Television culture accepted gay performers by denying the fact that they were gayOpinion: Viewers persuaded themselves that camp behaviour was ‘just an act’Sun Jun 09 2013 - 06:00
Austrian BluesWhy are Austrian films so relentlessly pessimistic? Ulrich Seidl, director of a grim new trilogy, assures Donald Clarke that it’s a legacy of the country’s past – and argues that while the truth may be miserable, facing it can lead to changeFri Jun 07 2013 - 00:00
No easy way to stub out hypocrisy over cannabisColumn: No politician ever lost his seat because he was too hard on drugsSat Jun 01 2013 - 01:00
Neil Jordan: crossing the boundaries of the creative worldThere is no easy way to categorise Neil Jordan or his work. He discusses writing, directing, tackling national monuments and battling the studio systemFri May 31 2013 - 01:00
Michael Douglas on playing Liberace - the man behind the candelabraHis turn as Liberace in Steven Soderbergh’s biopic has the critics raving. Michael Douglas talks about his portrayal of the camp piano man, his own brush with cancer and Hollywood’s continuing problem with gay rolesFri May 31 2013 - 00:00
Cannes Palme d’Or goes to controversial film ‘Blue is the Warmest Colour’Grand Prix goes to Coen Brothers’ ‘Inside Llewyn Davis’Mon May 27 2013 - 01:00
Cheer up, you’re in CannesThis year’s films have a lot of things going for them, but a cheery view of humanity is not one of them. Just look at Only God Forgives, A Touch of Sin, Inside Llewyn Davis . . .Sat May 25 2013 - 01:00
Cannes Film Festival: Behind the CandelabraIt might have been made for TV, but this biopic of Liberace makes for excellent Cannes entertainmentTue May 21 2013 - 19:00
Cannes Film Festival: The Great Beauty/La Grande BellezzaPaolo Sorrentino’s latest may well prove to be his masterpieceTue May 21 2013 - 19:00
The Irish Martians launching a surprise Cannes invasionCannes has seen many sights, but few rarer than an Irish sci-fi film that is set on the red planetTue May 21 2013 - 02:00
Coens deliver humorous and deeply felt movie with ‘Inside Llewyn Davis’Review: The Coen brothers’ latest film is perfectly pitched between nostalgic longing for a much-lauded era and gentle, sly cynicismMon May 20 2013 - 01:00
Shots fired near Cannes festival jury membersMan arrested after discharging starting pistol on seafrontSat May 18 2013 - 08:25
Cannes streets buzz with grown-up news story after jewel theftFrench film festival shows no signs of being Cannes’dSat May 18 2013 - 02:00
Cannes Festival 2013 : The PastFarhadi has firmly established himself as a kinder Ingmar BergmanSat May 18 2013 - 01:00
DiCaprio and Luhrmann on Gatsby: ‘The novel both celebrates and is an indictment of the American dream’Great Scott! Luhrmann’s latest labour of love has arrived.Fri May 17 2013 - 01:00
Gatsby’s last-gasp review blackoutEmargoes on critics are increasingly irrelevant, but newspapers will miss themFri May 17 2013 - 01:00
Cannes Festival 2013: Down Mexico wayThis potential prizewinner is replete with cruelties of varying huesThu May 16 2013 - 19:00
Cannes Festival 2013: All that glitters . . .Sofia Coppola’s new film shows the director still has style – but what substance?Thu May 16 2013 - 19:00
Cannes opener: not-so-great ‘Gatsby’ kicks off 66th festivalBaz Luhrmann’s blend of bombast and camp spectacle not well-suited to an adaptation of the American classicThu May 16 2013 - 01:00
Cannes 2013: all cinematic life is hereFrom its all-star cast and super-yacht backdrops, to the grit and grime of its underground market, Cannes is still the world’s most important film festivalWed May 15 2013 - 02:00
The kids are all right. It’s the parents who need to gain some perspectiveColumn: Complaint of pornography about Anne Frank’s Diary a silly businessSat May 11 2013 - 02:00
A Hijacking from a great DaneDanish drama is on a roll, – and on a screen near you. Tobias Lindholm, director of new thriller ‘A Hijacking’, discusses its unstoppable riseFri May 10 2013 - 01:00
Don't give up that bus seat for me yet, sonnyColumn: The arrival of a properly pregnant woman on a train can still trigger a chaotic panicSun May 05 2013 - 08:00
Proposal for an Anglophone Europe lost in translationColumn: Ironies abound in German proposal to make English the EU’s lingua francaSun Apr 28 2013 - 10:00
Reese, we hardly knew yeThis column doesn’t spend its time circling cellulite on paparazzi snaps or poking Brangelina with the Aniston Stick. Why would we bother ourselves with this twaddle?Fri Apr 26 2013 - 01:00
Charlene’s wayActor Charlene McKenna has come a long way from working in her family’s Co Monaghan pub to roles in new Irish movie Jump and the BBC series Ripper StreetFri Apr 26 2013 - 01:00
Iron Man 3 review: every bit as zippy as we might expectJoss Whedon’s zippy ensemble adventure confirmed the continuing Marvel saga as a cinema staple for at least a decade to comeFri Apr 26 2013 - 01:00
Coming to a megaplex near you: 2015With new films from the ‘Star Wars’, ‘Finding Nemo’, ‘Avatar’ and ‘Avengers’ franchises on the way, 2015 could be cinema’s biggest year everSat Apr 20 2013 - 07:00
Bicycle people are nice people, car people are fascistsCitizens from countries that use bicycles in disproportionate numbers tend to be the most tolerant and free-spiritedSat Apr 20 2013 - 06:00
