Vincent Cassel

He hung out with real-life mercenaries for his turn as an action hero in new spy thriller Liaison. Here, the ‘super-French’ star opens up about staying buff, missing Camembert and what it means to be a man

Actors such as Leonardo DiCaprio were once happy to hang with the Russian leader

The multilingual Italian actor is overcoming stage fright to play opera diva Maria Callas

Review: Mainstream Kristen Stewart is almost as bad as mainstream Julianne Moore

Women filmmakers are the thematic plank of this year’s DIFF programme

Dolan’s entry into the Weekend in Family Hell genre is certainly adventurous, but woefully miscast, and ultimately fails in its ambitions

It looks like a three-horse race led by Todd Haynes’s ‘Carol’, starring Cate Blanchett, and László Nemes’s ‘Son of Saul’. Could Hou Hsiao-Hsien’s stunningly beautiful ‘The Assassin’ sneak through to win?

The race for the 2015 Palme d’Or looks at this stage to be between ‘Son of Saul’ and ‘Carol’, two extraordinary pictures from two very different film-makers

‘Once’ director John Carney’s new film has been dubbed ’Twice’ as it is about a couple making music around a city, this time New York, but he says it is part of a portfolio

Danny Boyle’s follow-up to the Olympics ceremomy is lurid, crazy, twisty and hard to entirely resist

While crafting his epic Olympic opening ceremony, director Danny Boyle also had a film on the boil. He might be the hardest working man in cinema, but he’s also the nicest

James McAvoy, the Scottish star of Danny Boyle’s new film Trance, reveals why he prefers fish and chips and nights in to glitzy premieres