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Donald Clarke

Donald Clarke

Chief Film Correspondent

Donald Clarke is the chief film correspondent of The Irish Times and a regular columnist with the newspaper. His musings on film can also be heard regularly on the Marian Finucane Show on RTE Radio 1 and on the Cinerama movie show for Phantom 105.2. He maintains the Screenwriter blog for The Irish Times, but remains otherwise stubbornly unavailable on social media.

Cannes Film Festival: The Great Beauty/La Grande Bellezza

Paolo Sorrentino’s latest may well prove to be his masterpiece

Cannes Film Festival: Behind the Candelabra

It might have been made for TV, but this biopic of Liberace makes for excellent Cannes entertainment

The Irish Martians launching a surprise Cannes invasion

Cannes has seen many sights, but few rarer than an Irish sci-fi film that is set on the red planet

Cannes Film Festival 2013: Last Days on Mars

This film from Irish director Ruairi Robinson shows that the galactic chamber piece can be every bit as gripping as the huge space(...)

‘Inside Llewyn Davis’ is seasoned with Ethan (left) and Joel Coen’s taste for self-conscious humour. Photograph: Pascal Le Segretain/Getty Images
Coens deliver humorous and deeply felt movie with ‘Inside Llewyn Davis’

Review: The Coen brothers’ latest film is perfectly pitched between nostalgic longing for a much-lauded era and gentle, sly cynic(...)

From left: director Joel Coen and actors Justin Timberlake and Garrett Hedlund arrive for the premiere of Inside Llewyn Davis at the Cannes Film Festival yesterday. Photograph: Reuters/Jean-Paul Pelissier
Cannes surges into top gear

Coen brothers take poll position in the race for the Palme d’Or

A man is detained by police and local security after shooting on the sidelines of the Cannes Film Festival yesterday evening. Photograph: Jonathan Gourdol/Reuters
Shots fired near Cannes festival jury members

Man arrested after discharging starting pistol on seafront

Baz Luhrmann, Tobey Maguire and Leonardo DiCaprio watch some 3D playback on the set of The Great Gatsby
DiCaprio and Luhrmann on Gatsby: ‘The novel both celebrates and is an indictment of the American dream’

Great Scott! Luhrmann’s latest labour of love has arrived.

The streets of Cannes were, yesterday afternoon, buzzing with a proper grown-up news story when it emerged that $1 million worth of jewels had been robbed from a room in the Novotel Hotel. Photograph: Eric Gaillard/Reuters
Cannes streets buzz with grown-up news story after jewel theft

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