The French director on being mesmerised by the film Memoria, and her love of Tindersticks, Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker and the Mediterranean
June 2022
Best culture of 2022 so far
The best films of 2022 so far
Tilda Swinton aces Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s dreamy fable, director Clio Barnard’s forbidden affair and Catherine Clinch in The Quiet Girl rank in the pick of this year’s films
January 2022
Mark Kermode's film of the week
Memoria review – Tilda Swinton works her magic in enigmatic fantasy
Thai director Apichatpong Weerasethakul has crafted a trance-like tale of a woman haunted by strange sounds in Colombia
Tilda Swinton: ‘My ambition was always about having a house by the sea and some dogs’
The actor opens up about her queer years with Derek Jarman and her latest clutch of films, and reveals her plans for a career change. And all while taking her five spaniels for a walk
Audiences to be put in hypnotic trance at Swedish film festival
Three screenings at this year’s Göteborg festival will ‘transform the audience’s state of mind’ with a live hypnotist on stage
June 2021
Cannes makes up for lost time with a thrilling auteur-packed lineup
Peter Bradshaw
After a year off, Leos Carax should have punters at each others’ throats – and Wes Anderson will boost the blood sugar
February 2020
Lost in translation: when film-makers hit the language barrier
Making films in another language is always a risk – for every Yorgos Lanthimos-style success, there’s a Wong Kar-wai disaster lurking around the corner
September 2019
Best culture of the 21st century
The 100 best films of the 21st century
Gangsters, superheroes, schoolkids, lovers, slaves, peasants, techies, Tenenbaums and freefalling astronauts – they’re all here in our countdown of cinema’s best movies since 2000
October 2018
Artes Mundi 8 review – engrossing works blunted by limp liberal agenda
The man with the exploding head: the director inspired by his medical condition
April 2018
Cannes film festival 2018: full list of films
The official selection has been announced for the 71st Cannes film festival running 8-19 May. Here are all the titles screening
February 2018
Ghosts in the machine: a night at the 'hotel' where films become dreams
At a pop-up guesthouse, Sleepcinemahotel, Palme d’Or winning Thai director Apichatpong Weerasethakul has installed beds – and a hypnotic 120-hour ‘film’ to nod off to
June 2017
Five of the best… new films
Whitney: Can I Be Me and Slack Bay: this week’s best films in the UK
Nick Broomfield treads a careful line between tribute and exposé in his Whitney Houston docudrama, while Juliette Binoche stars in an eccentric French farce
November 2016
Guy Lodge's streaming and DVDs
Things to Come; Cemetery of Splendour; X-Men: Apocalypse and more – review
Isabelle Huppert is outstanding in Mia Hansen-Løve’s impeccable study of midlife crisis, while Greek newcomer Sofia Exarchou makes her mark with Park
April 2016
Apichatpong Weerasethakul: 'My country is run by superstition'
Film blog
Everything is possible – five things we learned at the Apichatpong Weerasethakul all-nighter
November 2015
Asia Pacific floods Brisbane with art, cinema and a 'common humanity'
A festival featuring 102 movies from 42 countries across the region brought the Asia Pacific closer to home – if only Australian audiences had been bigger
October 2015
Apichatpong Weerasethakul: I won't censor my work for Thailand
The Palme d’Or-winner says he will not show the acclaimed Cemetery of Splendour in his homeland because he fears it would fall foul of the ruling military junta