Monday, Feb 6th 2012
This interview with the late Juliano Mer-Khamis was originally published on South/South on the 5th of April, after a shorter version appeared on Electronic Intifada. Many thanks to Maryam Monalisa Gharavi for allowing us to publish it here.
Art cannot free you from your chains, but art can generate and mobilize [a] discourse of freedom. [...]
Play Poland - Irish-Polish Film Project is a unique festival platform for Irish-Polish filmmakers,
students and cinema lovers that will take place in Dublin in July 2011. It is a part of the biggest
Polish film festival in Europe, being run between May and September 2011.
This festival offers a creative mix of films, workshops and cinema posters. [...]
As you are probly know if you are a funky culture vulture with your fingers in the pulses, peoples everywhere are rave about the new blue movie Atavar, by Irish director James Cameron, mostly because it is in three dimensions, going not only up and down the screen and both ways across the screen but [...]
The Man Without a Past (Aki Kaurismäki - Finland, 2002)
Kaurismäki narrowly missed out on both the Palme d’Or and Best Foreign Language Film Oscar for this film in 2002 but it deservedly made him known to a wider international audience. A man is brutally beaten in a mugging and wakes up with no recollection of [...]
Part 3 of the 100 Best Films of the Decade. Part 1 and Part 2 have already appeared. Only two to go.
The Life Aquatic…With Steve Zissou (Wes Anderson – USA, 2004)
People either love or hate Wes Anderson, though I find I have a foot in either camp. I initially detested The Royal Tennenbaums before [...]
The much anticipated second installment of the 100 films of the decade. Part 1 can be found here.
Man on the Moon (Milos Forman – USA, 2000)
Milos Forman followed up his Larry Flynt biopic with one of another American curio, comedian Andy Kaufman. You don’t have to think Kaufman was an undisputed comic genius [...]
The past decade presented both new challenges and new opportunities to cinema. While on the one hand new technology freed filmmakers from the shackles of financing, a greater homogenisation of taste and lack of adventure among distributors and producers has made it harder to get interesting films seen. The internet has made it possible for [...]
Hari Kunzru | Nowhere to Hide: The Films of Michael Haneke
Hari Kunzru provides an excellent and detailed overview of the films of Michael Haneke, director of Hidden and Funny Games in the context of Austria, it’s history and his politics, and the cultural politics of the films with some interesting stuff on his Brechtian technique. [...]
Pleasures of Underachievement | Disco Infernal
Seanachie of Pleasures of Underachievement, and this parish, on Tony Manero, a movie about a Chilean man obsessed with Saturday Night Fever who descends into crime while trying to win a Tony Manero impersonating contest:
But Tony Manero is a far more scabrous, unobliging work, an ill-mannered riposte to the idea [...]
The Irish Seminar, which is currently underway and runs until the 3rd of July, provides a wide variety of lectures, seminars and workshops on Irish studies by a number of writers, academics, journalists and curators. The topics include Irish literature, culture, politics and society within an international context and should be of interest to readers [...]
