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FILM OF THE WEEK: Bad Apples - Reviewed by Roe McDermott | Hotpress (opens the original)
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Sly and dark classroom comedy is fun and subversive, even if its messaging doesn't quite land Maria is living every teacher’s worst nightmare. A mild-mannered, idealistic primary school teacher working in the West Country, Maria (Saoirse Ronan) tries her best to be supportive and inspiring, but her class is continually disturbed by one uncontrollable student, Danny. She’s expected to control this budding sociopath, who constantly curses at her, causes chaos in class, damages industrial machinery
FILM OF THE WEEK: Everybody Digs Bill Evans -Reviewed by Roe McDermott | Hotpress (opens the original)
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Subtle, sophisticated, emotionally resonant film asks what happens to a creative genius when the music stops The traditional biopic of a creative genius often follows a linear structure, bringing us though the artists’ childhood, realisation of their talents, struggle for recognition, success, and then the inevitable existential crisis; a reckoning of what fame, success and art all really mean. This structure is comforting. It suggests that if we understand the path to brilliance, we might someh
After The Monster: Who Owns a Film When One of Its Makers Causes Harm? | Hotpress (opens the original)
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When a filmmaker is exposed as having caused serious harm, what happens to the hundreds of other people whose work lives inside their films? On September 10 in the Irish Film Institute, Hot Press Film Editor Roe McDermott explores the question at the latest instalment of her IFI series After The Monster, joined by Mark O’Halloran, Hugh O’Conor and Cara O’Doherty, with a special virtual conversation with Harvey Weinstein whistleblower Laura Madden. When a filmmaker is exposed as having caused ser
Everybody Digs Bill Evans writer Mark O'Halloran: “If you can construct a narrative in which a person has no knowledge of the language necessary to either narrate themselves or their experience within, then each moment becomes revelation" | Hotpress (opens the original)
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Screenwriter Mark O’Halloran on creativity, masculinity and the great jazz pianist Bill Evans. There is something inherently intriguing about making a film about a great musician during a period when he cannot make music. Everybody Digs Bill Evans, the beautiful film about jazz pianist Bill Evans directed by Grant Gee and written by Mark O’Halloran takes that creative intermission as its starting point, focusing on the aftermath of a tragedy in Evans’ life that left him unable to create. In June
FILM OF THE WEEK: The Incomer - Reviewed by Roe McDermott | Hotpress (opens the original)
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Domhnall Gleeson stars in weird and wonderful comedy A white man arriving on a distant shore, displacing the inhabitants and judging their native ways as primitive and savage has been the basis for nearly every of colonisation story throughout history. Or, in this case, a whimsical new comedy written and directed by Louis Paxton, and starring Domhnall Gleeson. Gleeson plays Daniel, a slightly awkward and lonely land recovery co-ordinator for a local council, who is sent to a remote Scottish isla
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