Bird director Andrea Arnold on Barry Keoghan: ‘I thought he had the most incredible face. Wow. What a man’
The English film-maker talks about tough shoots, her working-class background and working with Irishmen Keoghan and Robbie Ryan
Andrea Arnold
Barry Keoghan on playing a working-class dad: ‘I see a lot of traits in Bug that remind me of home. He’s a pure chancer’
Cannes diary 2024: Meryl Streep ‘didn’t quite nail’ the Australian accent and Megalopolis staggers its way to nowhere worth going
Cannes 2024: Bird review – Barry Keoghan excels as a likeable dad geezer
Film showcases director Andrea Arnold’s gift for artful shepherding of apparent chaos, while allowing new and surprising elements
Conversations with Friends: How we made the new Sally Rooney TV drama
Director Lenny Abrahamson and cast talk about adapting the author’s debut novel
Cow: Affecting but unsentimental portrait of animal life
Andrea Arnold’s film shows how we have stripped the character away from animal lives
‘Cinema is not dead.’ Cannes film festival makes a promising return
After cancelling in 2020, Cannes returns this summer with an extensive programme
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
10 great films directed by women
International Women's Day: Why is the film industry still resistant to female directors?
Does the auteur theory hold in the era of big television?
The reality of creative control is increasingly muddy in what is a large team sport
Who are the newly invited Irish members of Hollywood’s Academy?
The Oscars body has invited 842 new members: 50% female, 29% people of colour
Jessie Buckley and Hugh O’Conor scoop Dublin film festival prizes
Critics’ circle awards wrap up Dublin International Film Festival 2019
A Woman’s Life review: French period drama never looked so gritty
Stéphane Brizé has made a masterfully subtle and inventive melodrama
Like ‘Brokeback Mountain’, but with Yorkshire weather
Francis Lee’s ‘God’s Own Country’ feels like a career-launching film
Michael Fassbender: ‘I’m glad fame came to me at a later stage’
The Kerry actor’s professionalism and discerning eye have kept him on the big screen
I, Daniel Blake review: Ken Loach at his most moving - and most vital
Loach weaves many moments of quiet brilliance into his Palme D’Or-winning polemic about the UK’s Kafkaesque welfare system
American Honey review: United States of grace under pressure
Fish Tank director Arnold Arnold further refines her taste for the poetry of grime with a stunning, sprawling American road movie
Andrea Arnold: ‘You can be at a festival and 80-90% of the films are by men’
With ‘American Honey’, the versatile UK director has made her biggest swerve yet
Cannes Film Festival: Ken Loach picks up second Palme D’Or
British film-maker’s win for ‘I, Daniel Blake’ leads evening of surprises in southern France
Female voices to fore in first half of Cannes Film Festival
Maren Ade’s ‘Toni Erdmann’ is a strong early contender for Palme d’Or
Cannes Film Festival 2016: Established masters - and some fresh faces
Three female directors out of 20 will compete for this year's Palme d’Or - in 2012 there was none on the list for the top prize
Cannes Film Festival set to save cinematic souls from limbo
Woody Allen in line to set record while Pedro Almodóvar and Cristi Puiu eye Palme d’Or
YOU MAY ALSO LIKE...
Crosswords & Puzzles
Crosswords & puzzles to keep you challenged and entertained
Election 2024
Full general election coverage including analysis and results for all 43 constituencies
Common Ground
How does a post-Brexit world shape the identity and relationship of these islands
Family NoticesOpens in new window
Weddings, Births, Deaths and other family notices