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Bruck
and Me
Screenwriter Stephen Walsh interviewed Veronica Guerin
producer Jerry Bruckheimer during that film's shooting in Dublin.
Nothing prepared him for the strange (and from the point of
view of Irish filmmaking strangely appropriate) emanations that
would follow. Extract
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Technicolor:
The Future of Film in the Digital Age
Will Silke interviews Charles Hertzfeld,
Vice President of Sales, Technicolor Laboratories East Coast.
Extract
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The
Birth of Cool
Fresh is an annual festival held in Limerick
aimed at young filmmakers. Among former awardees in the Video
Competition strand is Conor Macmahon, currently shooting his
first feature and still in his early 20s. Tony Keily was stunned
by the quality of what was on offer. Extract |
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Nude
Wave
Annick
Coelmont uses current release El Crimen del Padre Amaro as a
excuse to consider whether it's advisable to start thinking
about a 'Mexican New Wave' cinema just yet. Especially when
its successes are attributable in part to Gael Garcia Bernal's
body. Extract |
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The
Guy in the Grave Next Door and other Swedes
Irish film take note: Swedish film is booming! Edwina Hogan
meets Kjell Sundvall, director of last year's most popular Swedish
releases, to try to work out why so many Swedes have flocked
to see so much of their native cinema in recent years. Extract |
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You're
in the Dark
Seámas McSwiney takes his annual trip
to Cannes and wonders where its organisers find the stuff that
fills their screens.
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Killing
Kathryn Bigelow
Tony Keily takes the publication of a new
study on director Kathryn Bigelow as an excuse to look at her
work.
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Now
We Are Ten
With a retrospective of features and a commemorative
book of stills, Bórd Scánnán na hÉireann
/ The Irish Film Board are celebrating their tenth anniversary.
Lir Mac Cárthaigh cuts the cake.
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The
Uncrowned King Of New York
Sean McCarthy talked to veteran actor Victor
Argo about his new film Lustre and about his career as a favourite
of NYC's finest directors, from Martin Scorsese, to Abel Fererra,
to Woody Allen. If there's an actor who can be identified specifically
with the city, Victor's the one.
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Iran:
Beyond Fact and Fiction
Tony McKibbon looks at the cinema of a country that has made
a unique contribution to contemporary filmmaking, and asks just
what it is that makes Iran different.
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