Planning permission will be sought, this week, to redevelop a landmark building in a West Cork village, creating a home for an internationally successful film festival as final preparations are put in place for the event’s 10th anniversary celebrations.

From movies to music, food to fashion, our critics round up the big tickets for autumn

Forget Shakespeare and “all the world’s a stage”. In Schull, the whole town is a flickering cinema screen.

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As he gets ready for the Fastnet Film Festival, director Stephen Frears tells Esther McCarthy about his work on such movies such as Philomena and The Snapper, as well as his new-found love for West Cork

Sunshine giving you that festival buzz? We've got the ultimate guide to some of the best festivals around!

After securing seven nominations at the Golden Globe awards, Irish talent has received just four nods at this year’s Baftas.

As the child of immigrants to the UK, writer Hanif Kureishi has been shocked by the tone of some of the Brexit debate, writes Marjorie Brennan

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Renowned American actress Laura Dern is the latest movie personality to become enraptured by the rugged grandeur of the Dingle Peninsula and the earthy charm of its people.

While the French Riviera gets on with its enormous film festival, a smaller event is taking place on a palm-tree-fringed West Cork coastal village.

Director Stephen Frears will talk film in Schull next week, says Conor Power.

Steve Coogan, the star of Oscar-nominated movie Philomena, will be in Schull next month for the Corona Fastnet Short Film Festival.

Irish actor Michael Fassbender has been nominated for a BAFTA for his role in the movie '12 Years a Slave'.

The inspiration behind the Oscar-tipped film Philomena has defended it against a critic who labelled it anti-Catholic and “90 minutes of organised hate”.

IF we did not deprive them of life, we deprived them of their identity. That is the hard truth about our relationship with “illegitimate” children which Stephen Frears’s film Philomena makes us face.

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Here’s our quick guide to what to see if you fancy a trip to the cinema this weekend.

Steve Coogan still enjoys impersonating James Bond.

Pitched as a romantic comedy about a couple with commitment issues, The Five-Year Engagement (15A) is in fact a drama about how Tom (Jason Segel) copes — or fails to — when he’s asked to put his career as a chef on hold in order to further that of his fiance, Violet (Emily Blunt).

If Frank Sinatra was correct and luck be a lady, then she failed to glance in the direction of Stephen Frears’s ham-fisted comic caper.

A GHOST-LIKE character shuffles slowly, almost anonymously, into a sparsely furnished room on the top floor of Dublin’s Cabinteely House.

Actor John Hurt has picked up the first of two lifetime achievement awards.

Actor John Hurt has picked up the first of two lifetime achievement awards.

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Vince Vaughn has joined the cast of 'Lay The Favorite'.

Catherine Zeta Jones is in talks to play Bruce Willis' wife in new movie 'Lay The Favorite'.

Stephen Frears had never seen Gemma Arterton’s or Dominic Cooper’s previous work prior to casting them in ‘Tamara Drewe’.

One of those British ensemble pieces set in a stereotypical English village setting of pretty lanes, cows in fields and thatched, flowered cottages … peopled by an assortment of off-centre, often slightly dotty, characters.

A romantic drama set in 1920s Paris where a former courtesan, the now wealthy Lea (Pfeiffer), is asked by Bates to educate her callow 19-year-old son Fred (Friend) in the ways of love, women and the world.

A teenager from a small Co Carlow village could become one of the youngest ever Oscar winners.

A teenager from a small Co Carlow village could become one of the youngest ever Oscar winners.

Daniel Day Lewis, 50, living in Co Wicklow, and Saoirse Ronan, 13, from Co Carlow are among the nominees for Oscars at this year’s awards.

Legendary director Martin Scorsese today spoke out against the power of giant US movie studios as he launched a campaign to salvage "lost" films around the world.

Hollywood star Jude Law and singer-songwriter Norah Jones will bring a touch of glamour to the opening of the 60th Cannes Film Festival today.

Hollywood is gearing up for the Oscars – with Helen Mirren the strongest British contender in awards history

Dame Helen Mirren has confessed to a bout of pre-Oscar nerves.

Bond star Daniel Craig picked up best actor for Casino Royale at last night's 34th annual Evening Standard British Film Awards - but Helen Mirren lost out on the best actress award.

Helen Mirren is said to be a certainty for an Oscar nomination today for her role in The Queen, with a host of fellow British actors hoping to join her.

Two films about British institutions - The Queen and Bond movie Casino Royale - lead the field for this year's Bafta awards.

IRISH actor Peter O’Toole has been nominated for a Golden Globe.

Mirren picked up the Best Actress award at the recent Venice Festival for her electrifying performance as Queen Elizabeth in this drama based on the events surrounding the death of Princess Diana.

Dame Helen Mirren’s performance as the Queen has drawn rave reviews from critics at the Venice Film Festival.

How innocent it all seems now, those statuesque nudes who stood perfectly still – by law – on the stage of the famous Windmill Theatre in London.

British acting legend Helen Mirren will play Queen Elizabeth II in a new movie about the aftermath of the death of Diana, Princess of Wales.

Ian McKellen is to be honoured at this year's British Independent Film Awards.

Michael Douglas and Catherine Zeta Jones are to star together in a London production of Private Lives, it was reported today.

Quite the best of the week's new releases; a powerful story of a group of immigrants in London. The story is set in a small hotel and follows the fortunes - and otherwise - of the largely foreign staff; as interesting a group of people as you could find anywhere.

Chart act Ms Dynamite won the seal of approval of the highbrow arts world by picking up a South Bank Show award today.