The Irish Times

Brushing up on your high culture? Forgive my scepticism

The crisis has allowed people loudly signal rediscovered their commitment to highbrow classics

Sat Mar 28 2020 - 05:00

Film is still dodging bullets despite being under heavy fire

The Decade in Culture: As we move into the roaring twenties many things remain the same about the seventh art

Sat Dec 21 2019 - 05:00

Call me a snob, but Marvel’s Black Panther is ‘less than’ Scorsese’s Raging Bull

Donald Clarke: Kids’ movies are becoming the only cinema many punters will pay to see

Sat Oct 26 2019 - 05:00

Modernist puzzle: László Nemes and his bloody awkward film

Hungarian auteur’s new film Sunset shows a vanished Budapest on the edge of change

Wed May 29 2019 - 05:00

Tarantino, Almódovar and Loach head the old brat pack at Cannes

Fewer instant classics on show, but Bong Joon-ho’s Parasite, Céline Sciamma’s Portrait of a Lady on Fire, dark drama The Lighthouse and Irish horror Vivarium stand out

Fri May 24 2019 - 05:00

Cannes 2019: This year’s first five-star film, plus a lonely, whimpering Palm Dog

Cannes diary: Robert Pattinson stars in The Lighthouse; and a crowded market for mutts

Mon May 20 2019 - 13:05

Cornucopias of delight still in prospect at 68th Cannes Film Festival

The race for the 2015 Palme d’Or looks at this stage to be between ‘Son of Saul’ and ‘Carol’, two extraordinary pictures from two very different film-makers

Mon May 18 2015 - 01:00

Son of Saul: A work of high artifice from the heart of the Nazi killing machine | Cannes Review

Son of Saul is potentially the last ever Palme d’Or winner to be shot and projected with film: it would be quite the way to go

Sun May 17 2015 - 15:35

O captain, my captain

Reprising his role as Captain James T Kirk in JJ Abrams’ Star Trek Into Darkness, Chris Pine is once again boldly going where just one man has gone before

Fri May 10 2013 - 01:00

Would you believe?

Palme d’Or-winning director Cristian Mungiu discusses his latest film, Beyond the Hills, a notorious true story of religion and mental disorder from Ceausescu's Romania

Fri Mar 15 2013 - 00:00