Interview with John Boorman
Ronan Doyle caught up with John Boorman at the recent commemoration marking the 30th anniversary of ‘Excalibur’.
Category: Back Issues
JDIFF: 'Tim Robinson: Connemara' Review
Lovely, hypnotic and moving – Film Ireland Editor Niamh Creely reviews Pat Collins’ Reel Art documentary ‘Tim Robinson: Connemara’ screened as part of the Jameson Dublin International Film Festival.
Chinese Film Festival
The Chinese Film Festival kung fued it’s way onto Dublin screens on Friday with the opening-night screening of Bodyguards and Assassins, followed by a wine reception at the IFI.
Corona Fastnet Short Film Festival asks 'What is a cinema?"
The Corona Fastnet Short Film Festival is held annually, from Thursday 26th May through to Sunday 29th, drawing an estimated 2,000 attendees and screening over 200 films. This year we challenge the notion of ‘what is a cinema’.
SAVAGE – Special Mention at Leeds International Film Festival
Brendan Muldowney’s debut feature ‘Savage’ picked up a Special Mention in the Méliès Competition at the recent Leeds International Film Festival
Q & A WITH 'SAVAGE' WRITER/DIRECTOR BRENDAN MULDOWNEY AND PRODUCER CONOR BARRY
In this Film Ireland podcast recorded on Tuesday 21st September 2010 at the Light House Cinema, writer and filmmaker Jamie Hannigan chairs a Q&A with ‘Savage’ writer/director Brendan Muldowney and producer Conor Barry.
'Swansong, The Story of Occi Byrne' on release in selected cinemas on Friday 10th September
The feature film ‘Swansong, Story of Occi Byrne’, written and directed by Conor McDermottroe, goes on release in the Light House Cinema, Dublin and in select cinemas in the Sligo/Leitrim area from today Friday 10th September.
Issue 133 – Film Ireland – The Summer Issue
The Summer Issue’s fantastic features include an interview with Paul Fraser, the director of the Galway Film Fleadh’s opening film ‘My Brothers’, and, one year on from winning the Best Feature Award at the Galway Fleadh, director Ken Wardrop and producer Andrew Freedman talk sales agents and festival strategy about their acclaimed documentary ‘His & Hers’. Filmmaker Juanita Wilson tells us about her Oscar®-nominated short ‘The Door’ and her debut feature ‘As If I’m Not There’; plus you can Get Into Film with our Education Special as up-and-coming Irish film talent tell us about their college and what they learned there.
ISSUE 133 – My Brothers
Paul Fraser talks to AMANDA SPENCER about his feature directorial debut, which opens this year’s Fleadh.
ISSUE 133 – The Producers
What do they do? VANESSA GILDEA talks to Macdara Kelleher, Martina Niland, Cathal Gaffney and John Murray to find out.
ISSUE 133 – Him & Him
Ken Wardrop and Andrew Freedman talk to JAMIE HANNIGAN about their film ‘His and Hers’, one year on from its premiere.
Issue 133 – Opening The Door
Juanita Wilson talks to NIAMH CREELY about her Oscar®-nominated short ‘The Door’ and her debut feature ‘As If I’m Not There’.
Issue 133 – Five Ways Two Kill You're Script
‘Film Ireland’ gets some not-to-be-ignored script writing advice from leading story analyst James Bartlett.
Issue 133 – Get into film
In our Education Special, Charlene Lydon talks to some up-and-coming Irish talent about where they went to college and what they learned there.
Issue 133 – Documentary Longinotto Style
Kim Longinotto tells Ross Whitaker about her unique approach and the difficult decisions she’s made whilst making her films.
Issue 132 – Film Ireland – The Spring Issue 2010
Conor McMahon, creator of zombie flick ‘Dead Meat’ and the hilarious and devious ‘The Disturbed’, gives his guide to the world of low budget. With a few detours via Hollywood, this is Film Ireland, ‘grindhouse’ style.
Brian O’Toole, Paul Ward, Eoin Macken and Conor McMahon provide us with a detailed breakdown of where the spend went on their low budget films. We talk to big-budget production designer Ray Ball and to Graham Williams about production design when there’s less cash to splash. Visiting the Rat Cellar, the workshop of make-up and special effects expert Tom McInerney, was extremely impressive. We talked to him and fellow effects expert Terri Pinnell about mutilation, decapitation and zombification on a budget.
Concept artist Olwen Foy shares the journey from creature conception to film and looks at the contributions of fine artists like H.R. Giger to the film industry. Gary Shore, a Dun Laoghaire graduate incredibly skilled as both an artist and filmmaker, has successfully broken into Hollywood. We talk to him about how understanding green screen and visual effects as a director is a very good way to get attention from the Hollywood Studios. Vinny Murphy gives us some tips on directing actors, an area where a lot of film college graduates have little or no experience.
We also talked to Cillian Murphy about his new film, ‘Perrier’s Bounty’ and interviewed animator Jimmy Murakami (‘The Snowman’) about the new documentary that explores his experiences in a US concentration camp.
Finally, Film Ireland has introduced some new regular pages, with an equipment reviews page, the Filmireland.net page, an on-set reports page, a page dedicated to shorts and a page from the Screenwriters guild.
Issue 132 – Breaking (Down) the Budget
Low-budget can mean anything from a few hundred grand to small change and some pocket-lint. But no matter the size of your lump sum, what’s the smartest way to spend your money in low-budget filmmaking? Conor McMahon got some detailed budgets from directors Brian O’Toole, Paul Ward, Eoin Macken and himself…
Issue 132 – Production Design
For this article, Conor McMahon talked to big-budget production designer Ray Ball about why he loves being in charge and then interviewed Graham Williams about production design on a budget.
Issue 132 – The Dark Arts
Concept artist Olwen Foy shares the journey from creature conception to film.
Issue 132 – His Cup Runneth Over…
One morning, filmmaker Gary Shore woke up to discover his trailer ‘The Cup of Tears’ had earned him an invitation from Hollywood to make his own feature. Conor McMahon talked to Gary about living the dream.
Issue 132 – Sparkling Perrier
Niamh Creely talks to Cillian Murphy about the art of acting and coming home to film ‘Perrier’s Bounty’.
Issue 132 – Jimmy Murakami: Non Alien
The renowned animator of The Snowman revisits the American concentration camp in which he and his family were interned in this new documentary. Dermod Moore spoke to the director, Sé Merry Doyle, one of the producers, Vanessa Gildea, and to Murakami himself.
Issue 132 – Equipment Review
Filmbase’s Alan Coleman, a sound engineer for 13 years, gives us the low-down on this high-end audio mixer.
Issue 132 – Spotlight – One Hundred Mornings
Ross Whitaker talks to Conor Horgan about his award-winning debut feature.
Issue 132 – On set report – 'Parked' in Ireland’s Coldest Winter
Alessandro Molatore reports from the set of ‘Parked’, a new feature starring Colm Meaney.
Issue 132 – Get into Shorts with Shortspace @ Filmbase
Clare Creely introduces the new screening space that’s about giving your shorts legs.
Issue 132 – Film Critics and the Feel-good Genre
Andrew Legge tells us how the critics are failing us.
Film Ireland Back Issues
Please note, we are currently in the process of transferring information on our back issues to the new version of the Film Ireland website. In the meantime if you are looking for back issue information please check the Archive Pages on the old version of the Film Ireland website.
Issue 131 – Film Ireland – The Winter Issue 2009/2010
The Winter Issue, guest edited by actor and filmmaker Hugh O’Conor, is out now. The sixth and final issue of 2009 has an exclusive interview with actor Ciarán Hinds (‘Rome’) and writer/director Conor McPherson (‘The Actors’) about their latest collaboration ‘The Eclipse’, as well as a fascinating article about moving from editing to directing by Mary Sweeney, long-time collaborator with David Lynch and editor of ‘Mulholland Dr.’ and ‘Lost Highway’, amongst others.
With a focus on acting, this issue answers the burning questions of aspiring stars in three separate features. In The Business of Acting we talk to the Gaiety School of Acting, actor’s agent Maureen McGlynn and casting directors Thyrza Ging and Maureen Hughes. Then in London Calling, we get an international perspective and talk to rising stars Aidan Turner (‘Desperate Romantics’), Andrew Scott (‘John Adams’), Eva Birthistle (‘Wake Wood’), Katie McGrath (‘Merlin’), Kerry Condon (‘Rome’), Peter McDonald (‘When Brendan Met Trudy’) and Ruth Negga (‘Personal Affairs’). And what’s this? Acting work you can bank on? Voicebank, an Irish agency for talented talkers, tells us all about it.
We also have a chat with The Irish Time’s film reviewer Donald Clarke about Irish film and what actors he currently has his eye on.
Finally, Storyland was a little-known but successful web series competition run by RTÉ. Film Ireland talks to the participants and the winners, who include the men behind the web sensation ‘Hardy Bucks’.
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