Apichatpong Weerasethakul
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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
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The official selection has been announced for the 71st Cannes film festival running 8-19 May. Here are all the titles screening
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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
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Nick Broomfield treads a careful line between tribute and exposé in his Whitney Houston docudrama, while Juliette Binoche stars in an eccentric French farce
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Isabelle Huppert is outstanding in Mia Hansen-Løve’s impeccable study of midlife crisis, while Greek newcomer Sofia Exarchou makes her mark with Park
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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
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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
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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
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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
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4 out of 5 stars.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
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Think 2014 was a good year for film? Think again. This year is shaping up to be one of the classics. Here’s what’s on our radar
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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
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Nontawat Numbenchapol's film about border row and 2011 red-shirt protests deemed 'threat to national security'
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An experimental offering proved just too relaxing while Alan Yentob nearly got bounced from opening night for wearing trainers, writes Jason Solomons
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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
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Jason Solomons on all the gossip from Tilda Swinton's Film on the Rocks festival in Thailand
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New-look festival to have creative input from film and music talent including Gus van Sant, Jim Jarmusch and the Streets
Lost in translation: when film-makers hit the language barrier