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
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
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
Nick Broomfield treads a careful line between tribute and exposé in his Whitney Houston docudrama, while Juliette Binoche stars in an eccentric French farce
Famous for lyrical movies featuring reincarnation and talking apes, the Thai director of Uncle Boonmee also has a political side – now he is taking on Thailand’s generals with a film about sleeping soldiers
A retrospective celebrating the Thai director at Tate Modern, London, opened with a 14-hour screening of his films. It revealed him as a tireless creator like no other
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
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
With the follow-up to his Palme d’Or winner Apichatpong Weerasethakul drifts off into another world that teasingly blends the spiritual and the mundane
Hollywood and the world's most prestigious film festival, Cannes, have conducted an on-off romance down the years – and now they're closer than ever. But have they got too cosy? As the Croisette opens for business, Xan Brooks investigates
Peter Bradshaw: With new offerings from Audiard, Haneke and Loach, this year's festival will be another feast of quality film-making. Could have done with a few more women directors, mind
Lost in translation: when film-makers hit the language barrier