Oscars 2025 predictions: Irish actors need a miracle, but what about Kneecap?
Saoirse Ronan, Cillian Murphy and Paul Mescal have struggled this awards season. Only a miracle will see an Irish actor get an Oscar nod next week
Sean Baker
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Anora director Sean Baker: ‘What Mikey Madison did was so impressive. She shadowed lapdancers. She spent time in the club’
The US director used to be one of indie cinema’s best-kept secrets. Now his funny, sexy, action-packed new film is frontrunner for the best-picture Oscar
Anora: A stripper, Russian heavies and an oligarch’s son – what more do you need for a knockout comedy?
Sean Baker’s Palme d’Or winner doesn’t waste a single one of its 140 minutes. No wonder it’s the favourite for the best-picture Oscar
Cannes 2024 felt like a dud. But then the Palme d’Or race took off – and a great new talent arrived
A volley of superb late entrants, including Anora and All We Imagine as Light, created one of the closest races in decades
Cannes 2024: Sean Baker’s screwball comedy Anora wins Palme d’Or
Kinds of Kindness, latest collaboration between Dublin’s Element Pictures and Yorgos Lanthimos, scoops award for Jesse Plemons’s performance
Cannes 2024: Stars get shady on the carpet as the Nicolas Cage renaissance rages on with Irish director Lorcan Finnegan
Reviewer Tara Brady has her pick for the Palme d’Or and Seán Baker miraculously resurrects the screwball comedy
Cannes 2022: God’s Creatures starring Paul Mescal to premiere at upcoming festival
‘Special screening’ planned for offbeat horror film starring Kerry woman Jessie Buckley
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
Red Rocket film review: Hilarious, unsettling portrait of a tarnished American dream
Frayed lives and unnerving relationships are vividly brought to life in Sean Baker’s latest
Vortex wins best film at Dublin International Film Festival
Laura Samani wins best director for Small Body and Udo Kier takes best actor
‘My cheeks hurt because I can’t stop smiling’: Ruth Negga wins Independent Spirit Award
The Limerick star received the best supporting actress award for Passing
The Dublin International Film Festival gets off to an energetic start
After a fully online event last year, the city’s cinemas are open again for a festival stuffed with Irish and international features
The Story of Film: A New Generation – there’s hope for cinema yet
Mark Cousins offers an optimistic view of the contemporary cinema landscape
Zola: A thrilling modern epic that began life as a Twitter thread
Provocative, blind-siding project engages with its source media while standing alone
Confusion at Cannes as Spike Lee reveals Palme d’Or winner too soon
French director Julia Ducournau’s serial killer odyssey Titane wins top honour
‘Cinema is not dead.’ Cannes film festival makes a promising return
After cancelling in 2020, Cannes returns this summer with an extensive programme
Mubi: online repertory cinema for a handful of change
Fancy a rotating visual feast of 30 arthouse movies monthly and all neatly curated?
Midnight Traveller: A refugee documentary that feels like a thriller
This film was shot on three Samsung mobile phones over three years
Prof John Byrne: the man who turned Ireland into a tech world power
He set up the school of computer science in Trinity, which marks its 50th anniversary
May '68: when revolution came to the Cote d'Azur
It is 50 years since the 1968 Cannes film festival was called to a halt in solidarity with protesting students – but don’t expect commemorations
‘It’s a good thing, when you get into trouble, to blame yourself’
In Conversation: Pat Shortt and Mark O’Halloran
The best in film 2017, according to the Dublin Film Critics Circle
Dunkirk blows away the competition
Europe’s innovative tech sector is held back only by policymakers
Brussels must look to China’s example to foster growth of global-scale computer firms
Donald Clarke: Are we living in a time of Trump-era cinema?
Hollywood has a habit of capturing the political mood before it has emerged
The Florida Project review: The kids are more than alright
A vibrant, bold and bright portrayal of American childhood which just has to be seen
Homeless children growing up in poverty just outside Disneyland
The Florida Project is Sean Baker's acclaimed new film, a comedy about children living in budget motels in the shadow of Disney World
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