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Françoise Lebrun (centre) with Jean-Pierre Léaud in Jean Eustache’s 1973 film La Maman et la Putain (The Mother and the Whore): ‘I always listen to directors.’ Françoise Lebrun: ‘I’m just an actor. I can only interpret’
  • Tara Brady
  • May 16, 2022

Star of La Maman et La Putain on her role in Gaspar Noé’s film about age and Alzheimer’s

‘Things unfolded in a way we could not have anticipated,’ the academy said in a statement. Photograph: Arturo Holmes/FilmMagic Will Smith refused to leave Oscars after slap, Academy says
  • March 31, 2022

Rock also addressed the incident at a sold-out show where he received a standing ovation

File photograph of US actor Bruce Willis who is stepping away from acting. Photograph: Will Oliver/PA Bruce Willis retires from acting as condition impacts cognitive abilities
  • March 30, 2022

Die Hard actor recently diagnosed with aphasia, his family has announced

Mick Jagger stripped off in Performance, dragged up in Bent and wore a bucket on his head in Ned Kelly. Photograph: Luca Carlino/NurPhoto via Getty Images Mick Jagger: ‘It was so long ago I can’t remember. I didn’t know what I was doing’
  • Ryan Gilbey
  • March 30, 2022

As he lends his glorious voice to a new spy thriller, the Rolling Stone relives his greatest roles

Slapgate: Will Smith, Jada Pinkett Smith and Chris Rock. Photograph: Angela Weiss and Robyn Beck/AFP Jada Pinkett Smith calls for ‘healing’ in first comment since Oscars slap
  • March 30, 2022

‘This is a season for healing. And I’m here for it,’ actor and wife of Will Smith says

Harry Wootliff: ‘I definitely want to champion the sort of woman that can’t easily be put in a box and that has different emotions, sometimes buried’ Harry Wootliff: ‘That’s my genre – smart, strong women making bad choices’ 
  • Tara Brady
  • March 30, 2022

The British film-maker on her new drama True Things and being true to herself

Lily Gladstone and Leonardo di Caprio in Killers of the Flower Moon Oscars 2023: My predictions for next year’s best-picture nominees
  • Donald Clarke
  • March 29, 2022

Donald Clarke forecasts how the category will shape up at the next Academy Awards

Will Smith won an Oscar on Sunday for best actor in a leading role for King Richard. Photograph: Patrick T Fallon/AFP via Getty Images Could the Academy revoke Will Smith’s Oscar?
  • March 29, 2022

The Academy will decide this week if Smith will be disciplined for slapping Chris Rock

Will Smith walks onstage and slaps Chris Rock after the comedian made a joke about Smith’s wife, Jada Pinkett Smith, at the 94th Academy Awards in Los Angeles on Sunday. Photograph: Ruth Fremson/The New York Times Will Smith apologises to Chris Rock after on stage Oscars slap
  • March 29, 2022

The Academy denounced Smith’s actions and opened an inquiry into the incident

Frances McDormand in Nomadland Oscars: The last 22 best picture winners – in order of greatness
  • Donald Clarke
  • March 29, 2022

Where does this year’s winner, CODA, sit in our ranking of 21st-century Oscar winners?

This combination of picture shows US actor Will Smith approach and slap Chris Rock onstage. Photograph: Robyn Beck/AFP via Getty Images Oscars: Academy condemns Will Smith slap of Chris Rock and begins formal review
  • March 28, 2022

Best actor winner smacked presenter in the face at Sunday night’s ceremony

Gettin’ diggy with it ... Will Smith slaps Chris Rock. Photograph: Robyn Beck / AFP via Getty Images Will Smith breaks character – after 40 years playing the energetic, merry prankster
  • Donald Clarke
  • March 28, 2022

Oscars 2022 should have been the culmination of Smith’s extraordinary career. But he snapped

Will Smith slapped Chris Rock at the Oscars after he made a joke about Smith’s wife, Jada Pinkett-Smith. Photograph: Neilson Barnard/Getty Images ‘That’s How We Do It’: Jaden Smith, Mia Farrow, 50 Cent and more react to Will Smith slap
  • Adrian Horton
  • March 28, 2022

Oscars 2022: Reactions to the slapping of Chris Rock ranged from delight to concern

Will Smith (right) slaps Chris Rock onstage during the 94th Oscars at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood. Photograph: Robyn Beck / AFP via Getty Images Oscars 2022: Will Smith slapping Chris Rock overshadows CODA’s best picture award
  • Donald Clarke
  • March 28, 2022

Kenneth Branagh takes best original screenplay for the autobiographical Belfast

Eugenio Derbez, Sian Heder, Marlee Matlin, Troy Kotsur, Emilia Jones, Daniel Durant, and Amy Forsyth pose with the Oscar for the best picture award for CODA during the 94th annual Academy Awards ceremony. Photograph EPA/David Swanson Oscars 2022: Full list of winners, including Kenneth Branagh’s Belfast screenplay
  • Donald Clarke
  • March 28, 2022

Dune wins most awards. CODA takes best picture. Power of the Dog almost shut out

Kenneth Branagh, Oscar nominated as director and writer of Belfast, tested positive for coronavirus after the recent Bafta awards. Photograph: Neil Hall/EPA Oscars 2022: Irish contingent among pre-ceremony Covid outbreaks
  • Donald Clarke
  • March 27, 2022

Belfast’s Kenneth Branagh and Ciarán Hinds have been isolating in New York after testing positive

Ambulance Four new films to see in cinemas this week
  • Donald Clarke
  • March 27, 2022

Ambulance, The Cellar, The Worst Person in the World, River

Kirsten Dunst plays Rose Gordon in The Power of the Dog which is tipped for best picture. Photograph: 2021 Cross City Films Limited/Courtesy of Netflix Oscars 2022: Who should win, and who will win?
  • Donald Clarke
  • March 26, 2022

Ireland has its biggest haul of nominations since 2016, but has won few awards so far

Sarah Connor, mother to future revolutionary John Connor, surely scores as the most impressively ‘badass’ mom of the modern era Mother’s Day: Ten of the best and worst moms in cinema
  • Donald Clarke
  • March 25, 2022

The fanatical mother of Carrie, the self-sacrificing Mildred Pierce, the baddass Sarah Connor

Jane Campion with assistant director Phil Jones on the New Zealand set of The Power of the Dog The Oscar Movie Quiz: Power of the Dog has how many acting nominations?
  • Donald Clarke
  • March 25, 2022

Plus: How many ’22 nominees for best actress are in best picture nominees?

Brenda Fricker and Daniel Day-Lewis both won Oscars for My Left Foot in 1990. Photograph: John Barr/Liaison Oscars 2022: 11 great Irish moments at the Academy Awards
  • Donald Clarke
  • March 24, 2022

Daniel Day-Lewis, Brenda Fricker and many others have taken home an Oscar to Ireland

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David Park. Photograph: Sophie Park Spies in Canaan by David Park: Masterful storytelling that deserves a wide readership
Leland Bardwell in Cloonagh, Ballinful, Co Sligo: hilarious and wise, her ear is always sharp. Photograph: Dara MacDonaill Poetry round-up: Leland Bardwell, John Kelly and Denise Saul
Vaccine centre at The Helix in Dublin on April 3rd, 2021. Photograph: Charles McQuillan/Getty Pandemonium: leaks and learnings behind scenes of Covid response

Film Reviews

An Cailín Ciúin: The action is unsettling throughout An Cailín Ciúin/The Quiet Girl

 

This unsettling 1980s-set drama has a pervasive sense of unspoken menace
Using split screen, Vortex establishes the isolated rhythms of an elderly couple Vortex

 

The enfant terrible’s study of dementia is as disturbing as any of his earlier films
Leah Purcell: Enormously charismatic The Drover’s Wife: The Legend of Molly Johnson

 

Powerful performances are let down by heavy-handed undergraduate didactics
Michelle Yeoh in Everything Everywhere All at Once Everything Everywhere All At Once

 

Michelle Yeoh sparkles in much-anticipated comic sci-fi
In 2016 Joe Corré burned £5 million worth of memorabilia to decry the commodification of punk Wake Up, Punk

 

Film review: Lively, ragged documentary bemoans sad fate of once-spiky movement
Rasmus Bjerg in Wild Men Wild Men

 

Film review: Thomas Daneskov’s amusing Danish comedy caper accentuates the ridiculous

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1 Steve Coogan: ‘I don’t have all the answers. I doubt things.’ Photograph: Jamie McCarthy/Getty ‘I flattered him, knowing he’d try to kiss me’: Alan Partridge interviews Steve Coogan

2 Louise O’Neill: ‘I read columns of mine that I would have written 10 years ago, and I think it’s interesting how much my worldview or my feminism has really shifted’ Louise O’Neill: ‘My career took off. My life changed. And I fell apart’

3 Sasha Lane and Alison Oliver in Conversations with Friends. Abrahamson cast American actress Lane as Bobbi because “there aren’t a lot of people who are charismatic in that very particular and quiet way that she is”. Conversations With Friends, episodes 1-2: Awkward snogs, intense dialogue and a future star

4 Sissy Spacek Photograph: Matt Carr/Getty Images Sissy Spacek: ‘Weinstein did some unsavoury things. He could never look at me after that’

5 Calam Lynch, the Cusack acting dynasty’s brightest new star

6 An Cailín Ciúin: The action is unsettling throughout An Cailín Ciúin review: Delicately beautiful Irish film lives up to its billing

7 Mainstays of modernism: Ezra Pound, the attorney John Quinn, Ford Maddox Ford and James Joyce in Pound’s Paris studio in 1923. Photograph from Joyce Images, by Bob Cato and Greg Vitiello with an introduction by Anthony Burgess (Norton, 1994) Out of the wasteland: the first World War and modernism

8 Nazi war criminal Adolph Eichmann stands in a protective glass booth flanked by Israeli police during his trial in Jerusalem in 1961. Photograph: GPO via Getty Images The senior Nazi who became postwar Germany’s top civil servant

9 Jemima Kirke, Sasha Lane, Allison Oliver and Joe Alwyn in Conversations with Friends. The Irish drama begins Wednesday on RTÉ One TV guide: 23 of the best shows to watch this week, beginning tonight

10 Ronela Hajati from Albania with the song ‘Sekret’ performs during the first semifinal of the 66th Eurovision Song Contest in Turin. Photograph: EPA/Alessandro di Marco Eurovision 2022: Topless hunks, writhing women and Marty Whelan. It’s like my wedding day

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