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Coppola: 'I'm no comeback kid'
Francis Ford Coppola, whose first film in 10 years, Youth Without Youth, just premiered at the Rome Film Festival, has taken umbrage at suggestions he is involved in a comeback.
Ireland feasts on festivals
Film enthusiasts in Moate, Athlone and all other midland locales will be faced with a difficult decision this weekend. Four separate festivals in four separate corners of the Republic take place over the next few days, and the choice of movies in each is notably enticing. Details of the events in Kerry, Clones and Waterford can be found below.
Eastern Promises
NEVER a slouch when it comes to startling his audience, David Cronenberg goes for the jugular at the outset of his edgy new thriller. A few minutes into Eastern Promises, a Russian gangster is seated in a barber's chair when he gets a cut he doesn't expect. His throat is slit - in close-up.
Body politics
No matter what genre he's working in, David Cronenberg is keen to explore the horrors within the human form. His latest film, a thriller set among Russian sex traffickers in London, bears the Canadian director's unmistakeable stamp. Though Cronenburg has acquired a degree of respectability, he has never compromised his art, he tells Donald Clarke
The icemen cometh
Sigur Rós talk! The legendarily shy band consented to be interviewed for a new concert documentary, but the film is just as much a love letter to their home, Iceland, writes Brian Boyd
Ask the experts
We asked four specialists to review current films which touch on their areas of expertise. Would real rats eat ratatouille? Should you leave your kids at Daddy Day Camp?
