Film

The visionary French-Swiss film director and giant of the French New Wave left us breathless with his films. He's how he did it

At the height of his fame, the star of Ghostbusters and Groundhog Day called time on his movie career. Why? So he could study philosophy at the Sorbonne

Look past the Irish clichés in Colin Farrell’s Venice award-winner and you’ll find a beautiful, bleakly comic movie

Broad Peak explores the life story of Maciej Berbeka, the Polish mountaineer who returned to the summit of his obsession and, sadly, never left

There was far more to Anna Maria Pierangeli than what cinema-goers saw on the screen and friends saw off it

The big presence at the Venice Film Festival's 90th birthday party was the streaming giant

He baffled and fascinated his critics, but the actor somehow became the absolute personification of insouciant cool

A film that has won plaudits abroad has been unofficially blacklisted in Georgia, where it was made. Its silence speaks volumes about the country’s democratic decline

If he'd only made Das Boot, a place in the movie pantheon would still be his. But there was so much more to the man who became the ideal studio director

Over half a century since her death, the “inner Marilyn” is still alive. I suspect we will never be done with the blonde bombshell

Director Sara Dosa on Maurice and Katia Krafft and their love triangle with volcanoes

In a new documentary, French superstar DJ Laurent Garnier recalls his part in the birth of dance music and traces his career all the way from Manchester’s Haçienda to Tbilisi’s Bassiani

Flee is the best representation yet of what it really means to be a refugee

The Dutch actor brought depth at a time when the industry expected little more from roles than grunting henchmen, murderous Nazis or ring fodder for Rocky Balboa

We are living in a world where we expect the worst and prepare to resist

French director Olivier Assayas has spun his cult 1990s film Irma Vep into a sexy, funny, dizzyingly multilayered TV series.

The fictionalised story of a real Swedish football prodigy’s struggles tells ugly truths about the beautiful game

Mortality was never far away – on the screen and, tragically, in real life – for the immortal Jean-Louis, French cinema’s man for all seasons

Sophie Marceau captivated one schoolboy so much he became a Francophile film critic. But what would it be like when they spoke, 40 years later?

For her first film in English, director Mia Hansen-Løve follows in her hero Ingmar Bergman’s footsteps to a remote Baltic isle

Jason Solomons has been to Cannes 25 times as a reporter, critic and presenter. How would he fare at his first as a producer?

A miscast Anthony Hopkins sets the tone as Cannes’ opening films disappoint

Top Gun: Maverick confirms that, like it or not, Tom Cruise is a cultural phenomenon

The French star's new film sees her scrubbing floors and emptying bins. But it's actors who have it hard, she says

A new film is a landmark moment for both Irish cinema and the language more widely

Everyone loved Ennio Morricone’s film scores.. except the Oscar-winning composer himself, as a documentary reveals

What appears to be the inevitable tragedy of Inger Stevens began long before she arrived in Hollywood and long before she left Sweden for the US

Audrey Diwan’s powerful abortion drama Happening has completed a clean sweep of major awards for female directors. But, she says, real equality is still far away

I, Claudius is remembered as a BBC classic, but it started a trend for historical European-set dramas with extra helpings of sex and violence

His polymathic attitude to genres and prolific output mean he is rarely spoken of in the same awed tones as a Hitchcock or Capra, but Curtiz was as much of a craftsman as any Hollywood great

Dutch king of controversy Paul Verhoeven returns with Benedetta, a convent drama more devilish than The Devils

The Oscars night should, too, have been about the Williams sisters, their genius and how their problematic but remarkable father nurtured it