The Irish Times

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid – the western for people who hate westerns – turns 50

Steve McQueen turned the film down because he didn’t get on with Newman

Thu Oct 24 2019 - 10:09

The nihilism of Sam Peckinpah’s western came as a shock to the system in the late 1960s and still resonates today

Wed Jun 19 2019 - 06:30

‘Whitey’ Bulger, like the Krays, Ned Kelly and the General, is idealised in film

Fri Nov 02 2018 - 05:30

Playwright and film maker on his new ‘feminist’ movie Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

Sat Jan 06 2018 - 06:00

Actor appeared in dozens of films including Repo Man, Cool Hand Luke and Paris, Texas

Sat Sept 16 2017 - 10:35

David Mackenzie evokes the spirit of Peckinpah in a thriller about hard men from the old school

Thu Sept 08 2016 - 14:07

Steeped in post-war paranoia and such contemporaneous hot topics as psychiatry, it offers a snapshot of 1950s consciousness

Fri Oct 31 2014 - 00:00

Irish romantic comedy ‘Standby’ also to feature in extensive festival programme

Tue Oct 07 2014 - 20:44