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Peter Mullan

The Magdalene Sisters

By Patricia Harty, Editor-in-Chief
August / September 2003

August 1, 2003 by Leave a Comment

Bernadette (Nora-Jane Noone) whose life is about to change because her good looks are seen.

A disturbing movie by Peter Mullan on what happened to the "wayward" women of Ireland. ℘℘℘ Peter Mullan's The Magdalene Sisters opens ironically with a wedding scene. But it is not a happy occasion. Margaret is lured by her cousin Kevin to an upstairs room where he rapes her. Kevin is chastised, but it is Margaret who has "shamed" her family and is carted off the next morning … [Read more...] about The Magdalene Sisters

Film Forum:
Land of the Second Chance

By Joseph McBride, Contributor
August / September 2001

August 1, 2001 by Leave a Comment

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

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Today in History

July 3, 1878

Famous for claiming to be born on the 4th of July, George M. Cohan was actually born on July 3, 1878 in Providence, Rhode Island. A theater legend, Cohan was born to parents of Irish Catholic descent who were travelling vaudevillians. From a young age, he and his sister appeared in several of his parents’s shows and sketches and they eventually became known as “The Four Cohans.” The group became extremely popular and Cohan was writing all their material. His most famous songs were “I’m a Yankee Doodle Dandy” and “Give My Regards to Broadway.”

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