Movie scheduling is a voodoo science - nobody knows why certain releases work in certain slots

It is 50 years since the 1968 Cannes film festival was called to a halt in solidarity with protesting students – but don’t expect commemorations

Review: How did Todd Haynes’s messy, overstuffed misfire attract so many stars?

Films you should see at the tri-located 2018 Audi Dublin International Film Festival

The star of ‘The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo’ on Jim Sheridan's ‘The Secret Scripture’ and how her friend Cate Blanchett helped her get cast in sexual abuse drama ‘Una’

Mexican director’s project one of several in the festival to address refugee crisis

Cannes 2017: Todd Haynes latest has moments to cherish, but doesn’t quite deliver the emotional payoff

Our fearless Film Correspondent tries to predict the films that will battle it out for the Best Picture Oscar next February

Golden Globe winner tipped for an Oscar for ‘Fences’ is, at 51, taking success in her stride

Solondz is back with another grimly original funny drama. ‘Lassie Come Home’ it’s not

Saoirse Ronan and Michael Fassbender get acting nominations, while ‘Brooklyn’ and ‘Room’ both make the Best Picture list

While awards season can be unpredictable, there are certain things you can also be damn sure will go down on the night of the Academy Awards

Actor and biographer Simon Callow to introduce last significant work from auteur

Jacques Audiard’s Dheepan’ wins Palme d’Or to gasps in the auditorium

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

Opening film obscure, but the 68th festival has much to offer, writes Donald Clarke in Cannes

Film starring Colin Farrell and Rachel Weisz selected for main competition

In her latest, America’s ‘film-maker poet laureate’ is – oh no! – having a go at eco-warriors: ‘We had to put our own political agendas aside and hunker down’

The director’s latest film, Gerontophilia, a kind of gay Harold and Maude, is more accessible than the radical films he made his name with. LaBruce’s style might have mellowed slightly, but he hasn’t