Alejandro González Iñárritu

From She Said to Devotion: this season’s ignored Oscarbait movies

While Everything Everywhere All at Once and The Banshees of Inisherin lead, the season saw other films with all the requisite ingredients fail to score

Benjamin Lee

07, Feb, 2023 @9:13 PM

Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths review – bloated, occasionally brilliant

Alejandro G Iñárritu’s indulgent, audacious film is abstract, ambitious and full of personal symbolism. It’s also often a chore…

Wendy Ide

20, Nov, 2022 @11:30 AM

‘It’s a way to bring my mum and dad back’: Steven Spielberg on the new wave of cine-memoirs

After Branagh’s Belfast, Spielberg’s The Fabelmans – a tale of a childhood in Arizona – is winning acclaim. Is it legacy or therapy that’s motivating these autobiographies?

Wendy Ide

22, Oct, 2022 @12:00 PM

Venice film festival 2022 week two roundup – discomfort and joy

A mood of theatricality prevailed at this year’s edition – a bleak but furiously cinematic Marilyn Monroe biopic and a forbiddingly austere French courtroom drama being the most distinctive offerings

Jonathan Romney

10, Sep, 2022 @6:00 AM

Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths review – Iñárritu’s outrageously narcissistic existential crisis

A film-maker returns home to Mexico to face his memories in a spectacular and staggeringly self-indulgent surreal epic

Peter Bradshaw

01, Sep, 2022 @7:00 PM

Strong women, Weinstein and UK-wide screenings: London film festival 2022 lineup thinks big

Matthew Warchus’s Matilda will open this year’s festival, which foregrounds stories of female collectivity and has simultaneous screenings nationwide

Catherine Shoard

01, Sep, 2022 @10:00 AM

Cate Blanchett and Harry Styles to head to Venice for 2022 edition of film festival

Competition slots for jailed Iranian director Jafar Panahi, Martin McDonagh and Darren Aronofsky, while actors on show range from past winner Blanchett to Bill Nighy and Harry Styles

Andrew Pulver

26, Jul, 2022 @1:44 PM

Keanu Reeves supports Rome cinema collective attacked by far right

Actors and directors, from Richard Gere to Spike Lee, condemn violence that targeted Cinema America

Guardian film

28, Jun, 2019 @11:11 AM

Cannes 2019: jury speaks out against 'rage and anger' of populist politicians

Jury president Alejandro González Iñárritu takes aim at Donald Trump’s anti-immigrant policies

Gwilym Mumford

14, May, 2019 @4:04 PM

Alejandro González Iñárritu first Mexican to serve as Cannes jury president

The Birdman director will oversee prize deliberations at the film festival in May, making him the first person from his country to do so

Catherine Shoard

27, Feb, 2019 @12:06 PM

Guillermo del Toro out to complete Oscar glory for Mexico's 'Three Amigos'

Alfonso Cuarón, Alejandro González Iñárritu and the Shape of Water director began as small-scale craftsmen before taking Hollywood by storm. Will more follow in their wake?

Gwilym Mumford

02, Mar, 2018 @12:33 PM

Under fire: how cinema's new breed of cowboys are taking aim at the old west

They can be set anywhere from Australia to Pakistan – and increasingly it’s women who are shooting from the hip. With new westerns such as My Pure Land and Brimstone, the gunslinger genre continues to reinvent itselfin

Danny Leigh

13, Oct, 2017 @10:30 AM