‘We said to Natalie Portman, we need you to protect the movie. And she did’
Ugo Bienvenu, director of the Oscar-nominated animated film Arco, on sticking with his creative vision
Ugo Bienvenu, director of the Oscar-nominated animated film Arco, on sticking with his creative vision
The director’s latest film, Caught Stealing, keeps more within genre lines (this time, crime caper) than many of his other, less categorisable works such as Requiem for a Dream and Mother!
A film about Sinéad O’Connor could prove welcome
Cannes Diary: Plus reviews of The Chronology of Water, Nouvelle Vague and Die, My Love
The actor on ‘the Harry Potter thing’, his role in Guy Ritchie’s Fountain of Youth, and the gift that Tom Cruise keeps sending him
To play Maria Callas in Pablo Larraín’s new film, the star is drawing on her own experience of fame. But she’s far more ordinary than you might think, she says
With so many services, nobody can absorb this much comedy, drama, reality, documentary, news, sport and movies – or even grasp what’s available
Television: Apple TV’s latest melancholic drama has a nightmarish quality that occasionally verges on the supernatural. It isn’t for everyone
Todd Haynes plays wicked games with our appetite for the tabloid cycle in one of the best films of 2023
Women’s events are attracting record crowds – it’s time to build on that success
David Gordon Green on taking up the blood-soaked baton of the slasher film franchise
The Beaches star on Woody Allen, chick flicks v ‘real’ films, and women making movies after 40
The musician on cancel culture, the Natalie Portman controversy and disgrace
The Drivers License singer on turning her first big breakup into the year’s biggest hit
There’s been another major turnover but catch the classics while you can
Planet Business: Let’s not get going
Natalie Portman and Eva Longoria are also among the owners of new soccer team
Planet Business: British Airways move to sell off its art isn’t an original
Review: Natalie Portman is hidebound as an astronaut heading for a nervous breakdown
Look, there’s Mark Ruffalo and Amy Adams. Even Chris O’Dowd. And a lot of celebrity warbling
McGowan says she ‘lost sight of the bigger picture’ after calling fellow actor a ‘fraud’
McGowan said Portman’s embroidered Oscars dress protest was ‘deeply offensive’
Portman’s dress embroidered with names of un-nominated women film-makers
Half our favourite movies have vanished. But there’s still plenty of great stuff to search for
Film-makers criticise author for saying he ‘would never consider diversity in matters of art’
As Episode IX arrives, how does it stack up against the other 10 films in the saga?
We start with Monos, Marriage Story and Midsommar. Find out what else makes the cut
Game of Thrones put Northern Ireland on the global TV map. Now a Belfast studio is making a Superman prequel series, and, for local producers, the sky’s the limit
The Favourite was savage, Eighth Grade gave us hope, Apollo 11 was cool and magical
Review: She enters under a hazy summer sun – as minor, but beloved, pop royalty
Actor had publicly contradicted musician’s account of their relationship in new memoir
Natalie Portman has disputed the musician’s account of their ‘relationship’. But fear not: his new book has plenty more steamy stories
Musician says pair dated, but actor ‘recalls a much older man being creepy with me’
Review: Portman is the pop star from hell in this unrestrained fun ride
Dublin International Film Festival: Paul Duane’s What Time Is Death? charts Bill Drummond and Jimmy Cauty’s latest singular project
The choreographer’s Swan Lake has been upending convention, and thrilling audiences, for 25 years
Why is ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’ not a musical? Because it wants to be an Oscar contender
Donald Clarke: Toronto Film Festival has fired the Academy Awards starting pistol
The actor’s new films show the devastating effects of fame on young stars. She explains how she escaped a similar fate
Toronto film festival: Natalie Portman dazzles in Vox Lux as Irish films continued to premiere at another busy Tiff for domestic cinema
The Boyle star on his tough-guy role in ‘Get Shorty’ and his county’s referendum journey
The Scottish film-maker on her taut new film starring Joaquin Phoenix, watching movies with her mum, and the awkward fallout from that Natalie Portman flick
Dumped by its distributor and going straight to Netflix, it’s getting rave reviews in the US
‘Jessica Jones’, ‘Love’ and ‘UnReal’ return, ‘The Looming Tower’ debuts
Netflix, now a film-maker, has released a series of weak science-fiction movies
Opinion: Dylan Farrow seems sincere, but accusations aren’t facts, writes Bret Stephens
Each week allegations of sexual exploitation grow as the industry converts them to branding exercises
Analysis: The Golden Globes over, thoughts turn to the most open Oscar race in decades
Time’s Up programme backed by 300 women aims to break ‘impenetrable monopoly’
Dunkirk blows away the competition
`Everything I do is autobiographical,' says the film-maker, so what are we to make of 'mother!', the maddest movie of the year, which stars his psychologically tortured real-life girlfriend Jennifer Lawrence
This incoherent muddle of falling leaves, cameos and tracking shots has nowhere to go
‘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
Crosswords & puzzles to keep you challenged and entertained
Inquests into the nightclub fire that led to the deaths of 48 people
How does a post-Brexit world shape the identity and relationship of these islands
Weddings, Births, Deaths and other family notices