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Hugh Linehan: Director set up in Galway in the mid-1990s, when he was in his 70s, and churned out his trademark low-budget exploitation movies there
Barry Keoghan on playing a working-class dad: ‘I see a lot of traits in Bug that remind me of home. He’s a pure chancer’
Cannes diary 2024: Meryl Streep ‘didn’t quite nail’ the Australian accent and Megalopolis staggers its way to nowhere worth going
Cannes 2024 Movie Quiz Special: How many women have won the Palme d’Or for directing?
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Roger Corman: The maker of 100 Hollywood movies who never lost a dime
Genial producer and supporter of many big names in film has died aged 98
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Remembering Roger Corman: Cult film-maker whose legacy can be seen in Irish movie business today
Low-budget film legend who influenced major players such as Francis Ford Coppola has died at 98
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Eleanor Coppola obituary: Chronicler of her family’s film-making
‘I may hold the world’s record for the person who has made the most documentaries about their family directing films,’ she said.
Ranked: the 25 greatest films to lose out on best picture Oscar
The films that were nominated for best picture but never won, losing out more often than not to a lesser work
Sofia Coppola on Priscilla: ‘People imagine you escape tragedy and loneliness and sadness if you can be rich and famous’
The director has always been interested in the romantic progress of young women. Her new film explores universal traumas that accompany first love
Aer Lingus launches sale with new Mediterranean route announcements
Irish airline will fly to Catania, Heraklion and Dalaman next summer
Francis Ford Coppola denies claims that set of his film Megalopolis has descended into chaos
On Monday, a report claimed that the director was struggling to maintain control over his new film
Best movie of all time: The world’s critics crown a new winner
Sight and Sound’s influential list of the 100 greatest films of all time is voted on by more than 1,600 professionals around the world
The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent: Sharon Horgan is funny, Nic Cage is himself
Review: Cage plays a version of himself, similar to his Wild at Heart character
Al Pacino: ‘The Godfather gave me a new identity that was hard to cope with’
Fifty years later, the actor looks back on his breakthrough role as Michael Corleone
Francis Ford Coppola: ‘I didn’t really know how to make The Godfather’
50 years on from its release, the director is working on restoring his crime epic
Kin ends with a shameless rip-off of The Godfather
Clare Dunne is utterly convincing as a grieving mother turned avenging angel
James Cameron: ‘I didn’t understand what impossible meant’
The physics student turned blockbuster director is releasing four Avatar sequels
Nic Cage: The strange career of the former Nicolas Coppola
As his peers retire, he still works like a maniac – and may even have defined his own genre
Cardinal sins: Can Pope Francis clean up the Vatican’s act?
A trial before the Vatican’s criminal tribunal begins this month, those charged include four former Vatican officials and Cardinal Angelo Becciu
Oscars 2021 will be remembered as the one where Frances McDormand howled like a wolf
It was also the one where Chadwick Boseman didn’t win. The one with the miscalculated finale
Cherry: So what do you do after Avengers: Endgame?
Review: Make a dreary crime drama in your hometown, say the Russo Brothers
A film he couldn’t refuse: Francis Ford Coppola’s new version of Godfather Part III
How Francis Ford Coppola got pulled back in to make The Godfather, Coda
Is the book always better than the film? Spoiler: it’s not
The French Connection won best picture but the non-fiction novel is largely forgotten
Breakfast in Ballsbridge: When Audrey Hepburn met her dad in Dublin
He was a fascist who walked out on the family. No wonder the star had father issues
Joe Dante: You have to give a movie time to age, like wine
Gremlins director talks Spielberg, low-budget horror and ‘bizarre’ film market
How Goodfellas and the gangster class of 1990 changed Hollywood
How Martin Scorsese and other crime tales raised the stakes for filmmakers to come
Robert Evans, Hollywood producer of The Godfather, dies aged 89
The force behind many Hollywood hits lived a life of unlikely success and drug-fuelled decline
Thousands ordered to evacuate amid fires in California wine country
Firefighters race to cut defensive lines against a wildfire in Sonoma County’s famed wine country
Call me a snob, but Marvel’s Black Panther is ‘less than’ Scorsese’s Raging Bull
Donald Clarke: Kids’ movies are becoming the only cinema many punters will pay to see
De Niro and Pacino: ‘We are very close... We have known each other a long time’
The Hollywood veterans are back on screen together for Martin Scorsese’s The Irishman
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