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Joshua Oppenheimer’s singular musical about the end of the world is a melodic warning from beneath the earth
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The End, starring Bronagh Gallagher, was shot in Wicklow and seems about as far as you can get from the director’s disturbing documentaries
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Julianne Moore: ‘When a friend really needs to unburden themselves, what are they asking you to do?’
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A Sudden Glimpse to Deeper Things review: A lovingly curated chronicle of the artist Wilhelmina Barns-Graham
Director Mark Cousins mostly lets the painting do the talking, lingering admiringly over the Scottish artist’s canvases
Clooney, Kidman, Pitt and Jolie lit up the Venice Lido. Which of their films will scoop the Golden Lion?
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The Eternal Daughter: Joanna Hogg’s vaporous new film lacks the punch of The Souvenir but casts its own spooky spell
The Eternal Daughter follows film-maker Julie as she arrives at a remote and creaky hotel with Rosalind
Joanna Hogg: ‘In some ways Martin Scorsese has a much greater insight into what I’m doing than I do’
The great English film-maker on her most famous champion, her ‘joyful alliance’ with Tilda Swinton and her hopes that her films transcend their upper-middle-class milieu
The Killer first-look review: An icy Michael Fassbender stars in David Fincher’s excellent new thriller
Venice International Film Festival 2023: This may be David Fincher’s sleekest and most uncomplicatedly entertaining film in years
The Souvenir Part II: There is nothing else quite like this in cinema
Joanna Hogg’s quasi-autobiographical film may divide opinions, but that’s no bad thing
Tilda Swinton: ‘I lived through my 20s in a whole queer environment’
The actor talks about her years with Derek Jarman and reveals plans for a career change
The French Dispatch: Something for le weekend
Wes Anderson’s Gallic portmanteau is gorgeous but insubstantial
Cannes film festival 2021: Irish-produced movie secures place in prestigious Directors’ Fortnight
Element Pictures’ The Souvenir Part II stars Honor Swinton Byrne and Tilda Swinton
‘Cinema is not dead.’ Cannes film festival makes a promising return
After cancelling in 2020, Cannes returns this summer with an extensive programme
Michael Stipe: ‘Cold-ass b**ch was a coat I put on to protect myself. I can take it off now’
The artist and REM singer talks American presidents, parties and photographing his heroes
Nars creates make-up collection with his mother as his muse
François Nars says his mother’s beauty helped launch his career and gave name to his new collection
From Saoirse Ronan’s Ammonite to Spielberg’s West Side Story, 50 films to watch in 2021 (we hope)
The Covid-19 pandemic has caused a traffic jam of anticipated films for this year
Sally Potter: the always adventurous filmmaker
Potter explores the fluidity of thought in her new movie about a father and daughter dealing with dementia
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Women Make Film: A history of women directors, directed by a man – but in a good way
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Curzon Home Cinema: vivid selection of films to rent online
Art house classics rub shoulders with Palme d’Or winners and critically acclaimed works
Gig of the Week: Virgin Media Dublin International Film Festival
Irish-made films Sea Fever, Vivarium, Arracht and Herself head the line-up this year
Mia Goth: ‘I always felt it’s plan A or I’m f**ked’
The actor on staying in character and why starring in Emma is a rite of passage
Bong Joon Ho: ‘Even among ourselves we wonder why Korean cinema exploded’
His movie Parasite is bookies’ favourite – ahead of The Irishman and Joker – for a best film Oscar
Dublin International Film Festival: A guide to the best movies
Women filmmakers are the thematic plank of this year’s DIFF programme
The Personal History of David Copperfield: Armando Iannucci delivers a minor miracle
Review: This is maybe the best Dickens film adaptation since David Lean
The Irish Times view on Saoirse Ronan: star power
The four-time Oscar nominee is the most successful Irish film actor ever – and she is still only 25
Film 2020: The 50 films to watch out for
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Elton John: ‘George Michael was too stubborn to get sober’
Elton answers questions from celeb fans Victoria Beckham, Billie Eilish, Bob Dylan and more
The Troubles on film: ‘Hollywood has done everywhere and it’s always wrong’
Critic Mark Cousins takes a personal look at North’s relationship with cinema for Channel 4
The Souvenir: Like being stuck in an episode of I Don’t Like the ’80s
Review: A Withnail and I-style study of a posh lush, but without the nostalgia
Joanna Hogg: Back to the 1980s – without the rose-tinted lens
The director on her semi-autobiographical new film The Souvenir, starring her friend Tilda Swinton’s daughter, and how Batman stole her leading man Robert Pattinson
The Dead Don’t Die: The most light-hearted film of Jim Jarmusch’s career
Review: It’s so much fun that one slightly regrets the eventual arrival of the zombies
Galway Film Fleadh: Which Irish films will be a breakout success?
Prestigious festival provides point of reference for for the very best of new Irish cinema
Jim Jarmusch: ‘The Dead Don’t Die cast were paid in oatmeal’
The director on fighting to make movies, climate change and teenagers who can save the world
The new Once? The next Adam & Paul? Galway Film Fleadh unveils 2019 line-up
Extra Ordinary, Never Grow Old, Animals and Supervized on bill for 31st festival
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The Irish Times what-to-see guide to the movies now in cinemas across Ireland
French social discontent gets a look-in at Cannes
Flying saucers turn out to be recurrent motif, as zombie comedy gets mixed reception
Cannes 2019: Thierry biffs back the beamers – and gives us brilliant bags
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Cannes 2019: Jim Jarmusch’s The Dead Don’t Die gets festival off to glittering start
Star-studded cast of Bill Murray, Adam Driver, Tilda Swinton and Chloë Sevigny light up red carpet
Cannes 2019: A busload of auteurs and pizzazz aplenty
Time will tell about the quality of the films – but the programme does not disappoint
Cannes 2019: New Pedro Almodóvar, Terrence Malick, Ken Loach films, but no Tarantino
Big-name auteurs in Croisette line-up, but only four films by women in competition
A concert to send you to sleep? Max Richter epic gets Irish premiere
Eight-hour Sleep to be performed, for 200 slumbering listeners, at Carlow Arts Festival
What will win the 2020 best picture Oscar? Probably one of these
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Irish film ‘Late Afternoon’ shortlisted for Academy Award
Cartoon Saloon’s ‘Late Afternoon’ is now in contention for Oscar nomination
Suspiria: The dullest coven on the face of the Earth
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Freddie Mercury’s teeth in ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’? Meet their maker
Rami Malek’s giant choppers were painstakingly crafted by Chris Lyons of Fangs FX
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