Barry Lyndon turns 50: Is Kubrick’s epic, filmed in Ireland, a folly or a masterpiece?
The lavish take on Thackeray’s novel received mixed reviews on its first release, but has secured its place among the greats
Stanley Kubrick
Seamus Murphy took his camera from the Rust Belt to Russia. What he saw took him aback
The cold war was built on assumptions that Americans and Russians lived opposite lives. ‘What if that was a lie?’ the Irish photographer asks in his new book
An Taibhse review: Queasy atmosphere and good performances drive this taut Irish-language horror
At a taut, busy 92 minutes, John Farrelly’s film works itself into a symphony of niggling submelodies: blood, religion, familial abuse
Dr Strangelove in Dublin review: Steve Coogan gives a bravura performance, but the play around him falls a little flat
Armando Iannucci and Seán Foley’s production of Stanley Kubrick’s political satire leans into broad physical comedy
A flogging and eight years in prison: The risks Mohammad Rasoulof ran to make the Oscar-nominated Seed of the Sacred Fig
The nail-biting thriller is one of the most-lauded films of the past year - and making it involved secret shoots as well as interrogation by Iranian authorities
One of Stanley Kubrick’s greatest films was made free to watch on YouTube. It’s a sign of the trouble movie studios are in
Warner Bros’ experiment with Barry Lyndon and Michael Collins is a sign of its contortions as it tries to reshape itself to modern viewing habits
10 great films to watch if you’re stuck indoors
What to watch when it’s too cold and icy to go out? Try It Follows, The Thing, The Fly, Roman Holiday, Up, Uncle Buck and more
‘Watch your step’: Steve Coogan takes Patrick Freyne backstage at Dr Strangelove
The comic actor is playing four parts in the new stage version of Stanley Kubrick’s film, which comes to Ireland in 2025
Shelley Duvall obituary: Star of The Shining
Critics initially found her performance overbearing but Duvall’s role has since been re-evaluated
Sunny review: excellent paranoia-soaked thriller based on novel by Killarney writer Colin O’Sullivan
Television: Full points to Apple for achieving peak menace from a standing start
In film, depictions of death by robot are everywhere. The perils of midlife redundancy by AI, not so much
It’s too dull for Hollywood to portray, but we can already identify with being put out of a job by a characterless sliver of software
Even with Spielberg-style cuddliness, there’s a cold, dark void at the heart of artificial intelligence
Hugh Linehan: With his Kubrick-derived film AI Artificial Intelligence, the director created a surprisingly convincing version of where technology is leading us
There’s nothing very dramatic about That They May Face the Rising Sun. Which is why it’s such a good film
Hugh Linehan: Stanley Kubrick said a film should be more like music than like fiction. The Irish director Pat Collins knows why that matters
Actor Ryan O’Neal dies aged 82 as a legend of Hollywood’s post-classical era
Barbra Streisand among fellow actors who recalled ‘funny and charming’ leading man
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Inquests into the nightclub fire that led to the deaths of 48 people
Common Ground
How does a post-Brexit world shape the identity and relationship of these islands
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