Category: Featured
Book Review: The Films of Lenny Abrahamson
Stephen Porzio checks out Barry Monaghan’s comprehensive study of the films of contemporary, highly critically-appraised Irish director Lenny Abrahamson.
Short Film Review: Stephanie
David Deignan takes a look at Fergal Costello’s short horror film ‘Stephanie’ starring Moe Dunford.
Festival Report: Hamptons International Film Festival
Ronan O’Sullivan reports from the 26th Annual Hamptons International Film Festival, which included screenings of The Favourite and Making The Grade. Along the way Ronan shared a cigarette with Eva Trobisch, director of Alles Ist Gut. The Hamptons consist of a number of towns on the east end of Long Island, one hundred miles east of New York […]
Irish Film Review @ Cork Film Festival: One Million American Dreams
Loretta Goff discovers the secrets of New York’s mass graves in Brendan Byrne’s ‘One Million American Dreams’.
Irish Film Review @ Cork Film Festival: The Belly of the Whale
Cian Griffin enters ‘The Belly of the Whale’, which screened at this cork Film Festival.
Review of Irish Film @ Cork: Maeve
Jack O’Dwyer gets caught up in the fractured narrative of Pat Murphy’s seminal Irish Feminist film ‘Maeve’, which screened at this year’s Cork Film Festival.
Irish Film Review @ Cork Film Festival: Town of Strangers
Loretta Goff meet the locals in the County Galway town of Gort, in Treasa O’Brien’s Town of Strangers, with a diverse cast, including young Irish Travellers, English New Age hippies, Brazilian factory workers and Syrian refugees.
Watch Rob Kennedy’s ‘Sit Beside Me’
Rob Kennedy tells Film Ireland all about his horror short, which is now available to watch.
Irish Film Review @ Cork Film Festival: Free Radicals
Vjekoslav Vondra was at the Cork Film Festival to take in selection of experimental film works screened in memory of Josephine Massarella (1957 – 2018).
Review of Irish Film @ Cork: Cellar Door
John Finbarr McGarr goes beyond the ‘Cellar Door’, which screened at this year’s Cork Film Festival.
Irish Film Review @ Cork Film Festival: The Curious Works of Roger Doyle
Loretta Goff goes on a journey through The Curious Works of Roger Doyle, Brian Lally’s documentary about Roger Doyle who, over the course of five decades, has created an impressive body of work ranging from minimalist piano and electronic pieces to orchestral works.
Aoife O’Toole, Dublin Feminist Film Festival Manager
In this podcast, Gemma Creagh talks to Aoife O’Toole, the Dublin Feminist Film Festival Manager, about what we can expect at this year’s festival.
Irish Film Review @ Cork Film Festival: Sooner or Later
Jack O’Dwyer finds much to like in ‘Sooner or Later’, Luke Morgan’s no-budget feature from Galway filmmaking collective Project Spatula.
Irish Film Review @ Cork Film Festival: Float Like a Butterfly
Loretta Goff finds a voice to the voiceless in Carmel Winters’ film Float Like a Butterfly, which opened the 63rd Cork Film Festival.
Irish Film Review @ Cork Film Festival: The Favourite
Charline Fernandez takes a break from duck racing and pineapple eating to send us this review of Yorgos Lanthimos’ The Favourite from the Cork Film Festival.
Vincent Lambe, Director of ‘Detainment’
Eleanor McSherry was at this year’s Kerry Film Festival and got the chance to talk to Vincent Lambe about his docudrama ‘Detainment’, which won Best Irish Short Film at the festival.
Rebecca Daly, Director/Co-writer of ‘Good Favour’
In Rebecca Daly’s Good Favour, a wounded teenage stranger who stumbles into an isolated village of devout Christians gradually reveals his motives. David Prendeville met Rebecca to discover more about the film.
Natasha Waugh, Director of ‘Mother’
Gemma Creagh sat down with Natasha Waugh, the director of ‘Mother’, which is screening at this year’s Cork Film Festival.
Treasa O’Brien, Writer/Director of ‘Town of Strangers’
Writer/Director Treasa O’Brien takes us behind the story of ‘Town of Strangers’, a film about a stranger who comes to make a film in the small town of Gort in the West of Ireland, and the people she meets when she holds auditions
Roisin Kearney, Producer of ‘Prodigy’
Producer Roisin Kearney tells Film Ireland about Prodigy, in which a young boy begins to suspect his new neighbour is a world-famous pianist who has been missing for over twenty years.
Watch: Lee Cronin’s ‘Ghost Train’
We chat to Lee Cronin about his short film ‘Ghost Train’, which is now available to watch just in time to get you in the ghoulish mood.
Book Review: The Coen Brothers. This Book Really Ties the Films Together
“I don’t pretend to be a critic, but lord knows I have a gut, and my gut tells me it’s simply marvellous.”
Paul Bushe & Brian O’Neill, Directors of ‘Killers Within’
Directors Brian O’Neill and Paul Bushe talk to Film Ireland about their feature ‘Killers Within’, which screens at this year’s IFI Horrorthon.
Aislinn Clarke, Director of ‘The Devil’s Doorway’
David Prendeville spoke to director Aislinn Clarke about her film ‘The Devil’s Doorway’, which screens at this year’s IFI Horrorthon.
John Gleeson, Director of ‘Follywood’
John Gleeson introduces us to his comedy web series Follywood.
Irish Film Review: Rosie
David Deignan reflects on Roddy Doyle’s powerful and poignant story that takes aim at Ireland’s homelessness crisis.
