Lir Mac Cárthaigh talks to Sean Walsh about’ Bloom’, his adaptation of Joyce’s ‘Ulysses’.
The IFI is celebrating Joyce and Cinema with three film strands to coincide with Bloomsday 2012, all featuring films being preserved in the IFI Irish Film Archive. The expiration of copyright covering much of Joyce’s written work is provoking a new wave of interest in his writing’s manifestations. The IFI will be screening Mary Ellen Bute’s Passages from James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake, presenting a selection of Joycean short films as part of the IFI’s free…
As part of Dublin: One City, One Book , which this year has selected Dubliners as it’s city-wide read, and continuing the IFI’s collaboration with Dublin City Public Libraries, the IFI presents John Huston’s The Dead on April 21st at 4.15pm. Adapted from the final story in the Dubliners collection, the film is set during the annual dinner party of the elderly Morkan sisters on the Feast of the Epiphany in 1904. The film lovingly…