Even the French are giving up on arthouse films. Is this the end of a cinematic era?
Zach Schonfeld
French cinema risks being sacrificed on the altar of market forces; it would be an incalculable loss, says the journalist and critic Zach Schonfeld
August 2023
Adèle Exarchopoulos: ‘Film shoots are like little summer love stories’
The French star of Blue Is the Warmest Colour and new film Passages talks sex scenes, avoiding Hollywood and eating Toblerones in Jane Birkin’s bath
January 2021
'It was a misuse of power': how screen sex scenes have been forced to change
As Keira Knightley says she won’t shoot one with a male director, the use of intimacy coordinators means that actors can be more comfortable with what they are asked to do
November 2019
Casablanca to Starship Troopers: the movie breakups that hit our writers hardest
With the release of Noah Baumbach’s crushing divorce saga Marriage Story, Guardian writers have reminisced over their most memorable big screen breakups
October 2018
Blue Is the Warmest Colour director Abdellatif Kechiche accused of sexual assault
Film-maker denies accusation that he took advantage of an unconscious female actor at his Paris flat
July 2017
George Clooney, Jennifer Lawrence and Matt Damon jostle for Oscar advantage in Venice line-up
Damon stars in two of the Lido’s big films, Downsizing and Suburbicon, while Lawrence steps into horror movie territory with Darren Aronofsky’s Mother!
June 2017
Blue is the Warmest Color director to auction Palme d'Or to finance new film
Abdellatif Kechiche’s new project, Mektoub, My Love, has been halted in post-production due to financial constraints
March 2017
The Handmaiden: the return of erotic cinema
Eroticism has long been a dirty word in film. But a new thriller about a clandestine affair between two women in 1930s Korea returns the genre to its transgressive roots.
December 2016
Film blog
The most exciting films of 2017: returning auteurs
In the latest in our 10-part series, the films we are most looking forward to next year by the world’s most singular directors
October 2015
Léa Seydoux: ‘For Bond, you have to be up for it. I had to work, to get fit’
Following her performance as a lesbian artist in Blue Is the Warmest Colour, Léa Seydoux was hailed as ‘Bardot meets Binoche’. Next up for the sultry Gallic star is James Bond…
August 2015
Film blog
Five great female-friendly comic-book adaptations
The Diary of a Teenage Girl is the latest comic book movie to feature a heroine, but women are still woefully underrepresented in the genre overall
February 2015
Iranian translator of Blue Is the Warmest Colour 'declared persona non grata'
The 10 best ...
The 10 best sex scenes
January 2015
Peter Bradshaw’s top 50 films of the demi-decade
We are now midway through the 2010s. So what trends are emerging in cinema? Peter Bradshaw takes a look – and picks his top 50 films of the demi-decade
May 2014
Cannes 2014: Winter Sleep takes Palme d'Or in ceremony of upsets
Turkish epic fulfils early predictions to take top prize, while Timothy Spall wins best actor for Mr Turner. But away from best film and best director, surprise wins were in store for Julianne Moore, Jean-Luc Godard and Xavier Dolan
April 2014
Blue Is the Warmest Colour targeted by Russian anti-gay campaigners
Palme d'Or winner about lesbian love affair accused as part of widespread crackdown on 'gay propaganda'
March 2014
Guy Lodge's streaming and DVDs
Guy Lodge's DVDs and downloads
Bored with male protagonists? Blue Is the Warmest Colour and The Hunger Games: Catching Fire put women first, writes Guy Lodge
January 2014
Gravity tops Critics' Choice Movie Awards with seven wins
Alfonso Cuaron and Sandra Bullock picked up awards for Gravity, while 12 Years A Slave won three and Blue Is The Warmest Colour won two
November 2013
Blue is the Warmest Colour – review
This week's new films
Blue Is The Warmest Colour, Catching Fire, Computer Chess: this week's new films
