Robert Redford
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Sundance Film Festival welcomes ‘a sinister Irish film that really digs its claws in’
- Film
- January 28, 2019, 14:08
The 2019 Sundance Film Festival , once again swelling Park City, Utah with independent film royalty, clanked straight into fifth gear with scandals, p(...)

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(...)

Colin Farrell: ‘I was such a pisshead and a druggie I didn’t have many friends’
- Film
- January 9, 2019, 19:45
We enter in masses beneath a mighty arch and encounter a stage emblazoned with the words “Leading you to Greatness”. This can mean one of only two thi(...)

Golden Globes 2019: full list of winners
- Film
- January 7, 2019
Best actor in a TV series - musical or comedy Sacha Baron Cohen - Who Is America? Jim Carrey - Kidding WINNER: Michael Douglas - The Kominsky (...)

The 50 best films of 2018
- Film
- December 10, 2018, 06:00
We should begin by acknowledging the continuing eccentricities of the distribution business. For once there was, in this place, only the mildest of ey(...)

The Old Man and the Gun: Robert Redford’s almost perfect swansong
- Film
- December 5, 2018, 14:25
We may as well begin by saying what The Old Man and the Gun is not. It’s not among that exhaustingly tedious genre of old-geezer crime films that has (...)

William Goldman’s adventures in the sports trade
- Other Sports
- November 28, 2018, 16:39
In 1970, William Goldman’s nomination for the best original screenplay Oscar for Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid presented him with a bit of a conu(...)

Cork Film Festival to open with ‘Float Like a Butterfly’
- Irish News
- November 9, 2018, 09:02
It’s a long way from Kanturk to Kentucky but that’s the metaphorical journey that Cork film director, Carmel Winter has made with her film ‘Float Like(...)

Cork Film Festival: An early taste of awards season certs
- Film
- November 9, 2018, 05:00
The wise old lady of Irish film festivals is back with her strongest programme in some years. Founded in 1956, the Cork Film Festival has had its gidd(...)

Neil Simon’s best films: From ‘The Odd Couple’ to ‘Biloxi Blues’
- Film
- August 27, 2018, 10:44
The influence of Neil Simon, who has died in New York at the age of 91, on American comic writing is incalculable. Before his work reached the big scr(...)