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‘Shakespeare would be writing for games today’: Cannes’ first video game Lili is a retelling of Macbeth

Translocating the Scottish play to Iran with help from the RSC, iNK Stories’ version focuses on a Lady Macbeth contending with an oppressive surveillance state

Sentimental Value review – Stellan Skarsgård is an egomaniac director in act of ancestor worship

Joachim Trier’s entertaining drama sees Norwegian auteur-on-the-slide Skarsgård putting his showbiz family through the wringer in the service of his fading career

The History of Sound review – Paul Mescal and Josh O’Connor romance is full-bodied but tin-eared

A love story of two folk song aficionados in the early days of recorded music is told with tiresomely mournful awe at its own sadness

The Six Billion Dollar Man review – WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange’s rise, fall and limbo

Focusing on the rogue’s gallery of hypocrites and crooks surrounding him, Assange himself is in the background of a pretty definitive examination

Tom Hanks to co-write and star in off-Broadway play

The Oscar-winning actor will bring The World of Tomorrow to the Shed in New York later this year

George Wendt obituary

Actor who played Norm Peterson in the hugely popular American sitcom Cheers

Banned film-maker Jafar Panahi says friends lost hope he would direct again

Speaking during his first visit to Cannes in 22 years, Panahi who has previously been imprisoned in Iran said he wasn’t doing ‘anything heroic’

Tell us your memories of seeing Star Wars in cinemas

We would like to hear about your memories of seeing Star Wars in cinemas when it first opened in 1977/78

A Private Life review – Jodie Foster is a sleuthing shrink in French-language Hitchcockian mystery

Foster plays a psychoanalyst who suspects her client may not have killed herself, and sets out to investigate with ex-husband Daniel Auteuil

Burden of Dreams review – on-location account of Werner Herzog’s Fitzcarraldo is a gruelling delight

A rerelease of the documentary about the German film-maker’s operatic adventure in the Peruvian jungle is a compelling portrait of an artist obsessed

‘I’m still standing’: Kevin Spacey makes his comeback at chaotic Cannes gala

The actor congratulated the organisers of the Better World Fund on their ‘bravery’ in awarding him a lifetime achievement gong

Eleanor the Great review – June Squibb takes on Holocaust survivor trauma in Scarlett Johansson’s iffy directing debut

The 95-year-old actor gives an enjoyably twinkly performance in a film that misjudges how seriously its story should be taken

James Foley obituary

American film director best known for Glengarry Glen Ross and At Close Range

‘I don’t have a relationship with my face’: Judi Dench models for a live sculpture

To raise money for lymphoedema research, the actor sat before an audience for artist Frances Segelman, who admired her youthful, ‘pixie-like’ face while rendering it in clay

Lilo & Stitch review – Disney’s latest unnecessary remake is a monstrosity

The studio’s new attempt to generate more money from the same property hits an instant roadblock in ghastly misfire

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  • ‘Shakespeare would be writing for games today’: Cannes’ first video game Lili is a retelling of Macbeth
  • Sentimental Value review – Stellan Skarsgård is an egomaniac director in act of ancestor worship
  • The History of Sound review – Paul Mescal and Josh O’Connor romance is full-bodied but tin-eared
  • The Six Billion Dollar Man review – WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange’s rise, fall and limbo
  • Tom Hanks to co-write and star in off-Broadway play
  • George Wendt obituary
  • Banned film-maker Jafar Panahi says friends lost hope he would direct again
  • Tell us your memories of seeing Star Wars in cinemas
  • A Private Life review – Jodie Foster is a sleuthing shrink in French-language Hitchcockian mystery
  • Burden of Dreams review – on-location account of Werner Herzog’s Fitzcarraldo is a gruelling delight
  • ‘I’m still standing’: Kevin Spacey makes his comeback at chaotic Cannes gala
  • Eleanor the Great review – June Squibb takes on Holocaust survivor trauma in Scarlett Johansson’s iffy directing debut
  • James Foley obituary
  • ‘I don’t have a relationship with my face’: Judi Dench models for a live sculpture
  • Lilo & Stitch review – Disney’s latest unnecessary remake is a monstrosity
  • A Simple Accident review – Jafar Panahi takes us on a nightmare trip into a land of bribes and brutality
  • Film festival to premiere clergy sex abuse documentary partly based on Guardian reporting
  • Arena: if you liked Rocky, you’ll love Rocky with monsters
  • ‘I think of those I left behind in prison’: Iran’s Jafar Panahi on life as a banned film-maker
  • Spike Lee says Highest 2 Lowest is his last film with Denzel Washington
  • Gérard Depardieu faces Rome trial after alleged incident with paparazzo
  • Call for safety review after producer injured by falling palm tree at Cannes film festival
  • The Secret Agent review – brilliant Brazilian drama of an academic on the run in the murderous 1970s
  • Bob Trevino Likes It review – Barbie Ferreira lovebombs us all in quirk-fuelled comedy
  • When the Light Breaks review – two students grieve one boyfriend in Icelandic heartbreaker
  • TV tonight: a fun reboot of early 00s reality show Faking It
  • Alpha review – Julia Ducournau’s disjointed body horror is an absolute gamma
  • Highest 2 Lowest review – Spike Lee and Denzel Washington remake Kurosawa in fine style
  • From Coogler to Cruise: the Hollywood heroes saving cinema
  • The Pitt’s breakout star Shabana Azeez loves a confronting role: ‘We want victims to be perfect’

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