Category: Exclusives
Get Into Film: Steve Gunn talks to Graham Cantwell
Filmmaker Graham Cantwell chats to Steve Gunn about his life in film.
Podcast: Ben Wheatley,’Free Fire’
Paul Farren talks to Ben Wheatley about taking a procedural look at action with Free Fire, breaking it down to an atomic level, planning the shoot, the production design, the ’70s setting, scriptwriting and the inspirations behind Armie Hammer’s suave look. Armie Hammer, left, whose look was inspired by: Dan O’Bannon and Tony […]
Tips: Comedy Sketch Writing
Ahead of his Comedy Writing Weekend at Filmbase (8 – 9 April), Stephen Shields gives us his top ten tips for Comedy Sketch Writing.
Early Irish Cinema: Exhibiting Tanks to Irish Cinema Fans, February 1917
Denis Condon takes a look at how cinema 100 years ago introduced tantalizing glimpses of a new war machine. .
Dreams Can Come True
Eithne Considine Shankar gives us a history of the struggle of the Irish Film Festival Ottawa on its path to success.
Podcast: Capital Irish Film Festival
John Collins was at the 11th annual Capital Irish Film Festival in Washington, U.S.A and met some of the attending filmmakers.
ADIFF 2017 Irish Film Review: The Farthest
Jonathan Victory voyages to The Farthest, which won the Audience Award at this year’s Audi Dublin International Film Festival
SuperPod: Lego Batman & Logan
Our colourful interlocking plastic mutants return to the superpod to discuss ‘The Lego Batman Movie’ and ‘Logan’.
ADIFF 2017 Irish Film Review: The Secret Scripture
Ailbhe O’ Reilly reviews Jim Sheridan’s ‘The Secret Scripture’, which screened at the Audi Dublin International Film Festival.
Watch Short Film: Swerve
Film Ireland spoke to director Ross Costigan and writer John Morton about their award-winning film.
Goodfella: Martin Scorsese in Dublin
Martin Scorsese was recently awarded a gold medal by the University Philosophical Society of Trinity College. Michael Lee shines a light.
ADIFF 2017 Irish Film Review: Notes on Rave in Dublin
Kenny Hanlon gets his tracksuit on for James Redmond’s documentary on 30+ years of Dublin rave and club culture.
Interview: James Phelan, writer ‘Striking Out’
Sarah Cullen caught up with James Phelan writer of the RTE drama S’triking Out’, which gets its U.S. premiere on St. Patrick’s Day.
ADIFF 2017 Irish Film Review: The 4th Act
Gordon Brennan views Turlough O’Kelly’s story of the €1bn regeneration of Ballymun.
ADIFF 2017 Irish Film Review: Unless
Sarah Cullen looks at Alan Gilsenan’s Canadian/Irish co-production ‘Unless’.
Interview: Hilary Rose, actor ‘The Young Offenders’
Gemma Creagh took advantage of a telecommunications device to chat to Hilary Rose about her experiences playing Mairead MacSweeney in the hit Cork comedy.
ADIFF 2017 Irish Film Review: Photo City
Liam Hanlon looks through the lens at John Murphy and Traolach Ó Murchú’s ‘Photo City’.
Interview: Niall McCann director of ‘Lost in France’
Shane Hennessy goes in search of director Niall McCann who’s Lost in France.
Interview: Ciaran Creagh, writer/director of ‘In View’
Writer / director Ciaran Creagh talked to Film Ireland about his film ‘In View’, a study of depression and suicidal thoughts.
Podcast: Interview with Juanita Wilson, director of ‘Tomato Red’
Gemma Creagh sat down with director Juanita Wilson to talk about her latest film ‘Tomato Red’. Juanita explains how she went about adapting Daniel Woodrell’s book for film, working on the look and feel of the film and casting the right actors.
ADIFF 2017 Irish Film Review: Nails
Stephen Porzio takes a bloodied hammer to Denis Bartok’s Irish horror film ‘Nails’.
Interview: Daniel Gordon, director George Best: All By Myself
Daniel Gordon talked to Film Ireland about his new feature documentary, ‘George Best: All By Myself’.
ADIFF 2017 Irish Film Review: In Loco Parentis
Gemma Creagh goes back to school for Neasa Ní Chianáin and David Rane’s observational documentary that follows a year in the lives of two inspirational teachers in the only primary-age boarding school in Ireland.
ADIFF 2017 Irish Film Review: Sanctuary
Stephen Porzio checks out Len Collins’ debut feature, which screened at this year’ s Audi Dublin International Film Festival.
ADIFF 2017 Irish Film Review: Amanda Coogan: Long Now
Grace Corry takes a look at Paddy Cahill’s exploration of Amanda Coogan’s durational performance art practice.
Reel Horrorshow: Episode 6
In this lurid episode, Conor McMahon, Conor Dowling and Mark Sheridan gather under a blood red sky to discuss Hammer Horror films.
ADIFF 2017 Irish Film Review: Without Name
Richard Drumm enters the woods of Lorcan Finnegan’s Without Name, which screened at Audi Dublin International Film Festival 2017.
Film Ireland Podcast: Episode 27 – Human Balloon-Man Deflating
Sarah Cullen and Richard Drumm return to investigate the demise of Sherlock, take a look at ADIFF, and ponder some recent releases in your cinema – films in which things happen.
