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Mertz: Do you find my method acting unsound?
Dullard: I saw no acting at all.

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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 […]

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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! […]

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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 […]

 

 These Days - St. Vincent: Play Now | Play in Popup

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Lumière and Company (1995, original title “Lumière et Cie”) was a collaboration between 41 international film directors in which each made a short film using the original Cinématographe camera invented by the Lumière brothers.
Shorts were edited in-camera and abided by three rules:A short may be no longer than 52 seconds;No synchronized sound;No more than three […]

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This article owes its existence to two things: one is the situationist ideas of René Viénet; the other is Sinéad Gleeson. Recently, Sinéad had a post on Irish film, and mused on a possible definition of what constitutes an Irish film.
If it’s made by Hollywood is it Irish? Does it have to be set here? […]

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This quote comes from “Heard on the Picketline” section of the Hollywood writers strike weblog.
This morning, I picketed with an 86 year writer, who wrote for ‘Mr. Ed.’ He said, ‘It pisses me off that that fucking horse wound up speaking Italian, Polish and Rumanian, and I never made more than a nickel.’”
I have to […]

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One can today easily demonstrate that there can be no valid derivation of a law of nature from any finite number of facts; but we still keep reading about scientific theories being proved from facts. Why this stubborn resistance to elementary logic?
There is a very plausible explanation. Scientists want to make their theories respectable, deserving […]

 

 Stockholm: Play Now | Play in Popup

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With no presold tickets, the queue did indeed stretch down Leeson Street from an hour before showtime. I was dreading someone I knew happening by and demanding to know what I was lining up to see. If I was spotted, my plan was to pretend I was not queuing but smoking outside Hourican’s pub and […]

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I have always wondered why I’ve found myself drawn to expressions of English working-class childhoods, especially those of the 1960s and ’70s. For years I thought it was because I grew up in Dublin, and Dublin is such an English city - not really Irish at all when you think about it, at least, not […]

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