KIFF 2022 have also announced the recipient of their honorary Maureen O’Hara award. The Kerry International Film Festival (KIFF) have this morning launched their 2022 film festival program. Celebrating its 23rd edition, the long running festival will take place this year 20 – 23 October 2022 across a series of venues throughout Killarney, Co. Kerry, as…
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The Documentary Room launches screenings in Rialto
The Rialto Cinema Club is returning from this autumn onwards under a new name. The Documentary Room does exactly what it says on the tin – this cinema night stored in the back room of The Circular is the only cinema night in Ireland exclusively dedicated to documentary and non-fiction film screenings. An extended season…
Florence Pugh deserves more than Don’t Worry Darling
Director: Olivia Wilde Starring: Florence Pugh, Chris Pine, Harry Styles, Gemma Chan, Olivia Wilde, Kiki Layne Time: 121 minutes It’s such a head f*ck trying to evaluate art with a female protagonist, starring one of our most talented young stars, and to now have that performance completely overshadowed and undermined by the media circus surrounding…
The IFI Documentary Festival returns this week
This week sees the return of the IFI Documentary Festival for another year. Taking place from from September 21st to 25th, the Doc Fest will show some of the best new Irish and international non-fiction cinema. Screenings and Director Q&As alike will provide plenty of insight, with Irish premieres including All that Breathes, winner of the Golden…
Film Fan’s Guide to Culture Night 2022
The seventeenth edition of Culture Night is taking place next Friday 23 September 2022. Presented annually by the Arts Council; Culture Night is a national showcase for the artistry across Ireland, seeking to promote the belief a varied culture is alive, treasured and nurtured in people’s lives, today and every day. It is delivered nationwide…
It’s Jackie Brown – the thinking person’s Tarantino at 25
In his original review in 1997, the late, great Roger Ebert praised the patience and precision of Jackie Brown. The film’s ability to let a moment sit, to allow a character to reason out the story that’s playing out around them, is a talent that writer and director Quentin Tarantino has turned to plenty in…
5 Star Scenes – The collected charisma of Daniel Kaluuya
We hear a lot these days that movie stars don’t exist anymore. They’re on-screen victims of the endless IP onslaught, unable to sell tickets and steal hearts off their own wattage alone. But is that really true? Not to suggest that it’s the pictures that got small, but there’s so much ‘content’ rolled out all…
Open Minds, Free Films, Can’t Lose at the IFI Open Day
The IFI Open Day was a long praised date in the Irish film fan’s calendar; an opportunity for the Irish Film Institute to highlight their hard work and share great films from their back cataglogue in the process. It’s been on a break for the last five years, but the Open Day returns this Saturday…
A quick but clipped gait in See How They Run
Director: Tom George Starring: Saoirse Ronan, Sam Rockwell, Adrien Brody, Ruth Wilson, David Oyewolo, Charlie Cooper, Harris Dickinson Running Time: 98 minutes The Mousetrap is an institution of the West End, an Agatha Christie murder mystery play that ran in London non-stop from the 1950s until a Covid-enforced pause. Murder mysteries can prompt curious contradictions…
Dónal Foreman answers The Cry of Granuaile
Dónal Foreman takes an unconventional approach to telling Irish stories. In his acclaimed doc The Image You Missed, Foreman cracks into the archives of his father’s own documenting of The Troubles, resulting in a deeply intimate encounter. In Out of Here, he improvised with young Irish actors for whom the film’s exploration of recession-hit Dublin hit hard…