Film-maker
You don’t so much interview Farrell as curate his conversation. A professional down to his neat fingertips, he gives you, in 20 minutes or so, enough material for a smallish book. It is 25 years since Farrell made the jump from Ireland to Los Angeles with Tigerland. His early roguish demeanour has matured into a more complex charisma.
Fifty years later, the actor looks back on his breakthrough role as Michael Corleone
Actors such as Leonardo DiCaprio were once happy to hang with the Russian leader
Now 48 and starring in thriller Yellowjackets, the actor has discovered how to regenerate
Oliver Stone’s documentary unsurprisingly holds tight to conspiracy orthodoxy
After cancelling in 2020, Cannes returns this summer with an extensive programme
Mud-slinging at Chloé Zhao over work scenes set in Amazon warehouse unlikely to stick
Netflix’s hit royal drama has shaped how millions think of the late duke of Edinburgh
This year we’re back with historical dramas treating real-life figures with qualified respect
Film review: Helena Zengel is brilliant as the traumatised orphan Tom Hanks rescues
The director, who has died aged 76, created a diverse range of hits during his career
Covid-19 failure has reignited hostilities towards stereotypically loud US tourists
Stories will need to establish whether they are set before, during or after the pandemic
Donald Clarke: Unplanned is a laughable atrocity but I’ll be with the other Centrist Dads
From war-zone beginnings, the event is now a cornerstone for the global film industry
The actor throws himself into playing Van Gogh – and makes sure to have fun doing it
Air force specialist served in Iraq before converting to Islam in a televised ceremony
Life lessons from a man who’s lived a lot of life – without ever dipping into psychobabble
From the archive: ‘The most important film made in or about Ireland in the first century of film’
Tom Cruise’s 16 best films over a career that has stretched over 30 years
With Steven Sondheim’s ‘Assassins’ opening at the Gate, what drives the perpetrators. from Booth to Oswald to Hinckley?
CIA and FBI demand some documents in Kennedy records should be held back
This five-course feast takes us from his debut in Tigerland to the darkly comic The Lobster
Lawyers are attempting to bring refugee families over amid concerns of grave reprisals
There’s lots of flattery but little scepticism in the film-maker’s Vladimir Putin interviews
Irish insurer begins major advertising campaign after years of restructuring and downsizing
Newspaper that published leaks by former NSA contractor dismisses calls by rights bodies
whistleblower says Moscow’s online monitoring of citizens is corrosive of rights
In recent years the San Diego Comic-Con has exploded into the mainstream with A-list stars, first-run footage, and the world’s most dedicated fans. Liam Burke on the highlights from this year’s pop culture behemoth
“I don’t care how rare the Pokemon is, it’s not worth your life!”
Obama’s Hiroshima visit is one aspect of a complex history being considered
Crystal Moselle’s documentary The Wolfpack tells the extraordinary story of a family raised in complete isolation in Manhattan
Oscars be damned: JC Chandor has taken a minor business transaction and turned it into one of the first great films of 2015. And the director has plenty more he wants to talk about
Dramatic distortions always risk being mistaken for historical truths, writes Donald Clarke
The actor and director has been in fiery form of late. His latest film, a feminist take on the high plains yarn, stars Hilary Swank as a brave frontierswoman. But don’t dare call it a western
Director tells Beijing Film Festival that controversial historical issues such as the Cultural Revolution should be depicted
Still the curmudgeon after all these years, Richard Dreyfuss - who's in Dublin this week for the JDIFF - hasn’t lost any of his appetite for bashing Hollywood and colleagues who irritate him.
A new documentary makes startling claims about what is and is not healthy for us, challenging received wisdom
Inequality probably played an important role in creating our economic mess, and has played a crucial role in our failure to clean it up
Half a century later, unanswered questions and conspiracy theories still lure visitors to the site of US president John F Kennedy’s assassination in Dallas
Reinventing Kennedy to suit books, TV and film has blurred his significance
He’s older, wiser and still sober but Colin Farrell hasn’t lost any of his wicked streak – and he’s definitely in touch with his feminine side. The Saving Mr Banks star on film, family, fame and femininity
Ridley Scott and Cormac McCarthy come together to forge one of the year’s worst films, writes Donald Clarke
There are some masculine attributes most men have that I don’t have
North reacts angrily to increased American military presence in south
Tomihisa Taue says Japan’s failure to sign international accord rejecting use of nuclear weapons ‘betrayed the expectations of global society’
Singer Jim Morrison and then-UCLA film student Manzarek formed rock group in 1965
Crosswords & puzzles to keep you challenged and entertained
Inquests into the nightclub fire that led to the deaths of 48 people
How does a post-Brexit world shape the identity and relationship of these islands
Weddings, Births, Deaths and other family notices
