Alan J Pakula
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Todd Haynes: ‘All my movies are critical and financial disappointments initially’
- Film
- February 20, 2020, 06:00
The American auteur Todd Haynes, who has presided over such intriguing pictures as Safe (in which Julianne Moore’s housewife retreats from contemporar(...)

David Shire: a Grammy in one fist, an Oscar in the other
- Film
- January 26, 2019, 05:00
“Isn’t modern technology great?” David Shire says after appearing on my computer screen. It certainly is. On a sombre winter day I find myself lookin(...)

Leo Varadkar and Donald Trump turned me into the Prince of Lies
- Culture
- July 7, 2018, 06:15
Last week, when our clever, handsome, nicely socked leader, Leo Varadkar, spoke to Americans, sympathised with Trump and criticised the media, I thoug(...)

Put Jane Fonda on a stamp. It is allowed. Seven years ago, the US Postal Service announced that it would henceforth allow living people to be so honou(...)

Donald Clarke: Are we living in a time of Trump-era cinema?
- Culture
- November 17, 2017, 05:00
It is just over a year since Donald Trump blathered his way to an unlikely electoral triumph. It is, thus, surely too soon to assess the cinema of the(...)

2016: The 50 best films on Netflix
- Film
- July 29, 2016, 12:30
A few years ago, we published a guide to the best films available on Netflix. It proved to be one of our most popular stories ever. Since then many n(...)

‘Spotlight’ illuminates ‘Boston Globe’ clerical sex abuse stories
- Irish News
- November 7, 2015, 01:00
The idea of journalism being cinematic is counterintuitive. Rather than being visually appealing, the craft of journalism is more in keeping with Bism(...)

Watergate car park has become an icon to shoe-leather journalism
- US
- June 28, 2014, 01:00
The din of passing traffic spills down an air vent from the street above, while water drips in a corner. Every sound, from the footsteps of a perso(...)

From tragedy to pop-culture punchline
- People
- November 22, 2013, 01:00
In 2008, the gun that was used to kill John F Kennedy’s assassin was auctioned off as part of “a pop culture collection”. Other items included the (...)

Hollywood's JFK
- People
- November 22, 2013, 01:00
Primary (1960) A group of America’s most talented young documentarians chronicled Senator Kennedy’s efforts to secure the presidential nomination(...)