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Benefit Gig Remembers Donal Gilligan
Irish cinematographer Donal Gilligan passed away on Sunday, September 19th. Aged just 46, the two-time IFTA nominee suffered a sudden heart attack. Held in high esteem amongst his friends and colleagues within the Irish film and television industry Donal’s funeral was attended by 1,200 people. A benefit gig has now been organised for Donal’s wife,…
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PJ Dillon on Rewind
An article from today’s iftn about tonight’s IFTA screening of Rewind which I edited in the lighthouse cinema in Smithfield The Irish Film and Television Academy (IFTA) will host an exclusive screening of PJ Dillon’s ‘Rewind’, his debut as a feature film director. The screening will take place on Thursday, October 28th. The director will…
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Arthurs Day 2010
This is a clip from the Arthur’s Day show that recently played on TV3 which someone has uploded onto YouTube. I am posting it up here as I happened to work on the show. I say work but all I really did was load and transcode the XD footage onto drives. It was handy if…
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Adrien Brody Sues To Stop Movie Release
Back in 2008, the casting of Adrien Brody in Dario Argento’s ‘Giallo’ was greeted with some excitement at the prospect of Argento possibly making some headway into the mainstream American horror scene. Now, on the eve of the film’s DVD release (set for this Tuesday), Adrien Brody has sued to keep the film from hitting…
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Job I’m about to start
I get namechecked in this piece from iftn, its about the new series I’m about to start. Once again they said I edited Operation Transformation which I did not. Not sure how this rumour started but it wasn’t me! Abú Media have just wrapped the Candian block of filming for their new documentary series, ‘Mobs…
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‘1916 Seachtar na Cásca’ launched by Brian Cowen
Here is an article from iftn about TG4’s new series directed and edited by my mate Dathai. I was lucky enough to work on this show, I did the colour correction, not what I usually do but Dathai asked me to help him out. It was really a privilege as the show is one of…
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Tarantino gives awards out to friends
From digitalspy Quentin Tarantino has been accused of favouritism after awarding ex-girlfriend Sofia Coppola the coveted Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival. The Reservoir Dogs director has come under fire in the Italian press after the jury he presided over handed the prestigious accolade to Coppola for her movie Somewhere, and gave a career…
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Danny Boyle’s new film “Too Intense” for some people
From http://www.cinematical.com Back in 2003, Aron Ralston went canyoneering in Blue John Canyon. When a loose boulder wound up tumbling on top of him, crushing his arm, Ralston found himself alone and unable to seek help. After five days, he opted to resort to dramatic measures, cutting off the pinned appendage. Just reading a brief…
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Operation Transformation Mobs Canada
There was an article this week on iftn (read it here) about all the work Abu Media had coming up. It had this to say about the upcoming Mobs Canada series ‘Mobs Canada’ a 6 x 30 minute historical documentary series will focus on Irish Canadian Mobsters. The series will start shooting around Ireland and…
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If God Is Willing And Da Creek Don’t Rise
Spike Lee is quite possibly my favourite director, when it doesn’t work for him it really doesn’t work and he has made some real stinkers. But along the way he has made some of the greatest films of all time, Do The Right Thing, Clockers, Malcolm X and his undoubted masterpiece, one of the most…
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John Murphy 