Four new films to see this week: Is This Thing On?, Nouvelle Vague, Primate and Rabbit Trap
Will Arnett, Laura Dern, Zoey Deutch, Dev Patel and Rosy McEwen feature in a quartet of movies released in the week of January 30th, 2026
Jean-Luc Godard
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Nouvelle Vague review: Richard Linklater’s love letter to an iconic era of French cinema
This portrayal of the creation of Breathless, Jean-Luc Godard’s first feature film, celebrates Frenchness at its most proudly awkward
Dracula director Luc Besson: ‘If you want a traditional horror film, watch something else’
The film-maker returns to the swashbuckling, maximalist production values that made him, with features such as Léon: The Professional and The Fifth Element, an auteur superstar
Donald Clarke: Is it time to dust off your 3D specs?
Avatar kickstarted a brief and blurry 3D revival, Cameron could do it again this Christmas
Happening review: Unwanted pregnancy in 1960s France
Audrey Diwan’s award-winning study has the tension of a thriller
Deadly Cuts: A blast from Irish cinema’s past
Film review: Don’t expect subtlety from this broad Dublin comedy
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
Cork French Film Festival an important cultural event, says Coveney
French envoy highlights role of festival in cementing links between Ireland and France
Henri Matisse: A jolt of happiness from a humanist painter
The French master’s art is ‘just what we need in this anxious, dark time’
Oscars 2020: Joker is a well made film but does it deserve 11 Academy Award nominations?
How did film about a comic book idiot get more nominations than The Irishman?
Ready or Not is an absolute hoot of a bloody horror
Review: What this lacks in characterisation, it makes up in sheer, hurtling momentum
Trump’s tweet oozed out the day before The Hunt was pulled
Without seeing the movie, people have opinions on whether it was a right-wing or a left-wing
French social discontent gets a look-in at Cannes
Flying saucers turn out to be recurrent motif, as zombie comedy gets mixed reception
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
Violent femme: Why Isabelle Huppert isn’t afraid of being scary
Some think she’s ‘a bit frightening’, including in Neil Jordan’s Greta, but the star couldn’t be nicer
‘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
The 100 greatest foreign-language films revealed
Only four out of the top 100 films directed by women in BBC poll of critics
Forget Bresson; the geeks have inherited the earth
Ethan Hawke doesn’t equate superhero movies with French auteurs. Is this heresy?
Louise Brooks: ‘I was always late, but just too damn stunning for them to fire me’
The dancer, actor, gossip columnist and muse was one of the most modern of stars
Weinstein sex claims overshadow Cannes as Japanese drama wins
Asia Argento stuns audience with Weinstein allegation: ‘festival was his hunting ground’
Cannes 2018: Some very fine films amid a sense of transition
Protests, Directors’ Fortnight and the race for the Palme d’Or
Cannes 2018: Could there be an all-female Black Panther?
Cannes daily: Netflix splashes the cash and Godard keeps on puzzling
Redoubtable: Woody Allen’s Carry On Up the Godard
Review: Utterly trivial, occasionally disrespectful and hugely amusing
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
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
Cannes 2018 film festival: the full list of films
The official selection has been revealed for the 71st Cannes film festival which opens next month
Dublin Boyz n the Hood and gruesome gangland consequence
‘Cardboard Gangsters’ is a ’hood film, not a gangster film, says director Mark O’Connor
The future of museums: ‘soft power’ and the hard sell
Perhaps surprisingly, museums are thriving in the digital age, but they must commit to constant innovation in order to capture the attention and loyalty of their audiences
The curious paradox of Iranian cinema
The successes of Iranian cinema have been achieved despite rife state censorship, and now there are signs of positive change
Carte Noire French Film Festival at the Irish Film Institute
Now is the time to rush to the French cinematic barricades
The family twee, from Disney to Deschanel
How twee are you? If you’re a fan of Lena Dunham, Portlandia, Wes Anderson films and cats, maybe more than you think
Cannes comes to a close with a Palme d’Or for Winter Sleep
Timothy Spall and Julianne Moore among award winners from the Cannes Jury
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