tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-52141569807451803412024-02-20T00:57:21.354-08:00Technicolour Talkies of HiberniaA veritable cornucopia of Irish motion pictures, from The Unquiet Man.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger47125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5214156980745180341.post-31412457026448144432008-01-01T05:23:00.000-08:002008-12-09T05:19:00.301-08:00IRISH MOVIES 2008<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicYD6gpOYERdSJ_stGK1Wxcz2UcDNxG9biKWU-AIs6wZxY_025LZChgy7gKAs1JToP5sJAuQny6kYb8Ck4YC-oaxPiREdvoCnylQnj1EmNxZ4iNy8VqRUY_9BRIFI9LQC2OdXs97IYbds/s1600-h/Hughoconnor.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicYD6gpOYERdSJ_stGK1Wxcz2UcDNxG9biKWU-AIs6wZxY_025LZChgy7gKAs1JToP5sJAuQny6kYb8Ck4YC-oaxPiREdvoCnylQnj1EmNxZ4iNy8VqRUY_9BRIFI9LQC2OdXs97IYbds/s200/Hughoconnor.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5150501196470683298" border="0" /></a>We haven't posted in a while as news was pretty thin on the oul ground there, but 2008 has a wealth of Irish movies and related news on the way...<br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-IE">Hugh O’Conor (right) hopes to put the dreadful Speed Dating behind him with <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0905642/"><span style="font-weight: bold;">WAITING FOR DUBLIN</span></a>. In a Chicago nightclub on New Year’s Eve, 1944, a</span><span style="" lang="EN-IE"> drunken Lt. Mike Clarke (O’ Connor) </span><span style="" lang="EN-IE">makes a bet of $1000 with a stranger (Karl Sheils – Capital Letters) that </span><span style="" lang="EN-IE">we will become a WWII flying ace by </span><span style="" lang="EN-IE">shooting down 5 enemy aircraft. When Mike sobers up, he realises that the stranger’s uncle, the man who witnessed the bet, is none other than Al Capone! Madcap antics enuse. Frank Kelly (Father Ted) and David Wilmot (Studs, Six Shooter) co-star. After that, Hugh will star in Martin Duffy's (The Boy From Mercury) drama <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0846318/"><span style="font-weight: bold;">SUMMER OF THE FLYING SAUCER</span></a>.<br /></span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-IE"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-IE">After playing a hitman in Martin McDonagh’s In Bruges (release date sometime this March) Colin Farrell will star with Ed Norton in <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0482572/"><span style="font-weight: bold;">PRIDE AND GLORY</span></a>: A crime drama that sees Ed Norton’s cop investigate a scandal involving his brother-in-law and fellow cop Colin Farrell. Jon Voight co-stars.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-IE"><o:p></o:p>Farrell’s co-st</span><span style="" lang="EN-IE">ar in the Belgian black comedy, Brendan Gleason, is to make his directorial debut adapting Fla</span><span style="" lang="EN-IE">nn O’Brien’s 1939 novel AT SWIM TWO BIRDS. Cillian Murphy, Colin Farrell, Sean McGinley and Gabriel Byrne are set to star alongside a who’s who</span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEib0eg8G7g5mtpCmi3e9jany6goqe-AuJjLXxE5QafOoKjKRShUDSWRyO9BYMV5Pap0TAmj6wLN9a7u9rvSwITMIpzs7H8kcAyp19AlXYJv9z8taAaRpYrO-tecJmlsyK9VL90VL_iBcgE/s1600-h/Mcsorley.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEib0eg8G7g5mtpCmi3e9jany6goqe-AuJjLXxE5QafOoKjKRShUDSWRyO9BYMV5Pap0TAmj6wLN9a7u9rvSwITMIpzs7H8kcAyp19AlXYJv9z8taAaRpYrO-tecJmlsyK9VL90VL_iBcgE/s200/Mcsorley.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5150500307412452978" border="0" /></a><span style="" lang="EN-IE"> of Irish actors. <o:p></o:p><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-IE">Apart from appearing in the upcoming <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0929730/"><span style="font-weight: bold;">ANTON</span></a>, Gerard McSorley (left) will team up with his Veronica Guerin director Joel Schumacher to </span><span style="" lang="EN-IE">star in the horror thriller <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0450336/"><span style="font-weight: bold;">TOWN CREEK</span></a>, which sees two brothers caught in an occult experiment that dates back to the Third Reich.<br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-IE"><o:p></o:p><br />Liam Neeson will return as the voice of Aslan in <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0499448/"><span style="font-weight: bold;">THE CHRONICLES OF NARNIA: PRINCE CASPIAN</span></a> and take the lead in Pierre Morel’s <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0936501/"><span style="font-weight: bold;">TAKEN</span></a>. Neeson plays a spy who relies on his skills to track dow</span><span style="" lang="EN-IE">n his estranged daughter.<br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-IE"><o:p></o:p>The Halo Effe</span><span style="" lang="EN-IE">ct writer/director Lance Daly returns to direct <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0975684/"><span style="font-weight: bold;">KISSES</span></a>, which</span><i><span lang="EN-IE"> </span></i>sees two kids spend a horrific night on the streets of Dublin after running away from home. Stephen Rea takes the lead (not as one of the kids of course – <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifZcnvS64enzC-9jadbZdKDlkItcQiFFrIHba9J235-8NHIWrf9QLeZl4BosANSKcEuMTi-DQzVZQFh6nlg9R1VV8gj3OFzW7-CoUCQYUh4-uDCnfKhCDOm5EHJ5gDvg0kTgj1ppDgwp8/s1600-h/olga.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifZcnvS64enzC-9jadbZdKDlkItcQiFFrIHba9J235-8NHIWrf9QLeZl4BosANSKcEuMTi-DQzVZQFh6nlg9R1VV8gj3OFzW7-CoUCQYUh4-uDCnfKhCDOm5EHJ5gDvg0kTgj1ppDgwp8/s200/olga.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5150500891528005266" border="0" /></a>our special effects artists just aren’t there yet).</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">The lovely Nora-Jane Noone (right) and the just as lovely Olga Wehrly (left) will play the eye candy in Brendan Foley’s (T<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiF2FOysTjToKccX7cAMqYmb9MgONhYbPbQwibmNCUCOnR1uvkgmQP1QoumT0Iw7DrdjyKeYEzAN6LpVLS70y_-RD1lONZE8Yhg8VF1CynVk5QiZ5GAs_akmksNZGCU4XQM6_ORPToZJ38/s1600-h/nora-jane+noone.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiF2FOysTjToKccX7cAMqYmb9MgONhYbPbQwibmNCUCOnR1uvkgmQP1QoumT0Iw7DrdjyKeYEzAN6LpVLS70y_-RD1lONZE8Yhg8VF1CynVk5QiZ5GAs_akmksNZGCU4XQM6_ORPToZJ38/s200/nora-jane+noone.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5150500612355131010" border="0" /></a>he Riddle, Johnny Was) horror <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0928375/"><span style="font-weight: bold;">BOG BODIES</span></a>. The plot sees a 2000-year-old murder victim unearthed from a bog and go on a bloodthirsty rampage (as you do). Vinnie Jones stars.<span style=""><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />Adam And Paul and Garage scribe Mark O’Halloran will star in Brendan Grant’s <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1057532/"><span style="font-weight: bold;">TONIGHT IS CANCELLED</span></a>. O’Halloran plays a film director who wants to make a film about a Slav couple who escaped the war in Kosovo and made it to safety in Ireland. The film was completed last year and it’s unsure whether or not it will see some distribution.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">Ciarán Hinds will be a busy man: he will star in Kimberley Pierce’s (Boys Don’t Cry) drama <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0489281/"><span style="font-weight: bold;">STOP LOSS</span></a>, team up with Jean Reno in the comedy <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1002966/"><span style="font-weight: bold;">CASH</span></a> and lend his voice to the animated adventure <a style="font-weight: bold;" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0420238/"><span style="font-weight: bold;">THE </span><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjiZiHO-wQDnhCfNgpKroxMI7ZjBqicyW9m3qLC-D8wNpxEyMY_xnPLdfBLfCX7p-NO4ljKAG1cirxRgPPEsLpP46Mg_xCQo5161I62p3_58W__uCRYvjFo3SpvcR3MzUPURSWziDzH4vM/s200/aisling+walsh.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5150501514298263218" border="0" /></a><a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0420238/"><span style="font-weight: bold;">TALE OF DESPEREAUX</span></a>.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">Song For A Raggy Boy helmer Aisling Walsh (left) will direct Eva Birthistle (Middletown) and Samantha Morton in <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1129415/"><span style="font-weight: bold;">THE DAISY CHAIN</span></a>. The plot sees crazy things happen when a couple adopt an autistic child.<br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">I Went Down main man Peter McDonald will star with Iain Glen in the TV series <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1044196/"><span style="font-weight: bold;">CITY OF VICE</span></a>.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">Colm Meaney wil star in the US version of Life on Mars, but will also star in the thriller <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0867464/"><span style="font-weight: bold;">CLEAN BREAK</span></a>, the comedy and the mini series <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1130980/"><span style="font-weight: bold;">3 AND OUT</span></a><span style="font-weight: bold;"> </span><span>and</span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0995027/"> ZOS: ZONE OF SEPARATION</a></span>.<br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style=""> </span>Aidan ‘Oi loved her’ Quinn will star in the romantic comedy <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1024255/"><span style="font-weight: bold;">WILD CHILD</span></a>, the drama <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1032753/"><span style="font-weight: bold;">THE OFF HOURS</span></a> and is rumoured to take the lead in the Eric Stoltz-directed comedy <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0915468/"><span style="font-weight: bold;">PADDYVILLE</span></a>, which will star Frank McCourt and Domhnall Gleason. <span style="" lang="EN-IE"><o:p></o:p></span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5214156980745180341.post-88996228774718771142007-12-12T00:56:00.000-08:002008-12-09T05:19:01.369-08:00Can He Fix It? Yes He Can<div style="text-align: justify;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRZF_r-GYa3Ou_WcxMvPMvi95p9J6zCeWAgCTyFVZyaqcgi_BJD-iUsRqzOByxo6dZ34gl7C226JaRyCiOuEVLR5uvIJxorxw7VqLaL9PZiXA1h55WY0J6Def6Z9cuwV58Qa2yk7Lezsc/s1600-h/gleeson2.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRZF_r-GYa3Ou_WcxMvPMvi95p9J6zCeWAgCTyFVZyaqcgi_BJD-iUsRqzOByxo6dZ34gl7C226JaRyCiOuEVLR5uvIJxorxw7VqLaL9PZiXA1h55WY0J6Def6Z9cuwV58Qa2yk7Lezsc/s200/gleeson2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5143009125863888818" border="0" /></a>After writing and directing Cowboys And Angels and The Front Line, David Gleeson (right) will leave the script duties to A. Nother when he takes on Chuck Wachtel's novel Joe The Engineer; that A. Nother is none other than Wachtel himself, who debuts to adapt his own debut.<br /><br />Tagged as a 'blue collar novel', the plot follows the titular character, a meter reader for a water company, who, after a tour in Vietnam, is tired of his meaningless life and tries to figure out what is going on on this crazy planet. Brad Renfro (Apt Pupil, The Jacket) is rumoured to play the lead.<br /><br />Reviews for the book have been good ("a great, rough, sympathetic ode to real people"), but one worrying critique was that "the reader isn't it in for the plot" (that review can be read <a href="http://reviewparty.com/a-burger-of-a-novel-joe-the-engineer-by-chuck-wachtel"><span style="font-weight: bold;">here</span></a>). After two linear-plotted movies, is Gleeson about to direct an (whisper it) arthouse film? What is strange is that Wild Eye, David's own production company, are not behind it (that role falls to US house <a href="http://www.toulillianfilms.com/"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Toulillian Films</span></a>), elbowing long-time partner Nathalie Lichtenthaeler into the cold. Oh, is there trouble in the Dutch camp?<br /><br />You can catch David's interesting 'Writer's On Writing' interview with Irish Playwrights And Screenwriter's Guild <a href="http://www.script.ie/articles/davidgleeson.html"><span style="font-weight: bold;">here</span></a>.<br /></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5214156980745180341.post-63449217173341434512007-12-11T01:00:00.000-08:002008-12-09T05:19:01.655-08:00No One Will Sleep Through This Alarm<div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgq_GGv4G-pQFofdXMr8GS_6Il8-2vpCVjIRQ2qIfZZo7_yoVOnOdXkJnLfz7R1xCZPWXaCse4vWJ4NJqhxmB56NQ8NarsntU9n2hq9JaaZQhAlp57NaJEd7uXK4PzbBSNBL5x-1ah4J_s/s1600-h/alarm-f.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgq_GGv4G-pQFofdXMr8GS_6Il8-2vpCVjIRQ2qIfZZo7_yoVOnOdXkJnLfz7R1xCZPWXaCse4vWJ4NJqhxmB56NQ8NarsntU9n2hq9JaaZQhAlp57NaJEd7uXK4PzbBSNBL5x-1ah4J_s/s200/alarm-f.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5142640042144274338" border="0" /></a>You've a better chance of finding your baggage in Lockerbie than seeing a decent psychological thriller set in Ireland but lo - there's one on its way. Not for another year, however...<br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Guiltrip and About Adam director Gerry Stembridge has just finished a five week shoot of <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1135960/"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Alarm</span></a>. The plot sees a young woman, Molly (Ruth Bradley - Love Is The Drug), who moves from her idyllic suburban Dublin life to a housing estate way outside the city and her life begins to unravel.<br /></div></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Co-produced by Venus Film And Television, the film will star Owen Roe (Intermission), Tom Hickey (Garage), Anita Reeves (Adam And Paul, The Butcher Boy) and Emmet Bergin (Veronica Guerin).<br /><br />Although shooting has wrapped, the film is unlikely to hit our screens until late 2008/early 2009. Now TToH will admit that we don't know a lot about post production, but surely a mentally-retarded snail would edit the film faster than that. Come on, guys - get the finger out.<br /></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5214156980745180341.post-43898759906373626582007-12-10T06:43:00.000-08:002008-12-09T05:19:01.854-08:00An Irish Opera? And It's A Comedy? Starring Ronnie Drew? You're On A Giraffe!<div style="text-align: justify;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiR5kmv3IHpiTcwV62h76Lksu5ehmMb0P_3_fq7_Avyi4bBQt8EhA5gAWiVexiKq6bU0Gl9uKnByJUPg6Jc9rhmVCNBPNzB5As43VEyGV4b_sK-J5Vh_Y3RdxgPsI7Tku1kQFcn9zlyRw4/s1600-h/o_donoghues_noose.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiR5kmv3IHpiTcwV62h76Lksu5ehmMb0P_3_fq7_Avyi4bBQt8EhA5gAWiVexiKq6bU0Gl9uKnByJUPg6Jc9rhmVCNBPNzB5As43VEyGV4b_sK-J5Vh_Y3RdxgPsI7Tku1kQFcn9zlyRw4/s200/o_donoghues_noose.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5142358541397759890" border="0" /></a>So obscure IMDB don't even have it, O'Donoghue's Opera was made in 1965 but it wasn't seen until veteran filmmaker Tom Hayes restored it ten years ago.<br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Directed by Kevin Sheldon and starring Ronnie Drew (right) and The Dubliners, the comedy is based on the ballad The Night That Larry Was Stretched and sees Ronnie in a hangman's noose for being the best burglar in Ireland.<br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">With nods and winks to all sorts to beat the band, the 37 minute O'Donoghue's Opera will screen in the <a href="http://www.ifi.ie/cinema/dispfilm_07.asp?filmID=5776&Date=12/11/2007&PageID=15"><span style="font-weight: bold;">IFI</span></a> from Tuesday 11th December.<br /></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5214156980745180341.post-83622005464323290302007-12-10T00:59:00.000-08:002008-12-09T05:19:02.182-08:00Oh Wow, Sir...It's A ...Oh, It's A Grammy<div style="text-align: justify;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhq-7zjfhOuxtwp9Jy3qPQNAx6mtzddxadfirWHk5Y3J1IiV4KPWfqTLgnCS8dkf49mh9C2yEjqDD0B6-WNouYrpea8xScg3g98C9ngnPGXLQK7EdIliAvZ1h8di_757pjQlMPUWAV4cTs/s1600-h/Once.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhq-7zjfhOuxtwp9Jy3qPQNAx6mtzddxadfirWHk5Y3J1IiV4KPWfqTLgnCS8dkf49mh9C2yEjqDD0B6-WNouYrpea8xScg3g98C9ngnPGXLQK7EdIliAvZ1h8di_757pjQlMPUWAV4cTs/s200/Once.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5142270026416756610" border="0" /></a>We all remember The Simpsons parody (The Barbershop Quartet one), which brought to light that the Grammys aren't the most respected award a musician can receive, but it's just one more string in the bow for John Carney's Once, the little film that could.<br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />Once has been nominated for Best Compilation Soundtrack while the song Falling Slowly is nominated for Best Song. Written by The Frames's Glen Hansard and Czech diminutive singer/songwriter Marketa Irglova, it sounds like a tune The Grammy's would go for; James Blunt won last year.<br /><br />With Neil Jordan and Jim Sheridan shutting up shop and heading out west when they made it big, will John Carney be seen this side of the water again? And if not, would you blame him? Please post your thoughts below.<br /><br />Falling Slowly, with some visuals from the film, can be heard below...<br /><br /><object height="355" width="425"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/CoSL_qayMCc&rel=1"><param name="wmode" value="transparent"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/CoSL_qayMCc&rel=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" height="355" width="425"></embed></object><br /></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5214156980745180341.post-90609524871726182462007-12-07T01:00:00.000-08:002008-12-09T05:19:02.316-08:00"I'd Bloody Love It If We Beat Them, I'd Bloody Love It...<div style="text-align: justify;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3n001gyYwE4Pp56vaHPuL3aK6oE9kGeZOfmEMVPkTf8MgJCkI2mU58gmlkw4_L3WkqT90OxzFMUdDK3PHKcX_T0xinqYceY1Dr4aSOPvLWBdtWfgp5cXPEUOl9k8zF7iE59A_eyyHmOw/s1600-h/sundanceegyptian_2.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3n001gyYwE4Pp56vaHPuL3aK6oE9kGeZOfmEMVPkTf8MgJCkI2mU58gmlkw4_L3WkqT90OxzFMUdDK3PHKcX_T0xinqYceY1Dr4aSOPvLWBdtWfgp5cXPEUOl9k8zF7iE59A_eyyHmOw/s200/sundanceegyptian_2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5141156916922521458" border="0" /></a>....and they still got to go to Sundance next month and get something...." Martin McDonagh's In Bruges will open Sundance this year, but it won't be the only Irish entry to the festival...<br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Simon Fitzmaurice's short The Sound Of People has joined the 19 titles (whittled down from 5000) for the Dramatic Shorts selection. Produced by Noreen Donohoe and starring Martin McCann, the story sees an 18-year-old connect with both his past and his future while dealing with his own impending death. Fitzmaurice: "I am absolutely over the moon about getting into Sundance. Everyone worked heart and soul on this film and this is a wonderful response."<br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">In the Documentary Shorts section, Ken Wardrop has two entries: 'Farewell Packets Of Ten' sees two women discuss the pros and cons of smoking and 'Scoring' documents the power of the kiss.<br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">TToH are still waiting on word for their own documentary - Doggin' Into Some Young One Down The Back Of The Cinema. Hopes are still high.<br /></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5214156980745180341.post-91081986834450676942007-12-06T01:35:00.000-08:002008-12-09T05:19:03.192-08:00Gadzooks! Odds And Innards! Politician Comes Through On Promise<div style="text-align: justify;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzkr7iRekPGpO-uiIFLMWGT7TtRPLCX_dqApKPghNlNBNa08Z6xQoARSfmG56PGD6j4jTUF1a1sQSsCSoCujSVcUk_3-1uL9mu3KjroFga8ftrwITf7FKFr7VSf2ko-UFcyv-J0VZntqA/s1600-h/Brian+Cowen.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzkr7iRekPGpO-uiIFLMWGT7TtRPLCX_dqApKPghNlNBNa08Z6xQoARSfmG56PGD6j4jTUF1a1sQSsCSoCujSVcUk_3-1uL9mu3KjroFga8ftrwITf7FKFr7VSf2ko-UFcyv-J0VZntqA/s200/Brian+Cowen.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5140794126862657186" border="0" /></a>The proles have spoken; the falcon has heard the falconer; the squeaky wheel gets the grease; you can put a cat in the oven, but that don't make it a biscuit; you can't make a silk purse out of toilet roll inserts (stop us - we're in a loop!).<br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">In yesterday's budget, Minister for finance Brian Cowen has promised to invest €245m in the arts with The Film Board seeing an increase of 18% in its funding (good news for TToH as we've applied for a First Draft Loan. Get in, my son). Also, Section 481, the tax relief scheme for film and television production, is to be extended until 2012.<br /></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5214156980745180341.post-12055714567318312762007-12-05T04:10:00.001-08:002008-12-09T05:19:03.402-08:00Sitcom Will Be A Hit - And That's A Red Roarin' Fact<div style="text-align: justify;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgu_oyHPhcrJg_HLKXhgg7UetAKB8nSjMJQhnBR2j-dOQRa5bjrGgPuyPWAgfwI5crAOoHCIPpfZftaHEmDO98emz0HchKpMXYjguhzKD-aA8iSnfkVQDyWqD4giXfmzM8Z-2VN9HvV6Ac/s1600-h/theroaringtwenties-f.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgu_oyHPhcrJg_HLKXhgg7UetAKB8nSjMJQhnBR2j-dOQRa5bjrGgPuyPWAgfwI5crAOoHCIPpfZftaHEmDO98emz0HchKpMXYjguhzKD-aA8iSnfkVQDyWqD4giXfmzM8Z-2VN9HvV6Ac/s200/theroaringtwenties-f.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5140462246149760658" border="0" /></a>Post production on new Irish two-part TV sitcom <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1121919/"><span style="font-weight: bold;">The Roaring Twenties</span></a> has begun and should hit our screens sometime in January.<br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Set in Rathmines, Dublin, the plot sees a group of - you guessed it - twenty somethings as they go through the trials and tribulations of everyday life.<br /></div><br />Produced by Adrian Devane (Speed Dating) and Brian Willis (Short Order) of Igloo Productions, the mini-series was written by Steven Stubbs (It Happened One Night) and co-directed by him with 24-year-old debutant Ray Sullivan. The cast will include newcomers Jason Healey, Diarmaid Murtagh, Darryl Kinsella and Amy Kirwan.<br /><br />The Roaring Twenties promises to be a hit along the lines of Pure Mule. TToH will have a review next year.<br /></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5214156980745180341.post-76885020326110183282007-12-04T08:42:00.000-08:002008-12-09T05:19:03.541-08:00Abrahamson Sacks Turin<div style="text-align: justify;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDugVHM8humH2yqKUxNHzhmhuvTAP2i7XtC0D6g_9OcHhrhGjC5olKJDGKghXp4KtndpZLUVLuVoAC79jE7Gmy8spUN9EbskBXCMp8TotIUjMAN1O2C25qEk9rP3F8PhJBvhFBz0_sTLQ/s1600-h/Lenny+Abrahamson.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDugVHM8humH2yqKUxNHzhmhuvTAP2i7XtC0D6g_9OcHhrhGjC5olKJDGKghXp4KtndpZLUVLuVoAC79jE7Gmy8spUN9EbskBXCMp8TotIUjMAN1O2C25qEk9rP3F8PhJBvhFBz0_sTLQ/s200/Lenny+Abrahamson.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5140162058000541314" border="0" /></a>Like Hannibal, Abrahamson's Garage has taken a while to get to Italy, pillaging the French villes of Chatenay-Malabry, Monte Carlo and Cinnesonne in its wake.<br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />Last Saturday, his movie took Best Film at the 25th <a href="http://www.torinofilmfest.org/index.php?lang=eng"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Turin Film Festival</span></a> with a prize of €25,000. Will Abrahamson take his army north and face the Goths camped outside the <a href="http://www.berlinale.de/"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Berlin Film Festival</span></a> in February next year? Who's betting he won't? Behind that steely gaze, there's a hunger in his eyes - look. They will find tough opposition, though, as Anton's Commander-in-chief Graham Cantwell has his eyes on that prize.<br /></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5214156980745180341.post-68512669308813767972007-12-04T01:17:00.000-08:002008-12-09T05:19:03.849-08:00The Secret Diary Of Adrian Dunbar Aged 49 3/4<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5qcTWxOFTmKqK9kacoajTjrL987wZtlTAcC29vOfUY-nxF_lOGrN-Wg2fhzoypCDvVJlQhzarDX4BN4eRGqrIY0Zunupy7IZmajMDkevDfB0f2cwRrbSZkxR750I3fx3ESgmESqMKMI0/s1600-h/Adrian+Dunbar.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5qcTWxOFTmKqK9kacoajTjrL987wZtlTAcC29vOfUY-nxF_lOGrN-Wg2fhzoypCDvVJlQhzarDX4BN4eRGqrIY0Zunupy7IZmajMDkevDfB0f2cwRrbSZkxR750I3fx3ESgmESqMKMI0/s200/Adrian+Dunbar.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5140047622891906674" border="0" /></a>Tuesday, 4th December, 2007<br /><div style="text-align: justify;">I saw Mr Lucas coming out of my mother's bedroom when I was leaving for school this morning. He said that my mother had 'an emergency that needed fixing right away'. I think my mother is being very unfair to Mr Lucas - she seems to need him every morning and it looks like real hard work because he was very red in the face and was sweating.<br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Pandora came around this afternoon. I touched her bust. Felt like I never felt before. Oh, I'm also directing a biopic of James Connolly.<br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: justify;">Either TToH have lost their talent for picking up on news or Adrian Dunbar (right) is keeping the details close to his chest, but we hadn't heard anything about this until Sunday morning. Produced by <a href="http://www.rascal-films.com/"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Rascal Films,</span></a> 'Connolly' is seen through the eyes of his daughter Nora and will star Peter Mullan in the title role with Susan Lynch and Patrick Bergin as Big Jim Larkin backing him up. The script will be penned by debutants Tom Stokes and Frank Allen.<br /></div><br />The film is in preproduction so a release date is a long way off yet. Stay tuned...<br /></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5214156980745180341.post-234109975677350582007-12-03T06:34:00.000-08:002008-12-09T05:19:04.031-08:00Oh Brother, Where Art Thou Former Glory?<div style="text-align: justify;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvj6AjV61kespWu8go1ipR2PnbzXPmmgS22jYJlVHJ9K94aFV1MRfI-X8AcMnTSsVjd9p-m6q_G25ivJdztah1Nl_8_grx9un-gHvO5U6-4cXWcLhdGg3ct3qo_oigcbbhb9yWvg35kPE/s1600-r/Brothers.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOsqzUsGoF4qbqzt6V6ep1fNYlncXkDunpbeEURWHiDEuiWtOVHCWjeB0JcwXKoJVzaSOgaLt7xRgslY9iNbnF5ZhqSTni2E0TgfZwXx-GhEPsQeNdH8Q_hUDA7e4BAihh-1pRvl5o1vo/s200/Brothers.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5139755367662530514" border="0" /></a><span style="">After 2002’s unremarkable In America and 2005’s underachieving Get Rich Or Die Tryin’, Jim Sheridan, the director of My Left Foot, The Field, In The Name Of The Father and The Boxer, plans to get back to winning ways with two movies in the pipeline.<br /><br />Up first is Brothers - a remake of Dane Susanne Bier’s Brode (2004) - which tells the tale of an ex-con who comforts his wife’s brother and children when he goes missing in Afghanistan. The film will star Jake Gyllenhaal and Tobey Maguire as the titular brothers and Natalie Portman (boy, she’s a sport) as the broken-hearted wife. The script will be penned by Troy scribe David Benioff.<br /><br /></span></div><p style="text-align: justify;" class="MsoBodyText"><span lang="EN-IE">After that, Jim will turn his attention to Emerald City, a sneaky peek into the world of Irish organised crime in Hell’s Kitchen, New York. Irish? Organised? We reckon it must be fiction. The trailer for the original Brode can be seen below...</span></p> <p class="MsoBodyText"><span lang="EN-IE"><!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--> <!--[endif]--><o:p></o:p></span></p> <span style=""><object height="355" width="425"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/JGw5szsaYic&rel=1"><param name="wmode" value="transparent"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/JGw5szsaYic&rel=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" height="355" width="425"></embed></object></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5214156980745180341.post-62390544796537584852007-12-03T02:32:00.000-08:002007-12-03T02:34:05.932-08:00At Last - In Bruges Trailer Is Here!<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman";">After weeks of squinting at a shaky camera that shot a Ralph Fiennes scene from across the street, the In Bruges trailer is finally here. Woo-hoo! The black comedy will open Sundance and by the look of the trailer – and we don’t want to jinx it or anything - it’s odds-on to scoop at least one award. Definitely. No doubt in our minds. If it doesn’t, TToH will eat our hats. And we don’t own a hat – we’d have to go out and buy one. A Ten Gallon. Arrow and all. Check out Ralph Fiennes doing a hilarious Michael Caine-meets-Ben Kingsley’s-Sexy-Beast...<br /><br /></span> <p style="text-align: justify;" class="MsoBodyText"><span lang="EN-IE"><object width="425" height="355"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/mYOlmlvED5g&rel=1"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/mYOlmlvED5g&rel=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="355"></embed></object> </span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5214156980745180341.post-77670748261393118792007-11-30T01:02:00.001-08:002007-11-30T01:36:53.148-08:00If We Didn't Write It, You Couldn't Quote It!<div style="text-align: justify;">"Of all the lousy gin joints in all the towns in all the world, she walks into mine," "Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn," "I'd kiss you but I've just washed my hair," "It's hard to believe so much shite could come out of one dog," "Beautiful? She was genetically engineered by super aliens in a secret underground lab on the planet Attractive, deep in the Fuck Me, She's Gorgeous nebula!" Okay, so maybe the last line isn't famous (it's from a still-unproduced TToH script), but these lines wouldn't be a part of our lives if a writer didn't write them.<br /><br />Writers do get a raw deal. There's an old joke that goes something like this: A list of people who will make changes to your script ...<br />The producer.<br />The director.<br />The script editor.<br />The actor.<br />The guy who brings the coffee.<br />Anyone on set that day.<br />You.<br /><br />Whenever a film comes out, the first question usually is 'what's it about?', the next question is invariably one of the following: 'who's in it?' and 'who directed it?' What we seem to forget is that film is story - we go to the flicks to catch a good (if we're lucky) yarn - and you don't have a story without a writer. Nobody would be making money if a writer didn't sit down and type the words 'fade in'. Writers are forgotten. Who wrote Casablanca?<br /><br />The Irish Playwright And Screenwriter's Guild converged on the Sony and 20th Century Fox offices on Wednesday to show their support for the WGA strike stateside. Striking to "put a value on their creativity, their work and their stories," there was a decent turn out and you can watch some of that footage, courtesy of the Irish Playwright And Screenwriter's Guild <a href="http://irishscriptwritersguild.blogspot.com/"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Blog</span></a>. There is also more footage from around the globe at Youtube's <a href="http://youtube.com/user/writersdayofsupport"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Day Of Support.</span></a><br /><br /><object height="355" width="425"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/LInbwUWWZT8&rel=1"><param name="wmode" value="transparent"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/LInbwUWWZT8&rel=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" height="355" width="425"></embed></object><br /></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5214156980745180341.post-2672754950219723482007-11-29T06:51:00.000-08:002008-12-09T05:19:04.370-08:00The Embiggend O<div style="text-align: justify;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgu-ZDzDd_JijMuqvY8KzBlFUce_C_f_pkwyjqcrvr7THHchn8XoncCNYiHyOicdSUY27EO9Si8hHpjrjV-80IRE9lLbH55Oeq3fZJqnPyYXWQdjCc573y4kLd2aUwY-1eGb10o8tDHb18/s1600-h/Dec.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgu-ZDzDd_JijMuqvY8KzBlFUce_C_f_pkwyjqcrvr7THHchn8XoncCNYiHyOicdSUY27EO9Si8hHpjrjV-80IRE9lLbH55Oeq3fZJqnPyYXWQdjCc573y4kLd2aUwY-1eGb10o8tDHb18/s200/Dec.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5138281728409949906" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:100%;">Unless you're Pat McCabe or Cecelia Ahern, the chances of your book being optioned and produced are slimmer than a slim thing. However, if ever there was a book screaming out for an adaptation it would be Declan Burke's (right) <a href="http://crimealwayspays.blogspot.com/"><span style="font-weight: bold;">The Big O</span></a>, which has just been nominated for 'Best Novel - New Voice' at the prestigious <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.spinetinglermag.com/">Spinetingler</a> Awards. Published by Hag's Head, The Big O has just been picked up by <a href="http://www.harcourtbooks.com/"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Harcourt</span></a> publishing stateside and the reviews are getting better every week:</span><span style="font-size:100%;"> RTE called it <span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">"a smart, cynical twist-tastic romp ... just crying out for a movie treatment...Message for Paddy Breathnach: read this and go eat Hollywood" </span>Which was nice. You can catch the rest of the reviews (and damn are they good) over at <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://crimealwayspays.blogspot.com/">Crime Always Pays</a>. </span><span style="font-size:100%;">So what's the story?</span><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><p style="text-align: justify;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14;">It’s</span></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14;"> your standard boy-meets-girl romance, except Ray meets Karen when she sticks a .44 in his face during a stick</span></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14;">-up on a gas station. Enough to freak any guy out, right? Well, maybe – but Ray’s not just any guy. He’s a babysitter. Nee</span></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14;">d a wife held while the boys walk her husband into his bank at four in the morning? Ray’s your guy, for 10% on the gross. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="text-align: justify;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14;"><span style=""> </span>Tr</span></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmxcTvzlMHXQlliVVlXmmBaufgQ8fW04mmTTcLoL7ZnOE0ap9-VodrfGSDSVVeFW0-Ho_YJE2C-K5YCAwCE79pZIWGMy6iC68uijcsrXRlnhED6n-J4ZsNk8t4QWKuRs1vTmVFX-bHfuw/s1600-h/Big+O.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmxcTvzlMHXQlliVVlXmmBaufgQ8fW04mmTTcLoL7ZnOE0ap9-VodrfGSDSVVeFW0-Ho_YJE2C-K5YCAwCE79pZIWGMy6iC68uijcsrXRlnhED6n-J4ZsNk8t4QWKuRs1vTmVFX-bHfuw/s200/Big+O.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5138281947453282018" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:100%;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14;">ouble is, there’s a Balkan crew bunkering in around town and Ray’s old boss, The Fridge, has gone the way of all fridges – punctured at the bottom of a canal. So Ray’s getting out. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="text-align: justify;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14;"><span style=""> </span>Trouble is, Karen can’t afford to get out. She’s got Anna’s special needs to worry about, and working receptionist for a plastic surgeon, Frank, won’t pay those kind of bills. Her best friend Madge would love to help, but Madge has enough on her plate worrying about how she’s going to put the twins through college, especially as Madge has never worked a day in her life and is facing into a ruinous divorce, from Frank<span style=""> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="text-align: justify;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14;"><span style=""> </span>Trouble is, Frank can’t afford the divorce. Not when he’s got Genevieve sucking on him everywhere except the one place she should. What Frank does have, though, is comprehensive insurance, the kind that includes peace of mind if an iceberg falls on your yacht, or if you need to pay ransom in the unlikely event of your wife getting herself kidnapped.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="text-align: justify;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14;"><span style=""> </span>So it’d make sense, right, for Karen, Ray, Frank and Madge to have a sit-down, maybe see if they can’t screw the insurance company if they pool their resources …?<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="text-align: justify;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14;"><span style=""> </span>Trouble is, Karen’s pyscho ex, Rossi Francis Assisi Callaghan, is out on the streets after a five-stretch for armed robbery and he needs his .44, his Ducati super-bike and his sixty grand stash if he’s to finally go legit with his planned support group for ex-cons, the Francis Assisi Rehabilitation Concern, aka FARC – all of which, in one shape or another, Karen has long ago re-invested in Anna’s special needs. And then there’s Detective Doyle, early 30s and a long time bored with banging her head against that old glass ceiling, who can’t decide if she’d prefer to take down a big kidnapping score to piss off the boys down the station, or a little horizontal jogging with this guy she’s just met, a real charmer called Ray … <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="text-align: justify;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14;"><span style=""> </span>A comedy crime caper-gone-wrong in the mould of Elmore Leonard and rooted in a Celtic Tiger kidnapping, The Big O is a furiously paced multi-character tale of modern Ireland. Karen, Ray, Madge, Frank, Rossi and Doyle: trouble is … their business.</span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;" class="MsoNormal">TToH like to wish Declan the best of luck...<br /><span style="font-size:100%;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:100%;"></span><br /></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5214156980745180341.post-74786074020992999772007-11-29T03:39:00.000-08:002007-11-29T04:18:19.106-08:00Too Much, Too Young<p style="text-align: justify;" class="MsoBodyText"><span lang="EN-IE">Any young filmmaker in Ireland will know how tough it is to break into the film industry. Unreturned phone calls and ignored emails have them banging their heads up against a brick wall – without ever knowing if it’s the right wall. Stephen Byrne, a 25-year-old producer, kick-started the <a href="http://www.waterfordfilmfestival.com/"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Waterford Film Festival</span></a> this year while Michael Lafferty, a 21-year-old from Clady in Co. Tyrone joined the <a href="http://youtube.com/yifm"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Young Irish Filmmakers on Youtube</span></a>. He has his own blog where he tells us that he is going to make a video diary of his trials and tribulations of becoming a filmmaker.<br /></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;" class="MsoBodyText"><span lang="EN-IE"><br />For his final year college project, Michael wrote and directed a short film called ‘The Hitman’, which is “a story about revenge and murder” (handy given the title). Renamed The Vendetta, Michael tried his luck by entering it into the New York International Independent Film Festival. The film was greeted warmly stateside (it won the Best Action Genre For A Short Film) and Michael has since applied for funding his new film. We’ll let Michael tell his own <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UsSPwqlRnOg">here</a>, and you can catch the first part of The Vendetta below.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;" class="MsoBodyText"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:12;" lang="EN-IE" ><object height="355" width="425"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/FhaPU0PXo3Y&rel=1"><param name="wmode" value="transparent"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/FhaPU0PXo3Y&rel=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" height="355" width="425"></embed></object></span><br /><span lang="EN-IE"></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;" class="MsoBodyText"><span lang="EN-IE"><br /></span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5214156980745180341.post-43467011130841534712007-11-29T02:46:00.000-08:002008-12-09T05:19:04.657-08:00A Barrage Of Awards For Garage<div style="text-align: justify;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtiA8TDcQOyFfdU_1JeamUtCWCk_uhvkWXBHrNxMJePveSeEb1NGgN2TarBl3OMtgAnoVk9oN9_rTam4raNLwr61tqHnfW-3CdUhdhKIVnn3SmPCTJan11dKpr1xJ0mAa69b8YD9CeD-s/s1600-h/Pat+Shortt+award.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtiA8TDcQOyFfdU_1JeamUtCWCk_uhvkWXBHrNxMJePveSeEb1NGgN2TarBl3OMtgAnoVk9oN9_rTam4raNLwr61tqHnfW-3CdUhdhKIVnn3SmPCTJan11dKpr1xJ0mAa69b8YD9CeD-s/s200/Pat+Shortt+award.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5138214314603271874" border="0" /></a><span lang="EN-IE">What a difference a weekend makes – 48 little hours. It was four times a charm for Lenny Abrahamson et al as Garage scooped four awards last weekend. Garage picked up the Jury Award in <a href="http://www.cinemotions.com/modules/Infos/news/6242"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Festival de Chatenay-Malabry</span></a> and at the <a href="http://www.cinessonne.com/"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Festival Cinessonne</span></a>, it took the Gran Prix award and the Prix De Etudiants. Bloody students – no good for nothin’ no how. They can’t even speak English good. Meanwhile, down at <a href="http://www.lepetitjournal.com/content/view/21420/1257/"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Monte Carlo</span></a>, Pat Shortt (right) ran away (not very quickly, mind) with Best Actor. We've included link to the various websites, but they seem to be in some foreign language. We’re delighted for all involved and believe that Garage will go on to do better things. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5214156980745180341.post-32740571919006492532007-11-28T05:05:00.000-08:002008-12-09T05:19:04.889-08:00P.T! Good For You And Good For Me!<div style="text-align: justify;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiI6m0h58sbx8FPDWnw0idd_OBxzsKJ4scdDXy4UoIthb8-XqUJhEZ2NipR5mwhKV4wrvHSiRbAC11Z-FrxWQWIXBQn_dmwoW2ayJSxXxd_hgtM_4cCAXqddLH9EQgp1O_WOiafosmEe5M/s1600-h/Daniel+Day-Lewis.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiI6m0h58sbx8FPDWnw0idd_OBxzsKJ4scdDXy4UoIthb8-XqUJhEZ2NipR5mwhKV4wrvHSiRbAC11Z-FrxWQWIXBQn_dmwoW2ayJSxXxd_hgtM_4cCAXqddLH9EQgp1O_WOiafosmEe5M/s200/Daniel+Day-Lewis.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5137877052296353458" border="0" /></a>We’re big fans of P.T. Anderson (Boogie Nights, Magnolia) at TToH and we look forward to his There Will Be Blood, starring Daniel Day-Lewis and Ciarán Hinds.<br /></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />Based (albeit loosely) on Upton Sinclair’s novel Oil!, There Will Be Blood takes place at the turn of the 20<sup>th</sup> century where tycoon Daniel Plainview (Day-Lewis) strikes it rich after gaining drilling rights on a plot of family land in a backwater town in Texas.<br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">It has been described as the “first great American film on the 21<sup>st</sup> century,” and rumour has it that it’s not that Anderson will get his first Oscar, it’ll be how many.<span style=""> </span>Anderson and Day-Lewis aren’t the most prolific (Anderson has only made three films in the last ten years, the previous one being 2002’s Punch Drunk Love; ditto for Day-Lewis except for the Punch Drunk Love part) and the fact that they’ve come together for the same project makes this a more interesting prospect. With one of our favourite up-and-comers Paul Dano (The King, Little Miss Sunshine, The Ballad Of Jack And Rose) in the cast and a soundtrack by Radiohead’s Jonny Greenwood, TToH believe that There Will Be Blood will be Giant. Here’s the trailer. Mmm, good...<br /></p><span style=";font-family:";font-size:12;" ><object height="355" width="425"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/ml2Ae2SIXac&rel=1"><param name="wmode" value="transparent"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/ml2Ae2SIXac&rel=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" height="355" width="425"></embed></object></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5214156980745180341.post-46822446082829919592007-11-27T08:44:00.000-08:002008-12-09T05:19:05.075-08:00They Wrong, We Write<div style="text-align: justify;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgL4E95euMS_iYn5n350wBLjcqucMvfj6q7lNeaRx2_wlgfKW3BwGFiP5v_sLxEU3kzD8Y4N2ON6xjgXQ2ORMmw3xLbWb4YmD4txwlT1yQd6IUPxAQC7reYFdlMUh5Nh__lTsacoGxJx8Q/s1600-h/supportwga.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgL4E95euMS_iYn5n350wBLjcqucMvfj6q7lNeaRx2_wlgfKW3BwGFiP5v_sLxEU3kzD8Y4N2ON6xjgXQ2ORMmw3xLbWb4YmD4txwlT1yQd6IUPxAQC7reYFdlMUh5Nh__lTsacoGxJx8Q/s200/supportwga.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5137562574790940322" border="0" /></a><span style="" lang="EN-IE"><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://irishscriptwritersguild.blogspot.com/2007/11/day-of-support.html">The Irish Playwright And Screenwriters Guild</a> is having a meeting tomorrow at 2pm in the Guild office, Art House, Curved Street, Temple Bar, to support the WGA. If you’re doing nowt and fancy a good shun – something we Irish are the best at – get your ass down there. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="text-align: justify;" class="MsoBodyText"><span style="" lang="EN-IE"><!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--><br /><!--[endif]--><o:p></o:p></span>The Guild say have promised to: "supply the WGA t-shirts, and placards like they've got on YouTube. You can even make your own. A sample slogan is: "they wrong, we write".<br /><br />Once we're kitted out we'll travel to outside Twentieth Century Fox for a short demonstration, and then onto Sony Pictures. Please turn up and show your solidarity with our fellow writers in the USA. They have put their careers and incomes on the line to highlight their essential contribution to the film industry, and to request proper remuneration for their creative talent. This is a struggle that writers across the globe can appreciate.”<span style="" lang="EN-IE"><o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="text-align: justify;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="" lang="EN-IE">At 4.30pm, there’s an end of year ‘sausages and drinks’ do. Gift! In the meantime, check out this industry in-joke – THE WGA STRIKE GETS VIOLENT...<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="" lang="EN-IE"><!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--> <!--[endif]--><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoBodyText"><span style="" lang="EN-IE"><object height="355" width="425"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/UvAD9R0chjU&rel=1"><param name="wmode" value="transparent"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/UvAD9R0chjU&rel=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" height="355" width="425"></embed></object><o:p></o:p></span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5214156980745180341.post-25171331860237306872007-11-27T01:25:00.000-08:002008-12-09T05:19:05.333-08:00TToH ‘Boy A-nt’ About Crowley/O’Rowe Collaboration (What We’ve Seen Anyway)<div style="text-align: justify;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWylTD1yKfCdyh7wabvJ_5RMCpCkDoEZc_mFVmP3NjiVDT6kKbuXGOZf1Tccr54pJUIDL5PvDDBBRgEVHXYVFDSR-pPoue9fjMKNSoI2t0Qc-jLHYyZZG0x4_o-k4Y0DbFQVlokGvnQvo/s1600-h/Andrew+Garfield.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWylTD1yKfCdyh7wabvJ_5RMCpCkDoEZc_mFVmP3NjiVDT6kKbuXGOZf1Tccr54pJUIDL5PvDDBBRgEVHXYVFDSR-pPoue9fjMKNSoI2t0Qc-jLHYyZZG0x4_o-k4Y0DbFQVlokGvnQvo/s200/Andrew+Garfield.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5137449174769424018" border="0" /></a><span lang="EN-IE">There we go again – sometimes bad wordplay, if it’s consistent, can become genius. Or so we like to believe. Anyway, apologies for those queuing up for the <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1078188/">Boy A</a> review, but TToH can say in all honesty that missing most of the film was not their fault...</span></div> <p class="MsoBodyText"><span lang="EN-IE"><!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--> <!--[endif]--><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-IE">You see, when we left the computer to catch the film on Channel 4 at 9pm last night, TToH found that Mrs. TToH had occupied the television watching America’s Next Top Model. Since she had a long day AND cooked dinner (a delightful stir fry), TToH relented, pressed record on the DVD player and read for a while. Two hours later and horror of horrors – the blasted, confounded, curse-o’-God DVD player cut out a half-an-hour in. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-IE"><!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--> <!--[endif]--><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-IE">The film opens with a 24-year-old boy (Andrew Garfield, above right) waiting release from prison. Given the name ‘Jack’, he is taken to a new town by his friendly parole officer (Peter Mullan) and lands a job at an airport where he makes a friend (in Anthony Lewis) and a date with the saucy secretary. Using the occasional flashbacks to the build up to the killing, TToH was disappointed to find that the boy he killed was a bully; we felt the film would have more bite if the kid were the quiet type. The DVD cut out just as ‘Jack’ reads a daily tabloid documenting his release from prison, with the headline ‘Evil Comes Of Age’. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-IE"><!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--> <!--[endif]--><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-IE">The<span style="font-weight: bold;"> </span><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0332658/">Intermission</a> team seem to compliment each other: O’Rowe’s dialogue was stripped back while Crowley let the script to the talking. Mullan was restrained and Garfield gives ‘Jack’ that fish-out-of-water awkwardness but delivered it with subtlety. What we’ve seen impressed us immensely and according to Declan Burke at <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://crimealwayspays.blogspot.com/">Crime Always Pays</a>, the remainder was “top notch.” If you managed to catch the film, please leave a comment with your thoughts. <o:p></o:p></span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5214156980745180341.post-27797919209820880632007-11-26T12:28:00.000-08:002008-12-09T05:19:05.587-08:00Boy A Screens On Channel 4 Tonight (Well, In A Half An Hour Really)<div style="text-align: justify;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHYP3igohZwCR_6c1oH9U9LFfpNTg_ufL3PY5qhVuD7i2w1jLl__C14LLGf0gBUZUe9nKaHSeIT3KxFfrKwJ3mzBgKe7x3KEq95XH2oR8EHUNeC_iosQyDEhRn2ph5Moy3KGwf83kEiqw/s1600-h/Boy+A.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHYP3igohZwCR_6c1oH9U9LFfpNTg_ufL3PY5qhVuD7i2w1jLl__C14LLGf0gBUZUe9nKaHSeIT3KxFfrKwJ3mzBgKe7x3KEq95XH2oR8EHUNeC_iosQyDEhRn2ph5Moy3KGwf83kEiqw/s200/Boy+A.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5137250150279894658" border="0" /></a>John Crowley and Mark O'Rowe have teamed up again for Boy A, an adaptation of Jonathan Triggell's novel, and will screen for the first time tonight on Channel 4 - bless their cotton socks. Starring Andrew Garfield (Lions For Lambs), the <span lang="EN-IE">plot sees 24-year-old ex-con Jack as he tries to readjust to the outside world after spending years inside for killing a young boy when he was teenager. Helped by father figure and parole officer Terry (<a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0611932/">Peter Mullan)</a>, Jack goes through the coming of age scenarios he should have gone through when he was a kid.</span><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />The Telegraph have interviewed up-and-comer Andrew Garfield and that can read <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2007/11/24/nosplit/bvtvsunday24.xml">here</a><span style="font-weight: bold;">.</span> Even though it's due a release next year (probably in the States), TToH will have a look-see and post a review upon the morn.<br /></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5214156980745180341.post-70461551675536969332007-11-26T05:29:00.000-08:002008-12-09T05:19:06.016-08:00Answer Me These Question Three #5 Terry McMahon<div style="text-align: justify;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEJWFt-Qu-XGZcFQccUCs1fO2Th1sxAQ8xGX3Frg1YzpwsdqjzWR2ZLTCdVNZ4vw6oJeGvNfEY3g-g7JaqJdJk0FjNkd-EnSn3MQwnYEErLwyOz37sI9CHBk3jvME2YhjBP5BYRVHXHHY/s1600-h/Terry+McMahon.JPG"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEJWFt-Qu-XGZcFQccUCs1fO2Th1sxAQ8xGX3Frg1YzpwsdqjzWR2ZLTCdVNZ4vw6oJeGvNfEY3g-g7JaqJdJk0FjNkd-EnSn3MQwnYEErLwyOz37sI9CHBk3jvME2YhjBP5BYRVHXHHY/s200/Terry+McMahon.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5137143373097948738" border="0" /></a><span style="">Terry McMahon (right) is a busy man. Not only is he a member of the Faculty and Screenwriting and Acting Tutor at The Irish Film Academy, he has been a guest lecturer on Acting and Writing at Dublin Institute of Technology, Institute of Art Design and Technology, and at Galway University. On top of that he was commissioned to write the screenplays <i style="">Soul Cages </i>for Daryl Hannah, <i style="">Sword</i></span><span style=""><i style="">land</i> for Paddy Breathnach, <i style="">Simple</i></span><span style=""><i style=""> Simon</i> for Robert Pejo, <i style="">Savage</i> for Valerie Red Horse, <i style="">Slice</i> for Richie Smith and (co-written with Mark O’Rowe) <i style="">Sisk</i> for Brian O’Malley, while the original screenplays <i style="">Th</i></span><span style=""><i style="">e Dancehall Bitch</i> has been contracted by Robert Pejo, and <i style="">Oliver Twisted</i> by Damien O’Donnell.<o:p></o:p></span></div> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style=""><!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--> <!--[endif]--><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="">With a First Class Honors Masters Degree in Screenwriting and awarded the RKO Pictures Hartley-Merrill International Screenwriting Prize in Cannes and the Tiernan McBride Screenwriting Award, Terry has al</span><span style="">so acted alongside David Carradine in <i style="">Dangerous Curves</i>, Don Wilson in <i style="">Moving Target</i> and Jonathan Pryce and Paul Bettany in <i style="">The Suicide Club,</i> including a stint in <i style="">Fair City,</i> for which he has written over seventy episodes. He has played the subtle and believable psycho in Fair City a few years back, and turned in a ma</span><span style="">gic performance as Neville in David Caffrey’s (Grand Theft Parsons, Divorcing Jack) short film Bolt. TToH caught up with Terry to ask him a few questions... <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style=""><!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--> <!--[endif]--><o:p></o:p></span><br /><b style="">1. What are you working on now?<o:p></o:p></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">While doing two other commissions, one for Ireland, and the other for America, I’m teaching in the Irish Film Academy, intermittently work on <i style="">Swordland</i> with Paddy Breathnach and <i style="">Oliver Twisted </i>with Damien O’Donnell, and, as well as ongoing <i style="">Fair City </i>scripts, I’m about to enter early stage pre-production on directing a low budget debut feature <i style="">Charlie Casanova</i>. And, with the imminent birth of my third child, I’m also working on not having a nervous breakdown.<span style="font-family:Verdana;"><br /><br /></span>2.<span style="font-family:Verdana;"> </span><b style="">What gets you in the mood for wr</b><b style="">iting?</b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">The deadline. I have a missus, kids, mortgages, and all the other real life pain-in-the-ass financial responsibilities every Joe Six-Pack who works for a living understands, which means I’m usually working on multiple projects with ever shortening deadlines. So when it comes to getting in the ‘mood’ I’m amazed when I hear writers talk about writer’s block. I’m permanently blocked, but, because food has to be put on the table for more mouths than my own self indulgent one, I’ve never inherited the luxury of gazing up my own artistic hole for months on end.<br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">Getting through the bullshit block is where the writing begins. Every time I sit at the computer it’s the last place I want to be. The eyelids become heavy, breathing restricted and as all capacity to be creative vanishes you wonder why you were dumb enough to ever consider writing for a living? But precedent has shown if you don’t do it you become a cranky prick so you persevere, you push, you find one sentence to spark another, and when it kicks in you remember once again that writing truly is an addiction; a gloriously painful addiction, and you’re its pathetic servant.<span style="font-family:Verdana;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family:Verdana;"><br /></span>3.<span style="font-family:Verdana;"> </span><b style="">Do you write in silence or do you need some background music?</b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">For the unconscious is to be accessed, the conscious has to be distracted so I play music. Loud. And the nature, subject and genre of the screenplay will determine the music. I wrote the screenplay <i style="">Slice</i> with Richie Smyth. A visionary director Richie makes videos for U2 along with million dollar commercials but his real passion is for the broken souls hiding in the badly lit areas off the main street and one of these days he’s going to make a movie that’ll rip the audience’s heart out.<i style=""> Slice</i> is a harrowing and graphic story about two of those broken souls and, though I knew it was going to be difficult to work on, I also knew there was a heartbeat in it that was worth going right down the line for. To give a sense of the visceral impact he was looking for from the script Richie handed me a stack of speed metal CD’s.<br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">I’m a pussy when it comes to music - my desert island discs would be somewhere along the lines of Miles Davis’ Kind of Blue or Billie Holliday’s Verve Anthology - so when I put that music on nothing could have prepare these virgin ears for that ear drum rape. But, when writing, I still insisted on putting it on, full blast, and the velocity of the music drove the narrative at the precise speed Richie was looking for. Right now I’m listening to Bob Dylan doing DJ on his radio show <i style="">Theme Time Hour</i> but the seductive bastard’s voice is so engaging between tracks that I have to turn him off, otherwise I’d happily sit back, close those heavy eye lids and wonder why I ever...etc.<span style="font-family:Verdana;"> <!--[if !supportLineBreakNewLine]--> <!--[endif]--></span><b style=""><o:p></o:p></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b style="">4. How many features have you written?<o:p></o:p></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">Thirteen of the bastards. One original and twelve commissions, yet not one of those thirteen has been produced. I’ve had more green lights than Paris Hilton has had panty changes but they all have a habit of flicking back to amber too damn quick. My debut screenplay <i style="">The Dancehall Bitch</i> was finished the night before I was due to go to Los Angeles for the first time. It was written on a great little machine called a StarWriter, which was a word processor with an inbuilt printer. Cost two hundred pounds and I was on the dole but I was offered a day’s pay on some dodgy beer ad and went in with the cheque and bought that damned machine.<br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">I’d never written anything before, had no qualifications whatsoever; left school three years before the Leaving Cert at fifteen, been homeless for a year or so, worked in a fish and chip shop, waited to sign on the dole when I was legally entitled to - which I did on my eighteenth birthday – but as I sat there in my one room flat, alone, socially inept, with an inferiority complex the size of Stephen’s Green, I opened that word processing machine and felt a rush of anticipatory anxiety that was the closest thing to hope I’d eve<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKuUm21uY3QG-tSRyt4tOLR8-DJiEIJXDb9s72miTEE_ajZONgskictJ4TMcApzXRIttWr7Xd1DIMg_OuyTCFaYPPjI2JUSMb-QVQrzovdTBG1Ty0o3q1wzEOPbnmBp00RIltdz-yZtHI/s1600-h/roger-corman-1.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKuUm21uY3QG-tSRyt4tOLR8-DJiEIJXDb9s72miTEE_ajZONgskictJ4TMcApzXRIttWr7Xd1DIMg_OuyTCFaYPPjI2JUSMb-QVQrzovdTBG1Ty0o3q1wzEOPbnmBp00RIltdz-yZtHI/s200/roger-corman-1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5137144317990753874" border="0" /></a>r felt. </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--> <!--[endif]--><o:p></o:p><br />I’d like to claim I wrote that first screenplay in a matter of weeks – a frenzy of passion resulting in the birth of some masterpiece – but the truth is it took years. Then my son was born and, because I couldn’t do anything else, I got involved in acting. I was always a little embarrassed by being an actor but I got some dodgy jobs in dodgy Roger Corman (left) movies and acquired the lovely taste of the film set but I wanted to be on the other side of the camera. Which is why I wrote my first screenplay - an overwhelming need to make something original; to craft something out of nothing – and the day I finished it I thought the world would change. I stepped out into the street, half a bottle of celebratory cheap wine in my belly and a full tank of naively passionate belief in my heart, expecting passers-by to sense something off me, to recognize that an extraordinary event had just transpired, to understand they were in the presence of a bona fide writer; but the world rightly didn’t give a damn. Nobody stopped. Nobody noticed anything.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">I sent the script to everybody and waited for my bed-sit door to be kicked in by hungry contract wielding producers and directors. I must have been out the day they arrived to kick down my door because it was years before anybody responded. Then I got a call from Daryl Hannah’s producer saying Daryl wanted to talk and a few weeks later she had me on a first class flight to Los Angeles to write her screenplay <i style="">Soul Cages</i>.</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--> <!--[endif]--><o:p></o:p><br /><b style="">5. Advice to budding writers out there?</b></p> <p class="MsoNormal">Write as if your life depends on it. Pretty soon it will.<span style="font-family:Verdana;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family:Verdana;"><br /></span>6.<span style="font-family:Verdana;"> </span><b style="">Have you directed?</b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">Apart from theatre, I directed some scenes from <i style="">The Dancehall Bitch</i> on the Moonstone Filmmakers Lab. Ciaran Tanhan shot it, Breege Rowely edited, Declan Conlon played the lead role, and all three were nothing less than brilliant. Moonstone is one of those organizations that, every time it’s mentioned, I feel I should genuflect. Run by Jean Luc Ormiere it attracts some of the most talented people you could imagine, all giving their time for free to h<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVo7J6ZpzQY9IR3pzLLTa8Io7vfP_4GISfyOG_29x53AmR_Xmi57Tporr8P20U4cI7VYtLpF422qDdsd6bkbmX7ARbKuOviBQDKMxChrQhhLmAfJ4EwgdcJ7bD5Sh4zI87HWULBV0HFEo/s1600-h/banner.gif"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVo7J6ZpzQY9IR3pzLLTa8Io7vfP_4GISfyOG_29x53AmR_Xmi57Tporr8P20U4cI7VYtLpF422qDdsd6bkbmX7ARbKuOviBQDKMxChrQhhLmAfJ4EwgdcJ7bD5Sh4zI87HWULBV0HFEo/s200/banner.gif" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5137145417502381682" border="0" /></a>elp a bunch of dreamers shoot scenes from their screenplays and it gave me an insatiable hunger to direct again.<span style="font-family:Verdana;"><br /></span> </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b style="">7. Gun to your head – acting or writing?<o:p></o:p></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">I took acting very seriously - two cracked ribs and a hernia serious - and I got to play central roles alongside some remarkable people like Paul Bettany, Jonathan Pryce and David Carradine. This was during the heyday of the infamous Concorde Studios in Galway. Making low budget American movies with occasional semi-big name international actors while paying hard working crews nothing close to union rates Roger Corman and his company came in for a lot of pseudo-intellectual flack but I did four or five of his films and they were a real pleasure to work on. The crews were committed in a way that many a union member might find intolerable but their hunger to learn and the opportunities for fast track promotion turned them into a powerhouse production unit and not one of those dodgy movies ever lost money.<br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">As an actor on those crews I was given unprecedented opportunity and I did an equally pleasurable stint on <i style="">Fair City</i> but after awhile being an actor was like being the whore nobody wants to pay for. Horny cheap pimp directors examine you from a distance and decide to invest money in you for their fantasy fulfilment or drive on past in pursuit of some other whore. I was always cast as the bad guy but there are only so many murderers and rapists you can play before you begin to wonder. I was lucky in that I got many of the jobs I went for, but, when every audition becomes the same groundhog-day cattle market where you’re expected to stick your tits out and parade for half-blind, semi-literate, utterly inept lowlifes sitting in judgment, I knew I didn’t have the required mindset. I love working with actors and find in them a fearless and fiercely noble substance but when writing is difficult, it soothes the soul, whereas acting just burns the soul. The last audition I did was for a highly respected famous Irish director and twenty seconds in his company I wanted to smash his teeth in. Rude and maliciously ugly with it, his supposed insight into the vagaries of the human condition was quickly revealed to be just the conceited lie he hides behind. I left the room and made the decision never to put myself in that position again because next time one of us would be swallowing our teeth.</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b style=""><!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--> <!--[endif]--><o:p></o:p><br />8. Favorite Irish Movie :<o:p></o:p></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">I don’t really know what constitutes an Irish movie anymore and I’m sure some of these will offend the purists but a few that spring to mind in no particular order are: <i style="">Bloody Sunday, Quackser Fortune has a Cousin in the Bronx, Lamb, In the Name of the Father, The Quiet Man</i><span style=""><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style=""><!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--> <!--[endif]--><o:p></o:p></span><br /><b><span style="">9. What Irish movie deserves more credit?<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoBodyText">Bloody Sunday deserves more credit – I understand there are regulations relating to Oscars and television but that should have won the Academy Award for Best Film and Best Director – it’s one of the most remarkable achievements on any stage – Irish or otherwise.</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--> <!--[endif]--><o:p></o:p></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5214156980745180341.post-50884263513240118902007-11-25T06:28:00.001-08:002008-12-09T05:19:06.182-08:00Anton And On And On<div style="text-align: justify;">A film that TToH are looking forward with feverish relish ish stylish Antonish (sorry, <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0929730/">Anton</a><span>)</span>, directed by the award winning Graham Cantwell. <span style="" lang="EN-IE">The film stars Anthony Fox, who also penned the script, Gerard McSorley and the sexy Greit Van Damme. </span>So, what’s the sca, a mhac?</div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="text-align: justify;" class="MsoNormal"><!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--> <!--[endif]--><o:p></o:p></p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="text-align: justify;" class="MsoNormal">When Anton O'Neill (Fox) returns home after years at sea he finds that 1970s Ireland is a radically different place to the one he left behind. Northern Ireland is in flames, and civil unrest has spilled south of the border to his beloved home in County Cavan. Anton tries to convince Maria (Laura Wray), the love of his life, to join him in travelling the world, but her family duties mean she is reluctant to go.<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMytuQgiRCGgl80HE7W3XZiwZT-zVlbayxAGJuL3GtWTJ6PF45U0JgvsDrIeo77n9d5gAisO9bpQ3Am4c8lIHlbvhA88azW_lVa7xja6Y2VC5xzy9cD_IxAaAkK28heQAathsZWViICl0/s1600-h/antonmovie2.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMytuQgiRCGgl80HE7W3XZiwZT-zVlbayxAGJuL3GtWTJ6PF45U0JgvsDrIeo77n9d5gAisO9bpQ3Am4c8lIHlbvhA88azW_lVa7xja6Y2VC5xzy9cD_IxAaAkK28heQAathsZWViICl0/s200/antonmovie2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5136787217229895218" border="0" /></a></p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="text-align: justify;" class="MsoBodyText"><!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--> <!--[endif]--><o:p></o:p></p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="text-align: justify;" class="MsoBodyText">When Maria falls pregnant and moves into Anton’s family home he feels trapped by a life he doesn’t want and rails against the mundane normality of daily routine by taking up with a group of subversive militants.</p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="text-align: justify;" class="MsoNormal"><!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--> <!--[endif]--><o:p></o:p></p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="text-align: justify;" class="MsoNormal">Drawn into an illicit world of violence against the wishes of his family, he soon realizes the dangers of this new environment, but when he tries to back out he puts himself and his family in danger. <span class="style21">Falsely imprisoned by Lynch (McSorley), a corrupt detective hell bent on framing him, he engineers his escape and goes on the run to Paris, but when his violent past catches up with him he returns to Cavan to take one last stand against his former comrades</span>.</p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="text-align: justify;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="" lang="EN-IE"><!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--> <!--[endif]--><o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="" lang="EN-IE">You can hear an on-set interview with executive producer Pat McCardle, producer Patrick Clarke, Anthony Fox and his leading lady Greit Van Damme <a href="http://www.antonthemovie.com/antonfinal.mp3"><span style="font-weight: bold;">here</span></a>. TToH hope to have our own interview with the crew at a later date. The film will be released sometime next year. In the meantime you can log on to <a href="http://www.antonthemovie.com/casth.html"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Anton’s website </span></a>and enjoy the trailer...<br /><br /><object height="355" width="425"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/L2S9zwHkcrs&rel=1"><param name="wmode" value="transparent"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/L2S9zwHkcrs&rel=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" height="355" width="425"></embed></object><br /></span></div><p style="text-align: justify;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="" lang="EN-IE"><o:p></o:p></span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5214156980745180341.post-69172062747259849212007-11-23T06:56:00.001-08:002008-12-09T05:19:06.810-08:00Le Freak, C’est Chic<div style="text-align: justify;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZp13-3ALf30mcfG5TaZSaDAxygrGN1BJpOTs4b8Si35_sYIGiRH5qzSYzJveZpGeiqSVApEDZljwAkGxR6U28GHxfH6sdYdrQB9q_g1dlmzDU4uS2Hey0i6I1aQx-RX7QX8WH1Bu5r1w/s1600-h/Cirque.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZp13-3ALf30mcfG5TaZSaDAxygrGN1BJpOTs4b8Si35_sYIGiRH5qzSYzJveZpGeiqSVApEDZljwAkGxR6U28GHxfH6sdYdrQB9q_g1dlmzDU4uS2Hey0i6I1aQx-RX7QX8WH1Bu5r1w/s200/Cirque.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5136050230906672658" border="0" /></a>The first of Darren O’Shaughnessey’s 12 volume Vampire Blood novels, Cirque du Freak, is about to hit Hollywood with a release date sometime next year. Directed by American Pie and About A Boy helmer Paul Weitz and adapted by Mystic River and L.A Confidential scribe Brian Helgeland, the plot sees young Darren Shan (<a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1242688/"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Josh Hutcherson</span></a> - Bridge To Terabithia, Zathura) meet the mysterious Desmond Tiny, who just happens to be a vampire (typical - we hate it when that happens), at a freak show. After some off-the-wall shit, Darren is forced to leave his normal life and take to the road as a vampire. The film is getting a massive backing and the producers hope to rope in <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000604/">John C. Reilly</a> (Magnolia, Boogie Nights) as Tiny.<span style=""> <span lang="EN-IE"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="text-align: justify;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="" lang="EN-IE"><!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--> <!--[endif]--><o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="text-align: justify;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="" lang="EN-IE">O’Shaughnessey (below), who writes under the name Darren Shan, has been called a ‘master of horror’ by his publishers HarperCollins, but Darren was wary of how his vision would be treated by parents: </span>"<span style="font-style: italic;">I ran all the arguments for the defence through my head in case of hostile intervie</span><a style="font-style: italic;" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXkDgKBJcKoVVN_FV9UILQQJ4CaSOaVMu4rkBfuiWWcLgEHaY-mHb-7nBnnantdHXY1MMzkNWlbkxgvFUTIwVYFmdiuJlrgB9T2BqlW4pOdYjBxYe3hNJ7mW2pWWQfvJScQ95vKaNg7io/s1600-h/Darren.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXkDgKBJcKoVVN_FV9UILQQJ4CaSOaVMu4rkBfuiWWcLgEHaY-mHb-7nBnnantdHXY1MMzkNWlbkxgvFUTIwVYFmdiuJlrgB9T2BqlW4pOdYjBxYe3hNJ7mW2pWWQfvJScQ95vKaNg7io/s200/Darren.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5136050050518046210" border="0" /></a><span style="font-style: italic;">wers - ready to explain why the books aren't a disgrace, that they had a strong moral underpinning. But in fact, there wasn't any outrage. No one, save the occasional parent or teacher, was up in arms at all. In fact, teachers and librarians have very often championed my books.</span>" (<a href="http://images.google.ie/imgres?imgurl=http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/graphics/2007/08/25/btosh125.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml%3Fxml%3D/arts/2007/08/25/boosh125.xml&h=316&w=350&sz=41&hl=en&start=2&um=1&tbnid=Hy3-bJVsd2cCSM:&tbnh=108&tbnw=120&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dcirque%2Bdu%2Bfreak%2BDarren%2BO%25E2%2580%2599Shaughnessy%26svnum%3D10%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26client%3Dfirefox-a%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla:en-US:official%26sa%3DN"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Telegraph.co.uk)</span></a> </p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="text-align: justify;" class="MsoNormal"><!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--> <!--[endif]--><o:p></o:p></p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="text-align: justify;" class="MsoNormal">With the Harry Potter’s, Bridge To Terabithia, The Last Mimzy and The Dark Is Rising, kids’ movies have taken a darker slant with plots that refuse to talk down to them and TToH hope that Shan’s vision, which includes hellish demons, maggot-ridden corpses and freaky werewolves, will get a just adaptation. You can visit Darren’s website<a href="http://www.darrenshan.com/"> here</a>. </p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5214156980745180341.post-21675855647979479642007-11-22T04:35:00.001-08:002008-12-09T05:19:06.961-08:00Strength And Honour Proves A Knockout At Boston Film Festival<div style="text-align: justify;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWh1hK8_SGe1ELxV1cJA_lRMvVnaEbpO5XDOSe7RMi62Zj5Tnak_MGrJ8Fgu3dvbrJ3YN7dtnteu_Si1-TLFI1MqBb0ITqVMS5psblQKjurL8lNsWEvMifO-kahSLb-DY9OQDGxjbP8-E/s1600-h/Madsen.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWh1hK8_SGe1ELxV1cJA_lRMvVnaEbpO5XDOSe7RMi62Zj5Tnak_MGrJ8Fgu3dvbrJ3YN7dtnteu_Si1-TLFI1MqBb0ITqVMS5psblQKjurL8lNsWEvMifO-kahSLb-DY9OQDGxjbP8-E/s200/Madsen.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5135642569790805474" border="0" /></a>Okay, so TToH weren’t impressed with Mark Mahon’s debut, but we don’t begrudge the Corkonian’s joy at the 23<sup>rd</sup> Annual <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.bostonfilmfestival.org/">Boston Film Festival</a><span style="font-weight: bold;">,</span> held in September. Strength And Honour scooped Best Picture while Madsen (right, at the World Premiere at the Cork Opera House last Monday) picked up Best Actor. Mark: <span style="font-style: italic;">“This is a great honour. To win top awards at such a prestigious festival is surreal - competition was fierce this year with a large number of high profile titles competing. We’re absolutely ecstatic that Michael Madsen won for his superb lead performance and look forward to the theatrical release of ‘Strength and Honour’.”</span></div><span style="color: rgb(13, 21, 86);font-size:10;" > </span><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="text-align: justify;" class="MsoBodyText"><span lang="EN-IE">For further information, you can log on to the film's <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.strengthandhonorthemovie.com/">website</a>. You can also catch TToH’s review <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://irishmovies.blogspot.com/2007/11/bare-knuckle-fighting-near-chuckle.html">here</a>.</span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5214156980745180341.post-40822659924684263922007-11-22T02:35:00.000-08:002008-12-09T05:19:07.063-08:00Mark O’Halloran Is Gagging For It<div style="text-align: justify;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEji9453KNxsqnwMW5ICNoT0SoCqPcVGggKPhRNF0iga86FqHvNFYpy7RdJlGRuETR_PK_StsIORIUPWHFPWvksok2PodaZEl8F2fE2O9X3Ch-98h2yUcbSy94LmTQo2KAQFd-QG_ncJ9YE/s1600-h/mark_ohalloran.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEji9453KNxsqnwMW5ICNoT0SoCqPcVGggKPhRNF0iga86FqHvNFYpy7RdJlGRuETR_PK_StsIORIUPWHFPWvksok2PodaZEl8F2fE2O9X3Ch-98h2yUcbSy94LmTQo2KAQFd-QG_ncJ9YE/s200/mark_ohalloran.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5135612006803527122" border="0" /></a><span style="" lang="EN-IE">No sex, please – we’re Irish? Not so, apparently. Mark 'Kinsey' O'Halloran (right), the writer of Adam & Paul, Garage and Prosperity, is the first guest editor of <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.filmireland.net/survey.htm">Film Ireland</a><span style="font-weight: bold;"> </span>for the January-February Issue 2008, a ploy the magazine hopes to have a series of, and wants to tackle the issue of sex in Irish film. Or lack there of. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="text-align: justify;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="" lang="EN-IE"><!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--> <!--[endif]--><o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="text-align: justify;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="" lang="EN-IE">Sex is largely ignored in Irish cinema (please - no jokes about copping a feel down the back seat) and Mark wants to undress (sorry - address) the issue: </span><span style="font-style: italic;">"A serious examination of the whole issue of sex in Irish cinema and television has been largely overlooked by the media. I was very interested in asking some questions about representations of sex, nudity and related themes in Irish film, because it has always seemed to me that we're a bit shy about that in this country. It's also a topic which lets us discuss serious issues like sexuality and censorship, but also to get playful and ask people who their Irish sex fantasy would be and to look at the myths around Irish porn"</span>. </p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="text-align: justify;" class="MsoNormal"><!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--> <!--[endif]--><o:p></o:p></p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="text-align: justify;" class="MsoNormal">Related themes? TToH were always interested in lederhosen-wearing dwarves riding seals on Dún Laoghaire beach while listening to Marvin Gaye’s Let’s Get It On. The sex survey, which is conducted anonymously, can be filled <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://gs-survey.com/survey.asp?s=3694&p=2&j=1">here</a><span style="font-weight: bold;">.</span> However, Film Ireland suggests that if you’re feeling saucy, you can leave your email address and be in with a chance of winning <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.filmbase.ie/">Filmbase</a> membership and a “medium-sized” portrait of your favourite star. Hmmm. We’ll get right on that.<span style="" lang="EN-IE"><o:p></o:p></span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0