IT HAS BEEN QUITE A WHILE SINCE A NEW DIRECTOR HAS BURST ONTO THE IRISH CINEMA SCENE, MAYBE TERRY MCMAHON THE DIRECTOR OF THE SOMEWHAT CONTROVERSIAL CHARLIE CASANOVA WILL CHANGE ALL THAT. CONNOR MOORE TALKS TO HIM ABOUT HIS BREAKTHROUGH FILM.
Skating Down Hill Street.
Shot over the course of a year, this film has interviews with the most important Dublin skaters of the last two decades as well as previously unseen old home videos. To hear more about the background of the film, Jay Carax caught up with the producer Dave Leahy.
{Film Review} Drive.
Ryan Gosling revisits the character of monosyllabic, simpleton Lars, now transported from the American Midwest to Los Angeles where he has a job as stunt driver/get away driver and a mechanic. He no longer needs to purchase female companionship from the internet, now he just needs to stare at ladies in elevators and ingeniously bribe their offspring with toothpicks to have them forgetting their wedding vows. Drive is a film … Read More
{Film Review} Page One: Inside The New York Times.
Here’s a fly-on-the-wall documentary about a major American newspaper trying to find its feet in the digital age. Over the course of a year, Andrew Rossi filmed in the offices of the New York Times; gaining unprecedented access to its daily workings and capturing it at a unique juncture where dailies played a grim race to see who went under first. Season 5 of The Wire constantly springs to mind: it’s a lot of quick talking guys chewing the cud on the ethics of journalism and avoiding redundancy offers.