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Vortex wins best film at Dublin International Film Festival

Laura Samani wins best director for Small Body and Udo Kier takes best actor

Mon Mar 07 2022 - 11:08

Monica Bellucci: ‘I have two kids, I have slowed down!’

The multilingual Italian actor is overcoming stage fright to play opera diva Maria Callas

Thu Mar 03 2022 - 12:45

The Dublin International Film Festival gets off to an energetic start

After a fully online event last year, the city’s cinemas are open again for a festival stuffed with Irish and international features

Tue Mar 01 2022 - 05:00

The Batman: More dark turns in the city of nightmares

Film review: There aren’t any gags, but this new iteration hits most of the right notes

Mon Feb 28 2022 - 17:00

Netflix: The best 50 films to watch right now

There’s been another major turnover but catch the classics while you can

Sat Oct 10 2020 - 06:00

Mubi: online repertory cinema for a handful of change

Fancy a rotating visual feast of 30 arthouse movies monthly and all neatly curated?

Sat Mar 28 2020 - 05:00

Netflix: The best 101 films to watch right now

Half our favourite movies have vanished. But there’s still plenty of great stuff to search for

Sat Jan 18 2020 - 06:10

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

Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time in Hollywood to premiere at Cannes

The film, set in 1960s LA, stars Brad Pitt, Leonardo DiCaprio and Margot Robbie, will compete for Palme d’Or

Thu May 02 2019 - 13:52

Sex in the movies: Why there’s no ‘sick filth’ left to ban

Pornography – even hard-core – was once big box office. The internet changed everything

Mon Apr 15 2019 - 10:25

The 50 best films of 2018

Year in Culture Review: From Lady Bird to A Star is Born, here are our films of the year

Mon Dec 10 2018 - 06:00

Lars Von Trier: ‘I am disappointed only 100 people vomited’

The arch provocateur on his divisive film The House that Jack Built, misogyny and Björk

Fri Dec 07 2018 - 05:45

Climax: It’s Gaspar Noé’s party and he’ll make you cry if he wants to

Review: Unquestionably the dance-horror-musical event of the year

Fri Sept 21 2018 - 05:00

Cannes 2018: Some very fine films amid a sense of transition

Protests, Directors’ Fortnight and the race for the Palme d’Or

Tue May 15 2018 - 05:00

Cannes 2018: who says there’s no such thing as a free lunch for Irish films?

Everyone loves Jim Jarmusch’s ‘80s playlist but our correspondent remains unexcited by the PR for ‘Climax’

Mon May 14 2018 - 13:33

Cannes film festival: the class acts of 2018

Despite a dispute with Netflix and films not being ready in time, the competition is one of the funkiest, least creaky in years

Mon May 07 2018 - 06:30

A revolting orgy of indulgence laced with brilliance of so many images

Despite the Night review: Philippe Grandrieux’s film takes us to pretentious parties and horrible porn shoots

Fri Oct 13 2017 - 05:00

Dunkirk review: No guts but plenty of glory in Nolan’s heavy calibre war film

The greatest spectacle of the summer puts all others to shame

Tue Jul 18 2017 - 09:38

Cannes 2015: who’ll bag the Palme d’Or?

It looks like a three-horse race led by Todd Haynes’s ‘Carol’, starring Cate Blanchett, and László Nemes’s ‘Son of Saul’. Could Hou Hsiao-Hsien’s stunningly beautiful ‘The Assassin’ sneak through to win?

Sat May 23 2015 - 07:15

Love: powerful atmospherics; far too much orgy-based sex in 3D | Cannes Review

Whereas 50 Shades of Grey didn’t offer much you could properly call sex, arch provocateur Gaspar Noé’s latest is very much the real banana

Fri May 22 2015 - 12:04

Irish co-production ‘The Lobster’ for Cannes Film Festival

Film starring Colin Farrell and Rachel Weisz selected for main competition

Thu Apr 16 2015 - 13:24

Heli

Fri May 23 2014 - 00:00

Romain Duris: Monsieur Popular

For nearly two decades, French actor Romain Duris has been charming audiences – and critics – in a wide variety of films, ranging from New French Extremism to ditzy romance. And he look set to do it again in new ‘retro’ romcom Populaire

Fri May 24 2013 - 01:00

The world according to Brady Corbet

Hollywood has been trying to get Brady Corbet onside for years, but he’s having none of it. “I was always passionate about movies, not about being in them,” says the star of Simon Killer

Fri May 17 2013 - 01:00