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Two Volta films complement each other as powerful and moving depictions of rural life in Ireland.
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Dedicated Followers of Fashion: A Look At The Best Dressed Films
There are plenty of films out there with amazing costumes, but here we take a look at films with impeccable fashion - that is to say, featuring clothing of the time and for the time - in...
Lost In Space With The Boy From Mercury
In any list of well known Irish films, it’s unfortunately rather unlikely that The Boy From...
Apocalypse Soon: The End of the World on Film
The release of Conor Horgan’s debut, One Hundred Mornings, has got us thinking about how other...
Welcome to Ireland – a tiny island almost precariously perched on the edge of Europe, surrounded by water, and subject to the whims of the Atlantic and her inconsiderate weather systems. Here, we...
With the availability of Brother, Volta celebrates the work of Takeshi Kitano, a kind of cinematic one-man-band, comedian...
Now That's What I Call Mathematics
With the recent addition of Peter Greenaway's Drowning By Numbers, we've been thinking...
Not Just a Pretty Picture - The Films of Peter Greenaway
The art movie as a genre is as often as arid and devoid of inspiration as the Hollywood blockbuster, but, with the release of
The Quiet Man: A Love-Hate Relationship
Sé Mary Doyle’s Dreaming the Quiet Man is an intimate look at the making of one of the most influential films in Irish cinema. Exploring the impetus behind why John Ford wanted...
Twist & Shout: Great Musical Interludes in Film
Paolo Sorrentino's This Must Be the Place is full of twists and turns, some hilarious...
