Paolo Sorrentino: ‘Maradona inspired me to become a film-maker’
The soccer star was the film-maker’s first contact with spectacle, with ‘a high form of entertainment’
The Painted Bird: This film sent patrons running from cinema. I recommend you watch it
Review: Wartime horrors and inhumane acts are present from the very beginning
Abel Ferrara: ‘You can’t imagine the life I’ve led’
The Bronx filmmaker talks spirituality, creative bonds and his Italian-Irish roots
Martin Scorsese: ‘Maybe The Irishman is the last picture I’ll make’
The director on De Niro, Netflix’s effect on cinema, and CGI as the new make-up
The Irishman review: It’s good, but it’s no GoodFellas
Martin Scorsese’s gangster film will play well on Netflix, but it’s even better in the cinema
Netflix: 10 of the best new shows and films to watch in November
Olivia Colman is the queen in The Crown, Timothée Chalamet stars in The King and Robert De Niro, Al Pacino and Joe Pesci team up in The Irishman
The Irishman: New trailer for Netflix movie starring Robert de Niro and Al Pacino
The trailer exists to reassure the millions who grew up with Mean Streets, Goodfellas, Casino and The Departed.
Isle of Dogs: A five-star movie that doesn’t put a paw wrong
Review: Wes Anderson’s second stop-motion animation film is his warmest picture yet
Paul Schrader: ‘I have lived in the sweet spot of human history’
He will always be introduced as the screenwriter behind ‘Taxi Driver’, but there are many more points of interest to Paul Schrader
Bigelow on Detroit: ‘Racism hurts everyone. It’s a human story’
Katherine Bigelow’s furious new film, ‘Detroit’, tackles historic racism and strikes some shocking notes. But the ‘Zero Dark Thirty’ director has been taking fire for even taking on the project
Youth review: a vague, beautiful-looking meditation on . . . well, what exactly?
Michael Caine. Harvey Keitel. Jane Fonda. Rachel Weisz. Paul Dano - the great cast ultimately becomes marginalised by the busyness of Paolo Sorrentino’s latest film
Harvey Keitel: from the marines to the screen, from Scorsese to Tarantino
The actor with a five-decade mean streak of a career shows little signs of mellowing. 'I took on the ups and downs," he says. 'Sometimes they won. Sometimes I won'
Second Opinion: ‘Star Wars’: the force awakens reflections on the passage of time
The ageing of cast members since the first ‘Star Wars’ film allow us compare and contrast our experiences over the same period
Irish co-production ‘The Lobster’ for Cannes Film Festival
Film starring Colin Farrell and Rachel Weisz selected for main competition
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