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Ingmar Bergman
Russian posters smear famous Swedes as Nazi supporters
Images of Bergman, author Astrid Lindgren and Ikea founder used in Moscow campaign
Venice Film Festival: Who will triumph as all eyes turn to the Golden Lion?
Reviews: Paul Mescal and Kristen Stewart among stars featuring in this year’s festival
Pandemic movie wins top award at Dublin International Film Festival
Best film winner Apples will be presented as an artefact of the Covid era in years to come
I’ve been embracing social distancing with great enthusiasm since 1998
Donald Clarke: Nobody dares hug you now. The chances of a fraternal kiss are slimmer still. It’s great
‘Of course I smoked marijuana!’ Elliott Gould on stardom, Streisand and Elvis Presley
The actor on drugs, his fiery marriage, and being reviewed by Groucho Marx and Muhammad Ali
Covid-19 has proved worse than the film-makers imagined
It’s hard, in 100 minutes, to convey the slow terror of a virus that kills in low percentages
Mubi: online repertory cinema for a handful of change
Fancy a rotating visual feast of 30 arthouse movies monthly and all neatly curated?
Max Von Sydow’s role in Escape to Victory must be one of his best
Late actor turned in a fine performance as the ‘good German officer’ in war-time film
Fintan O’Toole: ‘The withering god of fever swoops on us’
Artists have always sought to find meaning in pandemics, plagues and mass infections
Max von Sydow: An incomparable presence in arthouse cinema and noisy blockbusters
The Swedish actor, who has died aged 90, leaves a rich legacy of work with Ingmar Bergman
Dublin the last international film festival to dodge the global shutdown
The singularly imaginative film, one of many discoveries, was a worthy winner
The book I want for Christmas: Paschal Donohoe, Alison Spittle, Joseph O’Connor and more
Seven well known readers and writers share the books they'll be giving and getting this Christmas
The Irishman review: It’s good, but it’s no GoodFellas
Martin Scorsese’s gangster film will play well on Netflix, but it’s even better in the cinema
Modernist puzzle: László Nemes and his bloody awkward film
Hungarian auteur’s new film Sunset shows a vanished Budapest on the edge of change
A farewell to Dublin’s Screen and the rest of the old-school arthouse cinemas
Whatever name the building was known by in its lifetime, it was always a city landmark
Steve Coogan: Why I’m bringing back Alan Partridge
25 years since Alan Partridge first appeared on screen, his creator explains why a divided nation needs him more than ever
Without cinematography and editing, there’s no such thing as a film
Donald Clarke: This week’s Oscars news reflects the common, idiotic view that cinema is little more than a type of flat theatre that you can now watch on your telephone
The 50 best films of 2018
Year in Culture Review: From Lady Bird to A Star is Born, here are our films of the year
The 100 greatest foreign-language films revealed
Only four out of the top 100 films directed by women in BBC poll of critics
My Bergmanesque despair is being dialled up to 11
The Oxford English Dictionary’s newest entries include more than 100 film-related terms
The Misfits: Marilyn Monroe’s swansong gets a stage reboot
Corn Exchange is tackling Arthur Miller’s play for Dublin Theatre Festival. Ghosts of John Huston’s troubled 1961 movie loom large
In praise of Autumn: Ireland is not a summery nation
As everything turns a deathly brown, it feels unpatriotic to favour any other season
‘Hereditary’ is a critical success, a box office smash. But do people actually like it?
Cinema-goers are flocking to the art-horror film ... then giving out about it afterwards
May '68: when revolution came to the Cote d'Azur
It is 50 years since the 1968 Cannes film festival was called to a halt in solidarity with protesting students – but don’t expect commemorations
‘When something brilliant happens? I call everybody. Alphabetically’
In Conversation: Gavin Quinn and Aedín Cosgrove, co-artistic directors of Pan Pan Theatre
The Leisure Seeker: Donald Sutherland and Helen Mirren well below their best
Review: The film is a long, slow Winnebago ride to a cold, cold grave
The Magic Flute: Restored 1975 Oscar winning opera
Review: Filmed by Ingmar Bergman, this version of Mozart’s opera is fascinating to watch
The Touch: Ingmar Bergman’s lost drama of an extramarital affair
Review: A complex, grown-up relationship drama is dusted off for the auteur’s centenary
Paul Schrader: ‘I have lived in the sweet spot of human history’
He will always be introduced as the screenwriter behind ‘Taxi Driver’, but there are many more points of interest to Paul Schrader
Phantom Thread: Daniel Day-Lewis is pained and brilliant in his final film
Review: The actor plays a perfectionist artist who makes life a nightmare for those around him
‘There’s an entire generation whose first exposure to sex was depraved’
Rafe Spall grew up during the lad culture of the 1990s, and there’s little doubt in his mind how the likes of Harvey Weinstein were allowed to flourish
Britten’s opera stumbles from the small screen to the live stage
‘Owen Wingrave’ fails to come to theatrical life
Rough Night review: dead on arrival
This ladies night out comedy plays like a feminised version of the appalling Very Bad Things
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