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Thrifty Shifty
Gordon Gaffney interviews Eran Creevy, the writer/director of recently released thriller Shifty. His low-budget ( £100,000) debut feature was funded through Film London’s Microwave scheme, similar to our own Catalyst Project.
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Coraline's Creator
Duncan Molloy talks to author Neil Gaiman before the 3D stop motion adaptation of his fantasy novella Coraline is released in Irish cinemas on Friday 8th May 2009.
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Dead Man Talking
Gordon Gaffney talks to Jim Sturgess in the plush surroundings of the Clarence Hotel as he discusses his role in Fifty Dead Men Walking. More
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Interview with Golden Bear-winner David O’Reilly
Beatrice Ní Bhroin talks with Irish filmmaker David O’Reilly, who won the Golden Bear at Berlinale 2009 for his short animation Please Say Something.
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Eye on the IFTAs 2009
Sheena Sweeney catches up with Michael Fassbender, Saoirse Ronan, Aidan Gillen, Lance Daly, Eileen Walsh, Steve McQueen and Jim Sheridan at this year’s Irish Film and Television Awards. More
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JDIFF 2009 Diary
Sheena Sweeney’s day-by-day diary of the Jameson Dublin International Film Festival that took place 12–22 February 2009, including interviews with Gráinne Humphreys, Thierry Frémaux, Paolo Sorrentino, John Crowley and Aisling Walsh. More
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History as Moving Image
A Researcher’s Guide to Archiving Irish Historical Documentary – by Eugene Finn. More
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A Horror Unto Itself
Niall Kitson finds something amiss about Horrorthon 2008. More
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Still Cinema
Beatrice Ní Bhroin talks to Jonás Cuarón about his unusual debut feature Año Uña, a full-length film constructed entirely out of stills. More
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access>CINEMA News
Stephen Eustace reports on the 56th San Sebastian International Film Festival (18–27 September 2008). More
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Straight from the Horse's POV
Vanessa Gildea talks to producer Aisling Ahmed about her latest documentary. More
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Documentary gems from the archives of Film Ireland
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Interview with James Franco and Danny R. McBride of Pineapple Express
Film Ireland’s resident reporter Gordon ‘Gonzo’ Gaffney interviews James Franco and Danny R. McBride about their latest feature Pineapple Express. More
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Film Ireland Debate
Issue 123 carried an article by Kevin Moriarty intended to stimulate some debate on the reasons why Irish films are generally perceived to underperfom at the Irish box office. We are delighted that a number of people, representing a cross-section of the Irish film community have responded. More
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Cannes 2008
Séamas McSwiney reports from Cannes Film Festival.
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Adaptation Adepts
Declan Recks talks to Roddy Doyle, Pat McCabe and Eugene O’Brien about the art of adaptation. Words by Eamonn Gray. Photos by Nicola Bodano.
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Young Jury Reviews
Film Ireland EXTRA is proud to host the three top reviews from the Cinemagic Young Juries. More
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Reaching and Audience
Ted Sheehy on the fate of Irish productions in a crowded marketplace. Full article
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Let There Be Light
Niamh Creely talks to director Brian Durnin and DOP Ivan McCullough about using the Genesis in their short Of Best Intentions. Read full article
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32nd Montreal Film Festival
Anthony Kirby reports on the Montreal World Film Festival (21 August–1 September 2008, Montreal). More
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Cinemagic Dublin
Established in 1989, Cinemagic is an award-winning children’s film festival. Originally Belfast-based, this year Cinemagic is coming to Dublin from 23rd April–1st May. Tim Hanan caught up Cinemagic CEO Joan Burney-Keatings for a short interview about the festival. More
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Kirsten Sheridan: An Irish
Director Working in Hollywood
Kirsten Sheridan shares the experience of making August Rush. More |
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Barbed Comments
Writer and executive producer of HBO’s The Wire David Simon takes time out to talk newspapers, television and hubris with Niall Kitson. More
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Berlinale 2008
Séamas McSwiney reports on this year’s Berlinale. More |
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Eastern Anime and the Concept of ‘Ma’
Donata Pellizzari of Boulder Media Ltd talks to Nobuyuki Tsugata, Animation Historian and lecturer at University in Osaka and Kyoto. More
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Fairytale of Kathmandu
Neasa Ní Chianáin's documentary Fairytale of Kathmandu was screened at this year's Jameson Dublin International Film Festival. Words by Séamas McSwiney. More |
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‘Up… Over a bit…. A little to the left. Can you move that leg please?’
Carol Hunt on shooting a B-movie sex scene in Roger Corman’s Galway studio. More
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Montreal Film Festival 2007
Anthony Kirbi reports this year's Montreal Film Festival (23rd August–3 September 2007, Canada). More |
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The Fantasist
The Fantasist: fascinating film or fantastic failure? The film’s reputation as an excruciating flop precedes it, but Robert J.E. Simpson argues that politics and the towering shadow of The Wicker Man obscured the film and its curious charms. Could Ireland’s only sex-thriller be worth another look? More |
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Open Up and Say AAAAAAAAAGGGGGGGHH
HHHHHHHH
Niall Kitson reports on the highlights of this year’s Horrorthon festival. More |
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The Second the World Changed
12:08 East of Bucharest follows three characters who attempt to account for their activities a the exact time of the revolution in Romania – 22nd December 1989 at 12:08. Carol Murphy talks to writer/director Corneliu Porumboiu. More
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Return to Innocence
As a result of the 1960 prosecution, Lady Chatterley’s Lover is wedded to the word ‘obscenity’ in the popular imagination. Carol Murphy talks to Pascale Ferran, whose new film and television adaptation seeks to return to the joyous awakening that is at the heart of the story. More |
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2007 Carte Noire French Film Festival
Jasmina Kallay reports on the 2007 French Film Festival held from 13–22 November at the IFI. More
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Moses, Margate and the Red Sea Algae
In Penny Woolcock’s modern-day take on the Book of Exodus, marginal members of society are confined by a political Pharaoh in the seaside town of Margate. Jan Gilbert talks to Penny about her unconventional approach. More |
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Golden Icon
Scott Townsend talks to director Shekhar Kapur about the second installation in his historic epic: Elizabeth: The Golden Age. More
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This Could Be You
After twenty-nine years, actor and filmmaker John Maringouin reunited with his father, a drug-addled accused murderer, and made a documentary of the process. Carol Murphy talked to John Maringouin about the resulting film, Running Stumbled. More |
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Midnight Sun: From Kiarostami to Kaurismäki
Seán Crosson reports from Finland’s Midnight Sun Film Festival (13–17 June 2007), a unique event that more closely resembles a school dance than a media-launched festival. More
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Inside the House of Horrors
For his portmanteau horror film Trapped Ashes, writer/producer Dennis Bartok has assembled a formidable team of directors, including Ken Russell and Joe Dante. Tim Hanan met up with him when he visited Ireland for the Dublin International Film Festival. More |
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Duck of the Irish
Aidan Beatty talks with Mark Hodkinson, writer of The Ugly Duckling and Me, an Irish-French-German-British-Danish animated feature. More |
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International Film Festival Rotterdam
Vera Brozzoni reports from the Dutch showcase for ‘peripheral’ cinema. More |
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He Who Dares
Stéphane Brizé talks to Carol Murphy about his latest film, Not Here to Be Loved, discusses his new ultra low-budget production Among Adults, and gives an insider’s perspective on the French film industry. More |
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No Mercy for the Rude
Vera Brozzoni talks to Korean director Cheol-hie Park about his genre-bending feature No Mercy for the Rude, and discusses the place of the filmmaker in his home country. More |
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Keeping a Close Watch
Close to Home follows two teenage Israeli girls through their military service in the occupied territories. Carol Murphy introduces the film, while directors Dalia Hager and Vardit Bilu talk about the film’s background, production and impact. More |
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Yes, I Cannes
Lir Mac Cárthaigh talks to producer Jackie Larkin of Newgrange Pictures about the Irish experience at world’s best-known film festival. More |
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Private
Worlds 2: Some Weird Sin
In
the second of a series of articles on the darker side of the
New Technologies, Tony Keily examines the question of pornography,
filmed and otherwise, in the age of broadband internet. More |
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The
Last Two Hours of the Old World
United 93 is the astonishing account of the 'other'
plane to be hijacked on 11th September 2001. Director Paul Greengrass
talks to Sheena Sweeney about the ramifications of bringing
one of the most sensitive subjects of recent history to the
big screen. More |
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Private
Worlds 1: Death Junkies
In
a series of exclusive articles, Tony Keily examines the darker
and more controversial uses of New Technology. More |
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Porn
Sells?
Tony
Keily looks at the economics of the US adult film and the impact
on the sector of the New Technologies. More |
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Frier Power
Jeremy Thomas is the producer behind films such The Last Emperor, Sexy Beast and Tideland. He was at the Dublin International Film Festival to talk about his new feature Fast Food Nation, a fiction film based on Eric Schlosser’s exposé. Jason Robinson reports. More |
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The
End In Sight
Patrick Kenny wasn't deterred when his first feature
film was refused funding, he made it himself independently.
Nerea Aymerich talks to Patrick about the long journey that
resulted in his film Winter's End. More |
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Montreal
Film Festival
Anthony
Kirby reports this year's Montreal International Film Festival. More |
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Tales
from the Blank Generation
Jasmina
Kallay reports on the recent retrospective of No Wave cinema
at the Irish Museum of Modern Art. More |
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Digital
Light
Technical
director Simon Brown talks to Paul Farren about the pros and
cons of computer graphics in motion pictures. More |
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There
But for the Grace of God
Carol Murphy talked to director Hans-Christian Schmid about
this highly unusual project, Requiem, a film based on
the best-documented exorcism of the 20th Century. More |
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Built
for Speed
Roger Donaldson talks about The World's Fastest Indian,
his most personal project to date, with Nerea Aymerich. More |
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Don’t
Just Talk – Shoot!
Scott Ryan is credited as writer, director, producer,
and editor of his debut feature The Magician, as well
as being its star. Aidan Beatty talked to Scott about his working
methods, his influences, and his ideas on Australian cinema. More |
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Underground
Movies
Eamonn
Gray reports on the showcase of short films from upcoming Irish
filmmakers screened in Filmbase on 5th October 2006. More |
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