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Mike Leigh: ‘I did a film in Northern Ireland about Catholics and Protestants. I did a play about Jews. To me it’s about people’
Hard Truths is as moving and acute a film as the 82-year-old has ever made. The director talks about rejection, vindication and never changing his approach to movie-making
Army of the Dead: Inventive pulp on a massive scale
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While there are typically bleak comic diversions, there's an atmosphere of surreal gloom that is very much Kaufman’s own
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Sporting Controversies: On August 17th, 2016, an Irish Olympic dynasty began to unravel
Martin Scorsese: ‘Crime is glamorous at first if you’re young and stupid’
The director on his endless curiosity, making gangland films, and how he thinks about death
Uncut Gems: How Adam Sandler and the Safdie brothers made a jewel of a film
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There is no place for cowardly violence in GAA club scene
Club games offer very best of GAA culture, but occasionally rivalry becomes poisoned
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
Todd Haynes: ‘I was consciously making a film that I wanted kids to see’
The director has flipped the script once again with his latest project ‘Wonderstruck’, a proper grown-up film about and for children
Lynne Ramsay: From Ratcatcher to revenge thriller
The Scottish film-maker on her taut new film starring Joaquin Phoenix, watching movies with her mum, and the awkward fallout from that Natalie Portman flick
'My stepfather always told me you can’t trust anyone but family'
Trey Edward Shults has a gift for imagining the worst and his latest film is a horror in tune with these dystopian times
Dublin Boyz n the Hood and gruesome gangland consequence
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Seána Kerslake: the hottest new name in Irish cinema
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