The Irish Times

Mubi: online repertory cinema for a handful of change

Fancy a rotating visual feast of 30 arthouse movies monthly and all neatly curated?

Sat Mar 28 2020 - 05:00

Being Frank: The Chris Sievey Story – A look at the man inside Frank Sidebottom's head

Review: His comic creation – Sievey in a papier-mâché head – inspired Lenny Abrahamson’s ‘Frank’

Fri Mar 29 2019 - 05:00

Lenny Abrahamson: ‘I was offered some very high-profile prestige movies’

The Dubliner on the exhausting success of Room, anti-Semitism and his ghostly The Little Stranger

Sat Sept 15 2018 - 05:00

A good year for the 2014 Roses? The harvest is assured

Fellow culchies know this festival is all about renewing the land for another year

Wed Aug 20 2014 - 07:27

Film review: Frank

Lenny Abrahamson’s superby eccentric movie about a group of supremely eccentric musicians reveals some powerful truths about art and the disordered mind

Fri May 09 2014 - 00:00

‘If you talk to anyone on set they don’t take me seriously at all – much to my dismay’

Few actors create characters that unnerve as much as Michael Fassbender, and in person he has an intensity that never quite fades. He talks method acting, metal music and making ‘Macbeth’

Sat May 03 2014 - 01:00

Lenny talks Frank: the movie that won't give him a big head

In Lenny Abrahamson’s latest film, Michael Fassbender plays the lead character from inside a huge papier-mache head. The Irish director gives us the lowdown on the notorious noggin, his ‘Celtic Tiger Trilogy’ and more

Fri May 02 2014 - 00:00

Screen by screenwest

This year’s South By Southwest film festival features winning movies in ‘Chef’, with Jon Favreau, Dustin Hoffman and Robert Downey jnr, ‘Frank’, with Maggie Gyllenhaal, Michael Fassbender and Domhnall Gleeson; Mike Myers’s ‘Supermensch: The Legend of Shep Gordon’; and ‘The Legend of Shorty’, about the cartel boss Joaquin ‘El Chapo’ Guzman

Sat Mar 22 2014 - 01:00

Domnhall Gleeson, a star in his own time

It hasn’t taken Domhnall Gleeson long to establish a reputation as a versatile actor, equally at ease on stage and screen. He talks about working on Richard Curtis’s new time-travel rom-com and a forthcoming role opposite his dad Brendan

Fri Aug 30 2013 - 00:00