My issue with the Star Wars phenomenon isn’t centred on what it, and other movies of its time, did to the interesting grown-up films of the seventies (i.e., got rid of them as a mainstream alternative to such modern nonsense as those Marvel films), writes Michael Moynihan.

NOT every life warrants a film of seven hours and 46 minutes, but not every life was as dramatic as Richard Wagner’s. The British film director, Tony Palmer, cast Richard Burton in the title role of the epic biopic, Wagner, which was shot over seven months and released in 1983. It will be screened, with two breaks, as part of this year’s Cork Film Festival.