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Speed Freaks
Speed Dating is an independent Irish feature about the quest for love in a frantic world. In the high-paced spirit of the film, Sheena Sweeney talks not only to writer/director Tony Herbert and actor Don Wycherley, but also gleans some gems of wisdom from three of the other cast members. Extract |
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England Made Me
As his latest and most personal film This Is England hits our screens, David O Mahony surveys the career of unorthodox British filmmaker Shane Meadows, and talks with Stephen Graham, star of This Is England. Extract
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A Fair Exchange: An Ideal for and Employment Agency?
Ireland has changed a great deal over the past twenty years, but how has the state of film production changed? Ted Sheehy asks whether film employment has become more important than telling stories. Extract |
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20/20 Hindsight
To mark twenty years of Film Ireland, Lir Mac Cárthaigh selects twenty noteworthy indigenous films from the past two decades. Extract |
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The Future of an Illusion
Tony Keily considers the achievement of Irish film to date, and ponders what is to come. Extract |
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Coincidences Happen
Ten years after the inception of the NIFTC, and with its largest motion picture to date waiting in the wings, Michael Open casts an eye over the state of film production in Northern Ireland. Extract |
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Industrial Model
Eamonn Gray reports from the first catalystproject seminars, a new approach to low-budget film production and training in Ireland. Extract |
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Turn the Dark On
Basil Al-Rawi previews Ireland’s premier digital showcase, the Darklight Festival, which this year will feature in-the-round debates, and a Second Life presence, in addition to a wealth of screenings. Extract |
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Cannes Opener
Séamas McSwiney lifts the lid on new book celebrating sixty years of Cannes, and looks ahead to this year’s event. Extract |
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Beating the Devil
With a script largely written on set, John Huston’s Beat the Devil is a highly unconventional movie with a wry, self-reflective sense of humour. Rod Stoneman reflects on this lesser-known work by a major director. Extract
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UnAmerican Activities
For the first quarter of 2007, indigenous films have held up to foreign competition at the Italian box office. Much of this successful resistance is down to a new brand of Italian Teen Movie. Tony Keily reports. Extract |
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The Sacred that Surfaces
While his contemporaries were concerned with re-shaping the form of cinema, Pier Paolo Pasolini was more interested in bringing primal forces to the surface in his work.Tony McKibbin explores the sex-and-religion soaked cinema of the radical Italian master. Extract
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The Volta Myth
It is a widely-held belief that Ireland’s first dedicated cinema was the Volta, managed initially by James Joyce. But what if it wasn’t? Denis Condon examines earlier cinematic venues, including the Popular Picture Palace at the Queen’s Theatre. Extract |
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Staying Fresh
Celebrating its tenth anniversary, the Fresh Film Festival has forged a reputation as a vibrant national event for young filmmakers. Stephen Moynihan caught up with festival director Jayne Foley to discuss their past, and look forward to the next ten years. Extract
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