In a crowded field, Isabelle Huppert emerges as France's trickiest actress: mercurial, talented and 'as scary as Madonna'. Hermione Eyre experiences an invigorating blast of Gallic froideur ... more
Russell Crowe and Cate Blanchett are expected to lend some Hollywood glamour to the Croisette as Robin Hood opens the 63rd Cannes Film Festival.... more
Prize-winning novelist Ian McEwan has enjoyed both literary and commercial success. So why is there suddenly an internet outpouring of bile against him?... more
The first wave of the BFI's ever-complicated booking system opens for next month's London Film Festival, which has one of its best-ever line-ups... more
Afterschool is certainly an original work, but not entirely successful in saying anything new about the way we watch “reality” today at second hand ... more
Katherine Heigl is the eternal birdesmaid in 27 Dresses, David Lynch's masterpiece The Elephant Man gets a timely re-release, and prehistoric man sends us all to sleep in 10,000BC... more
Michael Haneke’s meticulous American remake of the brutal German thriller he directed 10 years ago has lost more than its power to shock in the translation.... more
The queen of French arthouse reveals why she turned tough for her latest film as a secret service agent and says she is content to be a fortysomething.... more
Soulwax take over Fabric, Isabelle Huppert gets her own season at the NFT and Will Self and Grayson Perry will be popping down to Late At Tate Britain. ... more
Exclusive: After high-profile allegations this season, Charlton's manager is pleased the issue is now being addressed but says the authorities still have plenty of work to do
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