom for Real review: Fond portrait of Basquiat in 70s NY

Sara Driver’s film focuses on the underground scene that shaped Jean-Michel Basquiat

Jean-Michel Basquiat’s teenage years in ‘bombed out’ New York

Sara Driver has made a fascinating chronicle of the late American artist’s formative years

Béatrice Dalle: ‘I’ve never thought I’m beautiful, but I have a power of attraction’

The ‘Betty Blue’ actor on her love affair with Rupert Everett and why Jesus is sexy

Cannes 2018: who says there’s no such thing as a free lunch for Irish films?

Everyone loves Jim Jarmusch’s ‘80s playlist but our correspondent remains unexcited by the PR for ‘Climax’

Claire Denis: ‘We are normal people. Even though we are French’

The distinguished film-maker continues her experiments in the unpredictable with her latest work – just don’t go asking what it’s like being a female director

Manifesto review: 13 characters 12 too many for Cate Blanchett

Let’s never speak again of her turns as a tattooed English punk and a bearded hobo

Adam Driver: ‘There’s a double standard for men and women’

The ‘Star Wars’ actor on leaving the marines, filming nude and getting to know his dark side

Bigelow on Detroit: ‘Racism hurts everyone. It’s a human story’

Katherine Bigelow’s furious new film, ‘Detroit’, tackles historic racism and strikes some shocking notes. But the ‘Zero Dark Thirty’ director has been taking fire for even taking on the project

The Other Side of Hope: a Finnish refugee crisis of conscience

Finnish auteur Aki Kaurismäki’s film is filled with curious oddballs, but there are also many ethical connundrums to contend with

Blockbusters bombed while Irish film soared

Culture review 2016: The surge in Irish cinema continued with cracking diverse domestic films, and getting to see the Oscars in the flesh was a treat

Don’t Breathe review: See no evil? They wish

A blind homeowner vs home invaders in a superbly made thriller that turns the genre on its head

Todd Solondz: A rare breed of film-maker and his Weiner Dog

Solondz is back with another grimly original funny drama. ‘Lassie Come Home’ it’s not

Sweet Bean review: Touching talk of second chances

Unabashedly sentimental Japanese film exhorts everybody to follow their dreams

A lost New York rescued from the bunker of William Burroughs

Aaron Brookner’s film Uncle Howard is about his late film-maker uncle – but it is also about Aids, a disappeared New York and the dangerous Burroughs

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