Film Ireland Archive
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Issue 129 July/Aug 2009 The Animation Issue
Stereoscopic 3D• A practical industry viewpoint on the future of 3D• Pete Docter Interview• New Animation Technologies• Writing Animation for children• Advertising of the future• Interview with Magma’s Ralph Christians• Merchandising and Licensing of Children’s entertainment• Review of the Irish Film Boards Frameworks scheme• A Day in life of Industrial Light and Magic’s Greg Maguire• Third level animation courses• Useful website guide for Animation • Storyboard: from concept to completion• TV or not TV• Spotlight on His and Hers director Ken Wardrop
Issue 121 Mar/Apr 2008. Guest Edited by Martina Niland.
Irish cinema relationship with Hollywood • Interview with Tony Safford • Lost in Translation: the doubled-edged sword of Hiberno-English • The Irish film industry: roundtable with John Carney, David Collins, Martina Niland, Mark O’Halloran and Kirsten Sheridan • Irish cinema’s evolution of the genre film • Eugene O’Brien remembers the Westerns • How the economics has shaped the perception of national and international cinema • Interview with Simon Perry, CEO of the BSÉ/IFB, as the Board reaches its 15th year • An Irish director working in Hollywood: Kirsten Sheridan
Issue 116 May/June 2007 20th Anniversary Issue
Speed Dating: Writer/director Tony Herbert and actor Don Wycherley interview • This Is England: Shane Meadows’ career and Stephen Graham interview • The state of film production in Ireland: Is employment more important than telling stories? • Twenty indigenous films from the past two decades that have tried to present new or exciting work • The achievement of Irish film to date •The state of film production in Northern Ireland • First two catalystproject seminars report • Darklight ‘07 Festival preview • Cannes: Inside the World’s Premier Film Festival • John Huston’s Beat the Devil • Italian Teen Movies • Pier Paolo Pasolini retrospective • The Volta Myth
Film Reviews: Speed Dating, Ghosts DVD, Bigas Luna Collection DVD • Books: Digital Filmmaking
Issue 112 Sept/Oct 2006
David Gleeson interview (The Front Line) • 25th Anniversary of the first Irish Film Board • 50th Anniversary of The Searchers • Peter Bogdanovich interview • IFTN CEO Áine Moriarty interview • Rainer Werner Fassbinder retrospective • Forgotten British Cinema • The High School massacre in film • New short film column.
Reviews: The Front Line, L’Enfant DVD, Tristan & Isolde DVD
Books: The Way Hollywood Tells It: Story and Style in Modern Movies
Issue 107 Nov/Dec 2005
Perry Ogden interview (Pavee Lackeen) • Carlos Reygadas interview (Battle in Heaven) • New German Cinema (Head-On, Downfall and The Edukators) • East Asian Genre film • Ismaël Ferroukhi interview (Le Grand Voyage) • Richard Raskin interview (Cork Short Film Symposium) • Don’t Look in the Attic: interview with Andrew Harrison and Darryl Sloan • Creative Estructure in Screenwriting • Michael Powell retrospective • Doug Pray interview (Infamy).
Reviews: Pavee Lackeen, Tara Road.
Books: The Television Series: Alan Clarke, Billion Dollar Game: How Three Men Risked It All and Changed the Face of Television.
Issue 103 Mar/Apr 2005
Adam & Paul: interview with director Lenny Abrahamson and actor Mark O’Halloran • Future of the IFB’s Low and Micro-Budget Initiatives • Hans Weingartner interview (The Edukators) • Malcolm McDowell interview (Part I) • Seamus McGarvey’s interview • Jane Birkin interview • Jacques Richard interview (Henri Langlois - The Phantom of the Cinémathèque) • A-Z of Cult Cinema (Part I) • New brutalism • Dublin International Film Festival report.
Reviews: Mickybo & Me, John McGahern - A Private World.
Issue 51 Feb/Mar 1996
Shane Connaughton interview (The Run of the Country) • Copyright & Options - Writers’ & producers’ perspective • No-budget filmmaking in Ireland • Six Pack report • Nature of sound and sound recording • Nell McCafferty on Guiltrip • SOURCES Script Workshop report • Animation: Terra Glyph, Monster, Animation Camera Facilities, Shepherd Films.
Reviews: Thirty Five Aside, The Rocker - A Portrait of Phil Lynott, Hearts and Souls - The No Divorce Campaign, J.J. Biker, Art, Are You Mad?
Issue 50 Dec 1995/Jan 1996
Roddy Flynn on Irish theatrical distribution • Fifty years of Film Ireland! • Arthouse, Dublin’s multimedia centre • Gerry Stembridge interview (Guiltrip) • Education in Ireland Supplement • Dennis Hopper interview • Paul Duane visits the set of Spectre • CARTOON Forum report.
Reviews: Korea, Guiltrip, The Run of the Country, Fishing the Sloe-Black River, Famine, The Stunning.
Books: Confessions of a Sewer Rat - A Personal History of Censorship & the Irish Cinema, Still Irish - A Century of the Irish in Film.
