Posted in Irish Capitalism, Death of a Tiger, Film on Oct 3rd, 2010 No Comments »
Used to be most everybody had a part in the film and you can still find remote areas where a whole village is on set. Nice to see but it won’t do you much good. Well he was dipping into the till. Just looks at me and says ‘account sheets are empty many […]
Posted in Zombies, Film, TV, Media on Aug 26th, 2009 6 Comments »
I don’t know about you, but for the past couple of weeks and perhaps for longer, zombies have been popping up everywhere. Not literally, of course. Zombies don’t exist. They are creatures from popular culture created to scare ourselves by praying on our deepest fears - not only the fear of death itself, but also […]
Posted in Film, Irish election, Media, politics/Ireland on May 15th, 2009 No Comments »
I was coming home on the bus today when I saw John O’Neill’s election poster, and couldn’t help think that I had seen him before.
Turns out that John, who’s the local Finglas candidate for Irish Socialist Network, is also noted film critic and überfan of the 1970s classic, The Exorcist, Mark Kermode.
Good luck in […]
Posted in Film, TV, Media on May 8th, 2009 4 Comments »
A curio this. In the Readers Recommend: Songs about Revolution thread on that Guardian site that I look at now and again, I came across a track ‘When The Revolution Comes’ by The Last Poets that a commenter says is the inspiration for Gil-Scott Heron’s The Revolution Will Not Be Televised.
Check it out, niggaz. […]
Posted in aesthetics, Film on Jun 21st, 2008 2 Comments »
Well, someone had to say it.
Enjoy.
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Posted in Working Class, Film on Jun 4th, 2008 No Comments »
From YouTube blurb:
Shane Meadows visited Long Road Sixth Form College in Cambridge in sept 2004 to show an A-level Film Studies class a few of his short films, talk about his up coming release of Dead Man’s Shoes. And to answer questions about his career and techniques. He speaks of Once Upon A Time In […]
Posted in irish culture, dublin, Art, Film on Apr 7th, 2008 1 Comment »
From the makers of the charming ‘The Red Balloon‘ comes this following little enterprise - ‘It’s a horrible life‘. Well-structured and well-edited, a simple little story. All in all, great stuff.
Enjoy.
Posted in irish culture, dublin, Art, Film on Mar 28th, 2008 14 Comments »
I just came across this enjoyable little Irish movie - all 2 minutes and 51 seconds of it. I know absolutely nothing about the makers of it, except the following from the youtube site itself:
The Red Balloon - a film by Lauren Brownen, Claire Butler and Conor O’Kelly. The story of a girl and […]
Posted in RTE, irishness, irish culture, Irish Society, Film on Mar 20th, 2008 19 Comments »
I tied up my hands
With the chains of loneliness
I will miss you no more
I put my memory into disrepair
Under the weight of forgetfulness
I will long for you no more
Now I send you my heart
In this dish of poetry
So that I won’t fall in love with you
Again
These are the words with which Neasa Ni Chianain […]
Posted in Film, music, Ireland on Mar 14th, 2008 2 Comments »
OK, I may have been looking for that famous footage of Bonnie Langford in a Youghal-stitching monokini but what I actually came up with was far more interesting. Somehow or other, I recently stumbled across the below clip on YouTube :
I often curse the damn things but, yet again, thanks to a mobile phone, I […]
