Marjane Satrapi
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Four new films to stream this weekend
- Film
- June 12, 2020, 00:00
DA 5 BLOODS ★★★☆☆ Directed by Spike Lee. Starring Delroy Lindo, Jonathan Majors, Clarke Peters, Norm Lewis, Isiah Whitlock Jr, Mélanie Thierry, J(...)

Marjane Satrapi: ‘I did not want a monkey Madame Curie’
- Film
- March 18, 2020, 05:00
Catherine Deneuve calls her breathtaking. The Simpsons immortalised her by having her punch a hole in a grocery bag. She won best first film at the Cé(...)

Dublin International Film Festival 2020: Memorable matriarchal themes
- Film
- March 2, 2020, 00:00
One week into this year’s Virgin Media Dublin International Film Festival VMDIFF and we’re a Volta down. Trine Dyrholm, the Danish star of T(...)

Gig of the Week: Virgin Media Dublin International Film Festival
- Film
- February 15, 2020, 05:00
The pulling forward of the Oscars has caused confusion for Irish folk who structure their calendars around the world of film. Doesn’t the event usuall(...)

Dublin International Film Festival: A guide to the best movies
- Film
- January 22, 2020, 05:00
The filmmaker Paulette McDonagh, working with her actor sister Isabel McDonagh and art director third sibling, Phyllis McDonagh, made a series of self(...)

‘Tunisia’s Berlusconi’ the wild card as nation goes to the polls
- Africa
- September 13, 2019, 19:02
Campaigning ended on Friday in Tunisia’s presidential election before Sunday’s first round of voting, pitting more than two dozen candidates against e(...)

Which films are in contention as interminable awards season ramps up?
- Film
- August 30, 2019, 05:00
And just like that it was deep winter. The football season ceases for around 10 minutes. So we shouldn’t reel too much at the news that awards season (...)

Half the movies at Toronto Film Festival are made by women
- Film
- August 14, 2019, 12:26
Next week, the Dublin Feminist Film Festival makes a welcome return to the Light House Cinema. It hardly needs to be said that the event swells with m(...)

Jean-Michel Basquiat’s teenage years in ‘bombed out’ New York
- Film
- July 13, 2018, 06:00
Sara Driver’s new picture, Boom for Real, about the late teenage years of the New York artist Jean-Michel Basquiat, is a huge cause for celebration. L(...)

100 books by women you have to read
- Books
- June 4, 2018, 16:14
The 2018 Hay Festival, in collaboration with The Pool, published this list of 100 books by women, including works by Iris Murdoch, Edna O’Brien, Maria(...)