Director: Alex Ross Perry Starring: Pavement, Zoe Lister-Jones, Michael Esper, Kathryn Gallagher, Joe Keery, Jason Schwartzman, Nat Wolff, Fred Hechinger, Griffin Newman, Tim Heidecker, Logan Miller Running Time: 128 minutes Alex Ross Perry’s affinity for a chaotic and self-destructive artist is well-established in his filmography. His 2014 feature, Listen Up Philip, is an examination of…
In my review of A Complete Unknown, I noted that early critiques of the film prior to its release surrounded screenwriters James Mangold and Jay Cocks’ decision to focus on the early career of Bob Dylan. The Greenwich Village folk scene of the early 1960s which Dylan arrives into at the beginning of the film,…
‘Fame makes monkeys of us all’ serves as both the tagline of the film Better Man, and also the conceit behind its most significant choice. Even if one had no knowledge of Robbie Williams or never saw the film, it was hard to argue that having the man himself represented by a Caesar-esque CGI ape…
“There’s an irony in the best British film being Irish,” Kneecap director Rich Peppiatt said last night, after accepting the Best British Independent Film award at the BIFAs. Which, yeah. The Daily Mail have described the success story as only they can, “Anti-British Irish language movie funded by UK public money wins Best British Film…
Director: Paul Duane Starring: Simone Collins, Charlie Maher, Catherine Siggins, Nigel O’Neill, Olwen Fouere, Running Time: 97 minutes Trad pubs become tourist traps to survive, bands affect D8 aesthetics to present a better post punk package – music like so much of modern Irish identity is up for sale to the highest bidder. Paul Duane’s…
The idea behind the Sound! Soundtrack Film Festival is music to our ears. The Donegal festival serves as a love letter to the art of music and sound in film, with a selection of films curated for their soundtracks. Sound! is presented by Regional Cultural Centre Letterkenny in partnership with An Grianán Theatre, and the…
Next week will see a selection of documentary features about music screen in Smithfield, as well as Galway, as the Light House and Pálás hold host to the Doc’n Roll Film Festival. Beginning in London and hitting the road on tour to cities across Britain and Ireland, this festival has screened films in an effort…
Première domhanda Kneecap ag féile scannán Sundance. The boys from Belfast are heading to one of the world’s most famous film festivals. Rich Peppiatt’s Kneecap will have its world premiere at the renowned Sundance Film Festival in Utah next month where it will screen on the opening night on Thursday 18th January. Based on the origin…
Luke McManus’ multi-award winning journey through Dublin’s history, working-class culture and unbreakable creative spirit will open in New York on Friday, 28th July at DCTV’s Firehouse Cinema. The festival favourite has been around the world recently, including a trip to China, and McManus and some of the musicians featured in the film will be in…
Kneecap, a new film inspired by the birth of ground breaking Irish-language rap group, completed shooting this month. The raucous anti-establishment comedy features the eponymous trio, who play heightened versions of their own lives against the backdrop of post-Troubles Belfast. Described by the LA Times as “reminiscent of the early Eminem”, the band is gaining…
