The Irish Times

Virtual reality: Even better than the real thing?

Virtual reality is coming to the Audi Dublin International Film Festival with a two-day conference on ‘immersive entertainment’

Sat Feb 03 2018 - 05:00

ADiff review: The Misplaced World plays like a chewy soap opera

What was director Margarethe Von Trotta striving for?

Mon Feb 22 2016 - 18:08

ADiff review: Risteard O’Domhnaill fights ‘big oil’ in Atlantic

Commentators, fishermen, politicians and scientists collectively scratch their heads over Ireland’s disregard for its own waters

Mon Feb 22 2016 - 17:55

ADiff review: Laurie Anderson’s five-star dogumentary

Anderson’s late dog Lolabelle recorded a ‘pretty good’ Christmas album and learned to paint and sculpt in her later years

Mon Feb 22 2016 - 17:54

ADiff review: Drag acts and dusty glamour in Paddy Breathnach’s Viva

A beautiful, funny drama filmed in Havana that surges with rough humanity

Mon Feb 22 2016 - 17:48

ADiff review: Polish vampire mermaids cause chaos in The Lure

A defiantly odd reworking of The Little Mermaid is frequently more discombobulating than entertaining

Mon Feb 22 2016 - 17:40

ADiff review: Victoria is a breathlessly exciting German drama

The ‘continuous shot’ gimmick fits seamlessly into a hurtling story

Mon Feb 22 2016 - 17:33

ADiff review: Monica Bellucci impresses in Ville-Marie

An ingenious film that dresses tropes and plot lines from soap as verisimilitude

Mon Feb 22 2016 - 17:29

ADiff review: Oedipal goings-on in Mammal

Director Rebecca Daly has a knack for carnality in a film punctuated by wailing, nocturnal tomcats and outbreaks of violence

Thu Feb 18 2016 - 23:49

ADiff review: Portrait of a charismatic eccentric in We Are Moving

Claire Dix’s study of Joan Denise Moriarty, founder of Irish Theatre Ballet, is a touching, lucid work

Thu Feb 18 2016 - 18:20

ADiff review: A posthumous victory for Hubert Butler

The late essayist, once denounced by a papal nuncio as a dangerous communist, has the last laugh

Thu Feb 18 2016 - 18:14

ADiff review: A spooky possession in Poland

When likeable Piotr starts behaving oddly and talking Yiddish, there can only be one explanation . . .

Thu Feb 18 2016 - 18:11

ADiff review: John Carney brings the musical magic in Sing Street

The director even manages to sell an absurdly romantic ending

Wed Feb 17 2016 - 16:37

ADiff review: Mustang is a coming-of-age tale that turns into a thriller

Oscar-nominated Turkish drama is both brilliant and maddening

Wed Feb 17 2016 - 16:27

ADiff review: Evolution’s strange sci-fi will blow your mind

Lucile Hadzihalilovic’s new film is an unsettling nightmarish masterpiece

Wed Feb 17 2016 - 16:27

ADiff review: Notfilm lets Samuel Beckett speak

Ross Lipman’s doc makes interesting connections and assertions

Wed Feb 17 2016 - 16:26

ADiff review: ‘Brothers’ is the home movie to end them all

This Norwegian documentary presents a tender portrayal of boyhood

Wed Feb 17 2016 - 16:26

ADiff review: Black, a tale of star-crossed lovers in violent Brussels

A rivalry between African gangs turns brutal in this adaptation of gritty youth novels

Wed Feb 17 2016 - 16:25

ADiff review: Further Beyond explores the life of Ambrose O’Higgins

A discursive meditation on the Sligo man who became captain general of Chile in the 18th century