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Venice film festival 2026: Werner Herzog’s imagination is as creatively offbeat as ever in this film starring Kate and Rooney Mara and Domhnall Gleeson
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Saoirse Ronan to make her directorial debut at Venice film festival
New movies from Martin McDonagh, Danny Boyle and Werner Herzog will also take centre stage at Italian event
Domhnall Gleeson: ‘My life in Ireland means too much to me. It’s no sacrifice to live here’
The actor has carved out a place at the centre of the Hollywood film industry. But it comes second to his sense of home
Oscars 2023: My predictions for next year’s best-picture nominees
Donald Clarke forecasts how the category will shape up at the next Academy Awards
Don’t Worry, He Won’t Get Far on Foot: Good biopic that hits a wall
Review: Gus Van Sant in better form in film about quadriplegic cartoonist John Callahan
Mary Magdalene: Who are you calling a prostitute?
Review: Rooney Mara is as focused as ever in Garth Davis’s mildly revisionist biblical drama
Tom Vaughan-Lawlor: ‘I fought my way up from the mean streets of Rathgar’
From Love/Hate to the Avengers: Infinity War, he does a fine line in onscreen menace
So what is the meaning of Lowery’s existential fable ‘A Ghost Story’?
Writer-director thinks there may be a Catholic sensibility underscoring his new film
A Ghost Story review: Haunted hipsters makes for a frightfully good film
Director David Lowery’s playful ‘post horror’ makes an emotional connection
Song to Song: Terrence Malick’s worst film yet
This incoherent muddle of falling leaves, cameos and tracking shots has nowhere to go
A ‘baffling’ adaptation of Sebastian Barry’s The Secret Scripture
Rooney Mara and Jack Reynor are the muddled lovers with no chemistry in Jim Sheridan’s film of Barry’s acclaimed novel
Audi Dublin International Film Festival launches its programme for 2017
Festival guests this year include Vanessa Redgrave, Kerry Fox, Anna Friel, Jack Reynor, Cillian Murphy and Aiden Gillen
‘The Siege of Jadotville’ to receive limited cinema release
Richie Smyth’s film depicts the Irish soldiers who fought in UN’s 1961 Congo intervention
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