Donald Clarke

Irish science fiction flick makes it into Cannes Directors’ Fortnight

• Cannes
• April 23, 2013, 12:32

Ruairi Robinson’s feature debut — co-financed by the Irish Film Board — will play in the prestigious sidebar.

The Cannes programme springs a few surprises

• Cannes
• April 18, 2013, 12:28

There are fewer English-language films than last year. There’s no Steve McQueen. Just one female director makes it into the main race.

10 films we expect to see in the Cannes competition

• Cannes
• April 17, 2013, 16:53

The competitors for the 2013 Palme d’Or will be announced tomorrow morning. We attempt to mark your card.

The film with the most amazing cast ever

• Cannes
• April 2, 2013, 23:02

The Butler, Lee Daniels’s follow-up to The Paperboy, already strains credulity with some hilarious casting decisions.

Woodward and Newman are on the Cannes poster

• Cannes
• March 22, 2013, 16:20

Joanne Woodward and Paul Newman will, come May, be hanging from every lamppost at the Cannes Film Festival.

The Great Gatsby to open Cannes. Who knew?

• Cannes
• March 12, 2013, 12:55

As many had predicted, Baz Luhrmann’s version of the classic novel — starring Leo DiCaprio as the unreliable protagonist — is set to launch the world’s greatest film festival in May.

Steven Spielberg heads the Cannes Jury

• Cannes Trailerspotting
• February 28, 2013, 16:46

The director of Jaws, Close Encounters of the Third Kind and Lincoln will help select this year’s Palme d’Or winner.

• Best-of lists Cannes Trailerspotting
• December 2, 2012, 22:48

Cahiers du Cinéma‘s  ever-eccentric best-of-the-year list has just been unveiled. In previous years, the durable organ of French cinema has expressed admiration for such odd films as Vincent Gallo’s The Brown Bunny, Clint Eastwood’s Space Cowboys and Brian de Palma’s …