Film

Ira Sachs’ latest movie is the year’s frankest and most sensual film – a thoughtful and provocative exploration of human emotions

If history had been different, Lope de Vega might have been regarded as the greatest dramatist of them all

Amid strikes and sexism, the Venice Film Festival plays it safe

Eclipsed by contemporaries like Garbo and Dietrich, it’s difficult today to appreciate just what a presence Baclanova was in her heyday

Through hard work and determination the actress forged an exalted presence in the French screen canon

Cleopatra invented celebrity scandal, wrecked marriages and careers and – 60 years on – is still the second most expensive film ever made

A former Belgian TV star who became the toast of France, Virginie Efira is little-known here. Is it time for a breakthrough?

A troubled shoot and underwhelming reviews almost spelled the end of director Sam Peckinpah’s career

Few directors have mined their internal anguish and lived experience as deeply as Bergman

There’s far more to Irish cinema than the pain and cliches of Colin Farrell’s dark comedy – as a recent Galway film festival showed

Aqua were right: we’re all Barbie girls and we’re all living in a Barbie world

The singer and actress was the Frenchest of us all, and somehow also the most British

Joaquin Phoenix dons the bicorn hat in Ridley Scott’s new biopic, but will he fare better than his predecessors?

Europe’s first celebrity is celebrated in a treasure trove of objects at Paris’ Petit Palais

A master documentarian returns to Ukraine to show the effects of Putin’s bloody invasion on the lives of ordinary people

We are living in an alternate political universe and it’s going to be a bumpy ride back

We want technology to be developed in a logical fashion because we want to believe we, ourselves, are logical problem-solvers rather than mere tinkerers

So significant was her contribution to Italian film that it led to the addition of a word to the Italian dictionary: borellismo

There was much to enjoy at Cannes – but the same old players doing the same old things hints that cinema may be due a shake-up

Did the Third Reich really have teams of archaeologists dedicated to finding sacred relics in the name of Aryan mastery? The answer, unbelievably, is yes.

Martin Scorsese, Steve McQueen and the late Martin Amis deliver the goods at an unexpectedly soggy Cannes Film Festival

Remembering a master, 40 years after his death

A meditative masterpiece explores rediscovered friendships and the art of finding simpler ways through our complex world

Nightmares were the business of Hans Ruedi Giger, who drew on his own to create surrealist art – and the creature at the heart of Alien

When Maria Callas met Pier Paolo Pasolini in the late 1960s, the results were predictably explosive

How an unstarry, violent story of crime and redemption with echoes of the classic policiers cleaned up at France’s Oscars

Thirty years on, the key to the enduring legacy of Krzysztof Kieslowski’s Three Colours trilogy is creativity and love

John Huston and Jean-Paul Sartre came together to create a film based on the life of Sigmund Freud, but the project was scuppered by irreconcilable creative differences

The diminutive Italian actress, star of La Strada and Nights of Cabiria, was more than a match for her husband, director Federico Fellini, on and off set

The late Israeli actor and singer performed If I Were a Rich Man more than 3,500 times in multiple productions of Fiddler on the Roof

To the director, women were not full human beings - they were props and justifications for male rampage

The latest screen adaptation of Erich Maria Remarque’s 1929 novel has scooped four Oscars and seven Baftas