The Irish Times

Donald Clarke: Not every villain needs a harrowing origin story

Timothée Chalamet’s Wonka is the latest example of trend that refuses to go away

Sat Oct 16 2021 - 05:00

Actor known for celebrated films like Spartacus and Paths of Glory died aged 103

Thu Feb 06 2020 - 10:46

Russian journalist Arkady Babchenko did it to expose a killer. But most people who fake their deaths are running from something

Thu May 31 2018 - 18:15

Writer dies in Manhattan hospital after infection, his agent Lynn Nesbit confirms

Tue May 15 2018 - 17:01

Film director, a key figure of the Czech new wave before emigrating to US, also had Hollywood success with Amadeus

Sat Apr 14 2018 - 17:40

Long read: A new generation of San Franciscans believes the drug makes them more creative

Thu Aug 10 2017 - 16:07

The sexual politics have dated but the themes of Miloš Forman’s classic remain potent and urgent

Thu Apr 13 2017 - 07:00

Utopia and dystopia loom large in the work of the Cork-born painter, who died last year

Mon Oct 20 2014 - 01:00

Paul Howard chats to ‘Magical Mystery Tour’ collaborator Gerry Harrison about Tara Browne (the reputed subject of ‘A Day in the Life’), 1967 and LSD

Mon Nov 25 2013 - 01:00

The writer’s second novel is set in 1970s’ New York when art left the canvas and drew on the detritus left by a growing financial sector

Thu Aug 15 2013 - 01:00