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These movies won’t win awards – they’ll be lucky just to get an audience. Here are some of the horror shows looking for a buyer at the festival
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William Friedkin recalls witnessing ‘astonishing’ scenes of demonic possession similar to those in 1973 horror classic
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As new Stooges documentary Gimme Danger premieres, the singer criticises the digital age’s impact on rock and suggests that everyone quit hard drugs
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Today’s big films are the Xavier Dolan-directed It’s Only the End of the World, the Iggy Pop documentary Gimme Danger and Romanian drama Graduation
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Poitras follows Citizenfour with a profile of WikiLeaks founder Assange, which contains some electrifying moments despite its lack of objectivity
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After her father, Richard, died, the Underworld star grew up in London surrounded by her stepdad’s leftie pals. Now in LA, she tells us about starring in Whit Stillman’s Jane Austen adaptation, Love and Friendship
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Australian conservationists warn that Pixar sequel could increase pressure on marine populations, after the first film led to surge in popularity of pet clownfish
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Speaking at Cannes, the multiple Oscar winner and BFG director expressed fears that storytelling will suffer if viewers of VR films are given the choice where to look
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Do people go to see superhero-stuffed movies at the cinema because they’re searching for a collective experience in an increasingly isolated world?
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Director’s masterclass will cover everything from obtaining financing to scouting locations – but not storyboarding, which is ‘an instrument of the cowards’
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First film in classic comedy reboot will feature script by writers of sitcom Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps, with Hattie Jacques’s Matron played by a ‘butch gay man’
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The latest instalment in the X-Men franchise sees ancient Egyptian deity Apocalypse (played by Isaac) reawaken to wreak havoc in the modern world
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Entertaining mayhem ensues when some of the Avengers reject government oversight following a botched operation
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Jacques Audiard’s confident Palme d’Or-winner has a rare and keen interest in its characters – a trio of Tamil refugees in Paris – and an exhilarating mastery of style
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In Luca Guadagnino’s simmering drama, two ex-lovers are disastrously reunited at a Mediterranean villa where the pool is a temple of bared flesh and sex perfumes the air
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Rock star Iggy Pop, famous for his records with Iggy and the Stooges, speaks to the press while at the Cannes Film Festival on Thursday
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Our film team brings you the latest news and reviews from the Cannes 2016 film festival
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The Price of Desire is about influential modernist Irish designer Eileen Gray (Orla Brady), who made significant contributions to the development of furniture design and architecture
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An extended conversation with the acclaimed actor and director, who talks about sexism in Hollywood and why she never gets cast in blockbusters
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Our film team brings you the latest news and reviews from the Cannes 2016 film festival
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A followup to Trainspotting (1996) has started shooting, reuniting the principal cast and director
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Our film team bring you the latest news and reviews from the Cannes 2016 film festival
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Harley Quinn-led followup to Suicide Squad would prove Warner’s slate of DC universe movies has upper hand over rival Marvel in terms of diversity
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Richard Linklater’s 80s-set college film celebrates chasing girls and playing baseball but is there more to its meatheads? Its cast takes to the ping pong table to discuss 21st-century masculinity
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It’s hard to believe geek culture ‘sexism’ is responsible for all the bad buzz aimed at Paul Feig’s female-fronted remake. Now we need Bill Murray to save the day
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John Cho, of Harold & Kumar and ‘Milf’ fame, has become the unwitting face of a campaign against Hollywood ‘whitewashing’. Digital strategist William Yu, 25, has used Photoshop and the hashtag #StarringJohnCho to place the actor over white faces in a series of movie posters. The actor has tweeted his approval with a simple ‘❤’
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He’s may be a Hollywood veteran, but the Scot’s new film is a low-key coming-of-age tale set in London’s 70s punk scene. From Cannes, he discusses ‘tender man’ Joe Strummer, and how he learnt his trade from his fridge-freezer salesman dad
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Twenty years ago, the Shakespeare in Love star had Hollywood at his feet – then he all but disappeared. So what happened? He tells Tim Adams
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The Turkish director talks about her Oscar-nominated film Mustang – and why reaction to it at home made her take her talents elsewhere
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In the 90s she was dubbed ‘the coolest girl in the world’. Now happily reunited with Whit Stillman, she looks back at her rollercoaster career
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The former star of Home Alone stars in a surreal stoner version of the Arabian Nights tale masterminded by his musician friend Adam Green
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At a New York retrospective of his work, the storied British director spoke of his love of the American Songbook and how good he is at ‘death and misery’
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The actor talks about helping refugee children, losing her ‘big brother’ Alan Rickman – and why she turned down Spielberg
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Five best momentsFive best momentsKevin Bacon: five best momentsFrom giant worms to scary psychics, here are the career highlights of the actor now starring in horror movie The Darkness
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The film quizThe film quizCanine out of 10? Match the dog to the movie – quizAs Laurie Anderson’s Heart of a Dog barks its message of puppy love to cinemas this week, how well do you know other movie mutts?
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UK box office reportUK box office reportCaptain America puts Angry Birds to flight at UK box officeMarvel’s crusading superhero reigns supreme for a third week as the animated avians perch in second place
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Charlie Lyne's home entertainmentCharlie Lyne's home entertainmentWhen Animals Dream: how werewolf films explore growing painsAdolescent agony meets anaesthetised acting in this po-faced example of a familiar teen horror trope
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Silent but deadly!Silent but deadly!Mary Pickford: America's first screen megastarHer natural acting style made her the world’s pre-eminent silent cinema actor, but Pickford, born Gladys Smith, also became a producer and an early film mogul
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Guy Lodge on DVDs and downloadsGuy Lodge on DVDs and downloadsCreed; The Danish Girl; When Animals Dream; Mojave; The Chosen Ones – reviewRocky is successfully reborn as a young fighter’s mentor in Ryan Coogler’s weighty Creed; The Danish Girl is as much about changing frocks as identity
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From Pedro Almodovar’s sexually suggestive reindeer to Andrea Arnold’s big yawning bear, animals have invaded the Cannes film festival – on screen and off
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The Angry Birds movie features Sean Penn as a bird who does little but growl – but it’s just the latest in a long line of laconic film and TV roles
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Adolescent agony meets anaesthetised acting in this po-faced example of a familiar teen horror trope
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The film festival got under way with a bit of terror training, some tepid Woody Allen and a fierce return from Ken Loach
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The Dutch director’s new thriller Elle is at Cannes, but whatever happened to the master of 80s/90s sci-fi bombast who gave us Robocop, and Total Recall?
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Dionne Warwick said the pop star was to play the Liverpool favorite in a film – a claim Gaga denied. But just in case, here’s how to get the perfect accent
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Michael O’Shea’s debut chomps countless other vampire films. Unfortunately, they’re all superior to this middling, self-conscious effort
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Sex, ghosts, money and sainthood – now playing at Cannes 2016