Yorgos Lanthimos

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

Wed Jun 26 2024 - 05:00

‘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

Sat Jun 22 2024 - 05:30

Cannes 2024 Movie Quiz Special: How many women have won the Palme d’Or for directing?

Test your movie mastery with our 2024 Cannes film festival special quiz

Fri May 17 2024 - 06:00

Cannes 2024: Irish films to have unprecedented prominence at festival

Three Element Pictures productions will feature in official selection, with Yorgos Lanthimos’s Kinds of Kindness competing for the Palme d’Or

Thu Apr 11 2024 - 13:43

Oscars 2025: Donald Clarke predicts these 10 films will get best-picture nominations

He missed out on a Poor Things prediction this year – how successful will he be for next year?

Tue Mar 12 2024 - 11:00

Oscars 2024: ‘Very proud Irishman’ Cillian Murphy wins best actor, one of seven awards for Oppenheimer

Emma Stone wins best actress Oscar as Irish-produced Poor Things picks up four Academy Awards

Mon Mar 11 2024 - 07:53

Oscars 2024: Cillian Murphy looks unbeatable. Who else should win and who will win?

It’s shaping up to be Oppenheimer’s year at the Academy Awards. What about Barbie? And could Yorgos Lanthimos’s Poor Things also do well?

Fri Mar 08 2024 - 05:15

Oscars 2024: Cillian Murphy leads sky-high Irish hopes as nominees fly out

Irish-made Poor Things is also up for several awards

Thu Mar 07 2024 - 06:00

Oscars 2024: How Dublin’s Element Pictures has set new records for Irish film

Analysis: Relationships with director Yorgos Lanthimos and Disney-owned backer Searchlight Pictures have been key to Irish production company’s success

Tue Jan 23 2024 - 18:17

Oscars 2024: Cillian Murphy’s best actor nomination leads a strong showing for Irish film

Yorgos Lanthimos’s Poor Things scores a huge 11 nominations, a record for an Irish-produced film

Tue Jan 23 2024 - 16:55

Poor Things review: Emma Stone is properly unsettling in this provocative feminist fable drenched in Victorian horror

This deranged comedy with shades of Pygmalion is a feast of cinematic excess loaded with intellectual traction and psychological grit

Wed Jan 10 2024 - 05:00

‘Emma Stone came up with a lot of the sex stuff that we did’: Poor Things director Yorgos Lanthimos

The master of cerebral weird has made a string of angular comedies with Element Pictures. Their latest, Golden Lion-winning collaboration is their wildest ride yet

Sat Jan 06 2024 - 05:15

Oscars 2023 shortlist: Irish film Flora and Son among the 15 contenders for original song

Irish production Poor Things, by Yorgos Lanthimos, nominated in three categories

Fri Dec 22 2023 - 09:50

Sex is back in the movies, and the Irish have a lot to do with it

Donald Clarke: Hollywood’s treating us like infants. And too many of us like it that way

Sun Oct 29 2023 - 05:15

Poor Things: Greece yet to develop mindset to deal as equals with EU decision-makers

Greece Letter: Athens has too often adopted a subservient attitude to Europe and the US

Thu Oct 26 2023 - 05:57

Two of this year’s tastiest Oscars contenders at Cork and Belfast film festivals

All of Us Strangers and Poor Things will screen alongside premieres of Irish features and fresh documentaries

Thu Oct 12 2023 - 10:00

Venice film festival: Irish-produced Poor Things wins top Golden Lion award

Poor Things, directed by Yorgos Lanthimos and produced by Irish company Element Pictures, wins Golden Lion

Sat Sept 09 2023 - 20:54

Poor Things first-look review: Emma Stone has never been better, and a moustache-twirling Mark Ruffalo has a ball

Venice International Film Festival 2023: Yorgos Lanthimos’s new film won’t be in Irish cinemas until January. It’ll be well worth the wait

Fri Sept 01 2023 - 17:45

Venice film festival 2023: Few Hollywood stars but competition will be fierce for the Golden Lion

Hollywood stars may be missing but competition will be fierce for the Golden Lion

Mon Aug 28 2023 - 05:00

Venice film festival 2023: Liam Neeson and Emma Stone movies lead Irish interest as line-up unveiled

A sparkling line-up of titles for the upcoming 80th edition of the festival has been announced

Tue Jul 25 2023 - 16:46

Pandemic movie wins top award at Dublin International Film Festival

Best film winner Apples will be presented as an artefact of the Covid era in years to come

Mon Mar 15 2021 - 09:42

Koko-di Koko-da: The singing villain will haunt your dreams

Review: Johannes Nyholm’s unforgettable woodland reverie is grotesque and glorious

Fri Sept 11 2020 - 05:00

The 50 best Irish films ever made, in order

Donald Clarke and Tara Brady's definitive list has more than a few surprises

Sat May 02 2020 - 05:00

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

Sat Dec 21 2019 - 05:00

Fifty Shades, Kanye, Love/Hate: The films, TV, books and music that defined the decade

The Decade in Culture: The most impactful books, series and performers of 2010-19

Fri Dec 20 2019 - 06:00

The best 50 films of 2019: Odd, rich, startlingly varied. And brilliant

We start with Monos, Marriage Story and Midsommar. Find out what else makes the cut

Sun Dec 08 2019 - 06:00

European Film Awards another triumph for Irish production The Favourite

Dublin director of photography Robbie Ryan wins for Best Cinematography

Sat Dec 07 2019 - 21:41

Irish movies feature strongly at Toronto International Film Festival

Canadian event is the most important cinema festival in North American calendar

Fri Aug 09 2019 - 08:45

Is there such a thing as an Irish film anymore? Does it matter?

At its most successful Irish cinema tells local stories that resonate abroad and at home

Sat Jun 29 2019 - 05:30

The 10 best films of 2019 so far

The Favourite was savage, Eighth Grade gave us hope, Apollo 11 was cool and magical

Mon Jun 24 2019 - 11:05

Ready for their Cannes close-up? Irish film-makers in the spotlight

Cinema is an increasingly puzzling market. So what counts as success for an Irish release?

Sat May 18 2019 - 05:00

Bo Burnham: ‘You know you’re a mess when you’re 13’

The Eighth Grade director on the crippling angst of being 13 years old in the internet age

Sat Apr 06 2019 - 05:00

Greece combines young energy and ambition with indifference and defeat

Country fares well in culture and sports, but not on the diplomatic and economic fronts

Wed Mar 13 2019 - 01:00

Element Pictures: ‘We’re very ambitious and glass half empty people’

Interview: Element Pictures founders are back from the Oscars ‘fishbowl’ with plans for expansion

Fri Mar 08 2019 - 05:49