Moby Dick in Youghal: ‘It was magic. It was just like Hollywood came to town’
In this series, Rosita Boland visits places in Ireland where films were made, and assesses the legacy they left behind
Orson Welles
Best movie of all time: The world’s critics crown a new winner
Sight and Sound’s influential list of the 100 greatest films of all time is voted on by more than 1,600 professionals around the world
‘I was just a very confused actor. But I was really keen to learn’
Mark Rylance on his unlikely road to Hollywood stardom, and why Brits love an underdog
Sidney Poitier, who has died aged 94, was one of cinema’s most beautiful giants
Donald Clarke: The mellifluous Poitier didn’t just break down barriers, he was also of the great movie stars
Peter Bogdanovich, Last Picture Show director, dies at 82
Oscar-nominated film-maker’s many credits include What’s Up, Doc? and Paper Moon
The Tragedy of Macbeth: Lean, efficient take on the Scottish Play
Joel Coen delivers an expressionist version of the often-filmed drama
‘A secret of a life’: Alen MacWeeney’s evocative photographs of 1960s Dublin
The celebrated photographer’s new book chronicles the city of 60 years ago
West Side Story: Sondheim’s lyrics still crackle in Spielberg’s movie
Review: Steven Spielberg revives Bernstein and Sondheim’s classic musical for the screen
Donald Clarke: When is a new take on a movie not a remake?
A complex formula involving several variables dictates whether the word is appropriate
Paddington 2 the ‘Greatest Film Ever’? Giving any film that tag is not worth the effort
Donald Clarke: Rating what movie is best is fun, but a waste of intellectual energy
‘It’s a sort of family business’: Danny Huston on being part of a Hollywood dynasty
American actor reflects on growing up with famous dinner guests in Ireland and Rome
Oscars 2021 will be remembered as the one where Frances McDormand howled like a wolf
It was also the one where Chadwick Boseman didn’t win. The one with the miscalculated finale
‘What the film says is that you can hold on to your principles, and still emerge a winner’
David Puttnam recalls series of accidents that helped make Chariots of Fire a classic
Marion Davies was as big as Valentino. Then she had a scandalous affair
Mank, David Fincher’s new film, goes some way to rehabilitating the film star's reputation
Netflix: 10 of the best new shows and films to watch in December
Including Mank, The Prom, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, The Midnight Sky and Bridgerton
Netflix: The best 50 films to watch right now
There’s been another major turnover but catch the classics while you can
Ghost of Juliette Gréco lingers over Saint-Germain-des-Prés
Paris Letter: Performer sang of her beloved city, of amour, rebellion and fleeting pleasures
Susie Dent: ‘Jimmy Carr is incredibly rude to me. I took it as a compliment’
The Countdown lexicographer on a life-long love of languages, accidental fame and why ‘gobshite’ isn’t as Irish as we think
Women Make Film: A history of women directors, directed by a man – but in a good way
Review: Mark Cousins’s epic documentary is a lengthy journey worth making more than once
Why is Michael Flatley’s spy movie getting so much flak?
Let the Riverdancer release his ‘vanity project’ Blackbird and silence the Twitter haters
Why millennials love The Sims
For some millennials, playing the PC game allows them to live the lives they can only dream about - but its success over two decades is about more than that
Netflix: The best 101 films to watch right now
Half our favourite movies have vanished. But there’s still plenty of great stuff to search for
Film 2020: The 50 films to watch out for
The best biopics, documentaries, cartoons, features and award favourites of the year
Film is still dodging bullets despite being under heavy fire
The Decade in Culture: As we move into the roaring twenties many things remain the same about the seventh art
Gay Byrne cast a long shadow over Irish broadcasting
‘Gay found the pulse of his country and kept his finger firmly placed there’
Tractor inventor Harry Ferguson quietly rolled out feminist and egalitarian views
An Irishman’s Diary: He laments ‘the terrible conditions now existing in Ireland’
The King: Timothée Chalamet stars in a hunk of medieval hokum
Review: Not since Monty Python has a period Frenchman been as absurd as Robert Pattinson
The Troubles on film: ‘Hollywood has done everywhere and it’s always wrong’
Critic Mark Cousins takes a personal look at North’s relationship with cinema for Channel 4
Jagged Little Pill isn’t the only sacred cow that deserves a kicking
Donald Clarke: A new print of A Clockwork Orange is on the way – get your boots on
Robert de Niro: I felt I had to make the ‘F**k Trump’ speech
Interview: The once reticent star on becoming one of Donald Trump’s most vocal critics
Rumours of death of Trump’s presidency an exaggerated hope
Democrats too quickly saw the leakage of allies as the beginning of the end for the US leader
It’s indulgent, disordered and wildly up itself. But you shouldn’t miss it
‘The Other Side of the Wind’ is just part of the Orson Welles flotilla docked at Netflix Cove
Nine of the best Netflix shows and films to watch in November
House of Cards, new Coen Brothers movie, and a double bill of Orson Welles
Previously unreleased Orson Welles film set for Venice premiere
Unfinished ‘The Other Side of the Wind’, starring John Huston, picked up by Netflix
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