Love is a Sting won the Best Foreign Film award at the L.A. Shorts Fest. The category is recognised as an Oscar qualifying award which means this is a major success for Irish cinema. Along with the Grand Prix at the 60th Cork Film Festival last November, this is the second Oscar qualifying award that…
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Come Hell Or High Water, See Hell Or High Water
Director: David Mackenzie Starring: Chris Pine, Ben Foster, Jeff Bridges, Gil Birmingham Running Time: 102 minutes “I’ve never met nobody that got away with anything, ever”. So says Tanner Howard, one half of the pair of bank-robbing brothers in Hell or High Water. It’s an understandable world-view coming from a low-level criminal, a man recently released from prison to a slowly dying part of…
Julieta Is An In-Depth Dive Into Guilt
Director: Pedro Almodóvar Starring: Emma Suarez, Adriana Ugarte Running Time: 96 minutes In Julieta, the latest film from prolific Spanish director Pedro Almodóvar, guilt casts a cloud over everything. It dooms relationships from the beginning, causes dramatic upheavals and deep denials and causes rifts between mother and daughter that neither fully understand until its years too late. Adapting three short stories from…
Fingal Film Festival Schedule has arrived
The Fingal Film Festival was launched in September of 2012 and has run every year since. The festival endeavours to place a spotlight on local independent filmmaking by screening locally produced films, running workshops with some industry bigshots and celebrating the diversity of cinema by screening some national and foreign films. The schedule for this…
My Best Friend’s Birthday is the Tarantino Blueprint
Quentin Tarantino’s first film My Best Friend’s Birthday serves as a concentrated outline of the successful career he would go on to have. It’s episodic structure, hyperactive dialogue and great soundtrack are all distinctly Tarantino. Strangely, despite the fact that the director’s ventures into acting are notoriously lacking, Tarantino’s acting in his flagship film is actually a…
Brooks Hotel Screens Bill Cunningham New York In Style
In association with Dublin Fashion Festival, Brooks hotel is screening Richard Press’ documentary Bill Cunningham New York. Bill Cunningham is a fashion photographer, but unlike most he makes the streets of New York his studio, choosing to document street fashion above all else. Not much is known about the man behind the camera and this film…