Posted in aesthetics, Film on Jun 21st, 2008 2 Comments »
Well, Peter Griffin hasn’t seen it - at least, not all the way through. This is a kinetic typography version of Family Guy discussing the great movie itself.
Enjoy.
Posted in Working Class, Film on Jun 4th, 2008 No Comments »
From YouTube blurb:
Shane Meadows visited Long Road Sixth Form College in Cambridge in sept 2004 to show an A-level Film Studies class a few of his short films, talk about his up coming release of Dead Man’s Shoes. And to answer questions about his career and techniques. He speaks of Once Upon A Time In […]
Posted in irish culture, dublin, Art, Film on Apr 7th, 2008 1 Comment »
From the makers of the charming ‘The Red Balloon‘ comes this following little enterprise - ‘It’s a horrible life‘. Well-structured and well-edited, a simple little story. All in all, great stuff.
Enjoy.
Posted in irish culture, dublin, Art, Film on Mar 28th, 2008 14 Comments »
I just came across this enjoyable little Irish movie - all 2 minutes and 51 seconds of it. I know absolutely nothing about the makers of it, except the following from the youtube site itself:
The Red Balloon - a film by Lauren Brownen, Claire Butler and Conor O’Kelly. The story of a girl and […]
Posted in RTE, irishness, irish culture, Irish Society, Film on Mar 20th, 2008 19 Comments »
I tied up my hands
With the chains of loneliness
I will miss you no more
I put my memory into disrepair
Under the weight of forgetfulness
I will long for you no more
Now I send you my heart
In this dish of poetry
So that I won’t fall in love with you
Again
These are the words with which Neasa Ni Chianain […]
Posted in Literature, immigration, Film, music, Ireland on Mar 14th, 2008 2 Comments »
OK, I may have been looking for that famous footage of Bonnie Langford in a Youghal-stitching monokini but what I actually came up with was far more interesting. Somehow or other, I recently stumbled across the below clip on YouTube :
I often curse the damn things but, yet again, thanks to a mobile phone, I […]
Posted in Art, Film on Mar 9th, 2008 No Comments »
Mertz: Do you find my method acting unsound?
Dullard: I saw no acting at all.
Posted in Irish social history, Irish Economy, irish culture, Labour studies, Irish working Class Culture, Irish History, Film, Irish Labour History, Irish Diaspora, Media on Feb 25th, 2008 11 Comments »
About a year ago, a number of Irish left-wing bloggers met up in Cusack´s pub on the North Strand Road in order to talk about creating a new online left-wing journal. Today, the journal finally went online. It´s name is the Irish Left Review, and it can be found here.
The idea for the journal is […]
Posted in Irish music, Film on Feb 25th, 2008 3 Comments »
Bloody hell! Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova win an Oscar!
Glena Hansard walks up and goes “TANKS!”, and Marketa Irglova says “fair play to those who dare to dream.” Colin Farrell says, “I´m chuffed!”
Man, three Dub accents at the Oscars. Fantastic stuff. The song´s not too bad either.
Well done.
This is from their acceptance speeches.
Glen Hansard:
Thanks! […]
Posted in Film, music on Nov 16th, 2007 8 Comments »
Music and movies are so integral to each other that its difficult to know if it’s the director’s sharp visual sense that is making the story unravel so compellingly or if it’s just the music playing in the background that is telling the story.
Its common enough that people become passionate about particular songs once […]
