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Golden Globes 2022: Belfast wins best screenplay in discredited awards
Jane Campion’s The Power of the Dog wins best drama, in a low-scoring night for the Irish
Confusion at Cannes as Spike Lee reveals Palme d’Or winner too soon
French director Julia Ducournau’s serial killer odyssey Titane wins top honour
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Reviews: Distant Sunflower Fields, The Story of a Goat, The Fool and Other Moral Tales, The Republic of False Truths, First Person Singular, Heaven
Nobel Prize in literature 2020: who will win after after years of scandal?
Experts are predicting a cautious choice this week after last year’s divisive award to Peter Handke
Armchair travel: Look east and discover Japan from home
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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
Two Irish authors shortlisted for Bad Sex in Fiction award
Julian Gough and William Wall join Haruki Murakami as nominees for ‘worst sexual description’ of 2018
Cork Film Festival: An early taste of awards season certs
Hot tips: Yorgos Lanthimos’s The Favourite, David Lowery’s The Old Man and the Gun
Asian cinema lights up Cannes but Star Wars gets the fireworks
There was plenty of Hollywood bling – and anger – at this year’s festival but new movies from Hirokazu Kore-eda and Ryusuke Hamaguchi were quieter highlights
Cannes 2018: Bada bing! Travolta brings the Mob to the red carpet
Cannes diary: Protests against Gaza killings and racism also take centre stage
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
Running makes brain bigger. It’s true, says Grit Doctor
Neuroscientists found that thousands of new brain cells grew in mice when they ran
Rio 2016: Japan’s Uchimura set to extend grip on gymnastics
Country’s venerated superstar who simply cannot rise any higher in Land of the Rising Sun
Mia Gallagher: A decade spent making strange lost worlds
It has taken 10 years for Mia Gallagher to follow up her debut novel, but the almost labyrinthine Beautiful Pictures of the Lost Homeland is well worth getting lost in
Fashion: NCAD hit the graduate catwalk
The themes are rich and varied as NCAD students display materials and ideas
The six authors in the mix for Frank O’Connor award
On Wednesday a winner will be announced for the most lucrative short-story prize in the world
Who should become the first Laureate for Irish Fiction?
Eimear McBride, Jennifer Johnston and Kevin Barry are some of the names that have been suggested in response to the Arts Council’s call for nominees for its new three-year, €150,000 role. The judges will announce their decision in January
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An Irishman’s Diary about a strange afternoon in Clones
Pakistani teenage activist Malala Yousafzai tipped for Nobel prize
Japanese author Haruki Murakami also a bookmaker favourite ahead of awards to be announced this week
Blagging rights: a dummies’ guide to culture
Being in college means being in the know about all things music, art, film, food and politics, so here’s a cheatsheet to start you off
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