Previous Week
Band plays on, but not in Dublin
Opening in London today, The Band's Visit/Bikur Hatizmoret has been collecting kudos on the international festival circuit for months.
London hands out the gongs
The recent London Film Festival's most prestigious prize, the Sutherland Trophy, was presented to Marjane Satrapi and Vincent Paronnaud for Persepolis as "the most original and imaginative first feature film" shown at the festival.
The lay of the land
Into the Wild is an absorbing depiction of America's ultimate drop-out, writes Michael Dwyer
Lion for Lambs
No thinking person could doubt that the issues raised in this puzzling film are worth dwelling on. The three parallel stories that comprise Lions for Lambs deal with the growing political complacency of American youth, the dwindling options for military success in Afghanistan, the corruption of news media, and the galloping arrogance of the political elite.
Planet terror
After the critical and box- office catastrophe that was Quentin Tarantino's Death Proof, the bloody remains of Grindhouse staggers into town entirely unburdened by expectations.
Good Luck Chuck
It's a romantic comedy starring Jessica Alba and some other idiot. It is, of course, going to be terrible, but there is a natural limit to quite how terrible such things can be. Isn't there?
Washington straight
He has two Oscars, a happy family and enough cash to paper the Brooklyn Bridge twice over. No wonder Denzel Washington is not quitting the movie game. He tells Donald Clarke how he went from role model to anti-hero for his latest role in American Gangster
Hollywood: a race odyssey
Are Denzel Washington and Will Smith the first African-American stars on the A-list to regularly secure roles that could have been offered to their white contemporaries?
French finesse
With work from established directors and emerging talents, and featuring some of the best actors working in cinema, this year's French Film Festival promises entertainment, stimulation and provocation for Irish audiences. Michael Dwyer reports
