Ingmar Bergman
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I’ve been embracing social distancing with great enthusiasm since 1998
- Culture
- May 2, 2020, 05:00
I can’t recall when I last hugged a friend. I gaze out at the empty street. The spaces seem wider when they are so sparsely occupied. The pigeons look(...)

‘Of course I smoked marijuana!’ Elliott Gould on stardom, Streisand and Elvis Presley
- Film
- April 21, 2020, 06:00
The best review ever received by Elliott Gould – renowned actor and star of M*A*S*H and The Long Goodbye, not to mention Ross and Monica’s d(...)

Covid-19 has proved worse than the film-makers imagined
- Film
- April 6, 2020, 06:00
A few weeks ago (or was it decades?), when the current crisis slipped up eight jarring gears, articles such as this began telling readers that everyon(...)

Mubi: online repertory cinema for a handful of change
- Film
- March 28, 2020, 05:00
Almost exactly a decade ago, Netflix launched a service that offered one simple answer to one simple question. How do you get people to pay for video (...)

Max Von Sydow’s role in Escape to Victory must be one of his best
- Soccer
- March 18, 2020, 18:00
With four minutes remaining and the Allied prisoners trailing the Germans 4-3, Luis Fernandez (Pele) rises from the bench, shrugs off the pain of brok(...)

Fintan O’Toole: ‘The withering god of fever swoops on us’
- Culture
- March 14, 2020, 05:00
“The warm weather has brought sweating sickness to London, and the city is emptying. A few have gone down – and many more are imagining they have it, (...)

Max von Sydow: An incomparable presence in arthouse cinema and noisy blockbusters
- Film
- March 9, 2020, 16:47
Max von Sydow, who died in Paris on Sunday at the age of 90, carved out an incomparable career across arthouse cinema, noisy blockbusters and high the(...)

Dublin the last international film festival to dodge the global shutdown
- Film
- March 9, 2020, 11:55
There was a faint sense of relief as the Dublin Film Critics Circle (DFCC) — presided over by this newspaper’s Tara Brady — gathered to present their (...)

The book I want for Christmas: Paschal Donohoe, Alison Spittle, Joseph O’Connor and more
- Books
- November 21, 2019, 05:00
Richie Sadlier Sports pundit, psychotherapist and former professional footballer Richie Sadlier’s book is raw without ever being miserable(...)

The Irishman review: It’s good, but it’s no GoodFellas
- Film
- November 6, 2019, 05:00
There is a temptation to sweep the word “autumnal” before any sombre late work by a familiar master. We hope and trust Martin Scorsese will live for a(...)