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Amrou Al-Kadhi: ‘Drag gives you a licence to sort of scare yourself and other people. But how do you bring that into your daily life?’
The performer and award-winning author discusses why and how he made his first film, Layla, a buoyant new drama concerning a British-Palestinian drag queen
Julianne Moore: ‘When a friend really needs to unburden themselves, what are they asking you to do?’
The Oscar winner stars in The Room Next Door, a euthanasia drama that is Pedro Almodóvar’s first feature in English. It’s an ideal film for her to appear in
The Room Next Door review: Almodóvar’s English-language debut is stuffed with good performances but sounds off-key
There are things to admire in Pedro Almodóvar's new film but this is a lesser offering from a great director
Pedro Almodóvar’s The Room Next Door wins the Golden Lion at Venice International Film Festival
Spanish director wins one of ‘big three’ European film festivals for first time
Oscars 2022: Who should win, and who will win?
Ireland has its biggest haul of nominations since 2016, but has won few awards so far
Oscars 2022: This best picture list is even better than the real thing
Here are 10 films that could have been nominated for best picture, but weren’t
The serial hoaxer who fooled Morning Ireland with fake news of Kazuo Ishiguro’s death
An Italian journalist falsely reported the death of the author on Twitter
Penélope Cruz: ‘All my life, I’ve been hearing how stubborn I am’
After years of friendship, Cruz reunites with Pedro Almodóvar for their best film yet
Golden Globes 2022: Belfast wins best screenplay in discredited awards
Jane Campion’s The Power of the Dog wins best drama, in a low-scoring night for the Irish
Tilda Swinton: ‘I lived through my 20s in a whole queer environment’
The actor talks about her years with Derek Jarman and reveals plans for a career change
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
Edel Coffey: Where have all the smart romcoms gone?
They’re dismissed as saccharine, but the really good ones can give you a sugar-free lift
Spanish rapper’s jailing fuels outcry over freedom of speech
Pablo Hasél the latest performer to face action for tweets and song lyrics
Oscars 2020: Parasite triggers great upset as cult Korean film wins best picture
Saoirse Ronan misses out; Brad Pitt and Renée Zellweger take home Academy Awards
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
European Film Awards 2019 another triumph for Irish production The Favourite
Dublin director of photography Robbie Ryan wins for Best Cinematography
‘The movie industry’s acceptance of Roman Polanski must end’
Europe has always tolerated the sex offender, up for four major awards this weekend
Call me a snob, but Marvel’s Black Panther is ‘less than’ Scorsese’s Raging Bull
Donald Clarke: Kids’ movies are becoming the only cinema many punters will pay to see
Pain and Glory: Banderas excels in Almodóvar’s personal drama
Review: Almodóvar is in a contemplative mood for his take on Fellini’s 8½
Cannes 2019: Bong Joon-ho’s Parasite takes Palme d’Or
Antonio Banderas is among the other winners as contentious festival draws to a close
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: Banderas kills Banderas, Tarantino makes a spoiler plea, Maradona does a no-show
Cannes diary: Polanski’s latest film screens in secret; plus reviews of Portrait of a Lady on Fire and Young Ahmed
Cannes 2019: Thierry biffs back the beamers – and gives us brilliant bags
Cannes diary: Gender parity, populist politics, freebies and zombies. It’s all go already
Cannes 2019: Jim Jarmusch’s The Dead Don’t Die gets festival off to glittering start
Star-studded cast of Bill Murray, Adam Driver, Tilda Swinton and Chloë Sevigny light up red carpet
Cannes 2019: A busload of auteurs and pizzazz aplenty
Time will tell about the quality of the films – but the programme does not disappoint
Cannes 2019: New Pedro Almodóvar, Terrence Malick, Ken Loach films, but no Tarantino
Big-name auteurs in Croisette line-up, but only four films by women in competition
Everybody Knows: Cruz and Bardem fail to steal this kidnap drama
Review: Iranian master Asghar Farhadi crafts a crowd-pleaser that fails to satisfy
‘Cold War’ the big winner at European Film Awards
Nora Twomey’s ‘The Breadwinner’ misses out on animated feature gong in Seville
The 100 greatest foreign-language films revealed
Only four out of the top 100 films directed by women in BBC poll of critics
New artist of the week: Rosalía
Young Catalan merges flamenco and R&B to become one of the planet’s most vital pop stars
Beast: A psychosexual thriller with a touch of Hitchcock
Review: Killarney-born Jessie Buckley plays dark version of Little Red Riding Hood
A Fantastic Woman: A funny, wry, inspiring film of its time
Review: It’s the favourite to win best foreign language picture at the 2018 Oscars
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