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The star on his 26-year-old fiancee, why he rates TV over film, and casting-couch culture
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May '68: when revolution came to the Cote d'Azur
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
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Rooney Mara: ‘Doing the Irish accent was terrifying’
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Festival report: Iñárritu brings virtual reality to Cannes
Mexican director’s project one of several in the festival to address refugee crisis
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Viola Davis: Fame ‘means everything and nothing to me’
Golden Globe winner tipped for an Oscar for ‘Fences’ is, at 51, taking success in her stride
Todd Solondz: A rare breed of film-maker and his Weiner Dog
Solondz is back with another grimly original funny drama. ‘Lassie Come Home’ it’s not
Irish talent front and centre in the 2016 Oscar nominations
Saoirse Ronan and Michael Fassbender get acting nominations, while ‘Brooklyn’ and ‘Room’ both make the Best Picture list
Una Mullally's alternative Oscars night predictions
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Screening of Orson Welles’s F for Fake at Cork Film Festival
Actor and biographer Simon Callow to introduce last significant work from auteur
Irish co-production ‘The Lobster’ wins Cannes Jury Prize
Jacques Audiard’s Dheepan’ wins Palme d’Or to gasps in the auditorium
Cannes 2015: who’ll bag the Palme d’Or?
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?
Cornucopias of delight still in prospect at 68th Cannes Film Festival
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
Catherine Deneuve adds glamour to low-key Cannes Film Festival
Opening film obscure, but the 68th festival has much to offer, writes Donald Clarke in Cannes
Irish co-production ‘The Lobster’ for Cannes Film Festival
Film starring Colin Farrell and Rachel Weisz selected for main competition
Kelly Reichardt: cinema’s slow hand lights the fuse
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’
Bruce LaBruce: ‘Sometimes there’s a real love underlying fetishism’
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
Do the Oscars get it right? A more useful question is: Have they ever got it right?
The roll call of best picture wins over the years does feature some real clangers, but maybe we shouldn’t be too hard on the Academy ...
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