Cannes film festival

Émilie Dequenne obituary

Belgian who won the best actress prize at Cannes for her performance in the Dardenne brothers’ film Rosetta

Ryan Gilbey

28, Mar, 2025 @6:06 PM

From Parasite to Anora: how Cannes became an Oscars power player

The increasingly international Academy has warmed to more and more Cannes film festival premieres, leaving all eyes on this year’s edition

Benjamin Lee

03, Mar, 2025 @8:00 PM

Key takeaways from Oscars 2025: Brody beats orchestra, Brits keep it classy and Kieran Culkin botches his big moment

The awards ceremony can’t escape Harvey Weinstein and two fairytales come a cropper

Benjamin Lee, Adrian Horton, Gwilym Mumford, Catherine Shoard, Sian Cain, Dee Jefferson

03, Mar, 2025 @6:49 AM

The dazzling underdog with amazing legs: how Anora swept the Oscars

Sean Baker’s film took five Academy Awards on Sunday evening. Here’s how it triggered the landslide

Catherine Shoard and Gwilym Mumford

03, Mar, 2025 @5:41 AM

‘How often do you see Palestinian stories in fiction?’: the film-maker trying to adjust our focus

After a career making documentaries, Mahdi Fleifel has created To a Land Unknown, a feature film about the refugee experience

Saeed Kamali Dehghan

06, Feb, 2025 @7:00 AM

Bertrand Blier obituary

Director of Get Out Your Handkerchiefs and Trop Belle Pour Toi! who saw his role as ‘attacking society: hard, repeatedly and below the belt’

Ryan Gilbey

28, Jan, 2025 @6:03 PM

Post your questions for Claes Bang

The Danish star of the BBC’s Dracula, Ruben Östlund’s The Square and the new historical action-adventure William Tell is here to answer your questions

Rich Pelley

03, Jan, 2025 @9:32 AM

Rumours review – close encounters for Cate Blanchett and the magnificent G7

Seven world leaders – including Charles Dance’s dozy US president – are trapped in a forest in this amusing but bizarre apocalyptic comedy

Peter Bradshaw

05, Dec, 2024 @10:49 PM

Bird review – Andrea Arnold’s untamed Barry Keoghan tale is a curate’s egg

Toads who sweat hallucinogens, lonely pre-teens and a sudden German in a kilt: Arnold’s pick’n’mix latest dives as much as it soars

Peter Bradshaw

06, Nov, 2024 @10:25 AM

The Apprentice review – cartoon version of chump-in-chief Donald Trump’s early years

Ali Abbasi’s film presents young Donald as an amoral narcissist, wastes the talent of Jeremy Strong and includes a grisly rape scene that is quickly glossed over

Peter Bradshaw

16, Oct, 2024 @9:38 AM