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He knows what they say, the critics tapping away on message boards under the cloak of anonymity.

Actors used to turn to alcohol to numb nerves before filming explicit shots. Now Tinseltown has ‘intimacy co-ordinators’, writes Ed Power

As the French film festival reaches its end, Helen Barlow looks at this year’s hits, misses and talking points.

John Daly looks back at the halcyon days of the Cork Film Festival in the 1950s and ’60s when the Rebel City became a Technicolor wonderland of enchantment and exoticism.

MUSIC NEWS: Despite still being in the midst of an extensive Joshua Tree tour, U2’s release of a new song earlier this week shows the band are not planning to stand still any time soon.

Travel advice and ideas from Barry Coughlan

Ireland’s show jumping manager Rodrigo Pessoa was understandably disappointed after last Friday’s seventh-place finish in the five-star Nations Cup at St Gallen in Switzerland, even though it was one of the dispensable ones in his calendar.

Hailee Steinfeld looked beautiful in a silver macramé dress at the Billboard Music Awards in Las Vegas.

Figures provided by the Department of an Taoiseach show that the cost to the taxpayer of flying Enda Kenny, his wife Fionnuala, and his staff to the US for St Patrick Day events totalled €33,555.

Chloë Sevigny takes Amanda Fortini on a tour of her native Connecticut, taking in her school and her teen hangouts. 

St Patrick’s Day gets bigger and better every year, as more than 100 million people around the world celebrate our national holiday with the Irish diaspora.

This book is an account of five men who served as page boys, lamp boys, boot boys, and even an ‘odd boy’ — a kind of multifunctional servant — to the gentlemen of the house.

One World Trade Center in New York City — rebuilt after the September 11, 2001, terror attacks — is to go green on St Patrick’s Day for the first time.

SUMMER SERIES 

Mourners are laying flowers and candles opposite the Bataclan concert hall ahead of a show by Sting to mark one year since the Paris terrorist attacks.

A 76-year-old businesswoman has been freed two days after she was kidnapped in the southern French city of Nice.

Mandelieu-La Napoule may not be the first place you think of in the Côte d’Azur, but it was just perfect for Annmarie O’Connor.

* It could be one of the ultimate spooky experiences of this Halloween when two evenings of tours take place in the 800-year-old Hook Lighthouse.

A French court has overturned a ban on burkinis issued in Cannes - the first in a series of bans on the swimwear this summer that set off a heated controversy at home and a wave of outrage abroad.

Pictures have emerged of armed French police making a woman remove some of her clothing on a beach as part of the controversial burkini ban.

I see parallels between my mother’s experience... and the latest French statements banning women in burkinis, writes Roja Fazaeli

The French resort of Cannes has banned full-body, head-covering swimsuits from its beaches, citing security reasons — a measure some have criticised as an anti-Muslim move that worsens religious tensions.

As a family they were Hollywood royalty, but Isabella Rossellini’s abiding memories of Ingrid Bergman are of a kind and caring mother, she tells Helen Barlow

Czech: A Prague drinker who could not pay his bar bill left his clothes at the pub as collateral as he headed off naked to get cash, Czech police said.

Through her acting and production work, Susan Sarandon is happy to help challenge the Hollywood patriarchy, writes Helen Barlow

Back in 2000, filmmaker Terry Gilliam was ready to shoot The Man Who Killed Don Quixote with Johnny Depp and Jean Rochefort . That production went to the wall with flash floods, injured actors and acts of a seemingly vengeful God.

Actress Susan Sarandon has slammed Woody Allen after allegations of sexual assault were renewed against the director.

Threshold Entertainment has secured $80 million in funding for a planned live-action film adaptation of Tetris.

Jodie Foster’s  first films as a director were personal. Money Monster, starring a dancing George Clooney, sees her tackling the financial sector, writes Helen Barlow

The French Riviera has long been the playground of the rich and famous. Darragh Murphy experiences the high life – but on a limited budget.