Shane MacGowan: I can’t concentrate on music when I can’t even walk across the room

The singer’s new limited edition book of artwork, lyrics and school essays will start at about €1,150

Fairytale of New York: The surprising story behind The Pogues’ Christmas anthem

Thirty-three years on, it’s perhaps the greatest Christmas song ever. Here’s how it was made

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The House that Jack Built: Lars von Trier delights in sadism for sadism’s sake

Review: The director embraces all his worst instincts in this horrible film

Lars Von Trier: ‘I am disappointed only 100 people vomited’

The arch provocateur on his divisive film The House that Jack Built, misogyny and Björk

Asian cinema lights up Cannes but Star Wars gets the fireworks

There was plenty of Hollywood bling – and anger – at this year’s festival but new movies from Hirokazu Kore-eda and Ryusuke Hamaguchi were quieter highlights

Cannes 2018: Some very fine films amid a sense of transition

Protests, Directors’ Fortnight and the race for the Palme d’Or

Cannes film festival: the class acts of 2018

Despite a dispute with Netflix and films not being ready in time, the competition is one of the funkiest, least creaky in years

Black Wave review: From hedonism to the apocalypse

American LGBT writer Michelle Tea takes a leap from memoir to something a tad more explosive

A lost New York rescued from the bunker of William Burroughs

Aaron Brookner’s film Uncle Howard is about his late film-maker uncle – but it is also about Aids, a disappeared New York and the dangerous Burroughs

Weekend in Seattle

It may rain a lot, but Seattle also has great places to eat, drink and just relax

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The Art of the Steal