Donald Clarke

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• November 28, 2012, 21:31

Here’s a fascinating slap of accidental gossip. You don’t often get much out of actors when they’re poncing down the red carpet. Indeed, this might be the only major scoop ever secured under those circumstances. It’s usually “oh it was …

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• November 25, 2012, 22:05

Dallas was a strange show in many ways. To that point — the occasional mini-series such as Peyton Place aside — American soap operas were an afternoon affair. Shot on sets that shook whenever a truck went past, programmes such …

• Film Festivals
• November 19, 2012, 21:10

Hats off to the good people at the Corona Cork Film Festival which ended another successful edition on Sunday with the annual awards for short films. The event always hosts an array of features and special events. But it remains …

• Trailerspotting
• November 18, 2012, 18:25

The first trailer is in for Netflix’s adaptation of Michael Dobbs’s admired TV series House of Cards. It is faintly terrifying to recall that the original series emerged a full 22 years ago. Of course it did. Oldies will remember …

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• November 11, 2012, 21:52

Stay tuned for my upcoming interview with the mighty Michael Haneke later this week. As ever, he speaks soberly about death, despair and fatalism in a manner that rarely bears worthwhile comparison with Katy Perry. I couldn’t find space for …

• Projection
• November 4, 2012, 19:23

A few readers have wondered what’s happened to The Master. Newspapers in the country next-door reviewed Paul Thomas Anderson’s picture this weekend, but it is nowhere to be seen in our own cinemas. Actually, the situation is odder. Folk in …