Paolo Sorrentino: ‘Maradona inspired me to become a film-maker’
The soccer star was the film-maker’s first contact with spectacle, with ‘a high form of entertainment’
The best designed cinemas in Ireland – old and new
We need cinemas to love as places in themselves, where we visit to trigger memories
Ian O’Riordan: Olympic documentary series keeps focus despite shifting horizons
Darragh Bambrick’s three-part series looks at nine Irish athletes on the long road to Tokyo
In Bed with Madonna 30 years on: Nastily funny, openly horny
Its window into the star’s uncensored world is a far cry from the celeb docs we see today
Martin Scorsese says we are overusing the c-word (no, not that one)
The word ‘content’ has come to cover any moving image you can stick before punters
Curzon Home Cinema: vivid selection of films to rent online
Art house classics rub shoulders with Palme d’Or winners and critically acclaimed works
Gig of the Week: Virgin Media Dublin International Film Festival
Irish-made films Sea Fever, Vivarium, Arracht and Herself head the line-up this year
Pain and Glory: Banderas excels in Almodóvar’s personal drama
Review: Almodóvar is in a contemplative mood for his take on Fellini’s 8½
Italian film director Franco Zeffirelli dies at 96
Artist was best known for work with opera singers and on Shakespeare plays
Bertolucci’s legacy marred by ugly stories about ‘Last Tango’
Oscar winner Bernardo Bertolucci was one of Italy's great post-war directors
The 100 greatest foreign-language films revealed
Only four out of the top 100 films directed by women in BBC poll of critics
David McWilliams: Why Italy had to say goodbye to the dolce vita
Italian industry has gone backwards since the country joined the euro
Awkward, odd and disturbing sex remains a distraction at Cannes
Thank heavens for ‘120 Beats per Minute’ which communicates affection through sex
Fellini’s ‘La Strada’ - one of the greatest weepies ever made
The Italian director’s Oscar-winning tale remains as moving and tragic as on its first release
Cannes 2016: the Palme d’Or really does influence world cinema – and here’s the proof
Every now and then, the Cannes Film Festival’s top prize anticipates a movement
John Carney’s ‘Sing Street’ kicks off Dublin film festival
The Dublin cinemathon returns to its traditional February slot with Audi as sponsors
Claudia Cardinale: ‘Usually you live only one life. But I have lived 154 lives’
The Italian star of such classics as 8½ and Once Upon a Time in the West is now 78 and has just completed her 154th feature. She talks about six decades in film
Fellini pad for sale, would suit ‘La Dolce Vita’ fan
Penthouse apartment once owned by director on market for €4m
8½ review: the national anthem of Fellini
Half a century on, Fellini’s hallucinogenic masterpiece is the moviest of all movies
Cinema director whose probing films investigated Italian corruption
Francesco Rosi: November 15th, 1922 - January 10th, 2014
Glamorous Swedish star famous for her role in Fellini’s ‘La Dolce Vita’
Anita Ekberg: September 29th, 1931 - January 11th, 2015
Swedish actor Anita Ekberg dies aged 83
Star gained fame dancing in Trevi Fountain in Federico Fellini’s ‘La Dolce Vita’
Paul Haggis: “I do feel quite guilty sometimes . . . This is who we are. We’re vampires”
From Scooby Doo to his Oscar-winner Crash, Paul Haggis is a man supremely in charge of his craft
Woody Allen: ‘I am realistic in my appraisal of the human condition, but not realistic in my everyday life’
Recent scandals haven’t dimmed Woody Allen’s enthusiasm for making films – though he doesn’t understand why people still want to watch them
Poet Desmond O’Grady dies, aged 78
President Michael D Higgins leads tributes to Limerick-born Aosdána member
Azzurri no support act for O’Driscoll farewell
Visitors go into game as underdogs having lost to Scotland in dying embers of game
Imagery of Italy clashes with reality of ruins
Rome Letter: an Oscar-winning film may be less relevant than crumbling Pompeii
Bigger, brasher, deeper, where it’s all about money one way or another
Moscow Letter: Changes in Russia’s capital city are evident but a Putin ally is likely to be re-elected as mayor
Cheer up, you’re in Cannes
This 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 . . .
Cannes Film Festival: The Great Beauty/La Grande Bellezza
Paolo Sorrentino’s latest may well prove to be his masterpiece
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