Category: movies

  • new stuff

    an early christmas present, a dvd player with a mind of its own. last night, it decided to just switch itself on and even though the television was switched off, we could still hear it though the dvds speakers. it was a man talking. we found out then that it was a show on sub […]

  • more about “in america”

    “in america” probably the best movie i have seen in a long time (sorry to anyone who knows me because i have gone on and on to them about it). as the credits rolled, i found myself looking at familiar names in there. not friends, just people i knew of back in ireland. mateo’s paintings […]

  • last three

    three more movies watched. two tonight (thursday) and one last night (wednesday). wednesdays movie was “last party 2000” narrated by philip seymour hoffman. it dealt with the american presidential election in 2000. visiting both the republican and democratic conventions, and then going to flordia to see a bit of the vote counting. a very good […]

  • half way mark

    im now half way through the six movies im going to go see at the helsinki international film festival. it was only meant to be five, but a spare ticket for the britpop documentary “live forever” was going and i went. “live forever” covered the 1990’s british music industry, concetrating on blur, oasis, the labour […]

  • live movie soundtracks

    while im at the film festival here, the dublin fringe festival is doing the following: la haine to get soundtrack from adf asian dub foundation will perform a live soundtrack to the award-winning film ‘la haine’ as part of the dublin fringe festival. adf were formed in london as part of a community workshop in […]