Category: Movies
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Great Chance to Score some Poitin
I’ll be heading to this event tomorrow night, its all in aid of my buddy Traolach’s film which he will be shooting in June. Its also a great chance to see one of the greatest films to ever come out of this country. At 7.30pm on Wednesday, 23rd May in the basement of Filmbase there…
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Autodesk Smoke 2013 Changes Everything
Final Cut X was a major disappointment, both in terms of its User Interface and also the perceived lack of respect it showed to broadcast editors. The Big story from NAB this weekend, in amongst all the 4K announcements was that there is a new player in the NLE market, its always been there but…
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the end of DVD?
An interesting piece from MovieScope. what does this mean for my dvd collection? It was to be a revolution in the film industry. It would empower the consumer, allowing them to watch films on their own terms. It was to be a win for the little man against the corporate fat cats, the end of…
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Apple launch movies in the cloud
This could really shake up the industry. I believe people don’t have a problem paying for media content if its done in a way that is user friendly. The film industry should learn from the music industry’s failure and support alternative revenue streams. The horse has bolted in terms of music, paying full price for…
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Rewind on dvd
My copy of Rewind on DVD finally arrived. You can buy yours here Its a pretty impressive package with some excellent extra features. hunt it down people Rewind is a 2011 feature film starring Amy Huberman, in an IFTA winning performance with Alan Leech and Owen McDonnell. It was directed by PJ Dillon, produced by…
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Cork French Film Festival March 4-11
It’s never a bad time to enjoy some French Cinema, but perhaps with the Artist winning at the Oscars this week, the timing of next weeks Cork French Film Festival couldn’t be better. As usual, this excellent little festival has a really superb line-up, programmer Paul Callanan has been doing a wonderful job down there…
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Apples of the Golan – Sat 18th 4:00
The Jameson Dublin International Film Festival is on this week and while there are a huge number of exciting projects screening, the film I am most looking forward to seeing on the big screen is Apples of the Golan. I was fortunate to see a rough cut of the film before Christmas and its a…
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Cork Film Centre announce Pat Collins Mentorship
IFTA award winning Irish director Pat Collins of Harvest Films is to be the new mentor for the Cork Film Centre for the Mentor for New Films for 2012 programme. In my opinion Pat Collins is the finest documentary maker we currently have in this country. He has directed over 25 projects in his career,…
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Steve James top 10 documentaries
The Interupters is on tonight on BBC4 and it is one off the finest documentaries of recent years and indeed one of my all time favorites so make sure to tune in. It is directed by Steve James who also directed Hoop Dreams and No Crossover:the Trial of Alan Iverson both of which were incredible.…
John Murphy 