Cannes Film Festival
Intriguing and beguiling but God know what it adds up to: Happy as Lazzaro reviewed
Alice Rohrwacher’s Happy as Lazzaro sets out as a neorealist tale of exploited sharecroppers, but midway through the story it…
Forget Robin Hood and Girl in the Spider’s Web – Shoplifters is the film to see this week
The major releases this week are Robin Hood, as a big Hollywood retelling, and The Girl in the Spider’s Web,…
Quiet but potent film about the migrant experience: Dheepan reviewed
The French master film-maker Jacques Audiard has never been anywhere near Hollywood plot school. His films contain gathering menace —…
Mike Leigh interview: 'A guy in the Guardian wants to sue me for defamation of Ruskin!'
Hermione Eyre talks to filmmaker Mike Leigh about Mr Turner, Hollywood, and making films his own way
Ryan Gosling couldn’t play Taki better than Taki
Seduced and Abandoned is both a satire on film-making and a love letter to film-making and a joy. A documentary…
