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Wes Anderson’s Gallic portmanteau is gorgeous but insubstantial
The Capote Tapes: From impoverished childhood to cocaine-fuelled decline
‘I felt like his story hadn’t been told,’ Ebs Burnough says about his Truman Capote documentary
The Hands of Franky Machine: A musical movie for the ears
Hour-long audio drama is a love letter to 1950s noir, set in a dirty near-future cityscape
Lovecraft Country: American TV shows its true colours. And it’s exhilarating
Racist sheriffs, not tentacled beasts, provide the real scares in this take on Jim Crow’s US
Mubi: online repertory cinema for a handful of change
Fancy a rotating visual feast of 30 arthouse movies monthly and all neatly curated?
Turner Prize nominee surprised at North’s lack of protests over Brexit
Film exploring role of women in civil rights movement shortlisted for prestigious award
Lou Reed the rock poet: When should songs be considered poetry?
Dylan, Patti Smith, Gil Scott-Heron and Lou Reed wrote song-poems that transcended pop, and bands such as Fontaines DC are keeping rock and poetry in perfect rhyme
A Drop of Patience: Insight into US and race by original woke writer
Black identity and disability are examined in William Melvin Kelley’s rediscovered classic
The Irish Times view on Toni Morrison: Seer and truth-teller
Morrison was a recipient of that rare combination, popular and critical acclaim
Yara Shahidi: Oprah Winfrey's tip for US president
The fluency of this politically engaged actor, just 19, is staggering. Maybe Oprah is right?
The 10 best films of 2019 so far
The Favourite was savage, Eighth Grade gave us hope, Apollo 11 was cool and magical
Ulster American review: Exasperations, ultimatums and wearying repetition
The trouble with polemicists, in David Ireland’s satire, is that they might mean what they say
Oscars 2019: Olivia Colman and Green Book triumph in a night of shocks
Green Book is best film, Bohemian Rhapsody wins most. Glenn Close overlooked for 7th time
If Beale Street Could Talk: A seductive, exemplary movie
Review: Barry Jenkins’s third film is least as good as his Oscar-winning Moonlight
Barry Jenkins: ‘Being poor and black in Miami was all I knew’
The 'If Beale Street Could Talk' director on the Oscars mix-up and what's next
Oscars 2019: Here’s who I predict will be nominated today
Donald Clarke: If I get fewer than 80% of these correct I’ll be disappointed
Policing the borderlands of fiction and non-fiction
For serious writers, invention in reportage remains taboo
A Different Drummer by William Melvin Kelley: The new ‘Stoner’?
Rediscovered classic from a black American writer imagines a different Deep South
‘I never thought I would like free jazz, but I really do’
In conversation: Daniel McIntyre and Parker Mulherin, musicians
Theatre access is always a compromise for those with a disability
The message is that, at best, we are a nuisance; at worst, we are not welcome
Oscars 2019: My money’s on Lady Gaga and ‘A Star Is Born’
Donald Clarke: Toronto Film Festival has fired the Academy Awards starting pistol
Toronto may not have the Cannes kudos, but the gap is closing
Audience input and domestic films make TIFF more than just an Oscar barometer
Toronto film festival: Oscar contenders ‘Roma’ and ‘Beale Street’ impress
Academy Award talk is a tradition in Toronto, and this year’s festival is no different
Irish films in the mix at Venice and Toronto festivals
The Favourite from Yorgos Lanthimos will compete for the Golden Lion at Venice and John Butler’s Papi Chulo will premiere at Toronto
The Young Karl Marx: Birth of a working-class superhero
Review: A cerebral bromance between the charismatic Marx and the rakish Engels
A Wrinkle in Time: Oprah towers over this sprawling, messy film
Review: It’s a mish-mash of quantum physics, trippy adventure and glitter
Which films will be up for next year’s Oscars? These ones will
Donald Clarke predicts 2019’s Best Picture nominees. He was nearly half right this year
The best in film 2017, according to the Dublin Film Critics Circle
Dunkirk blows away the competition
Warren Beatty: ‘I’ve had 16 books written about me. All baloney’
Warren Beatty, a true Hollywood maverick, sets the record straight on his six-decade-long career and the state of cinema today
This documentary will make you rethink everything about US black history
I Am Not Your Negro is already attracting the attention of bigots for its brilliance
May and EU can’t dictate that line of malice be redrawn
Ireland’s call: Border question needs to be isolated from sphere of economics
Oscars 2017 predictions: What should win, and what will win
‘La La Land’ or ‘Moonlight’? Emma Stone or Natalie Portman? Casey Affleck or Denzel Washington? Donald Clarke makes his predictions for Sunday night's Oscars ceremony
‘There’s a whole group of black actors who won’t do Othello’
American actor Peter Macon is playing Othello for the fourth time in the Abbey’s new production, and his love-hate relationship with the ‘problematic material’ is what keeps him coming back
‘Ragtime’ author EL Doctorow dies at age 84
Doctorow was born in New York and named after American writer Edgar Allen Poe
F.B. Eyes: 50 years of policing African American literature
New book explores how J. Edgar Hoover’s ghostreaders monitored half of all known African American writers working between 1919 and 1972
Beyonce rules at the MTV music awards
Miley Cyrus let a homeless man accept her video of the year award
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