Nosferatu director Robert Eggers: ‘We needed to find a way to make the vampire scary again’
The film-maker follows in the eerie footsteps of FW Murnau and Werner Herzog in his new feature, starring Lily-Rose Depp and Nicholas Hoult
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Beetlejuice Beetlejuice review: Fun? I nearly laughed myself awake
Real hint of desperation to Tim Burton’s sequel to his 1988 film. It’s scarcely possible to summarise the jumble of plots
Kinds of Kindness review: A pounding headache might be the only reward for your patience
Yorgos Lanthimos’s new triptych film features the talented Emma Stone, Jesse Plemons and others, but it dissolves into a mess of half-decent ideas
‘The intimacy co-ordinators are kind of unshockable’: Emma Stone on her new film with Yorgos Lanthimos
If you thought their Oscar-winning collaboration Poor Things was unconventional, wait for the full-throttle madness of Kinds of Kindness
Four new films to see this week: Poor Things, The Beekeeper, Freaks vs the Reich, Lift
Poor Things, The Beekeeper, Freaks vs the Reich, Lift
Marrakesh 2023: Jessica Chastain sparkles, Mads Mikkelson shows his class and Seydou Sarr confirms powerful new talent
Marrakesh diary: Sumptuous opening ceremony makes Cannes and Venice look like jumble sales with notions
The Jewish boxer who survived Auschwitz – One fight at a time
A new film tells the story of Harry Haft who was forced to fight others to the death
‘I am grateful for the experience. It was like I got a PhD in filmmaking’
Director Robert Eggers on making his bloody Viking epic The Northman in time of Covid
The Northman: Gruesome Viking epic bustles with intelligence and invention
No dull moments in Robert Eggers’ third film, though the extreme violence will not be for everyone
Oscars 2023: My predictions for next year’s best-picture nominees
Donald Clarke forecasts how the category will shape up at the next Academy Awards
Paolo Sorrentino: ‘Maradona inspired me to become a film-maker’
The soccer star was the film-maker’s first contact with spectacle, with ‘a high form of entertainment’
The French Dispatch: Something for le weekend
Wes Anderson’s Gallic portmanteau is gorgeous but insubstantial
Venice Film Festival: Who will triumph as all eyes turn to the Golden Lion?
Reviews: Paul Mescal and Kristen Stewart among stars featuring in this year’s festival
What is Death Note, and is it really Ireland’s Netflix favourite?
An international survey of search data finds Ireland’s most Googled Netflix property in 2021
From Saoirse Ronan’s Ammonite to Spielberg’s West Side Story, 50 films to watch in 2021 (we hope)
The Covid-19 pandemic has caused a traffic jam of anticipated films for this year
Netflix: The best 50 films to watch right now
There’s been another major turnover but catch the classics while you can
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It’s far more than just the food I’m looking forward to experiencing again after Monday
Mubi: online repertory cinema for a handful of change
Fancy a rotating visual feast of 30 arthouse movies monthly and all neatly curated?
The Lighthouse: Willem Dafoe is the best screen villain since Daniel Day Lewis
Review: Robert Pattinson’s easy naturalism curdles into something unnerving and evil
Robert Eggers on bringing Robert Pattinson to The Lighthouse
In 10 years no movie has attracted such a buzz at Director’s Fortnight in Cannes
Abel Ferrara: ‘You can’t imagine the life I’ve led’
The Bronx filmmaker talks spirituality, creative bonds and his Italian-Irish roots
Film 2020: The 50 films to watch out for
The best biopics, documentaries, cartoons, features and award favourites of the year
Motherless Brooklyn: Edward Norton’s overlong vanity project
Review: There is a fine noir here somewhere, busting to escape the Friends of Ed Norton Cabaret
‘I don’t look the way Hollywood has decided Irish people look’
Katy Davis from Clonskeagh in Dublin is starring alongside Edward Norton in a new noirish drama called Motherless Brooklyn
Robert Pattinson: ‘People are very angry about Twilight. I never understood it’
The actor has reinvented himself since the megahit franchise. Up next: playing Batman
Tarantino, Almódovar and Loach head the old brat pack at Cannes
Fewer instant classics on show, but Bong Joon-ho’s Parasite, Céline Sciamma’s Portrait of a Lady on Fire, dark drama The Lighthouse and Irish horror Vivarium stand out
Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood: There’ll be fighting in the aisles
Cannes 2019: Quentin Tarantino reviewed, early Oscar buzz, plus Isabelle Huppert in Frankie
Cannes 2019: A busload of auteurs and pizzazz aplenty
Time will tell about the quality of the films – but the programme does not disappoint
Vox Lux: A monstrous star turn from Natalie Portman
Review: Portman is the pop star from hell in this unrestrained fun ride
At Eternity’s Gate: Willem Dafoe captures the anguish and elation of Van Gogh
Review: The film makes a genuine effort to engage with the artist’s mental torments
Willem Dafoe: I look for chances to surprise myself. But I am not that much in control
The actor throws himself into playing Van Gogh – and makes sure to have fun doing it
Oscars 2019: Donald Clarke’s guide – Who will win? And who should?
The Favourite may be overlooked for the big prizes with Roma likely to steal the show
Oscars 2019: Nominated films play fast and loose with history
Most factual liberties are dramatically justifiable. But some seriously mislead viewers
Oscars 2019: 10 things we learned from the nominations
The Favourite could hardly have done better, but most of the big races are still competitive
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