Douglas Sirk

‘The more of the novel I read, the more it made me think of Marian Keyes’

Mia Gallagher’s speech to launch Alan McMonagle’s new novel at Hodges Figges

Todd Haynes: ‘All my movies are critical and financial disappointments initially’

The auteur on his love of whistleblower films and the legacy of New Queer Cinema

Todd Haynes: ‘I was consciously making a film that I wanted kids to see’

The director has flipped the script once again with his latest project ‘Wonderstruck’, a proper grown-up film about and for children

Lynne Ramsay: From Ratcatcher to revenge thriller

The Scottish film-maker on her taut new film starring Joaquin Phoenix, watching movies with her mum, and the awkward fallout from that Natalie Portman flick

'Not everybody wants to confront death. And pay for the ticket'

The French director’s ‘Heal the Living’ follows the journey of a heart from donor to transplant recipient

Fear Eats the Soul - Rainer Fassbinder’s masterpiece is as timely and affecting as ever

Fassbinder’s 1974 drama is a bleak dissection of race, age, gender, bigotry and hate

Visual art round-up: Thoughtful films about artifice and architects

Amie Siegel’s essay films are full of ideas, and Eddie Kennedy’s paintings are informed by Mayo

François Ozon: the new new wave

Satirical wit, freewheeling sexuality and a new wave cinematic sensibility? François Ozon, director of ‘Sitcom’, ‘Swimming Pool’ and, now, ‘The New Girlfriend’, is a most French film-maker, and despite Hollywood overtures he refuses to change his style