Cork French Film Festival celebrates its 25th birthday in style, writes Colette Sheridan

Julie Gayet, the actress reported to have had an affair with president François Hollande, has been nominated for the French equivalent of an Oscar — for playing a super-sexy vamp.

JOHN Wayne’s sons, Patrick and Ethan, will be chief honorees at the second John Ford Ireland Symposium in Dublin this weekend.

THE 22nd Cork French Film Festival will take place next month and will be attended by one of cinema’s greatest living legends, film maker Agnes Varda.

Mary Selway, a casting director who matched actors with roles in films from Raiders of the Lost Ark to Gosford Park, has died at the age of 68.