Christopher Walken: ‘I’m not disturbed. I pay my bills. I’ve been married for 55 years...’
In 1964, a nightclub dancer named Ronnie Walken changed his name to Christopher
Edel Coffey: Where have all the smart romcoms gone?
They’re dismissed as saccharine, but the really good ones can give you a sugar-free lift
Don’t tell me now that you never liked Woody Allen or Phil Spector’s work
If you hate everything now and you will escape future accusations of hypocrisy
You could fill a book with doubleplusungood uses of ‘Orwellian’
George Orwell is common shorthand for ‘mean people are being mean to me because they’re mean’
Thunder Enlightening – Frank McNally on unravelling the mysteries of Finnegans Wake, with help from Marshall McLuhan and Woody Allen
An Irishman’s Diary
Woody Allen sues Amazon for quitting film deal
Director launches $68m action after studio backed out of agreement citing sexual assault claims
The English have been getting stuff wrong about Ireland again
Donald Clarke: Brexit fever is escalating Britain’s ignorance of Ireland to intolerable levels
Woody Allen’s latest film shelved by Amazon
‘A Rainy Day in New York’ may never been screened as distributors pull out
After Ocean’s 8, give Reservoir Dogs an all-female makeover
Donald Clarke: And then The Shawshank Redemption, The Sting and 12 Angry Women
The best new films and TV on Netflix and Amazon this summer
Here are our small-screen highlights from now unil the end of August
Diane Keaton: ‘Where would I be without Woody? I wouldn’t be here’
An Oscar-winning performance in Woody Allen’s ‘Annie Hall’ changed everything for Diane Keaton
2016: The 50 best films on Netflix
While some movies have vanished from the streaming service, many have arrived and there are plenty to fill the summer evenings, from comedy classics like ‘Airplane’ to thrillers such as ‘Winter’s Bone’
Donald Clarke: You pretend to like us Nordies but you don’t
Even fervent Southern nationalists harbour guilty suspicions of Northern otherness
The sex survey: How you answered our big questions
More than 12,000 readers participated in The Irish Times sex survey, with some surprising results
Woody Allen: ‘I am realistic in my appraisal of the human condition, but not realistic in my everyday life’
Recent scandals haven’t dimmed Woody Allen’s enthusiasm for making films – though he doesn’t understand why people still want to watch them
Woody Allen rejects abuse allegations as ‘untrue and disgraceful’
Dylan Farrow claimed the director sexually abused her in 1992 at the family home
From tragedy to pop-culture punchline
Reinventing Kennedy to suit books, TV and film has blurred his significance
Cate Blanchett: 'My maternal guilt is of the high-class and expensive variety'
Cate Blanchett's latest performance in Woody Allen’s ’Blue Jasmine’ – as a vodka-and-Xanax-swilling woman on the brink of breaking point – must have been quite a stretch for the immaculately casual mother-of-three
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