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Arriving in Ireland three months after its US release, Alexander Payne’s film is still a seasonal delight
Paul Giamatti: ‘I like interesting supporting parts. I have no strict rule I need to play the lead’
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George Clooney: ‘I’d kill for some loneliness right now’
The actor-director on his new film, Covid-19 and why he’s not allowed to ride a motorcycle
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Eva Green’s mother says her daughter was among those harassed by film producer
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Will Forte, the comedy actor and writer, star of ‘Nebraska’ and the upcoming Irish film ‘Run & Jump’, talks about giving up stockbroking for comedy – and being hungry at the Iftas
12 Years a Slave causes cranky critical contrarianism
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“It’s a part I’ve waited 77 years for” - Bruce Dern on ‘Nebraska’
After a 50-year career, Bruce Dern is finally getting some Oscar attention. Acting is “an endurance competition,” he says. “It’s like a marathon: you don’t start racing until mile 16. It will take a long time,” he tells Tara Brady
Telluride Film Festival: no cigar-chewing moguls allowed
Cannes it ain’t: the purist Colorado festival is the kind of place where you might spill Salman Rushdie’s cocktail, startle Michael Fassbender and Brad Pitt, or get your film praised by the screenwriter of ‘The Graduate’
Donald Clarke's great big autumn movie preview
What better way to get you through the dark winter nights than beneath the flickering lights of a warm movie theatre? Donald Clarke runs through all the cinema releases between now and the new year
Cannes Palme d’Or goes to controversial film ‘Blue is the Warmest Colour’
Grand Prix goes to Coen Brothers’ ‘Inside Llewyn Davis’
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