Category: Movies
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Orson Welles Lost Masterpiece Found…Again.
Cinema nerds rejoice or despair depending on your point of view. Welles has more lost masterpieces then actual films made but nevertheless it’ll be interesting to see what happens and what noted Welles authorities like David Thompson, Peter Bogdanovich or Simon Callow make of it all. We’ve had a lot of false dawns on this.…
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IFTA Nominees Announced
The IFTA Nominees were announced yesterday and some of the projects I worked on last year were put up for gongs. Rewind picked up three nominations one for lead actress Amy Huberman, the sound team and a well deserved nod for director PJ Dillion, who also picked up a nomination for his work as DP…
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Harrison Ford. Are you there?
Heres an interesting piece from the LA Times about Harrison Ford by journalist Steven Zeitchik He traversed distant galaxies with Chewbacca, shot sword-wielding assassins with Marion Ravenwood and outfoxed federal marshal Samuel Gerard all by himself. But these days all those things may as well have happened to a different actor than Harrison Ford, who…
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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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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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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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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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The Rocketeer
When I was 11 this was my favourite film in the world, I came upon this aricle by Geoff Boucher on the LA-Times blogs about the film and had to repost it. “The Rocketeer” was a valentine to the old movie serials but in a way, the 1991 Disney film was also ahead of its…
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