Brighton event’s opening showcase scrapped after performers join Massive Attack and Brian Eno in boycott of sponsor BarclaysMore than 100 acts have pulled out of the Great Escape music festival in Brighton as part of a Palestine-related campaign against the event sponsor Barclays that has been supported by Massive Attack, Idles and Brian Eno.The festival’s...

£450m Manchester venue opens doors with Elbow concert two weeks after debris falling from ceiling forced shutdownIt has been billed by its American owners as the greatest music venue ever built: a state-of-the art arena to put Manchester back on the musical map.But after a series of humiliating setbacks, the £450m Co-op Live – now referred to by some...

Cannes film festival With help from an A-list cast, Dupieux brings his customary mischief to an amiable tale of imposture and role playCannes can always do worse than choose a comedy for its opening gala, and the festival is off to an amiable, entertaining start. Quentin Dupieux brings the wackiness onstream with this cheerfully mischievous, unrepentantly...

The veteran music journalist’s personal study of the German film-maker wins £10,000 honour for the year’s best literary evocation of placeBritish writer and music critic Ian Penman has won the Royal Society of Literature’s Ondaatje prize for his study of the late German film-maker Rainer Werner Fassbinder.Penman’s book, Fassbinder: Thousands of Mirrors,...

Defense attorney files appeal as Hannah Gutierrez-Reed serves 18-month sentence at New Mexico penitentiary for womenA movie weapons armorer is appealing her conviction for involuntary manslaughter in the fatal shooting of a cinematographer by Alec Baldwin on the set of the western film Rust, according to court documents released Tuesday.A defense attorney...

While this year’s Cannes film festival jury president declared her role ‘a dream come true’, storms over sexual abuse and workers’ rights are expectedThe reviews were gushing on the first day of the 77th Cannes film festival, as Barbie director Greta Gerwig took up her duties as this year’s jury president. Festival bosses variously hailed the American...