The powerful film Bloody Sunday could teach Northern Ireland politicians a thing or two. Most importantly, that Irish Catholics and British Protestants can indeed overcome their suspicions, work together and produce outstanding results.
Bloody Sunday was produced by Mark Redhead and directed by Paul Greengrass, both British. Also on board was acclaimed Irish filmmaker Jim … [Read more...] about Film Forum:
The Making of Bloody Sunday
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Film Forum: The Importance of Being Earnest
Hyping up Wilde in Earnest won't win Parker and Oscars. "Life is too important to be taken seriously," Oscar Wilde observed. He demonstrated that principle most dazzlingly in The Importance of Being Earnest, his 1895 play satirizing, among other things, the uselessness of British upper-class twits, the hypocrisy of would-be moral arbiters, the shallowness of social standing, … [Read more...] about Film Forum: The Importance of Being Earnest
Quiet Man Celebrations
If you happen to have a neighbor, or even a friend, who has recently returned from a visit to the ould sod and, after a couple of drops of the crathur', they start babblin' on about strange sightings in counties Mayo and Galway, take a good pinch of salt and, please, be patient, all will be explained! It is just over 50 years since one of the first Technicolor films ever to be … [Read more...] about Quiet Man Celebrations
Film Forum: Land of the Second Chance
Once the most popular form of American filmmaking, the Western has not fully recovered from the commercial and critical debacle of Michael Cimino's 1980 epic Heaven's Gate. Although a far better film than conventional wisdom would indicate, Heaven's Gate provoked widespread derision because Cimino dared to use the disreputable Western form for a serious purpose, to question the … [Read more...] about Film Forum: Land of the Second Chance
All About Colin
In a street café in Prague's Old Town, 24-year-old Colin Farrell is having a coffee with Bruce Willis. It's a few days before they face up as adversaries in Hart's War, a war drama that Gregory Hoblitt, who also directed Primal Fear and Frequency, is shooting on location in the wooded hills outside the Czech capital. The former Communist bloc country is now a little Hollywood, … [Read more...] about All About Colin