Woody Allen: A Biography by John Baxter (HarperCollins Entertainment, £8.99 in UK)The picture which emerges in Baxter's unflattering but scrupulously fair biography is of a man who jealously guards his power…Sat Nov 20 1999 - 00:00
Mapping the Irish empireOne of the minor side effects of millennium fever is that, up to now, we've been largely spared the "What were the 1990s all …Sat Nov 13 1999 - 00:00
CinemaThe 12th Foyle Film Festival opens next Friday in Derry with the Irish premiere of Michael Winterbottom's Northern Irish-set …Sat Nov 06 1999 - 00:00
Joking for IrelandTake a look at the British television schedules for next week, and you'll notice a remarkable thing: there are Irishmen everywhere…Sat Nov 06 1999 - 00:00
Time to take on Tarzan (and friends)On an autumn afternoon, the Odeon Cinema in Leicester Square offers a vision of the New Europe which would have surprised Jean…Sat Oct 30 1999 - 01:00
Irish film-maker takes Cork short film awardA young Irish film-maker has won the prestigious European Short Film Award at this year's Murphy's Cork Film Festival.Mon Oct 18 1999 - 01:00
FilmThe closing weekend of this year's Cork Film Festival offers an attractive bill of international and Irish fareSat Oct 16 1999 - 01:00
Shhhhhhhhhh!Maybe it's because I'm a spoiled, snobbish elitist - and that's not something I'm happy about - but I have to confess I'm finding…Sat Oct 02 1999 - 01:00
Dogme cleaned upFollowing the twin provocations/inspirations of Thomas Vinterberg's Festen and Lars Von Trier's The Idiots, Mifune, the third…Fri Oct 01 1999 - 01:00
Film FringeFilms, in a theatre festival? Does it really make sense for this year's Fringe to be dabbling in celluloid? Absolutely, says …Sat Sept 25 1999 - 01:00
The mogul who never grew upWhat makes a mogul? The legendary Sam Goldwyn was "one of the lucky ones whose great hearts, shallow and commonplace as bedpans…Sat Sept 18 1999 - 01:00
There's nothing dodgy about his actingWhile I'm sitting with Ray Winstone in the almost-deserted bar of the Clarence Hotel on a Wednesday afternoon, a Scottish drunk…Sat Sept 18 1999 - 01:00
A trip down memory painLet's be clear about one thing first - the burgeoning nostalgia for all things 1980s is all very fine and well in other countries…Sat Sept 04 1999 - 01:00
Voyage around Mr BigMichael Crichton is big. Big in books, big in movies, big in television, big in personSat Sept 04 1999 - 01:00
Peek viewingThe process of television programme-making is an arcane mystery to most viewers, but a new series starting next month on RTE1…Sat Aug 28 1999 - 01:00
Breaking the big taboo but isn't afraid of the Troubles`All stories are love stories," reads the pre-title credit which unspools across the night sky of Belfast in Eureka Street, the…Sat Aug 21 1999 - 01:00
Tripping over the eclipseSummer of Love: Tripping; Sounds of 69 (Channel 4, Saturday)Sat Aug 14 1999 - 01:00
Waxing RothTraditionally, there are two kinds of British movie star for export - the sensitive, upper-class Ruperts, Ralphs and Jeremys …Sat Aug 14 1999 - 01:00
TV3 launches new schedule in bullish moodTV3 has exceeded its audience targets for its first 11 months, it was claimed yesterday, and foresees further growth over the…Thu Aug 12 1999 - 01:00
CinemaEveryone from The Sex Pistols to indie director Gus Van Sant, whose Drugstore Cowboy explicitly recreates its affectless, deadpan…Sat Aug 07 1999 - 01:00
RTE goes round the world to catch the dawn of year 2000RTE has announced details of its autumn/winter schedules, which include a series of programmes celebrating the millenniumFri Jul 30 1999 - 01:00
Doone the right thingHardly a day goes by at the moment without an issue of medical ethics being raised in the mediaSat Jul 24 1999 - 01:00
Postcards from the edgeThe "fracture sociale" in France between the prosperous majority and an increasingly marginalised and alienated underclass is…Fri Jul 23 1999 - 01:00
Plain eroticWhat would Jem Casey have made of it all? When the poet of the people in Flann O'Brien's At Swim-Two-Birds penned his lines in…Sat Jul 10 1999 - 01:00
Cycling circus comes to small town IrelandProduced by South East-based independent company Vinegar Hill, Little Town, Big Circus is a wry, affectionate look behind the…Sat Jul 10 1999 - 01:00
Flying ScotsmanFor a man who has won some of the most prestigious awards in international cinema in the last 12 months, both as an actor and…Sat Jun 12 1999 - 01:00
Doyle questions`I feel like a very old racehorse who's suddenly found himself on his feet so long that he starts winning," says Tony Doyle, …Sat May 29 1999 - 01:00
CinemaThe Darklight Digital Film Festival, running for four days from Thursday in and around the Irish Film Centre in Dublin, is the…Sat May 22 1999 - 01:00
Parting Shots (15) General releaseDespite the fact that he's been making films for nearly 40 years, Michael Winner doesn't quite seem to have got the hang of it…Fri May 21 1999 - 01:00
She's All That (15) General releaseThe opening scenes of She's All That suggest that, just as Clueless reinterpreted Jane Austen's Emma, this particular sunbleached…Fri May 21 1999 - 01:00
Twin Dragons (15) General releaseAfter a commercially successful foray into Hollywood with last year's Rush Hour, martial arts superstar Jackie Chan returns to…Fri May 21 1999 - 01:00
Talent on parade`An awful lot of film directors hate the theatre, and never go to a play, unless it's to see a particular actor they're interested…Sat May 08 1999 - 01:00
PornucopiaPornography and the mainstream movie business have always had a closer and more complex relationship than the latter would care…Sat Apr 17 1999 - 01:00
Redefining the Irish`At one level, we are living in a period of extraordinary cultural vitality in this country," says Prof Joe Lee in Treo?, a new…Sat Apr 17 1999 - 01:00
Marcus resigns as chairman of Irish Film BoardThe chairman of Bord Scannan na hEireann (the Irish Film Board), Mr Louis Marcus, has announced his resignation due to pressure…Fri Mar 12 1999 - 00:00
