Help! Colin Farrell's at the door and I think he might be a vampire who's after my mother

Almodovar's latest is a creepy tale of surgery and obsession

Starring: Antonio Banderas, Elena Anaya, Marisa Paredes

It has been 20 years since Spain's finest last worked together. The Oscar-winning director tells James Mottram about the harrowing, Promethean tale that inspired their reunion

A rambling Turkish philosophical thriller led the field, says Jonathan Romney

Cheerful and entertaining, joyful and uplifting – this year's Riviera jamboree has not dazzled, but it has delivered a rare crop of inventive cinema in which the story shines

Boyd Tonkin meets its founder, Pete Ayrton

The only people who can stop the extra-terrestrial advance are a gang of south London hoodies in this back-to-basics home-grown sci-fi spoof

The British director Lynne Ramsay is leading an unprecedented charge by female directors at this year's Cannes Film Festival. This year's competition for the Palme d'Or prize features four women directors, the highest in the festival's64-year history.

As Mark Wahlberg and David O Russell score with their third collaboration, Leigh Singer celebrates top director/star combos

She's played everyone from feisty cockneys to the Iron Lady. As she hits the Oscar trail for the new Mike Leigh film, Lesley Manville tells Jonathan Romney about her catalogue of banned sex scenes and the cash that Matt Smith owes her

A new stage version of Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown could be a musical too far, says Sarah Hughes

Music: I play music a lot while I'm working in the studio. It's often to give a special feeling or energy with movement. Recently, I've been listening to Astor Piazzolla pieces, played by a brilliant young violinist, Oscar Bohorquez. Before that I was listening to a lot of music by Eric Satie played by Jean-Yves Thibaudet and Dustin Gledhill, and new pieces by the composer Andy Cowton, who I have been working with for many years. Tom Waits (below) is always a favourite, as are Nick Cave, Barry Adamson and Muse. I recently choreographed for a video directed by Warren Du Preez and Nick Thornton Jones for the band UNKLE and have since been listening to a lot of their work, too.