Tag: "Irish Film Review"
Irish Film Review: The Breadwinner
Cian Geoghegan reviews Nora Twomey’s animated feature film set in 2001 in Kabul.
Review of Irish Film @ ADIFF 2018: The Science of Ghosts
June Butler is haunted by Niall McCann’s observational drama centres on well-known Irish musician Adrian Crowley.
Review of Irish Film @ ADIFF 2018: Kissing Candice
Stephen Porzio puckers up at the 2018 Audi Dublin International Film Festival for Aoife McArdle’s ‘Kissing Candice’.
Review of Irish Film @ ADIFF 2018: The Cured
Cathy Butler fleshes out David Freyne’s horror ‘The Cured’.
Review of Irish Film @ ADIFF 2018: Black 47
Sarah Cullen saddles up for Lance Daly’s drama set in Ireland during the Great Famine.
Review of Irish Film @ Cork Film Festival: Michael Inside
Loretta Goff takes a look at Frank Berry’s tale of Michael, a luckless 18-year-old who is misfortunate to be sent to prison.
Review of Irish Film @ Cork Film Festival: Photo City
Loretta Goff send us a snapshot of ‘Photo City’, a portrait of photography itself as told through the lens of the citizens of a place defined by the art form.
Irish Film Review: Song of Granite
Hannah Lemass sings the praises of Pat Collins’ ‘Song of Granite’ a film about the life of the renowned traditional sean-nós singer, Joe Heaney.
Review of Irish Film @ Cork Film Festival: Writing Home
Jack O’Dwyer puts pen to paper about the romantic comedy ‘Writing Home’, made as part of the Filmbase Masters Course.
Irish Film Review: The Breadwinner
Anthony Kirby was at this year’s Toronto International Film Festival to see the Angelina Jolie executive produced Irish animated film The Breadwinner, which is being tipped for Oscar success and was recently awarded Best Animated Feature by LA Film Critics Association.
Irish Film Review: Jaha’s Promise
Sarah Cullen learns about the life and activism of Jaha Dukureh, a Gambian anti-female genital mutilation campaigner.
Review of Irish Film @ Cork Film Festival: No Party for Billy Burns
Loretta Goff rides into town and checks out Padraig Conaty’s film about a shy and awkward, Wild West obsessed Billy Burns, whose cheerful cowboy fixation masks the scars of a childhood tragedy.
Review of Irish Film @ Cork Film Festival: The Lodgers
Loretta Goff gets gothic at ‘The Lodgers’, which screened at the Cork Film Festival.
Review of Irish Film @ Cork Film Festival: Condemned to Remember
Sean O’Rourke reviews Gerry Gregg’s film in which Irish Holocaust Survivor Tomi Reichental celebrates his 80th birthday in a Dublin Mosque and embarks on epic journey across a Europe in turmoil.
Review of Irish Film @ IFI Documentary Festival: Elián
Naomi Shea reviews Tim Golden and Ross McDonnell’s film about Elián González, a five-year-old Cuban boy plucked from the Florida coast in 1999, and how the fight over his future sparked a flashpoint for simmering US and Cuban tensions.
Irish Film Review: The Killing of a Sacred Deer
David Prendeville enjoys this gripping, formally brilliant, cruelly hilarious art-thriller.
Review of Irish Film @ Galway Film Fleadh: The Silver Branch
Ruth McNally ponders Katrina Costello’s philosophical vision-poem.
Guth Gafa Review: A Cambodian Spring
Maria Flood takes a look at Chris Kelly’s award-winning ‘Cambodian Spring’, which screened at the Guth Gafa International Documentary Film Festival.
Review of Irish Film @ Galway Film Fleadh: IFI Local Films for Local People: Yet More Glimpses of Galway
Deirdre de Grae steps back in time at IFI Local Films for Local People: Yet More Glimpses of Galway, which screened at the 29th Galway Film Fleadh.
Review of Irish Film @ Galway Film Fleadh: Song of Granite
Deirdre de Grae sings along to ‘Song of Granite’, Pat Collins’ portrait of the life of the great traditional singer, Joe Heaney, which screened at the 29th Galway Film Fleadh.
Irish Film Review: The Farthest
Jonathan Victory voyages to ‘The Farthest’, Emer Reynolds’ documentary on NASA’s Voyager mission.
