Alexander Payne

Arriving in Ireland three months after its US release, Alexander Payne’s film is still a seasonal delight

The Holdovers star, whose performance has just won him a Golden Globe, always liked the idea of the ‘character actor’, even though he’s not exactly sure what it means

The actor-director on his new film, Covid-19 and why he’s not allowed to ride a motorcycle

Festival will open with ‘The Man Who Invented Christmas’ and is predicted to generate over €2.5 million for local economy

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Eva Green’s mother says her daughter was among those harassed by film producer

Our fearless Film Correspondent tries to predict the films that will battle it out for the Best Picture Oscar next February

Will Forte, the comedy actor and writer, star of ‘Nebraska’ and the upcoming Irish film ‘Run & Jump’, talks about giving up stockbroking for comedy – and being hungry at the Iftas

US film critic Armond White lobs opinionated dynamite

Michael Fassbender and U2 make Oscar nominations

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Before today’s announcement, we make a stab at predicting who is going to figure

It was a spectacular year for cinema – but once again, many of 2013’s best offerings made little or no impact on the mainstream. Plus ça change . . .

After a 50-year career, Bruce Dern is finally getting some Oscar attention. Acting is “an endurance competition,” he says. “It’s like a marathon: you don’t start racing until mile 16. It will take a long time,” he tells Tara Brady

Cannes it ain’t: the purist Colorado festival is the kind of place where you might spill Salman Rushdie’s cocktail, startle Michael Fassbender and Brad Pitt, or get your film praised by the screenwriter of ‘The Graduate’

What better way to get you through the dark winter nights than beneath the flickering lights of a warm movie theatre? Donald Clarke runs through all the cinema releases between now and the new year