Scream 2 star Sarah Michelle Gellar has led tributes to Nightmare on Elm Street director Wes Craven, who has died aged 76.

Three respected political figures have combined to form Ireland’s first Social Democratic party but Kyran Fitzgerald wonders if they have a future.

MUSIC NEWS: You may have seen poor Florence Welch sitting on a stool for her performance with The Machine on Later With Jools on Tuesday (longer version on BBC Two tonight). Apparently she broke her foot while leaping off the stage at the Coachella festival in the US. 

What should you watch tonight? These things.

Samuel Beckett’s Embers is concerned with how memory fades, says Richard Fitzpatrick

Professor Andersen’s Night

Juliette Binoche’s attendance at the French Film Festival in Dublin is a major coup for the IFI, writes Padraic Killeen

The Empty Family

HUNDREDS of mourners gathered to honour David Carradine at a sprawling hillside cemetery at the weekend at a funeral that was attended by family, former co-stars and other Hollywood friends.

Hundreds gathered to pay tribute to Kung Fu actor David Carradine at a sprawling Los Angeles hillside cemetery in a funeral attended by family, former co-stars and other Hollywood friends.

Moviemaker Martin Scorsese and actor Michael Madsen have paid tribute to David Carradine, who died on Thursday.

The body of American actor David Carradine was found in a hotel room with a rope tied to his neck and genitals, Thai police said today.

Thai authorities conducted a post-mortem today on actor David Carradine, a cult star best known for the 1970s TV series 'Kung Fu', and cited “unusual circumstances” in his death. His naked body was found hanging in a Bangkok hotel room.

Director Ang Lee has triumphed at the Venice Film Festival - by winning the event's top award for the second time in two years.

A small group of family members, actors and local friends attended the funeral of Ingmar Bergman today on the small Swedish island of Faro where the internationally acclaimed filmmaker spent his final years in solitude.

LEGENDARY Swedish film director Ingmar Bergman, who influenced a generation of film-makers with his often stark works, died yesterday at the age of 89.

Swedish film director Ingmar Bergman has died, local media reported today.

Ingmar Bergman has made a welcome return to film with Saraband (Tartan, €21.99), and while this is his last feature, it demonstrates yet again his originality.

Alfred Hitchcock has topped a poll of directors never to have won an Oscar.

Iconoclastic filmmaker Ingmar Bergman reveals that he fathered a daughter outside of one of his five marriages, a secret he had kept for 45 years, in a new book.

In a rare interview on Swedish television, reclusive film director Ingmar Bergman has said he hates to watch his own movies and regrets that his fame has meant that collaborators are afraid to give him honest criticism.

Ingmar Bergman was honoured for his work in preserving and restoring old colour films.

Francis Ford Coppola’s brutal Vietnam classic Apocalypse Now was today named the greatest film of the past 25 years by movie experts.