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Lars von Trier
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Sex is back in the movies, and the Irish have a lot to do with it
Donald Clarke: Hollywood’s treating us like infants. And too many of us like it that way
The Kingdom: Exodus – Lars Von Trier at his dementedly mischievous best
The Danish director’s diagnosis with Parkinson’s disease adds new poignancy to the morbid humour
The best new movies coming to cinema and TV this summer
Films are once again being shown on big screens, as well as on Netflix and Disney+
Thomas Vinterberg: ‘We were fascinated with the dark side of drinking’
Danish director of Another Round on creativity, destruction and temptation of money
Sex, swearing and flushing the loo: How these films broke big-screen taboos
The new indie comedy Saint Frances features period sex – cinema has travelled a long way
Bryce Dallas Howard: ‘Dads changing diapers is still somehow revolutionary’
The actor has made a film about fathers – including her own, the Hollywood director Ron
Connie Nielsen on Sea Fever: ‘Right now the film has taken on a whole new depth’
The actor on her salty turn in Neasa Hardiman’s contagion-themed debut feature
Mia Goth: ‘I always felt it’s plan A or I’m f**ked’
The actor on staying in character and why starring in Emma is a rite of passage
The 25 best films of the 2010s. None of them won best-picture Oscar
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‘I don’t look the way Hollywood has decided Irish people look’
Katy Davis from Clonskeagh in Dublin is starring alongside Edward Norton in a new noirish drama called Motherless Brooklyn
Nothing boosts the cinema experience like a mass walkout
Why are audience members so eager to flee screenings of The Painted Bird?
Cats trailer: It's like if celebrities became deformed mutant cats but were still kind of sexy
Patrick Freyne: A bunch of cats in an alleyway is not remotely as magical as this film depicts
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The Favourite was savage, Eighth Grade gave us hope, Apollo 11 was cool and magical
As KLF they burned £1m. Now they’re firing bricks of human ashes
Dublin International Film Festival: Paul Duane’s What Time Is Death? charts Bill Drummond and Jimmy Cauty’s latest singular project
Bruno Ganz, actor who played Hitler in ‘Downfall’, dies aged 77
Actor, who was diagnosed with cancer, was a key figure in German cinema
The House that Jack Built: Lars von Trier delights in sadism for sadism’s sake
Review: The director embraces all his worst instincts in this horrible film
Lars Von Trier: ‘I am disappointed only 100 people vomited’
The arch provocateur on his divisive film The House that Jack Built, misogyny and Björk
Michael Moore blasts Trump in new Fahrenheit 11/9 documentary
Toronto film festival: Natalie Portman dazzles in Vox Lux as Irish films continued to premiere at another busy Tiff for domestic cinema
My Friend Dahmer: The lunatic as a confused young man
Review: This biopic reminds us what a terrifying place American high school can be
Cannes 2018: Von Trier tells me he wanted more walkouts and denies Bjork allegation
Cannes diary: our film correspondent meets the controversial director and rounds up the rest of the news
Asian cinema lights up Cannes but Star Wars gets the fireworks
There was plenty of Hollywood bling – and anger – at this year’s festival but new movies from Hirokazu Kore-eda and Ryusuke Hamaguchi were quieter highlights
Cannes 2018: Bada bing! Travolta brings the Mob to the red carpet
Cannes diary: Protests against Gaza killings and racism also take centre stage
Cannes 2018: walkouts galore at von Trier screening
Cannes diary: Spike Lee’s black Klan comedy, Wim Wenders’s Papal pic and Lars von Trier’s latest outrage
Cannes 2018: Some very fine films amid a sense of transition
Protests, Directors’ Fortnight and the race for the Palme d’Or
Cannes film festival: the class acts of 2018
Despite a dispute with Netflix and films not being ready in time, the competition is one of the funkiest, least creaky in years
‘The end of all operas are tragic, normally, so I’m terrible at crying’
In conversation: Tara Erraught and Fergus Sheil
Cannes 2018: line-up features Jean-Luc Godard, Spike Lee and fresh faces
Programme flush with exciting talent but only three of 18 films competing for Palme d’Or have female directors
‘I’ve great difficulty finding roles that aren’t just dying women’
Kristin Scott Thomas on how French cinema has better roles for women, playing Churchill's wife – and Brexit
‘Any chance of a passport?’ asks the Queen while Lars Von Trier takes on Mrs Brown
Patrick Freyne previews this year’s Christmas TV and gives away some plot twists
Noel Edmonds’s new show is beautifully boring
After just three weeks Noel Edmonds’s odd new show may be facing cancellation – and not because it’s cheap cheap cheap
It Comes at Night: Brutally alone at the end of the world
Trey Shults dark, brilliant film about the suspicion of strangers gets us right inside the mind of the suspicious
John Hurt: A brilliant actor who ‘never lost his sense of adolescent mischief’
Honorary Irishman was among the cleverest actors of his (or any other) generation
John Hurt obituary: Open-hearted and hysterically funny
In later years his face developed creases like the famous ‘lived-in’ face of Samuel Beckett
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