The Irish Times

Happening review: Unwanted pregnancy in 1960s France

Audrey Diwan’s award-winning study has the tension of a thriller

Fri Apr 22 2022 - 05:00

Vortex wins best film at Dublin International Film Festival

Laura Samani wins best director for Small Body and Udo Kier takes best actor

Mon Mar 07 2022 - 11:08

Starmer’s daunting Labour challenge made plain by battle for Hartlepool

Byelection defeat could catalyse much-needed change in party, says Peter Mandelson

Sun Apr 25 2021 - 20:00

Golden Globes 2021: Nomadland starring Frances McDormand wins best dramatic film

Chloé Zhao becomes only the second woman, after Barbra Streisand, to win best director

Mon Mar 01 2021 - 05:57

Golden Globes 2021: Who should win, who will win and are any of them Irish?

Wolfwalkers, Brendan Gleeson and Normal People could win in the controversy-hit awards

Sun Feb 28 2021 - 06:00

From Saoirse Ronan’s Ammonite to Spielberg’s West Side Story, 50 films to watch in 2021 (we hope)

The Covid-19 pandemic has caused a traffic jam of anticipated films for this year

Sat Jan 02 2021 - 06:00

Saoirse Ronan-Kate Winslet love story Ammonite premieres at virtual Toronto Film Festival

A version of the Toronto International Film Festival glides into action on September 10th

Wed Sept 09 2020 - 12:00

Golden Globes: Ricky Gervais, comedy’s indestructible lightning rod, returns

Donald Clarke: Provocateur returns to host Golden Globes for a fifth time

Sat Jan 04 2020 - 05:00

The Joker film controversy is exhausting. It does not make a hero of its lead character

Donald Clarke: Almost nobody expressing concern has seen the movie

Tue Oct 01 2019 - 10:30

Joker film review: Terrific, tear-out-the-follicles acting from Joaquin Phoenix

Satirical masterpiece or manifesto for psychopathy, this is a beautifully made film

Mon Sept 30 2019 - 13:15

Half the movies at Toronto Film Festival are made by women

The number of female directors in the film business remains stubbornly low

Wed Aug 14 2019 - 12:26

‘The Favourite’ takes two awards at Venice Film Festival

Olivia Colman wins best actress for performance in Yorgos Lanthimos’s Irish production

Sat Sept 08 2018 - 20:43

The Irish take over the 16th Venice Architecture Biennale

Curators Yvonne Farrell and Shelley McNamara have tamed the egos of so many male ‘starchitects’

Wed Jun 06 2018 - 05:00

#MeToo movement forcing change in South Korea

Seoul Letter: feminist revolt takes on Confucian patriarchy in IT, arts, politics and film

Mon May 21 2018 - 01:00

Andrey Zvyagintsev: ‘With Russia’s re-Stalinsation, there are negative tendencies’

Film director Andrey Zvyagintsev is viewed as one of the greatest film-makers but in his native Russia the acclaim is not so universal

Wed Feb 07 2018 - 05:00