From frivolous to serious, virtual nosy passersby to the impact of climate change, the groundbreaking festival draws to a close – but this year the exhibits live on

Rachel Szor and Yuval Abraham collected the testimony of 24 insiders who helped remotely target Gazans’ homes. They explain how they got these self-professed ‘small cogs’ to talk about the killing

The written forum allows members of the public to vent their fury at the movies they’ve seen – and the festival organisers

Affleck’s third film as a director is a diverting gothic anthology about mysterious strangers, murder and – pointedly – wronged men

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English translation of Élisabeth, the New Wave director’s 1946 book about young lovers in prewar Paris, receives rave reviews as precursor to auteur’s cinematic work

From feelgood romances to heated interactions, here are the films that best capture the seasonal moment

Other lives: BFI press officer and programmer for its Flare film festival

Famed for playing loners, cranks and wayward angels, the Hollywood star is now a wolfish 90 – but he still jogs daily. As he takes his latest film to Edinburgh, we meet the man Hitchcock called ‘the g...

This multi-layered portrait is a fitting tribute to the man behind Ways of Seeing

Film-maker’s drama Tender Loving Care ‘likely’ his final one as he manages myositis, a disease affecting immune system

The grit and grandeur of 80s New York drive this rollicking story of an underground wheeler-dealer

Dublin born and raised, Fricker was the first Irish woman to win an acting Oscar in 1990 for her role in Jim Sheridan’s My Left Foot

US president provokes outrage as PM says he ‘totally invented’ story in interview with Italian media

From Disclosure Day to Backrooms, a new wave of films promote stories of paranoia, alienation and mistrust. What are they trying to tell us?

The experiment saw other AI chatbots, like Anthropic’s Claude, set up stable democracies

Years before ‘Citizen Kane’, the legendary filmmaker directed an all-Black version of ‘Macbeth’ to raves from across the sociopolitical spectrum. It puts to shame the current, Musk-led controversy ove...

The giant of stage and screen is 87 and still hates looking in the mirror. At home with his husband, he talks about weeping, sleeping with Daniel Craig, terrifying directors and the joys of white wine...

He directed ‘Lawrence of Arabia’, ‘Brief Encounter’ and ‘The Bridge of the River Kwai’, and influenced everyone from Steven Spielberg to Wes Anderson. A new documentary at Cannes celebrates his vast l...

The top 100 novels of all time published in English, as voted for by authors, critics and academics worldwide. How many have you read?

As it is re-released in cinemas, David Fincher’s 1999 thriller is – once again – worth talking about, if only because it’s still swaggering and seething and lightly dangerous. Just look at the men’s r...

Normal language is inadequate and precedents are irrelevant when it comes to appraising the senior administration officials of the president’s second term.

Film-maker says it is ‘incredible honour’ to pick up baton from Michael Apted who died in 2021

The daily news can’t adequately convey the administration’s sabotaging of our government, economy, alliances and environment

This garrulous, charming story of a young man stuck in a daycare centre for disabled adults offers a vital insider’s perspective

He was the screenwriting colossus behind Flashdance, Jagged Edge, Showgirls and more. Now clean, ‘Hollywood’s Shakespeare’ talks about today’s scared studios, his refugee trauma – and taking acid with...

The constant charm offensive of Jean-Pierre Jeunet’s lavish French confection soothed the population in the immediate wake of 9/11. Now it’s back in cinemas – and just as sick-inducing, writes Xan Bro...

In honouring One Battle After Another, Academy voters finally welcomed Hollywood’s prodigal son into the fold

As her nightmarish turn as orange-wigged child-catcher Aunt Gladys takes her to Oscars night, the actor talks about surviving ‘brutal’ Hollywood, the fury that almost drove her from the US – and still...