The French Dispatch: Something for le weekend
Wes Anderson’s Gallic portmanteau is gorgeous but insubstantial
Bridge over troubled martyrs – Frank McNally on the Irish and other residents of Montmartre Cemetery
An Irishman’s Diary
Jean-Paul Belmondo, the charming bad boy of French cinema, dies aged 88
President Macron pays tribute to ‘a national treasure’
Jean-Paul Belmondo, star of Breathless, dies aged 88
French actor, nicknamed Bébel, was one of country’s biggest stars in 1960s and 1970s
Sean Moncrieff: Lads, let’s not talk about sport
It’s not a bad thing to bond over sport. It’s just not the only way to do it
Dublin the last international film festival to dodge the global shutdown
The singularly imaginative film, one of many discoveries, was a worthy winner
Some Like it Hot, A Star is Born, The Wizard of Oz ... and other great remakes
Great directors like Hitchcock and DeMille weren’t above having a second go at their own films
Artists get upset over a bad review? Give me a break
Donald Clarke: The act of appreciation is just a refined version of what audiences do every day
‘Speak out, complain, scream. I have been marching since the 1960s and 1970s’
Agnès Varda’s death is a loss to French cinema, but her legacy lives on
Nicolas Roeg: the director who took the familiar and made it strange
Few directors have made so many films that touch on the status of masterpiece
Lasting impression: Matching Renoir’s films with his father’s masterpieces
Freudians would have a field day with Jean’s allusions to Pierre-Auguste’s paintings
Jules and Jim and me: sex, lies and emotional truth
Edy Poppy wrote about her open relationship in her novel but sometimes she had to lie in order to tell the emotional truth
The 100 greatest foreign-language films revealed
Only four out of the top 100 films directed by women in BBC poll of critics
Charles Aznavour: from derided ‘Aznovoice’ to French treasure
Paris Letter: Aznavour was determined, wise and persevering, in work as in love
Forget Bresson; the geeks have inherited the earth
Ethan Hawke doesn’t equate superhero movies with French auteurs. Is this heresy?
Ian McEwan: adapting books for movies is ‘technically challenging’
‘On Chesil Beach is about a young, sexually inexperienced couple on a miserable honeymoon
May '68: when revolution came to the Cote d'Azur
It is 50 years since the 1968 Cannes film festival was called to a halt in solidarity with protesting students – but don’t expect commemorations
Homeless children growing up in poverty just outside Disneyland
The Florida Project is Sean Baker's acclaimed new film, a comedy about children living in budget motels in the shadow of Disney World
Alluring actor who was pleased to be outrageous
Obituary: Jeanne Moreau, actor, born January 23rd, 1928; died July 31st, 2017
Film star with ‘the temperament of a cannonball’
Paris Letter: France mourns Jeanne Moreau, an actor of fierce intelligence
The Wolfpack: Six brothers who never went outside
Crystal Moselle’s documentary The Wolfpack tells the extraordinary story of a family raised in complete isolation in Manhattan
Carte Noire French Film Festival at the Irish Film Institute
Now is the time to rush to the French cinematic barricades
Fanny Ardant: between the dark & the light
François Truffaut’s famous Dark Lady may be a little more auburn these days, but Ardant’s passion for life and cinema is undimmed: ‘You must follow your instincts, your pleasures, your love. And you will be a winner’
Concept of transport through a long tube could speed sci-vision into reality
Billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk has dared to dream: his ‘Hyperloop’ train could make serious tracks
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