McDonagh’s latest film has Malkovich and Rockwell shooting the breeze as CIA agents in 1973 on Easter Island. They discuss grandchildren, swimming with turtles and who shot JFK

David Ellison hails ex-New Labour leader's "global perspective and insight".

When his son died aged 27, the director could barely bring himself to watch his old clips of the boy. When at last he did, it was the genesis of an extraordinary project

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...