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Who is the best movie Jesus?
  • Film
  • Donald Clarke
  • March 13, 2018, 06:00

As ‘Mary Magdalene’ arrives in cinemas, our film correspondent selects 10 great sons of God

Cannes 2019: New Pedro Almodóvar, Terrence Malick, Ken Loach films, but no Tarantino Cannes 2019: New Pedro Almodóvar, Terrence Malick, Ken Loach films, but no Tarantino
  • Film
  • Donald Clarke
  • April 18, 2019, 14:06

Big-name auteurs in Croisette line-up, but only four films by women in competition

Paolo Sorrentino’s Loro sees Berlusconi in a flurry of grotesquerie and nudity Paolo Sorrentino’s Loro sees Berlusconi in a flurry of grotesquerie and nudity
  • Film
  • Tara Brady
  • April 18, 2019, 06:30

The film-maker says his new film is ‘a tender look at the weaknesses of an old man’

How widespread was sympathy for IRA in the South in the 1970s? How widespread was sympathy for IRA in the South in the 1970s?
  • Books
  • Gearóid Ó Faoleán
  • April 18, 2019, 06:00

Irish political parties were implacably opposed to IRA but some members dissented

Red Joan: Judi Dench should have defected from half-baked spy drama Red Joan: Judi Dench should have defected from half-baked spy drama
  • Film
  • Donald Clarke
  • April 18, 2019, 06:00

Review: To make something so boring of the fascinating true-life story of Soviet spy Melita Norwood takes a certain quality

Chimerica: Picture-perfect gripping drama of fake news Chimerica: Picture-perfect gripping drama of fake news
  • TV, Radio, Web
  • Peter Crawley
  • April 18, 2019, 14:00

Review: Lucy Kirkwood’s miniseries is an artful exploration of the difference between image and meaning

Charlotte Brontë’s hair ‘found in ring’ on Antiques Roadshow Charlotte Brontë’s hair ‘found in ring’ on Antiques Roadshow
  • Fine Art & Antiques
  • Alison Flood
  • April 18, 2019, 09:51

Ring discovered in attic was probably made to mark the Jane Eyre author’s death

Loyle Carner: Not Waving, But Drowning review – Hip-hopper’s love runs deep Loyle Carner: Not Waving, But Drowning review – Hip-hopper’s love runs deep
  • Music
  • Tony Clayton-Lea
  • April 18, 2019, 07:00

Mercury Prize-nominated hip-hop storyteller spills out plain, often emotional truths

Monty Python’s Life of Brian: ‘John Cleese refused to ad-lib. He’s a humour fundamentalist’ Monty Python’s Life of Brian: ‘John Cleese refused to ad-lib. He’s a humour fundamentalist’
  • Film
  • Phil Hoad
  • April 18, 2019, 06:00

Michael Palin and Terry Gilliam: ‘We didn’t ad-lib because Cleese doesn’t like it’

Flook: Ancora review – Tour de force return after decade and a half Flook: Ancora review – Tour de force return after decade and a half
  • Music
  • Siobhan Long
  • April 18, 2019, 12:23

Latest Film

The official poster for the 72nd Cannes film festival. Cannes 2019: full list of films at the festival
Cannes 2019: Penélope Cruz and Raúl Arévalo in Pain and Glory (Dolor y Gloria), directed by Pedro Almodóvar Cannes 2019: New Pedro Almodóvar, Terrence Malick, Ken Loach films, but no Tarantino
Toni Servillo as Silvio Berlusconi in Paolo Sorrentino’s new film Loro. Photograph: Gianni Fiorito Paolo Sorrentino’s Loro sees Berlusconi in a flurry of grotesquerie and nudity
  • Monty Python’s Life of Brian: ‘John Cleese refused to ad-lib. He’s a humour fundamentalist’
  • An awful dump: The Ireland that banned Monty Python’s Life of Brian

Film Reviews

Judi Dench tries her absolute best in ‘Red Joan’ Red Joan

 
Dragged across Concrete: Vince Vaughn and Mel Gibson Dragged Across Concrete

 
Greta: Chloë Grace Moretz and Isabelle Huppert Greta

 
Fiona Shaw and Fionnuala Flaherty in ‘Out of Innocence’ Out of Innocence

 

Latest Music

Madame X: Madonna in her short but very confusing teaser video Madonna’s Madame X may be a step too far, even for her

The star’s secret-agent incarnation has prompted scoffing and head-scratching

Nick Cave: ‘Art must be wrestled from the hands of the pious.’ Photograph: Gus Stewart/Redferns/Getty Nick Cave: ‘Perhaps rock music needs to die for a while’
Bono in a still from the film U2: An Cat Dubh. Photograph: IFI/Merry Doyle Rare U2 Dublin concert footage revealed
  • This Album Changed My Life: Nick Drake – Pink Moon (1972)
  • Jade Bird: ‘My mum always said you fly or fall by your own accord’

Album Reviews

Flook: Ancora

 
Loyle Carner: Not Waving, but Drowning

 
Lizzo: Cuz I Love You

 
Rodrigo y Gabriela: Mettavolution

 
Glen Hansard: This Wild Willing

 
All Tvvins: Just to Exist

 

Latest Books

John Boyne: “I chose to write Sam and Jessica’s story as a deliberately imperfect one in order for me to highlight the mistakes people make and how important empathy is.” Photograph: Alan Betson Puffin says it is ‘proud’ to publish John Boyne’s trans YA novel

A sneak preview of Saturday’s books pages

In defiance of a goverment ban on the 1976 Sinn Féin Easter parade, Labour TD David Thornley sat on the main stage outside the GPO alongside senior members of the republican movement Ruairí Ó Brádaigh and Dáithí Ó Conaill. Photograph: Pat Langan How widespread was sympathy for IRA in the South in the 1970s?
Pierre Jarawan: We do not talk about the civil war. That topic is best avoided in Lebanon, no matter who you’re talking to. Photograph: Marvin Ruppert ‘I still find it extraordinary I never regarded myself as the child of refugees’
  • Arise and go: My journey to WB Yeats
  • Roddy Doyle shortlisted for Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction

Book Reviews

The Patient Assassin Review: A crime thriller-cum-historical study
The Way Home: Tales from a Life Without Technology review
Protestant and Irish: The Minority’s Search for Place in Independent Ireland
Remembered review: A tale that will linger long in the memory

TV & Radio

Seeing is believing... Alessandro Nivola as Lee Berger. Photograph: C4/Playground Chimerica: Picture-perfect gripping drama of fake news

Review: Lucy Kirkwood’s miniseries is an artful exploration of the difference between image and meaning

Beychella: Beyoncé at Coachella 2018, in Homecoming. Photograph: Parkwood/Netflix Beyoncé’s Homecoming: Surprise live album drops with Netflix film
The Borrowers: a frugal affair The Borrowers: ‘The Healy-Raes are keeping this country going’
  • Game of Thrones series eight review: Questions of shelter, sustenance and sex
  • Red Dead Redemption 2: Roger Clark plays his best game yet

Stage

A play so dependent on dramatic cliche will be a great success. Photograph: Caleb Purcell Light A Penny Candle review: Binchy deserves better, but it will be a success

Why out of all the Binchy books did Breda Cash Productions walk into this one?

That they meet is a matter of convenience, but the two women will soon have something unsettling in common Spotless review: characters in suburban thriller are defined by what divides them
In Our Veins: Exhaustively told, but given charming performances and admirably quick motion. Photograph: Pat Redmond In Our Veins review: Story of good people in hard situation is pleasantly sentimental
  • Hitting the start button: This week’s theatre highlights
  • How does War Horse work? A complex design of bungee cord, cane and leather

Art & Design

Sabina Higgins and artist Pauline Bewick with President Michael D Higgins at Áras an Uachtaráin where Ms Bewick was presented with the 2019 Kerry Association in Dublin Arts Award. Photograph: Julien Behal Artist Pauline Bewick presented with award at Áras an Uachtaráin

Kerry Association in Dublin Arts Award designed to recognise excellence in the arts

Naoise Hennessy, a 16-year old student from Craanford, near Gorey, has been chosen overall winner of this year’s 65th Texaco Children’s Art Competition, taking first prize in the senior 16-18 years age category. Photograph: Mac Innes Photography All-Ireland camogie player wins this year’s Texaco children’s art competition
A woman cries as people look at Notre Dame engulfed in flames from the Paris’s Hotel de Ville esplanade on Monday. Photograph: STR/AFP/Getty Images As Notre Dame burned, so too did a part of us
  • Hidden artistic gems of Irish modernism
  • Diamonds and Rust and four more of the best exhibitions this week

Unthinkable

‘There is something new in our day – the way we can express invented identities without the requirement to stand by them.’ Photograph: Photothek/Getty Images Is technology to blame for spread of ‘unjoined-up thinking’?

Social media ‘invites us to be so many people at once’, says UCC academic Fiachra Long

‘The approach to knowledge in art and science is different but complementary.’ File image: Toshifumi Kitamura/AFP/Getty Images Rethinking stereotypes about science and the arts
‘Nearly all of us have some desire to do what’s right but a lot of the time our desire doesn’t really translate into motivation.’ Photograph: Getty images Is morality just a matter of following your deepest desires?
  • ‘Take back control’: why the Brexit slogan resonates across Europe
  • Intellectual vices, from Brexit to the Birmingham Six

Michael Viney's Another Life

Illustration: Michael Viney Poisoned and preyless: obstacles to rewilding Ireland with eagles

Restoring the golden eagle to the west has found the limits to bringing back a carnivore

“Like our neighbours, we once depended wholly on the stream, piped to the house by gravity from one of its higher pools.” Nature takes refuge as drought dries the landscape
“The view from the top balcony can be sublime.” Illustration: Michael Viney Clifftops have given me some of the high point of my life
  • For peat’s sake, our uplands need rain – just not too much at once
  • Michael Viney: The beauty of weeping beeches

Heritage

Lynn Scarff, director, National Museum of Ireland: ‘Ultimately the people own this national collection and should be able to pop by and check it out.’ Photograph: Julien Behal Photography What’s the National Museum of Ireland collecting? Repeal posters, bees and a wedding dress

For Lynn Scarff, its new director, choosing what to collect and preserve is crucial

Mary Cummins article on Rembrandt House, a house of 13 flats in Monkstown, Co Dublin, which was home to 20 adults and 19 children in 1970. Substandard housing in Ireland is no new thing
An Indian girl looks at a painting depicting the Jallianwala Bagh massacre, also known as the Amritsar massacre, in the run-up to the 100th anniversary pf the atrocity on April 13th, 1919. Photograph: Narinder Nanu/AFP/Getty Images India’s Amritsar massacre bore the ‘made in Ireland’ mark
  • A century on: the Dáil loan that set the State on road to financial sovereignty
  • RTÉ presiding over ‘complete eradication’ of Irish language programming

Tuarascáil

Diarmuid De Faoite ‘Coimhlint ceol na scéalaíochta’

Scéal comhaimseartha, corraitheach agus dúshlánach é an dráma ‘Baoite’

Timmy Drooley nó Timmy Dooley? Grianghraf: Alan Betson/The Irish Times Ainmneacha agus Neamhainmneacha
D’fhéadfadh an pobal dul in aghaidh an cur i gcéill seo agus brú a chur ar na forais Stáit “modh oibre eile ar fad” a ghlacadh. Grianghraf: Don MacMonagle An bhréag náisiúnta?
  • Má tá an t-ádh leathan, is minic an mí-ádh níos leithne fós
  • An ‘groovy babóg’ ón Spidéal atá fós ar a léim lúith

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1 Fortieth-anniversary rerelease: Graham Chapman in Monty Python’s Life of Brian Monty Python’s Life of Brian: ‘John Cleese refused to ad-lib. He’s a humour fundamentalist’
2 In defiance of a goverment ban on the 1976 Sinn Féin Easter parade, Labour TD David Thornley sat on the main stage outside the GPO alongside senior members of the republican movement Ruairí Ó Brádaigh and Dáithí Ó Conaill. Photograph: Pat Langan How widespread was sympathy for IRA in the South in the 1970s?
3 ‘There is something new in our day – the way we can express invented identities without the requirement to stand by them.’ Photograph: Photothek/Getty Images Is technology to blame for spread of ‘unjoined-up thinking’?
4 In her prime: a youthful Whitney Houston on stage in June 1988. Photograph: RDA/Getty Images The sad, secret life of Whitney Houston
5 David Brooks: America needs to resist the growth of tribalism – what he calls ‘a bad attempt to create community’ David Brooks: ‘Comments are so much more vicious than even 10 years ago’
6 Mr Salary – a short story by Sally Rooney
7 Christ Pantocrator (Christ in Glory) depicted in this 10th-century Byzantine enamel plaque in the Museo Lazaro Galdiano, Madrid, Spain. Photograph: Leemage/Corbis via Getty Images What did Jesus really look like, as a Jew in 1st-century Judaea?
8 Serial killers Rosemary and Fred West Fred and Rosemary West: The clues were all there, for 20 years
9 Ashley Blaine Featherson and Logan Browning in the US Netflix comedy ‘Dear White People’, which explores the dynamics of modern race relations. Photograph: Eddy Chen/Netflix Can you be racist against white people?
10 Oliver Hardy and Stan Laurel with their wives, Lucille and Ida, in Stan’s sister’s pub, in England, in 1952 Laurel and Hardy – another fine mess: The real story of their final days
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