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Cannes Film Festival 2013: The list of winners in full, from beyond Blue is the Warmest Colour to Inside Llewyn Davis and beyond

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Video: Film trailers for the latest releases

Watch the videos below for a selection of trailers for the latest releases:

Jerry Lewis says he doesn't like women comics

Jerry Lewis: 'Women doing comedy bothers me'

Ladies? Don't make Jerry Lewis laugh.

Iranian director Mohammad Rasoulof pictured in 2009

Banned Iranian director Mohammad Rasoulof to attend Cannes Film Festival 2013, his first public appearance since prison

Three years after he was imprisoned for alleged anti-regime propaganda, the director is bringing a new secretly filmed feature to the festival called Manuscripts Don't Burn

Director Steven Spielberg will serve as jury president of Cannes 2013

Steven Spielberg to serve as Cannes Festival jury president for the first time

Steven Spielberg will serve as jury president of the 66th Cannes Festival this May.

Ken Hunt: Pandit Ravi Shankar's genius was to make Hindu music resonate with all

Pandit Ravi Shankar was central to the world’s image of what Hindustani classical music was. He continually happened to be in the right place at critical junctures in its popularisation. More relevantly, he made his own fate.

Sowing wild oaths: 'The Angels' Share

Language: The cussing room floor

Ken Loach is the latest director to complain about censorship, says Tim Walker. The rules on swearing are so arbitrary, it's no wonder he's effing and blinding

Sacha Baron Cohen's 'Dictator' takes his camel out in Cannes

'The Dictator' knows how to make a scene.

The artist is played by Gilles Bourdos, but the film will show Guy Ribes’ hands as he paints the canvases

Guy Ribes: The forger making a good impression in the film world

Jailed for faking Renoirs, Guy Ribes returns to take key role in biopic of French master

Film agents win life of Busby

London-listed Intandem Films has been named as sales agent for a movie loosely based on the life of the late Manchester United manager Sir Matt Busby.

Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart star in films competing at Cannes

Will there be blood on the red carpet? Twilight couple Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart go head to head for the Palme d'Or

'On the Road' will be keenly awaited as the first film adaptation of Kerouac's classic book

Album: Air, Le Voyage dans la Lune (EMI)

Having revealed their sci-fi leanings on their Moon Safari debut, Air were the natural choice to create the soundtrack for the newly restored print of Georges Méliès' 1902 silent film, Le Voyage dans la Lune.

'The Song of the Rain', directed by Aygul Bakanova

New stars shine at Küstendorf Film and Music Festival

The hamlet of Küstendorf is like a Disneyland for cinema auteurs. Built by double-Palme d'Or-winning director Emir Kusturica, the village has streets named after Federico Fellini and Jean Vigo. The cinema is called the Stanley Kubrick Theatre and the restaurant carries the moniker Visconti. It's also been home to the Küstendorf Film and Music Festival since 2008.

Soderbergh's films include 'Ocean's Eleven', 'Out of Sight', 'Sex, Lies, and Videotape', and Haywire

Steven Soderbergh: 'Three more movies and I'm out of here'

He directed some of the most memorable films of recent times, but he has had enough. He explains why to Tom Teodorczuk

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What if Edward Snowden had stayed to fight his corner?

Rupert Cornwell: What if Edward Snowden had stayed to fight his corner?

The CIA whistleblower struck a blow for us all, but his 1970s predecessor showed how to win
'A man walks into a bar': Comedian Seann Walsh on the dangers of mixing alcohol and stand-up

Comedian Seann Walsh on alcohol and stand-up

Comedy and booze go together, says Walsh. The trouble is stopping at just the one. So when do the hangovers stop being funny?
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Edinburgh to Hollywood: 10 comedic talents blowing up big

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