Review: Ceaseless adulation grates – but it is still a fascinating study of a remarkable life

From The Dublin Murders to The Crown, Red Rock to Ru Paul, here are this season’s best comedy, drama and reality series

Review: The testimony of the airmen is what lingers most strongly in this documentary

Erik Nelson on his documentary about the bombing of Germany, and the resonances today

Time will tell about the quality of the films – but the programme does not disappoint

Big-name auteurs in Croisette line-up, but only four films by women in competition

Donald Clarke: A new print of A Clockwork Orange is on the way – get your boots on

There was nothing wrong with the New Music Dublin Festival – just its name

Whatever name the building was known by in its lifetime, it was always a city landmark

Actor, who was diagnosed with cancer, was a key figure in German cinema

Over 250 feature, documentary and short films to screen over next ten days

Only four out of the top 100 films directed by women in BBC poll of critics

The silver screen’s spooky best from the last 100 years of cinema

Dublin Theatre Festival: Janek Turkowski and Iwona Nowacka assemble a time capsule

Director Wim Wenders says pope answered every question ‘spontaneously and in-depth’

Let’s never speak again of her turns as a tattooed English punk and a bearded hobo

Post ‘Twilight’ he has become one of the most interesting actors of his generation. Just don’t remind him he’s famous

Bestselling Norwegian novelist insists he is not a good writer. He has been corrupted by pleasing people, he says

‘Cardboard Gangsters’ is a ’hood film, not a gangster film, says director Mark O’Connor

Striking the right balance between all the factors at play in a concert, and their effect on audience numbers, is an artform in itself

And all change at the Abbey and Gate – our rigid cultural venues are, at last, mixing it up

Charlie Hunnam, Robert Pattinson and Sienna Miller bring the old-school in James Gray's superior based-on-fact Amazonian adventure

HBO’s must-see series is more evidence that philosophical pessimism grows in appeal during downbeat times

After getting ‘exceedingly famous at 17’, Kristen Stewart had her work cut out clawing back her life from the Twilight series

While some movies have vanished from the streaming service, many have arrived and there are plenty to fill the summer evenings, from comedy classics like ‘Airplane’ to thrillers such as ‘Winter’s Bone’

Three female directors out of 20 will compete for this year's Palme d’Or - in 2012 there was none on the list for the top prize

The Italian star of such classics as 8½ and Once Upon a Time in the West is now 78 and has just completed her 154th feature. She talks about six decades in film

Musician writes new score for film that tracks player through single match in 1971

As the film of ‘Brooklyn’ gets good reviews, Tóibín’s status at home and abroad rises yet another notch

So what happens when Bryson's work gets the Hollywood treatment? Whatever the outcome, it’s got nothing to do with him, he says – you can blame Robert Redford

Crystal Moselle’s documentary The Wolfpack tells the extraordinary story of a family raised in complete isolation in Manhattan

Birds of little brain still manage to fly fairly high in funny sequel

This documentary on the late Roger Ebert, America’s most beloved movie reviewer, gets a big thumbs up

Requiem for a Dying Planet - Ernst Reijseger, Mola Sylla and Tenore e Concordu de Orosei

The Polish artist’s strange and cryptic paintings are inspired by Hans Christian Andersen and the illustrations of Andrzej Strumillo

Paperback review