The September 5 star broke through with films such as Boys Don’t Cry. His new movie is a taut account of the attack on the 1972 Munich Olympics
Ignore all the whingers. Go to see the excellent The Brutalist. Take along an architect you hate. The film is 3½ hours long. They might actually explode with fury
Aged 36, the auteur has already made three of the most remarkable films of the 21st century – including the one tipped to win this year’s best-picture Oscar
Hard Truths is as moving and acute a film as the 82-year-old has ever made. The director talks about rejection, vindication and never changing his approach to movie-making
Harris Dickinson may be the most versatile young star on the planet
Reijn’s wild ride of a movie stars Nicole Kidman, in a wickedly funny turn, as a chief executive embroiled in a sexual power struggle with an underling
The nature of being an actor is the need to be able to stay free and open and vulnerable, says the 57-year-old
The former James Bond star’s vulnerable performance in Queer may surprise fans, but it’s a return to the sexually daring films he used to make
Director’s film Blitz, starring the Irish actor, focuses on a tight family of three trying to keep heads aloft as the bombs fall in London in 1940
Actor (61) plays a has-been celebrity who is tempted by a youth serum in hyperreal film The Substance
‘Grey areas make for great cinema,’ director Cédric Kahn says about the Pierre Goldman case
Spanish director wins one of ‘big three’ European film festivals for first time
Venice International Film Festival 2024: One film immediately became deserved favourite for the top prize – which means it will almost certainly lose
Venice International Film Festival 2024: Any more songs and Joaquin Phoenix and Lady Gaga would be starring in an operetta
Real hint of desperation to Tim Burton’s sequel to his 1988 film. It’s scarcely possible to summarise the jumble of plots
Venice International Film Festival 2024: Tolerable buddy comedy might better suit actors who shoulder their age less lightly
They’re not in the main competition. None is opening the Italian festival. Why? Because they’re all here with television series
A special head-scratcher on all things to do with the world’s oldest film festival, now in its 81st year
Venice International Film Festival 2024: Angelina Jolie gives a heart-clutchingly sad performance in a hypnotic film from Pablo Larraín
Immaculately made film keeps viewers uneasily gripped throughout
Among the highlights at this year’s beano are the Joker sequel, Angelina Jolie as Maria Callas, and Pedro Almodóvar’s first English-language film
Paradise Is Burning director and Alexander Öhrstrand, its writer, on their award-winning new film
Todd Phillips’s Joker: Folie à Deux, starring Joaquin Phoenix, lands as the flashiest film in competition
He missed out on a Poor Things prediction this year – how successful will he be for next year?
Donald Clarke: There’s something refreshing about watching a star nudge away the PR training during a Q&A session
Greece Letter: Athens has too often adopted a subservient attitude to Europe and the US
Hugh Linehan: Richard Linklater thinks filmmaking and fiction are losing their central place in the culture. He has a point
A deserving winner of the Best Screenplay at the Venice Film Festival
Poor Things, directed by Yorgos Lanthimos and produced by Irish company Element Pictures, wins Golden Lion
The Chilean director whose previous films include Jackie, about Jackie Kennedy, and Spencer, about Princess Diana, turns his attention to the dictator who ruled his country for 17 years
An opening week of controversy, baking heat and the welcome return of Irish actor Michael Fassbender
Venice International Film Festival 2023: This may be David Fincher’s sleekest and most uncomplicatedly entertaining film in years
There is no more convincing way of assuring your sponsors and patrons what you signify than getting photographs on the front page
Venice International Film Festival 2023: Yorgos Lanthimos’s new film won’t be in Irish cinemas until January. It’ll be well worth the wait
Plus: Who won best actor last year at the Venice Film Festival?
David Fincher’s highly-anticipated neo-noir film will premiere at the Venice film festival
Hollywood stars may be missing but competition will be fierce for the Golden Lion
A sparkling line-up of titles for the upcoming 80th edition of the festival has been announced
In the News podcast with Bernice Harrison
Box office is booming, powered by a handful of smash hits. But look around, especially in art houses and on streamers, and you’ll find plenty of great movies
Acclaimed documentary-maker Laura Poitras has made a film about artist and anti-Purdue Pharma campaigner Nan Goldin
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
