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The director’s new film is a powerful study of masculinity set on a ranch in the 1920s
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Frances McDormand plays a widow who takes to the road after losing her job
Lee Isaac Chung: ‘There are a lot of hate crimes going on right now against Asians’
The Korean-American filmmaker talks about Minari, which has won six Oscar nominations and comes at a fraught time for Asian communities in the US
Budd Schulberg: The screenwriter who made Marlon Brando a star
He spent a weekend with F Scott Fitzgerald, saw Nazi Germany and wrote On The Waterfront
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John Wayne: Mattie McGrath references an emblematic, problematic American
A limited actor and probable racist, he is still the go-to icon for frontier bravado
The age-old ‘Ugly American’ trope, after decades, has reappeared
Covid-19 failure has reignited hostilities towards stereotypically loud US tourists
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Relive scenes from The Quiet Man on this idyllic stroll in Co Mayo
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Ireland is not ready for its post-Brexit future
The UK’s departure will force Ireland to make strategic decisions on its place in Europe
Barry Fitzgerald: the civil servant who became one of Ireland’s first Hollywood stars
‘The Quiet Man’ actor Barry Fitzgerald described as ‘one of the greatest comedians who ever went on stage’
Peter Fonda: Henry’s estranged son, Jane’s ‘sweet baby brother’, Bridget’s less famous dad
Peter Fonda, though a smaller star than other family members, helped reinvent Hollywood
Quiet Man director’s love for Maureen O’Hara revealed in letter
‘Oh Maureen, my darling, I love you so much! Your face is in my dreams,’ wrote John Ford
GAA always keenly aware of the big picture regarding its games
The presentation of Gaelic games from short films in the US to TV deals of the modern day
Maureen O’Hara: ‘An Irishwoman has guts and stands up for what she believes in’
The late Hollywood actor grew up in Ranelagh, Co Dublin- ‘I didn’t take discipline very well’
The Dead Don’t Die: The most light-hearted film of Jim Jarmusch’s career
Review: It’s so much fun that one slightly regrets the eventual arrival of the zombies
Fintan O’Toole: ‘Rural Ireland’ has been romanticised up to its neck
Piety about rural values never did anything to stop the receding tide of depopulation
The making of Darby O’Gill and the Little People
Walt Disney aimed the film at Americans with ‘shamrocks in their eyes’. He missed
The Wild Bunch at 50: Peckinpah’s symphony of wanton destruction ages disturbingly well
The nihilism of Sam Peckinpah’s western came as a shock to the system in the late 1960s and still resonates today
‘I’ll never sleep again and it’s all Will Smith’s fault’: Guy Ritchie and the Aladdin fallout
Hate Disney’s trailer? You’re one of a growing number of strangely frustrated film fans
Quiet Man railway station opens to showcase restoration work
Location marks opening scene of 1952 John Ford film shot at Ballyglunin station, Galway
Irish Repertory Theatre: casting O’Casey’s shadow over Manhattan
To celebrate 30 years in New York, the company is staging the playwright’s ‘Dublin’ trilogy
In troubled Greece, a coup may not be likely but it’s not unthinkable
Greece Letter: Today there is that same paralysis and sense of catastrophe as in 1967
Maureen Dowd: We are in a war over what kind of America we want
Trump’s genius for hate and division has driven us into a canyon that won’t be easy to exit
The 100 greatest foreign-language films revealed
Only four out of the top 100 films directed by women in BBC poll of critics
Nobody’s perfect. But ‘Some Like It Hot’ is
Billy Wilder’s 1959 film is being reissued. But how did it attain untouchable status?
In praise of Autumn: Ireland is not a summery nation
As everything turns a deathly brown, it feels unpatriotic to favour any other season
Black ’47: it’s not a spaghetti western it’s a potato western
Irish director Lance Daly has made his Famine film as a revenge tale in the vein of ‘Unforgiven’
The reel Dublin: Best movies about the capital city
Donald Clarke on the best portrayals of the city on film, from ‘The Informer’ to ‘Sing Street’
‘Western’ offers a clever study of toxic masculinity
Review: Valeska Grisebach’s thorny film takes a scalpel to male bravado and colonialism
Patrick Freyne: ‘We are a nation of alcoholic, backside-baring stoics with mother issues’
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