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Neil Jordan

June 2024

  • A battered-looking Liam Neeson, who starred as the eponymous Michael Collins, is flanked by actors Alan Rickman and Aidan Quinn in a scene from the film

    Neil Jordan claims ex-taoiseach told him of money-for-endorsement agreement

  • ‘I watched my movies – and was physically shocked’ … Jordan at Sandycove Beach in Dublin.

    ‘I didn’t discover rationality until I went to England’: Neil Jordan on Tom Cruise, sandwich-boarding and seeing his dad’s ghost

February 2024

  • Brad Pitt and Kirsten Dunst in Interview With the Vampire.

    Interview With the Vampire review – Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt’s brilliant bloodsucking bromance

    Neil Jordan’s horror-comedy features Cruise in scene-chewing form in a film that outrageously explores the vampire’s actually rather complex lived experience

August 2023

  • END OF THE AFFAIR, Director Neil Jordan, 1999.<br>HCTGRE END OF THE AFFAIR, Director Neil Jordan, 1999.

    Book of the day
    The Well of Saint Nobody by Neil Jordan review – the film-maker’s new novel is full of marvels

    This tale of a once successful concert pianist who finds love and rejuvenation before mystical forces intervene is a reminder of Jordan’s gifts as a writer

July 2023

  • Sinéad O’Connor in the Netherlands in 1990.

    ‘She trembled with the truths she had to tell’: Sinéad O’Connor by friends, fans and collaborators

    Neil Jordan, Róisín Murphy, MC Lyte, Anne Enright and more share their memories of a uniquely talented, uncompromising artist, mother and ‘Celtic warrior’

March 2023

  • Liam Neeson as Philip Marlowe.

    Marlowe review – worldweary Liam Neeson makes for low-energy private eye

  • ‘I got to knock Angela Lansbury’s head off’ … Micha Bergese played the huntsman.

    How we made
    ‘Turning into a wolf was fantastic’: how we made The Company of Wolves

January 2023

  • Catherine Clinch in An Cailín Ciúin (The Quiet Girl), Ireland’s first nominee for an Oscar for best international film.

    The Guardian view on Irish film: laughing all the way to the Oscars

    Editorial: A record crop of nominations is a reward for decades of investment across the creative industries. The British government should take note

October 2022

  • Angela Lansbury<br>Sarah Patterson & Angela Lansbury Film: The Company Of Wolves (UK 1984) Director: Neil Jordan 15 September 1984 CTL37652 Allstar Picture Library/ITC **Warning** This Photograph is for editorial use only and is the copyright of ITC and/or the Photographer assigned by the Film or Production Company & can only be reproduced by publications in conjunction with the promotion of the above Film. A Mandatory Credit To ITC is required. The Photographer should also be credited when known. No commercial use can be granted without written authority from the Film Company. Character(s): Rosaleen & Granny

    ‘A real subversive, sprightly granny’: working with Angela Lansbury by director Neil Jordan

    Film-maker Neil Jordan cast Angela Lansbury in his exotic horror folk-tale The Company of Wolves, released in 1984. Here he remembers working with an actor who ‘always understood’

June 2022

  • Illustration showing the Irish Rebellion of 1798. (Photo by: Universal History Archive/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

    The Ballad of Lord Edward and Citizen Small by Neil Jordan review – gripping tale of an unequal friendship

    The film-maker and author’s latest novel, about the bond between an aristocrat and a freed slave, is thrillingly written and laden with social and sexual ambiguity

May 2021

  • Cillian Murphy … ‘Early on, I read that it takes 30 years to make a good actor.’

    Cillian Murphy: ‘I was in awe of how Helen McCrory lived her life’

    The star of Peaky Blinders on his late colleague, how he convinced the producers to cast him rather than Jason Statham as Tommy Shelby – and returning to the monster-movie genre in A Quiet Place Part II

August 2019

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    Dear Boris Johnson, watch these six films before you rip up the Irish backstop and trigger violence

    In an open letter to the PM, Northern Irish film-maker Mark Cousins recommends six films, from Neil Jordan’s Angel to Bill Clinton’s eulogy to Martin McGuinness, to make him consider the consequences of no deal

April 2019

  • Neil Jordan.

    On my radar
    On my radar: Neil Jordan’s cultural highlights

    The director on Lisa Halliday’s Asymmetry, Sonny Clark’s jazz trio and the Netflix show Maniac
  • GRETA (2018)<br>CHLOE GRACE MORETZ &amp; ISABELLE HUPPERT Character(s): Frances McCullen, Greta Hideg Film 'GRETA' (2018) Directed By NEIL JORDAN 06 September 2018 SAY98496 Allstar Picture Library/FOCUS FEATURES **WARNING** This Photograph is for editorial use only and is the copyright of FOCUS FEATURES and/or the Photographer assigned by the Film or Production Company &amp; can only be reproduced by publications in conjunction with the promotion of the above Film. A Mandatory Credit To FOCUS FEATURES is required. The Photographer should also be credited when known. No commercial use can be granted without written authority from the Film Company. 1111z@yx abcde 6 18

    Greta review – effective B-movie madness

    Isabelle Huppert’s unhinged central performance lifts Neil Jordan’s solid genre thriller
  • Greta

    Greta review – Isabelle Huppert gives scary crockery-smashing turn

    The French actor plays a widow befriended by Chloë Grace Moretz’s waitress in Neil Jordan’s enjoyably preposterous psychological thriller

September 2018

  • Isabelle Huppert and Chloë Grace Moretz in Greta.

    First look review
    Greta review – Isabelle Huppert torments Chloë Grace Moretz in dim-witted thriller

    There are flashes of camp pleasure in Neil Jordan’s thin retread of early-90s psycho-thrillers, but they’re mostly lost within a slick mush of cliches

June 2017

  • Julia Stiles in Riviera

    The Neil Jordan series that isn’t: film-maker disowns Riviera

    Millions have viewed or downloaded the drama, but director says his ‘darker’ version was reworked by others

March 2017

  • A giraffe pokes its head out of a tent at the Circo Orfei in Floriana<br>A giraffe pokes its head out of a tent at the Circo Orfei, an Italian circus currently performing in Malta, in Floriana outside Valletta December 7, 2011. Animal rights activists are calling on the Maltese government to ban animal circuses from the island, according to local media. The circus organisers insist that their animals have all been bred in captivity and are not treated cruelly. REUTERS/Darrin Zammit Lupi (MALTA - Tags: ANIMALS SOCIETY) MALTA OUT. NO COMMERCIAL OR EDITORIAL SALES IN MALTA

    Carnivalesque by Neil Jordan review – nights at the circus

    Strongmen, trapeze artists, changelings … a young boy is transported to a realm without reason in this colourful story about belonging

February 2017

  • STEPHEN REA MIRANDA RICHARDSON THE CRYING GAME (1992)<br>BNYC90 STEPHEN REA MIRANDA RICHARDSON THE CRYING GAME (1992)

    How we made
    How we made The Crying Game

    Miranda Richardson: ‘I got some flak off IRA sympathisers. They thought my portrayal of a terrorist was unflattering’

February 2016

  • Jordan’s detective investigates a missing persons case in an unspecified eastern European city

    Book of the day
    The Drowned Detective by Neil Jordan review – surreal, haunting and constantly surprising

    Corruption and car chases add thrills to a powerful study of the psychology of jealousy
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