Xan's Cannes video
Cannes 2011: Gus Van Sant's Restless, Sleeping Beauty and the art of ticket grabbing - video
Mia Wasikowska and Henry Hopper talk Restless with Xan Brooks; Julia Leigh, director of the dark, erotic thriller Sleeping Beauty, talks to Charlotte Higgins; and we join the blaggers outside the Palais to grab a free ticket
Cannes 2011: Woody Allen's 'dreamy valentine to Paris' - video
Woody Allen's fortunes wax and wane, but he's always a favourite in France, where Midnight in Paris opened this year's Cannes film festival. Xan Brooks gauges the critical reception – and gives his verdict on Allen's latest spot of crowdsurfing
Cannes 2010: Danny Huston on his father, John: 'It was like spending time with a pirate'
Xan Brooks talks to Danny Huston - son of the late director John Huston - about the restoration of one of his father's masterpieces, The African Queen starring Humphrey Bogart and Katharine Hepburn.
Angelica Huston will introduce a screening of the film at the BFI Southbank on May 27. The African Queen has been restored by ITV Studios Global Entertainment, Paramount Pictures and Romulus Films. The restored edition DVD and Blu-ray is available June 14
Cannes film festival roundup: 'Comfortably the worst competition that I can remember'
As the 63rd Cannes film festival draws to a close, Xan Brooks gathers critics Peter Bradshaw, Jason Solomons, Leslie Felperin and Mark Cousins to reflect on this year's less than vintage selection before laying their bets for the Palme d'Or
Cannes film festival: Another Year, another Palme d'Or chance
Mike Leigh's Another Year is the film with the best reviews and loudest applause so far on the Croisette. Xan Brooks asks the film-maker, who won for Secrets & Lies in 1992, what it is that makes ritzy Cannes go for his slice of British grit and gloom