Films of the Year Archive After a disappointing year in 2010, this year was considerably better at the movies. There were a number of big disappointments (I’m thinking mainly of Terrence Malick, Lynne Ramsay, Gus…
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Films of the Year 2010
It wasn’t the greatest of years for cinema, to be honest, and it’s hard to figure why, unless the planets pulled sufficiently at once to put filmmakers from Buenos Aires to Tokyo to Rome sufficiently…
100 Films of the Decade – Part 5: The Top 10
The top ten for the decade – or, as the more observant will notice, a top 12 – a miscalculation resulted in there being more left at the end than I originally thought. But none…
100 Films of the Decade – Part 4.
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…
100 Films of the Decade – Part 3
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…
100 Films of the Decade – Part 2
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…
100 Films of the Decade – Part 1
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…
Films of the Year 2008
Another year at the movies and another good one. Too often we hear jeremiads about the decline of cinema and the lack of good films out there (of course, such gripes are usually based on…
Sins of the Father
Dublin Opinion
- In God’s Country May 12, 2013Working on the last few pages of a chapter for a book edited by Colin Coulter and Angela Nagle. I’ve just been rigid with anger over the last couple of weeks - more than usual - and I think the process of writing this chapter is the reason why. This little paragraph sums it up […]Conor McCabe
- Fishy Talks Galway, 13 May 2013 May 12, 2013Speaking tomorrow in Galway before Donal O’Kelly’s performance of Bat the Father, Rabbit the Son. The title of the talk is: All the Devils are Here - A Short History of the Irish Entrepreneur. All welcome. […]Conor McCabe
- The Indo: Think I Know The Choice I’d Make.. May 9, 2013[…]Conor McCabe
- Alan Ahearne, Johnny Boy May 6, 2013Alan Ahearne, Central Bank of Ireland & NUIG, writing in 2006 that Ireland’s property bubble was caused by condoms. […]Conor McCabe
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