Nicole Kidman on sex, death and her risky new film, Babygirl
The nature of being an actor is the need to be able to stay free and open and vulnerable, says the 57-year-old
Venice International Film Festival
Daniel Craig: ‘Sex is surrender. That’s where real connection is made’
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
Steve McQueen: ‘It was always Saoirse Ronan and her mother. So there was this bond. There’s this kinship’
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
‘We can be violent to ourselves. Brutal’: Demi Moore on body image, reinvention and her most shocking role yet
Actor (61) plays a has-been celebrity who is tempted by a youth serum in hyperreal film The Substance
The Goldman Case: A French intellectual’s double murder trial is sensationally re-created in a thrilling courtroom drama
‘Grey areas make for great cinema,’ director Cédric Kahn says about the Pierre Goldman case
Pedro Almodóvar’s The Room Next Door wins the Golden Lion at Venice International Film Festival
Spanish director wins one of ‘big three’ European film festivals for first time
Clooney, Kidman, Pitt and Jolie lit up the Venice Lido. Which of their films will scoop the Golden Lion?
Venice International Film Festival 2024: One film immediately became deserved favourite for the top prize – which means it will almost certainly lose
First Look at Joker: Folie à Deux – Part musical, part prison movie, mostly plodding courtroom drama
Venice International Film Festival 2024: Any more songs and Joaquin Phoenix and Lady Gaga would be starring in an operetta
Beetlejuice Beetlejuice review: Fun? I nearly laughed myself awake
Real hint of desperation to Tim Burton’s sequel to his 1988 film. It’s scarcely possible to summarise the jumble of plots
First Look: George Clooney and Brad Pitt in Wolfs – Too sleek, too chiselled, too Nespresso ad
Venice International Film Festival 2024: Tolerable buddy comedy might better suit actors who shoulder their age less lightly
Brad Pitt, Nicole Kidman and Cate Blanchett are all at the Venice film festival. What’s odd is why some of them are here
They’re not in the main competition. None is opening the Italian festival. Why? Because they’re all here with television series
The Movie Quiz: Who was the last Irish actor to take home a prize from the Venice Film Festival?
A special head-scratcher on all things to do with the world’s oldest film festival, now in its 81st year
First Look: As Maria Callas, Angelina Jolie finally has the starring role she deserves
Venice International Film Festival 2024: Angelina Jolie gives a heart-clutchingly sad performance in a hypnotic film from Pablo Larraín
Paradise Is Burning: Bianca Delbravo is a revelation in Mika Gustafson’s fine debut drama
Immaculately made film keeps viewers uneasily gripped throughout
Why George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Lady Gaga and Joaquin Phoenix will be at Venice film festival
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
Mika Gustafson: ‘I’m a huge fan of actors. When something comes alive it is almost like magic’
Paradise Is Burning director and Alexander Öhrstrand, its writer, on their award-winning new film
Venice film festival 2024: Angelina Jolie, George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Nicole Kidman and Lady Gaga among stellar line-up
Todd Phillips’s Joker: Folie à Deux, starring Joaquin Phoenix, lands as the flashiest film in competition
Oscars 2025: Donald Clarke predicts these 10 films will get best-picture nominations
He missed out on a Poor Things prediction this year – how successful will he be for next year?
‘F**k you. Next question’: The day Adam Driver ran out of patience
Donald Clarke: There’s something refreshing about watching a star nudge away the PR training during a Q&A session
Poor Things: Greece yet to develop mindset to deal as equals with EU decision-makers
Greece Letter: Athens has too often adopted a subservient attitude to Europe and the US
Is the age of distraction killing indie cinema, or is that just old person talk?
Hugh Linehan: Richard Linklater thinks filmmaking and fiction are losing their central place in the culture. He has a point
El Conde: The ghosts of fascism past are back in their very own Gothic horror
A deserving winner of the Best Screenplay at the Venice Film Festival
Venice film festival: Irish-produced Poor Things wins top Golden Lion award
Poor Things, directed by Yorgos Lanthimos and produced by Irish company Element Pictures, wins Golden Lion
Pablo Larraín on his Pinochet film: ‘It’s a vampire movie. It’s also a farce. It deals with horrific, horrific people’
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
Venice International Film Festival: An Irish film becomes favourite to win the Golden Lion
An opening week of controversy, baking heat and the welcome return of Irish actor Michael Fassbender
The Killer first-look review: An icy Michael Fassbender stars in David Fincher’s excellent new thriller
Venice International Film Festival 2023: This may be David Fincher’s sleekest and most uncomplicatedly entertaining film in years
Why red carpets still matter even to striking Hollywood stars
There is no more convincing way of assuring your sponsors and patrons what you signify than getting photographs on the front page
Poor Things first-look review: Emma Stone has never been better, and a moustache-twirling Mark Ruffalo has a ball
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
The Movie Quiz: How many Irish films have won the Golden Lion?
Plus: Who won best actor last year at the Venice Film Festival?
The Killer: First trailer released for new Netflix thriller starring Michael Fassbender
David Fincher’s highly-anticipated neo-noir film will premiere at the Venice film festival
Venice film festival 2023: Few Hollywood stars but competition will be fierce for the Golden Lion
Hollywood stars may be missing but competition will be fierce for the Golden Lion
Venice film festival 2023: Liam Neeson and Emma Stone movies lead Irish interest as line-up unveiled
A sparkling line-up of titles for the upcoming 80th edition of the festival has been announced
As Barbenheimer scores at the box office, Hollywood is in turmoil
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The 10 best films of 2023 so far – in reverse order
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
The remarkable audacious life of US photographer and activist Nan Goldin
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