For good and bad reasons, on and off the red carpet, the spotlight is trained on women in the run-up to the Cannes film festival
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‘I want to make movies for my people’: Jane Schoenbrun on making a soon-to-be cult classic
For the writer-director Jane Schoenbrun, making their highly anticipated follow-up to the breakout indie horror We’re All Going to the World’s Fair was a starkly
Streaming: Monkey Man and the best revenge movies
In real life, most of us don’t get that many opportunities to exact revenge on someone. A passive-aggressive comeback maybe, but that’s not quite the
Cannes film festival faces strike disruption over seasonal workers’ rights
The Cannes film festival is facing strike action as it opens next week and could see protests by projectionists, floor managers and press agents who
Blunt, stunts and Gosling: how did The Fall Guy flop – and what does that mean for cinema?
On paper, it couldn’t fail. The Fall Guy was a lock as this summer’s first – and possibly biggest – box office smash. It had
Raging bull-terrier: did Martin Scorsese’s dog really eat Paul Schrader’s thumb?
Stephen Rodrick’s interview with Paul Schrader in Variety is a thing of great heft. Over the course of the piece, Schrader grapples openly with the
‘I love erotic thrillers, but this so isn’t one’: Damian Hurley on directing his mother, Elizabeth, in a ‘sensual mystery’
Orson Welles was 25 when he directed Citizen Kane. What took him so long? He should have pulled his finger out like Damian Hurley, son
Peter Weir to receive Golden Lion for lifetime achievement at Venice film festival
Peter Weir, the Australian director and screenwriter behind The Truman Show, Dead Poets Society and Gallipoli, will receive a prestigious Golden Lion award for lifetime
The Hunt for Gollum: Peter Jackson and Andy Serkis to work on new Lord of the Rings film
Peter Jackson and Andy Serkis are working on a new Lord of the Rings film due to release in 2026, it has been announced. In
Kristen Stewart says Hollywood’s self-congratulation over gender equality ‘feels phony’
Kristen Stewart has chastised Hollywood’s efforts at gender equality, saying that the industry clapping itself on the back for an embrace of female film-makers “feels