Foyle Film Festival report <br> Northern Ireland funding report <br> Celtic Film Festival.

Film Finance <br> Film Board Closure <br> Tax Incentive Scheme <br> Siobhan Twomey interview.

Frankie and Johnny <br> Video nasties legislation <br> Cork Film Festival <br> InterCeltic Festival <br> Dublin Film Festival <br> Derry Film and Video Collective <br> Michael Algar interview (I) <br> Filmbase policy document <br> Bob Quinn retrospective.

Ken McMullen interview (Partition) <br> Cork Film Festival report <br> Action Committee <br> New Zealand diary (I) <br> Michael Algar interview (II) <br> Dublin Film Festival report <br> Festival Internationale Cinema Giovani.
Book: Cinema and Ireland.

Action Comittee update <br> Arts Council & film <br> Bob Quinn interview <br> Gregg Araki - Guerrilla-Style <br> Video Recordings Bill <br> Gabriel Beristain interview <br> Amber Films.

Barry Devlin interview <br> Telef?s Three <br> Distribution in Ireland <br> The Courier round table <br> Fast Forward report <br> Eisenstein editing <br> New Zealand diary (II).
Review: Finglas Through Our Eyes.
Book: No Tigers in Africa.

Training in Ireland: Easter Film School <br> Foyle Film Festival <br> Declan Quinn interview <br> New Zealand diary (III) <br> Women on Film <br> Exposure Film And Video Co-operative.

Reefer and the Model: Joe Comerford & Lelia Doolan interview; Carol Scanlon <br> Eoghan Harris interview <br> Eamon de Buitlear interview <br> Glasnost <br> European Films.
Review: Graduate Shows Rathmines, D?n Laoghaire.

rish Film Festivals: Cork Festival; Galway Screenings; Dublin Festival <br> Alan Gilsenan & Martin Mahon of Yellow Asylum (On The Road To God Knows Where) <br> Bob Quinn <br> Reefer and the Model talk: Luke Gibbons, Pat Murphy, Johnny Gogan, Frank Connolly and Stephanie McBride (I) <br> Edel O'Brien interview (Bread and Honey).

Short Films in Cork Film Festival <br> Picture House: Fintan Connolly & Hillary Dully interview (No Comment) <br> Third TV Channel <br> Mother Ireland <br> Channel 4 <br> Stories Come First report <br> Reefer and the Model talk (II) <br> New York's Independent Features Project report <br> MIP COM in Cannes report.

Work Practices <br> Pat Keenan interview <br> Our Words Jump to Life <br> Louis Marcus interview <br>
European Script Fund <br> Independent Production Sector Survey.

Celtic Film Festival report <br> Scriptwriting: Jim Sheridan (My Left Foot), Alan Gilsenan <br> Unchanneled <br> John O'Donnell interview (The Story of Johnny McGory) <br> F?S/IFI Training Course.
Review: Power in the Blood.

Art or Industry? <br> The Last Irish Reel <br> Galway Film Fleadh preview <br> Film Archive <br> Yves Boisset in Dublin.
Reviews: Screening of Community Video in Filmbase. Conferences.

Irish Film... Unexposed <br> The myth of the 'Emerging Irish Filmmakers' <br> Vivienne Dick interview (London Suite) <br> Cork and Foyle film festivals previews <br> Matewan (part I) <br> Penny Thomson interview (Scottish Fund) <br> European audio-visual industry <br> 2020 Vision report <br> Super 8 <br> Fleischmann interview.

History of the Irish Film Censorship <br> Section 31 <br> Mark Kilroy & Jane Gogan interview (Hard Shoulder) <br> Production: EAVE report, Audiovisual Eureka, Television and Drama seminar report <br> Matewan (part II).
Reviews: Fragments of Isabella, Guests of Another Nation.

Women Special Issue: Film - Margo Harkin & Stephanie English interview (Hush-A-Bye Baby); Advertising; Abortion and Censorship; Pornography and Censorship; In Production <br> David Kavanagh interview (Irish Film Centre).
Review: Last Exit to Brooklyn.

TV3 <br> Cork Multi-channel <br> Teilif?s na Gaeltachta <br> High Definition TV <br> TV dramatisations of political issues <br> TV Drama in Ireland <br> Network of Workshops.
Reviews: Hush-A-Bye Baby, Hard Shoulder, December Bride.

Government's Broadcasting Bill <br> Irish Films in Italy and round-table with Bob Quinn, Joe Comerford & Alan Gilsenan <br> Galway Film Fleadh preview <br> Rex Ingram retrospective.
Reviews: We're No Angels, The School Bus, Stephen, No Flowers, Rathmines and Dun Laoghaire Graduate Films, Stories from the Silence, Whitefriar Street Serenade.

Liam O'Leary interview <br> Jim Allen interview (Hidden Agenda) <br> RTe after the Act: Fiantan Ryan, Liam Miller, Fred Hayden and Pat Keenan comments <br> Cork Film Festival preview <br> Milkwaukee Irish Fest report.
Review: Hidden Agenda.

Whitefriar Street Serenade: Seamus Carraher & Bernice Donoghue interview <br> Thaddeus O'Sullivan interview (December Bride) <br> Irish Film Past and Future <br> Irish Film Funding <br> Who's Who in C4 <br> Festivals: Cork Film Festival report, East-West Forum at the Low-Budget Festival report <br> Joe Comerford's article for the Sense of Ireland film seminar.
Reviews: The Field, DCU videos.

Paddy Buckley interview <br> Film Distribution in Ireland <br> Combining video and Super 8 for Low-Cost Production <br> Orla Walsh as producer on Brush Shiels Birmingham Six video <br> Who's Who in RTe <br> Tony Murray's interview (Special Friends) <br> Painful Cases.

Who's who in BBC NI & UTV <br> Pre-1934 Fritz Lang films <br> 1916 Rising on the screen <br> Plans for the Irish Film Centre <br> Algerian Film Festival report <br> Berlin Film Festival report <br> Improvised Digging article by Michael O'Kelly.
Exhibition: Cinema Ireland 1896-1950.

Joe Comerford retrospective (Traveller) <br> Fintan Connolly & Hilary Dully on No Comment documentaries <br> 1990 Broadcasting Act (part I) <br> Hal Hartley interview <br> Celtic Film Festival report <br> The Secret Prophecy article by Joe Comerford.
Review: Schizophrenic City.
Exhibition: Eternity - Where?

Irish animation and Harry Hess retrospective (part I) <br> 1990 Broadcasting Act (part II) <br> Mike Leigh interview <br> Galway Film Fleadh preview <br> Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho editing <br> Irish History on Film conference <br> No, Minister by Colum Kenny.
Reviews: In the Border Country, The Miracle, No Comment, Travelling People.
Exhibition: Kate Horgan photographs.

Moscow Film Festival report <br> Paul Freaney interview <br> Arts Council award winners talk <br> Citizen Kane in Dublin <br> Tom Collins interview (Dragon's Teeth) <br> European Filmmaking Forum report <br> A Tale of Two Versions article by John Hill.
Review: The Commitments, Dublin Film '91.

Digital Audio Tape (DAT) <br> Irish animation (part II): Murakami Wolf, Rim Booth and Animedia, The Quins, Steve Woods and ASIFA, Aidan Hickey, Sullivan Bluth, Tim Fernee/Moving Still Animated, Little Animated Film Factory, Fairford <br> John T Davis's Hobo <br> Copies of Irish Films <br> Peter Greenaway <br> Hurd Hatfield <br> VIPFILM festival report <br> Short Taken article by Noel Donnellon.
Review: Prospero's Books.

RTe/Thames co-production review <br> Chloe Gibson portrait <br> Film Base's policy on broadcasting <br> Film policy & Arts Council <br> Foyle Film Festival 91 report <br> Script Fund Seminar report <br> A Vision article by Kevin Liddy.
Review: Diary of a Madman.

Martin Mahon, Director of Dublin Film Festival , interview <br> Future Structure for Irish Broadcasting discussion (part I): Muiris Mac Conghail, Colum Kenny, Jane Gogan, David Collins & Colm O Briain <br> Cathal Black interview <br> Arts Council's funding policy <br> Vanity Fare article by Conor Kenny.
Reviews: A Stone of the Heart, 3 Joes.

Brief history of Documentary <br> German script workshop review <br> Theo Angelopoulus interview <br> Future Structure for Irish Broadcasting discussion (part II) <br> Paul Duane's Blind Alley in the Dublin Film Festival.
Reviews: Hear My Song, UK Election TV Coverage, Behind the Walls of Castlereagh.

Foyle Film Projects <br> 5 Years on <br> Film's funding crisis <br> A short guide to development: The Bargain Shop <br> EAVE (European Audiovisual Entrepreneurs) diary <br> Terence Davies interview (The Long Day Closes) <br> Women on film <br> Irish filmmaker on classic films: Stephen Kane on Paris, Texas <br> Douarnenez Film Festival preview <br> Telecine <br> Designer Thrillers seminar report.
Reviews: The Barber Shop, Dun Laoghaire 1992 graduate films.

Irish Film Centre preview: building, background, La Cinemath?que Fran?aise <br> Guide to Eurimages <br> Film report analysis: Coopers & Lybrand's Report, Liam O'Neill responds to the report <br> Pat O'Connor's Force of Duty review <br> Film production software <br> Galway Film Fleadh report <br> Projections: A Forum for Filmmakers report <br> Barton Scoreseasy interview.
Reviews: Video Diaries - The Reluctant Mamoushka, Waterland.

Irish Film Centre first impressions <br> Making documentaries: History, Representations of Actuality seminar report, Documentaries in Northern Ireland <br> John T Davis interview <br> Feminist film theory <br> Low-Budget seminar at the Cork Film Festival <br> Response to Force of Duty review.
Reviews: The Crying Game, Into the West, Contrasting Realities, Man of Aran.

Low-Budget films: Seminar report, Jim Stark interview (Micha) <br> The Spiddal Television Centre <br> Video Documentary shot in Bosnia <br> Liam O'Leary tribute <br> Cinema & National Identity by Hans G?nther Pflaum & Kevin Rockett <br> Super 8.
Reviews: The Bargain Shop, Conneely's Choice, Between Heaven and Woolworths, The Story of Places, State of the Art, The Visit, Protestant Idendity seminar.

Oberhausen Short Film Festival preview <br> Irish Film Board <br> Neil Jordan interview (The Crying Game) <br> John Sayles retrospective <br> Teilif?s na Gaeilge.
Reviews: Horse, Public Toilet, Into the Abyss.

Film Base Board of Directors <br> Irish Film Board focus: Report on changing scene for Irish films; The first Irish Film Board <br> Users guide to Section 35 <br> Hi-Tech editing: Non Linear editing & AVID system.
Review: The Snapper.

Film Action Plan '95 <br> Lelia Doolan interview <br> Dublin's Screen Tested <br> The establishment of Teilif?s na Gaeilge <br> Donal Gilligan interview (Horse) <br> Galway Film Fleadh report.
Reviews: The Kickhams, Dun Laoghaire Graduate Films.

New Irish Filmmakers: Geraldine Creed (The Metal Man), Stephen Burke (After '68), Claire Lynch (Fruit 15), Lenny Abrahamson (Three Joes) <br> Imagining Ireland seminars <br> Dagmar Hirtz interview (Rosaril) <br> Community TV in Ireland <br> Kieran Hickey retrospective.
Reviews: Micha, Atlantic - Hip To the Tip, Journey to Mostar.

1993 Review <br> Jim Sheridan interview (In the Name of the Father) <br> Morality plays of John Woo <br> Imagining Ireland seminars report <br> MEDIA Ireland supplement <br> Steve Bernstein interview (Como Agua Para Chocolate) <br> Possible changes in broadcasting censorship legislation <br> Claire Lynch tribute.
Reviews: High Boot Benny, After '68, H for Hamlet.

Bob Quinn on The Bishop's Story <br> Low-Budget features: Paddy Breathnach & Ed Guiney interview (Ailsa); Cheap and Nasty article by Paul Duane <br> Paolo Taviani interview <br> Pros & cons of Super 16mm.
Reviews: In the Name of the Father, Women in Focus (Foyle Film Festival).

Barry Devlin on screenwriting <br> Feature Films-Television relationship <br> Rod Stoneman at the Film Base Annual General Meeting <br> Latest developments of Teilif?s na Gaeilge by Johnny Gogan, Mike Collins & Donncha O hEallaithe <br> Genre Filmmakers <br> Suzuki Seijun interview <br> Women and the Image <br> Poverty and the Media.
Reviews: Broken Harvest, The Bishop's Story, All Things Bright and Beautiful, Boys For Rent, The End.

Roddy Doyle interview <br> Dublin & urban culture on film <br> Claire Duignan interview (Head of RTe's IPU) <br> The decline of Jean-Luc Godard? <br> The cheapest way of doing a film <br> Opinions: Martin McLonne's view on the 15th Celtic Film Festival; Documentary in Danger?
Reviews: The Secret of Roan Inish, Filmbase video screenings, Sunny's Deliverance.
Book: Border Crossing - Film in Ireland, Britain and Europe.

John T Davis interview (The Uncle Jack) <br> Irish Film Centre first two years <br> RJ Cutler interview (The War Room) <br> Poetry through Multimedia <br> Robert Cooper interview (BBC NI's Drama Department) <br> British populist filmmakers <br> Opinions: Ruth Barton on Family; Martin McCabe on the World Cup; RTe seminar for Independents.
Reviews: Moondance, Ailsa, War of the Buttons, Family, Detour, Coming Home.

Joe Comerford interview (High Boot Benny) <br> Rose Troche interview (Go Fish) <br> The Irish Film Board - User's Guide: Rod Stoneman interview; James Flynn interview <br> Misteach Bhaile Atha Cliath <br> Independent animation <br> Hi-Tech editing <br> Opinions: Irish Film Centre into focus.
Reviews: Breed of Heroes, The Stranger Within Me, Luther and the Devil.

1994 Review <br> David Collins interview (Cork Film Festival) <br> Film Censorship in Ireland <br> Filmmaking activity in colleges and universities <br> Form and function of short films in the 90s <br> Cinema and Psychoanalysis <br> Opinion: High Boot Benny debate.
Reviews: Interview with the Vampire, Blinder, Two Lives, Where the Heart Remains, Misteach Bhaile Atha Cliath (The Dublin Mystic).

Mary McGuckian interview (Words Upon the Window Pane) <br> Festivals: Dublin; Cork; Galway <br> A look to Neil Jordan's work <br> Ed Guiney interview (Ailsa promotion) <br> Use of Violence in Cinema <br> Herbert Brenon retrospective <br> Opinions: Pulp Fiction defence; Return to Sender article by Tony Kenny.
Reviews: A Man of No Importance, Rathmines 1994 Graduate Films.

Post-producting Korea <br> Irish Film Archive <br> Ireland and Media II <br> Celtic Vision <br> Abel Ferrara interview (The Addiction) <br> Rex Ingram retrospective <br> Enda Huges interview (The Eliminator) <br> Beyond the Pale series.
Reviews: A Century of Cinema - Irish Cinema. Ourselves Alone?; Branwen; Waterweed; The Pan Loaf; Peig; The Morrison Tapes.

Eugene O'Connor (Guiltrip) & Billy Williams (Driftwood) interview <br> Jeremy Thomas interview <br> Two years of the Irish Film Board <br> Six Irish Shorts: The Visit, Priesthunter, The Birth of Frank Pop, Jobstown Film Project [3 films: Football, Trouble and Hairspray], The Pan Loaf, He shoots, He Scores <br> Chris O'Grady's talk at Film Base AGM <br> Facilities Supplement <br> David Kavanagh interview (CEO European Script Fund) <br> Pros & cons of Roger Corman's studio <br> Robert Flaherty retrospective <br>
Reviews: Circle of Friends, Jobstown Film Project, The Life of Reilly, An Gob?n Saor, Memories in Focus, The Hanging Gale, A River of Sound - The Changing Course of Irish Traditional Music.

Trish McAdam & Chris Sievernich interview (Snakes and Ladders) <br> Ted Sheehy on Government's Green Paper on Broadcasting <br> Bertrand Tavernier interview (D'Artagnan's Daughter) <br> Federation of Irish Film Societies insight <br> John Ford retrospective <br> Irish Screenwriting in crisis? <br> Guideline for a correct script format <br> Opinions: Emma Philbin Bowman on Once Were Warriors; Neil Jordan on The Crying Game and the Irish Press <br> Annecy Animation Festival report.
Reviews: Fanatic Heart, Sucker, Braveheart, The Hard Man, Raiders of the Lost Archives, The Feeling Soul.

Section 35 in focus <br> Stephen Rea interview <br> Tiernan MacBride homage <br> Ken Loach interview (Land and Freedom) <br> Brian Corr on Film Makers Ireland <br> Opinion: Vincent Durack on the Green Paper on Broadcasting <br> Galway Film Fleadh's animation programme report <br> Rotterdam Film Festival report.
Reviews: Frankie Starlight, The Long Way Home, Bent Out of Shape, He Shoots, He Scores, Mn?.

Roddy Flynn on Irish theatrical distribution <br> Fifty years of Film Ireland! <br> Arthouse, Dublin's multimedia centre <br> Gerry Stembridge interview (Guiltrip) <br> Education in Ireland Supplement <br> Dennis Hopper interview <br> Paul Duane visits the set of Spectre <br> CARTOON Forum report.
Reviews: Korea, Guiltrip, The Run of the Country, Fishing the Sloe-Black River, Famine, The Stunning.
Books: Confessions of a Sewer Rat - A Personal History of Censorship & the Irish Cinema, Still Irish - A Century of the Irish in Film.

Shane Connaughton interview (The Run of the Country) <br> Copyright & Options - Writers' & producers' perspective <br> No-budget filmmaking in Ireland <br> Six Pack report <br> Nature of sound and sound recording <br> Nell McCafferty on Guiltrip <br> SOURCES Script Workshop report <br> Animation: Terra Glyph, Monster, Animation Camera Facilities, Shepherd Films.
Reviews: Thirty Five Aside, The Rocker - A Portrait of Phil Lynott, Hearts and Souls - The No Divorce Campaign, J.J. Biker, Art, Are You Mad?

Teilif?s na Gaeilge <br> David Blake Knox, RTe's Assistant Director of Programmes, interview <br> Post-production facilities in Ireland <br> Short Cuts in Focus <br> Women in Film and Television profile <br> Drama production in Northern Ireland <br> Cinema 100: Margo Harkin, Albert Kelly, Sunniva O'Flynn, Louis Marcus, Brendan McCaul, Lelia Doolan, Cathal Black, Hug Leonard & Harry Hurst comments <br> Frameworks scheme.
Reviews: Summertime, The Peer Bottle, Dear Daughter, Video Diaries.

The Sun, the Moon and the Stars: Geraldine Creed and Angie Dickinson interviews <br> Todd Haynes interview (Safe) <br> Documentary-making in Ireland <br> Facilities Listings Supplement <br> RTe's children's programming report <br> From Dusk Till Dawn censorship report <br> Finance Bill 1996 report <br> Ardmore Studios <br> CARTOON Forum report.
Reviews: The Boy from Mercury, The Big O, 81, The Condom, Male Rape - Men Overcoming Rape and Sexual Abuse.
Book: The Irish Filmography.

Enda Hughes interview (The Eliminator) <br> 'Irish Film - A Mirror Up To Culture' conference report <br> Fr Ted Comedy Workshop report <br> Pat McCabe talks trash movies <br> David Keating interview (The Last of the High Kings) <br> Fr. Joseph P. Dumm retrospective <br> Philippe Rousselot interview (The Serpent's Kiss) <br> Soundtracks & music in films <br> Michael Dwyer interview.
Reviews: The Eliminator, Some Mother's Son, Trojan Eddie.
Book: Big Picture, Small Screen - The Relations Between Film and Television.

Michael Collins <br> John T. Davis interview (The Uncle Jack) <br> Movie Business in LA <br> 'Projecting the Nation: National Cinema in an International Frame' conference issues <br> John Sherlock interview <br> Euro-Trash television <br> Sport on the box <br> Irish film in France.
Reviews: The Van, Boys and Men, Home Movie Nights, Safe and Sound, Galway Film Fleadh Irish Short Film Winners.

Extracts from Martin Duffy's book-in-progress about The Boy from Mercury <br> John Carney interview (November Afternoon) <br> Irish-themed programmes on American TV report <br> History and future of film projection <br> Muiris MacConghail on Michael Collins.
Reviews: Michael Collins, The Uncle Jack, The Sun, the Moon and the Stars, The Last of the High Kings, Dra?ocht, The Secret of Roan Inish.
Book: The Companion to British and Irish Cinema.

S?le de Valera interview <br> Amsterdam Documentary Forum & Market report <br> Film distribution in the Irish market <br> Irish commercial producing sector <br> Employment conditions in film and TV production report <br> Teilif?s na Gaeilge's first two months on air.
Reviews: Where Do I Begin - Se?n Keating, An American in Ireland - Charles Brady, Patrick Hickey - Artist, James Gandon - A Life, Leading Hollywood.
Book: War and Words - The Northern Ireland Media Reader.

Pat O'Connor interview <br> Irish video market report <br> Scream and Scream Again exhibition report <br> World of Documentaries strand at the Dublin Film Festival <br> Cronenberg's Crash <br> Nick Hornby interview (Fewer Pitch).
Reviews: Gold in the Streets, November Afternoon, Drinking Crude, Driftwood, Shortcuts Programme, Blasket Roots... American Dreams, The Joy. Dublin Film Festival: Shorts Programme One & Two; Animation Day

Eric Abraham interview (Kolya) <br> Cannes Film Festival report <br> Robert Dornhelm & David Collins interview (A Further Gesture) <br> Peter Newman & Stuart Gordon interview (Space Truckers) <br> Script Development Conference report.
Reviews: This is the Sea, Hoodwinked, Alaska.

Galway Film Fleadh report <br> Tom Gildea, TD for South Donegal, interview <br> Julia Judge interview (Meteor) <br> Anne Burke, Women in Film and Television's director, interview <br> Bertrand Blier's Mon Homme <br> Laura Mulvey interview.
Reviews: The Butcher Boy, The Last Bus Home, Bogwoman, Space Truckers, The Disappearance of Finbar, DLCAD Graduate Show, The Very Stuff, Niamh and the Angels, The Cake.

Cork Film Festival preview <br> I Went Down: Rob Walpole & Paddy Breathnach interview; Conor MacPherson interview; Brendan Gleeson career <br> Alan Gilsenan interview (All Souls' Day) <br> Colin Bateman interview (Divorcing Jack) <br> Assistant Sound Editor course report <br> Double Carpet production.
Reviews: I Went Down, Mrs Brown, Glenroe - Going on 15, How Far Home, Harvest Emergency, Criminal Pursuit.
Book: Power in the Eye - An Introduction to Contemporary Irish Film.

One day in Craggy Island <br> Carine Adler interview <br> Resurrection Man: Stuart Townsend interview; Eoin MacNamee interview (book) <br> Shorts at Cork Film Festival report <br> 97 review <br> Ronan Bennett interview (A Further Gesture).
Reviews: Inventing the Abbots, All Souls' Day, Making the Cut, My Great-Grandmother Was a Boxer, Ballyseedy, Bobby Lamb - a Celebration, Saoirse?

Moving Still Animation: Susan Dennehy, Tim Fernee & Art O'Briain interview <br> Neil Jordan interview (The Butcher Boy) <br> Grindhouse review <br> Seventies TV shows <br> Donald Clarke's diary at Moonstone International Screenwriters' Lab <br> Titanic <br> Irish cinematographers: Seamus McGarvey & Peter Butler interview; James Mather career <br> New technologies for the Millenium <br> Mike Collins's report on Chiapas <br> Warhol film season report.
Reviews: The Boxer, Snakes and Ladders, The Ambassador (Episodes 1-4), The Madness from Within, Spre Rosy Ryan.

Dermot Morgan homage <br> Carol Doyle interview (Washington Square) <br> Academy Awards 1998 report <br> Aodh?n Madden's Night Train <br> Cinema & Computer Gaming <br> Kurt Palm interview (At Swim Two Birds) <br> Martin Duffy on The Boy from Mercury.
Reviews: Resurrection Man, O'Donoghue's Opera, At Swim Two Birds, Shorts films at Dublin Film Festival.

Lux Centre in London <br> John Boorman interview <br> Martin Scorsese: Public interview report; Inspired by Scorsese; Casino the Citizen Kane of the '90s? <br> Irish films in Cannes report <br> Irish books on film.
Reviews: The General, Washington Square, Amongst Women, Hidden Treasures.
Book: Anyone Can Make TV.

Irish-American Filmmaking Issue: Denis Leary interview (Monument Avenue); Noel Pearson (Dancing at Lughnasa), Eugene Brady (The Nephew) and Terry George (A Bright Shining Lie) interviews; Declan Quinn interview; Marian Quinn interview <br> John Hurt interview <br> Michael Moore <br> Kurt and Courtney - From Hell to Celebrity.
Reviews: Dancing at Lughnasa, 2by4, Just in Time, Double Carpet, Francis Barrett - Southpaw, The Gamble.

Premier Shorts in Belfast report: Cluck, Green Oranges, The Good Son, Baby Doll & Surfing Wit William <br> Cork's films <br> David Caffrey interview (Divorcing Jack) <br> Jane Gogan, Comissioning Editor at TV3, interview <br> Peter Mullan interview (Orphans) <br> Hong Kong Action Cinema <br> The Last Bus Home: Paul Donovan & Johnny Gogan interview (part I) <br> Cuban cinema <br> Akira Kurosawa retrospective.
Reviews: Divorcing Jack, The Nephew.
Book: Shooting to Kill - Filmmaking and the 'Troubles' in Northern Ireland.

Liam McGrath interview (Southpaw) <br> Forum for International Financing of Documentaries report <br> Tim Fernee on Irish animation <br> Film Ireland Top Tens of 1998 <br> Henry Rollins interview <br> Year of the Horse and 'Rockumentary' genre <br> Graham Linehan interview (Big Train) <br> New Year's Wishes for the Dublin Film Festival <br> Nationalism and Documentary conference report.
Reviews: This is My Father, Too Late for Names, The Green Fields of France, Sown in Tears and Blood, The McCourts of New York, Titanic Town.

Cybercinema <br> ITC/Cinemagic Forum on Children's Film & Television report <br> David Kelly interview (Waking Ned) <br> Film production on the Isle of Man <br> Distribution of Irish films in Ireland <br> Walter Salles interview (Central Station) <br> Alan Resnais retrospective <br> Early years of Hollywood horror movies.
Reviews: Waking Ned, Vicious Circle, Hilary & Jackie.

Round table with Stephen Bradley (Sweety Barrett), Nicholas O'Neill (Crushproof) & Alan Moloney (A Love Divided) <br> Bernardo Bertolucci retrospective <br> Film Projectionist Brendan O'Reilly interview <br> Shoot on DV by directors Eoin Moore and John Carney <br> Screenwriters Workshop <br> Harriet O'Carroll interview (Aristocrats) <br> Gaspar Noe interview (Seul Contre Tous).
Reviews: In Dreams, Crushproof, Sweety Barrett, D-Watch, From Clare to Here.

Cannes Film Festival report <br> Lord Michael Killanin retrospective <br> Mary Raftery interview (States of Fear) <br> New generation of Irish actresses <br> Irish Screen production company <br> Shorts: Irish Shorts at the Dublin Film Festival; The Good Son; Schedule of Short films on television; Shorts at festivals; Support schemes <br> Report of South & South-East Asian cinema in the Dublin Film Festival.
Reviews: A love Divided, Human Traffic, Keeping Time - The Piper and the Poet, Michael Hartnett -Necklace of Wrens, The Leaving.

Stanley Kubrick retrospective <br> Frank Stapleton interview (The Fifth Province) <br> Digital filmmaking <br> Dance & Irish film <br> Memory of Donal McCann <br> Bollywood in Dublin <br> Mike Figgis interview (The Loss of Sexual Innocence and Miss Julie) <br> Emer McCourt interview - Costume designer Consolata Boyle interview.
Reviews: Dublin Lesbian & Gay Film Festival report, DLIADT Showcase.

Farewell to The Forum cinema <br> Damien O'Donnell interview (East is East) <br> Atom Egoyan interview (Felicia's Journey) <br> Josie MacAvin retrospective <br> Agnes Varda retrospective <br> Irish Animation's overview <br> Marc-Ivan O'Gorman Diary (part I) <br> The War Zone film and public interview <br> Lucio Fulci retrospective.
Reviews: East is East, The Hard Road to Klondike.
Short Films at Cork Film Festival: The Case of Majella McGinty, Mir Friends, Between Dreams, Inside Out, Real Men Eat Meat, Love and Other Unspeakable Acts, Comm-raid on the Battleship Potemkin.

The 'Dogme 95' Millenium Project <br> Neil Jordan interview <br> Gabriel Byrne interview <br> Thaddeus O'Sullivan interview <br> Marc-Ivan O'Gorman Diary (part II) <br> Christopher Vogler interview <br> Wim Wenders interview (The Million Dollar Hotel) <br> Listomania <br> Make-up artist Michele Burke.
Reviews: The End of the Affair, Ordinary Decent Criminal, Angela's Ashes, Wonderland, Agnes Browne.
Book: Stills, Reels and Rushes - Ireland and the Irish in 20th Century Cinema.

Pat Murphy interview (Nora) <br> Vinny Murphy interview <br> Interview with Roy Disney, Chairman of Disney's Animation Department (Fantasia 2000) <br> John Lasseter tribute day report <br> Mike Leigh interview (Topsy-Turvy) <br> Relative Strangers television drama report <br> Catherine Creed interview (I Could Read the Sky).
Reviews: Nora, The Last September.

Johnny Ferguson interview (Gangster No 1) <br> 47 facts about Pierce Brosnan <br> Michael Sheridan on When the Sky Falls <br> Ron Shelton interview (Play It to the Bone) <br> Kevin MacDonald interview (One Day in September) <br> Israeli Films at Dublin Film Festival <br> Marlene Dietrich retrospective <br> Pete Postlethwaite interview <br> Chicken Run preview <br> Equity, the Irish Actors' Union.
Reviews: When the Sky Falls, Luke, From a Whisper to a Scream, A Vertical Man, Gangster No 1.

Debut 2000 preview <br> Dancer in the Dark report <br> Saltwater report <br> Animation Films <br> Fintan Connolly's Flick <br> Orson Welles' The Magnificent Ambersons remake <br> Patrick Bergin interview <br> Film & Video Art <br> Sporting events & movies <br> Amir Bar-Lev interview (Fighter).
Reviews: I Could Read the Sky, Flick.
Book: Screening Ireland - Film and Television Representation.

Toronto Film Festival's report <br> Guy Pearce interview (Memento) <br> Steve Barron interview (Rat) <br> Beckett films at the Toronto Film Festival <br> Aidan Walsh's documentary <br> Country: Kevin Liddy & Jack Armstrong interview <br> Michael Almereyda interview (Hamlet) <br> British Film Fundings <br> Mark Geraghty interview (The Count of Monte Cristo) <br> Guide to Post-production.
Reviews: Country, Rat.
Book: Irish Film - The Emergence of a Contemporary Cinema.

When Brendan Met Trudy: Roddy Doyle & Kieron J. Walsh interview <br> Beckett on Film Project: directors Anthony Minghella, Damien O'Donnell, Neil Jordan round table; Producer Alan Moloney <br> Ang Lee retrospective <br> Jean-Marc Barr <br> Wong Kar-Wai films <br> Shorts at Cork Film Festival <br> European Film Academy Awards <br> Australian Cinema <br> Cinefrance report <br> Amsterdam Forum report <br> Peter Sheridan & Gerry Stembridge talk drama & film <br> Screenwriter Paco Hayes.
Reviews: About Adam, Borstal Boy.

John Boorman's The Tailor of Panama <br> Dublin Film Festival American Independent showcase report <br> Francis Ford Coppola retrospective <br> Michael Haneke interview (Code Unknown) <br> If I Should Fall From Grace report <br> Swedish silent film directors <br> Glenroe <br> Multiplex in Ireland <br> Promising male Irish actors: Colin Farrell, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Stuart Townsend & Cillian Murphy <br> Mary Callery interview <br> Maeve Murphy interview (The Follower).
Reviews: Tigerland, Blow Dry, Peaches, Accelerator.

Coolockland: Brian Tucker, Bill Muir & Ronan Carr interview <br> Takeshi Kitano retrospective <br> Film Education Special Feature <br> Miller Dublin Film Festival's controversy <br> Stacy Cochran interview (Drop Back Ten) <br> Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey rerelease <br> The Dish: Tom Gleisner & Santo Cilauro interview <br> Scorsese's Irish Gang <br> Liz Gill & Breda Walsh interview (Goldfish Memory).
Review: Wild About Harry.

John Carney interview <br> Screenwriting Issue: Enda Walsh interview (Disco Pigs); Screenwriting self-help material; Irish screenwriting: Stephen Walsh & Martin Duffy interviews; Paul Schrader retrospective <br> Cable option <br> Troma Entertainment <br> Robert Flanagan interview (part I).
Reviews: On the Edge, The Most Fertile Man in Ireland.

Disco Pigs: Kirsten Sheridan & Cillian Murphy interviews <br> All About Reality Issue: DV filmmakers at the Genoa G8 summit: Eamonn Crudden, Wolfe Fishbourne & Rowan Dempsey interview; We Are Not Warriors; Alan Clarke retrospective; H3: director Les Blair and writers Laurence McKeown & Brian Campbell interview; Dennis O'Rourke interview (Cunnamulla); Two generations of Germany cinema <br> Jacques Tourneur retrospective.
Reviews: Disco Pigs, H3.

Cinema of the Fantastic Issue: Round table with Geraldine Creed, Jeremiah Cullinane, Ed King, Conor McMahon and Christoher Wicking; Alejandro Amen?bar's The Others; American 50s sci-fi; Brian Yuzna interview <br> Scott McGehee & David Siegel interview (The Deep End) <br> Comics to screen <br> Catherine Breillat retrospective.
Reviews: On the Nose. At Cork: Last Days in Dublin, This Time Around, The Crooked Mile; Freedom Highway, Teenage Kicks, Seven Days, My Daughter Does Madonna.
Book: Maverick - A Dissident View of Broadcasting Today.

Bloody Sunday and the British Media <br> Behind Enemy Lines <br> The Shooting Gallery <br> UCD's 'Keeping it Real' conference <br> The Arts Council and Film <br> Seamus Duggan interview (Filmbase Q&A) <br> Cameron Crowe retrospective.
Reviews: Behind Enemy Lines, Sunday.
Books: Editing and Post-Production Screencraft, Contemporary British and Irish Film Directors, Ireland's Others.

Ireland's Low-Budget DV Filmmaking Issue: directors Lance Daley, Nino Tropiano, Stephen Kane, Eamonn Crudden and Graham Cantwell interviews; SurfingAccident; Perry Ogden interview (photography & DV); DV Business; Grace Weir & Dorothy Cross; Stephen Kane's The Crooked Mile; Tom Schioler interview (Kanadiana) <br> Werner Herzog career & Dogme <br> Coney Island Baby.
Review: Love and Rage.

Irish Animation Issue: Brief Story, Kavaleer, Rocket, Brown Bag, Graduates from Ballyfermot SC <br> Alan Gilsenan interview <br> Seamus McGarvey interview <br> Jeremiah Cullinane writes on Christian movies <br> Taliesin Jones's distribution <br> Aleida Guevara interview <br> Irish Film Production and Development: 'The Best Awakes', Johnny Gogan interview (Mapmaker) <br> 'Keep it Real' conference report.
Review: The Last Storyteler?
Book: Jim Sheridan - Framing the Nation.

Arthouse Cinema Issue: Contemporary spectatorship, Alternative exhibition, IFC Cinema, Kino, Queen's Film Theatre <br> Ida Lupino retrospective <br> Paradox Pictures: producer Liam O'Neill & actor Colm Meaney interviews (How Harry Became a Tree) <br> Galway Film Fleadh 02 report <br> British Realism publications <br> Phone Booth: Larry Cohen retrospective, Colin Farrell interview <br> IFI 10 years.
Reviews: Coney Island Baby, Puckoon, Chaos, Berlusconi's Mousetrap, Spleachadh, Mapmaker, How Harry Became a Tree.

Peter Mullan interview (The Magdalene Sisters) <br> Monsoon Wedding vs Behing Enemy Lines <br> Andrew Parkinson interview (Dead Creatures) <br> Moonstone International <br> Y tu mam? tambien report <br> Mike Leigh interview (All Or Nothing) <br> Jonathan Rosenbaum interview (Movie Wars book) <br> Martin Duffy's Jenny's Gift <br> French 'extreme cinema'.
Reviews: The Magdalene Sisters, In America, The Good Thief, The Heart of Me, Evelyn.

A-Z and Q&A with the BSe/IFB of Low and Micro-Budget productions <br> Irish film policy questioned <br> Howard Hughes career <br> High Definition technology <br> New York's IFP Market review <br> Lasair, Oscailt and Irish Language films <br> Sophie Fiennes interview (Hoover Street Revival) <br> Gangs of New York.

Music & Film Special: Bernard Herrmann career, The Harder They Come, Music for low-budget features <br> Jameson Dublin International Film Festival <br> Neil Jordan career <br> Script Editor Story <br> Actors' Equity Open Forum report <br> Arts Council 30 Years On <br> Lukas Moodysson's Lilja4-ever <br> Patrice Leconte interview.
Reviews: The Good Thief, The Dark Room.

Screenwriting Special: Declan McGrath and Felim McDermott, Agents, Krzysztof Piesiewicz, History and stories, Irish Playwrights and Screenwriters Guild <br> Dead Bodies <br> Moonstone Filmmakers' Lab <br> Michael Sheen interview (Heartlands).
Reviews: Ch?vez: Inside the Coup, Heartlands, Dead Bodies, The Actors, Clare Langan's Trilogy, The Heart of Me, Arts Council 30 Years On.
Book: Neil Jordan - Exploring Boundaries.

Jerry Bruckheimer interview (Veronica Guerin) <br> Technicolor Laboratories East Coast <br> Fresh Film Festival report <br> Mexican New Wave Cinema <br> Swedish Films <br> Cannes Film Festival report <br> Kathryn Bigelow retrospective <br> Irish Film Board tenth anniversary review <br> Victor Argo interview (part I) <br> Iranian Cinema.
Reviews: Veronica Guerin, Oilean Thorai/Tory Island.

Dead Meat report <br> Dario Argento retrospective <br> Guy Debord retrospective <br> Galway Film Fleadh report <br> Final Cut Pro & Digital Editing: Grainne Gavigan, James Finlan, Niamh Fagan, Declan McGrath, Jeanine Hurley interviews <br> Liz Gill interview (Golfish Memory) <br> Grief in Film <br> Victor Argo interview (part II).
Reviews: Intermission, Ballyfermot & D?n Laoghaire Student Shorts.
Books: Contemporary Austrian and Irish Cinema, Film and Film Culture II.

Spin the Bottle: Michael McElhatton, Ian Fitzgibbon & Michael Garland interview <br> Rod Stoneman interview <br> Martina Niland and Sean Walsh round table <br> Yu Ming is Ainm Dom: Daniel O'Hara, Fergal & Fiachra O'Hanlon interview <br> Morgan O'Sullivan <br> Bachelors Walk <br> Cork Film Festival report <br> Jim Sheridan interview (In America) <br> Screenwriting: John Howard Lawson, Robert McKee Genre Seminar review, 'The Thinking'.
Reviews: Song for a Raggy Boy, Kiarostami: The Art of Living.

Bloom: Director Sean Walsh and distribution company Tribal Films interviews <br> Denys Arcand interview (The Barbarian Invasions) <br> Screen Director's Guild of Ireland <br> Kerry Film Festival report <br> UGC Cinemas <br> Abbas Kiarostami interview <br> Mystics: David Kelly & Milo O'Shea interview <br> Screenwriting: Philip LaZebnik interview, Television Sucks <br> Dogville Special: DoP Anthony Dod Mantle interview.
Reviews: Spin the Bottle, In America.
Book: Godard - A Portrait of the Artist at 70.

Karl Golden interview (The Honeymooners) <br> Takeshi Kitano interview (Zatoichi) <br> Cillian Murphy interview <br> Jameson Dublin International Film Festival report <br> Robert Wynne-Simmons interview <br> Representation of Leprechaun on Film <br> Pat Collins interview <br> HBO Channel <br> Screenwriting: Guide through the script labyrinth <br> FIPA 2004 <br> Rod Stoneman analysis on: Kill Bill, Jackass - The Movie, The Office, Big Brother 4 & Reality TV, eloge de l'amour.
Reviews: Sophiatown, Blind Flight.

Julio Medem interview (The Basque Ball) <br> Andrew Jarecki interview (Capturing the Friedmans) <br> David Caffrey interview (Grand Theft Parsons) <br> Headrush <br> Ron Mann interview (Go Further) <br> Film Censor John Kelleher interview <br> Terry Loane interview (Jonjo Mickybo) <br> Donal Dineen interview <br> Screenwriting: Guillermo Arriaga interview (21 Grams).
Reviews: The Honeymooners, Bloom.
Books: Adventures of a Suburban Boy.

Andrei Zvyagintsev interview (The Return) <br> Ned Dowd interview (King Arthur) <br> Short film roundtable with Michael Duffy, Brian Durnin & Damon Sylvester <br> Cannes Film Festival report <br> When the Sky Falls vs Veronica Guerin <br> Tamar Hoffs interview (Red Roses and Petrol) <br> Screenwriting: One euro option <br> James Fotopoulos retrospective <br> Romani filmmakers.
Reviews: Freeze Frame, Silent Grace.

Damien O'Donnell interview (Inside I'm Dancing) <br> Bob Quinn article <br> Lelia Doolan article <br> Joe Comerford interview <br> Results of Film Ireland's Irish Film Poll <br> Film Ireland's previous Editors reflections <br> Roundtable on Documentary: Se Merry Doyle, Martina Durac, Andrew Keogh and Harvey O'Brien <br> Morgan Spurlock interview (Super Size Me) <br> CEO of Bord Scann?n na heireann/The Irish Film Board Mark Woods interview <br> Romani filmmakers.
Reviews: Cowboys & Angels, King Arthur.
Books: Irish National Cinema, RTe and the Globalisation of Irish Television.

Lance Daly intervier (The Halo Effect) <br> Collective Creative: Delicious 9, Daddy <br> Fluent Dysphasia: Interview with Daniel O'Hara, Fergal O'Hanlon and Stephen Rea <br> Irish Documentaries <br> Jeffrey Nachmanoff interview (The Day After Tomorrow) <br> Intimacy in Films <br> Irish Film and Television Awards <br> Stephen Walsh Gothic quest <br> Angeline Ball interview.
Reviews: Inside I'm Dancing, Adam & Paul.
Books: 'Tis Herself, French Film Directors: Claire Denis.

A-Z of Cult Cinema (Part I) <br> Alejandro Jodorowsky interview <br> Magic Realism <br> Bahman Ghobadi interview (Turtles Can Fly) <br> Jean-Jacques Annaud interview (Two Brothers) <br> Koktebel: Boris Khlebnikov & Aleksei Popogrebsky interview <br> Screenwriting: Treatments and Sequences <br> Andrew Loog Oldham interview (Charlie Is My Darling) <br> Kerry Film Festival report.
Reviews: Dead Meat, Man About Dog.
Books: Irish Film Censorship - A Cutural Journey from Silent Cinema to Internet Pornography, The Whole Equation - A History of Hollywood.

Adam & Paul: interview with director Lenny Abrahamson and actor Mark O'Halloran <br> Future of the IFB's Low and Micro-Budget Initiatives <br> Hans Weingartner interview (The Edukators) <br> Malcolm McDowell interview (Part I) <br> Seamus McGarvey's interview <br> Jane Birkin interview <br> Jacques Richard interview (Henri Langlois - The Phantom of the Cinemath?que) <br> A-Z of Cult Cinema (Part I) <br> New brutalism <br> Dublin International Film Festival report.
Reviews: Mickybo & Me, John McGahern - A Private World.
Books: The real Irlenad - The evolution of Ireland in documentary film, Woody Allen on Woody Allen.

Trouble With Sex: interview with director Fintan Connolly, producer Fionna Bergin and actors Renee Weldon and Aidan Gillen <br> More responses to the IFB's Low and Micro-Budget Initiatives Debate <br> Pablo Berger interview (Torremolinos 73) <br> Dogumentary Movement <br> Albert Maysles interview <br> Nick Broomfield retrospective <br> IDFA and Sunny Side of the Doc reports <br> Rob Nilsson interview <br> Hamish McAlpine interview (Tartan Films) <br> Malcolm McDowell interview (Part II).
Reviews: Hotel Rwanda, Trouble With Sex.
Books: The Stanley Kubrick Archives.

Juvenile deliquency in cinema <br> Neil Jordan interview (Company of Wolves) <br> Film Education Special: Ways of approaching the film industry; Film courses available; Word of advice from industry professionals <br> Jane Scott interview <br> Cannes report <br> Fresh Film Festival report <br> Andrei Tarkovsky retrospective <br> Sam Fuller retrospective <br> Home: interview with directors Dawn Scibilia and Alan Cooke.
Review: Headrush.
Book: Keeping it Real: Irish Film and Television.

Ciaran O'Connor interview (Capital Letters) <br> Stephen Bradley interview (Boy Eats Girl) <br> Pearse Elliott interview (The Mightly Celt) <br> Seamus Deasy interview <br> Cork Short Film Symposium <br> Greta Garbo retrospective <br> Galway Film Fleadh report <br> Contemporary Irish Cinema <br> On A Clear Day: interview with actors Peter Mullan and Sean McGinley and director Gaby Dellal.
Reviews: The Mighty Celt, Boy Eats Girl.
Books: Forms of Being - Cinema, Aesthetics, Subjectivity; Despite the System - Orson Welles Versus the Hollywood Studios.

Perry Ogden interview (Pavee Lackeen) <br> Carlos Reygadas interview (Battle in Heaven) <br> New German Cinema (Head-On, Downfall and The Edukators) <br> East Asian Genre film <br> Isma?l Ferroukhi interview (Le Grand Voyage) <br> Richard Raskin interview (Cork Short Film Symposium) <br> Don't Look in the Attic: interview with Andrew Harrison and Darryl Sloan <br> Creative Estructure in Screenwriting <br> Michael Powell retrospective <br> Doug Pray interview (Infamy).
Reviews: Pavee Lackeen, Tara Road.
Books: The Television Series: Alan Clarke, Billion Dollar Game: How Three Men Risked It All and Changed the Face of Television.

Neil Jordan interview (Breakfast on Pluto) <br> David Puttnam, Bernard Maclaverty and John Lynch on Cal <br> Exhibition Special: History of Dublin Cinemas I; Pete Walsh interview; access>CINEMA; 3epkano; Future Shorts; 'Reel Parents' screenings; Viral video clip; Present and future of cinema and DVD video; Dublin Cinemas: A Pictorial Selection book review <br> L.A. Dicks: interview to Michael Madsen adn Dean Alioto <br> Peter Lennon interview (Rocky Road to Dublin) <br> Kerry Film Festival report.
Reviews: Breakfast on Pluto, Get Rich or Die Tryin'.
Books: The Story of Irish Film, The Cinema of Britain and Ireland.

Anthony Byrne interview (Short Order) <br> Paul Mercier's interview (Studs) <br> The Dardenne Brothers interview (L'Enfant) <br> Brothers Jason and Jonathan Figgis interview (3Crosses) <br> History of Dublin Cinemas II <br> Cuba's Potemkin: I am Cuba <br> Scoring Points: Composers' Module at this year's Filmmakers' Lab <br> Robert Altman retrospective <br> Noveslist/screenwriter Deborah Moggach interview (Pride and Prejudice) <br> Dublin Int'l Film Festival report.
Reviews: Short Order , The Boys and Girl from County Clare.
Books: Hitchcock and 20th Century Cinema, Fran?ois Truffaut at Work.

Can art and entertainment co-exist in the same work? <br> The making of John Boorman's Excalibur <br> Art on screen, an overview of the forms art/cinema can take <br> Rose Lowder and Les Archives du Film Experimental d'Avgnon <br> Carlo Montanaro interview (co-artistic director of the Asolo International Art Film Festival <br> Vivienne Dick's retrospective <br> John Hurt interview <br> Jean-Luc Godard and Anne-Marie Mi?ville's Soft and Hard <br> Dominik Moll interview (Lemming) <br> Intervention Beef, a review of state intervention in film production.
Reviews: Sugar, Pavee Lackeen DVD, Breakfast on Pluto DVD, Cache (Hidden) DVD
Books: Andrei Tarkovsky: The Pocket Essential Guide

Ken Loach and Paul Laverty interview (The Wind that Shakes the Barley) <br> Dylan Moran interview (Tell it to the Fishes) <br> Ardmore Sound: The importance of post-production sound <br> Commercial's director Enda McCallion interview <br> The work of the locations department in Becoming Jane <br> The state of production in Northen Ireland <br> Practical guide to short film funding <br> Writer/director Terry George interview <br> 2006 Cannes Film Festival Report <br> Introduction to manga.
Reviews: The Wind that Shakes the Barley, Mise eire DVD, Cinema 16: American Short Films DVD
Books: Acting Irish in Hollywood

David Gleeson interview (The Front Line) <br> 25th Anniversary of the first Irish Film Board <br> 50th Anniversary of The Searchers <br> Peter Bogdanovich interview <br> IFTN CEO ?ine Moriarty interview <br> Rainer Werner Fassbinder retrospective <br> Forgotten British Cinema <br> The High School massacre in film <br> New short film column.
Reviews: The Front Line, L'Enfant DVD, Tristan & Isolde DVD
Books: The Way Hollywood Tells It: Story and Style in Modern Movies

Matthew Macfayden interview (Middletown) <br> Director Andrea Arnold interview (Red Road) <br> Online resources for filmmakers <br> The new home for indie film? <br> The net for the avid cinephile <br> Nobody Wants Your Film and low-budget filmmaking <br> A look at the ways in which established filmmakers use the web <br> The YouTube phenomenon <br> Promoting Cinema on the Web <br> Short film and the internet
Reviews: Middletown, The Wind that Shakes the Barley DVD, Michael Haneke Trilogy DVD
Books: Cinema and Northern Ireland

The economics of the Irish Film Industry <br> Kelly Reichardt interview (Old Joy) <br> John Huston retrospective <br> Making films in the Irish language <br> Tribute to the eccentric genius Alastair Sim <br> Western Plumbers interview <br> The 'Krasznahorkai Trilogy' of Bela Tarr <br> Taiwanese Cinema in the 21st Century <br> Kerry Film Festival and Foyle Film Festival report.
DVD Reviews: The Complete Bergman Film Library, Wong Kar-Wai Collection, I Am Cuba, Lie with Me
Books: Fifty Years Behind the Lens at RTe

Getting to the heart of John Carney's Once <br> Low-Budget Dystopia <br> catalystproject: a new scheme to produce low-budget films <br> A day on the set of Graham Cantwell's Anton <br> Machinima: How to make films using computer software <br> Stunt co-ordinator Donal O'Farrell interview <br> Tom Fontana interview <br> Ireland and the Irish in early cinema <br> The work of David Lynch with an emphasis on sound.
Film Reviews: Once, Isolation DVD, Ozu Collection Volumen 4 DVD
Books: Projections: The Director's Cut

Reviewing Antichrist<br>
Rod Stoneman on how, with the sensation caused by Lars von Trier's latest effort, some critics have shifted the emphasis onto the reviewer and off the reviewed. <br>
Festival Tactics<br>
When's the right time to plan your festival strategy? Before you've even begun your film. Palm Springs Shortfest film curator and festival strategist Kathleen McInnis shares the secret to festival success. <br>
Draft and Polish<br>
Christopher Hampton, Academy Award®-winning screenwriter, playwright and director gave a screenwriting masterclass at the Galway Film Fleadh this year. At the event, which was sponsored by Northern Irish Screen, Martin Daniel, Professor of Screenwriting at the University of Southern California and international script expert, talked to Hampton about his approach to writing screenplays. <br>
Think Tank<br>
Irish DOP Robbie Ryan talks to Niamh Creely about Andrea Arnold's second feature 'Fish Tank', which screened at Cannes and as the finale of the Galway Film Fleadh. <br>
When Christian Met Charlotte<br>
The screenwriter (Christian O'Reilly) & the sales agent (Charlotte Mickie). One dreams it up, the other tries to sell it - but they never usually meet; here's what happens when they do. Screenwriter and script consultant Mary Kate O Flanagan reports. <br>
360Ί Experience<br>
Niamh Creely talks to Miriam Allen, the managing director of the Galway Film Fleadh, about how the festival does so much more than screen films. <br>
Living at the Edge, Working at the Centre<br>
Galway Film Centre manager Declan Gibbons talks to a cross-section of people about working in the film and television sector in the West of Ireland. <br>
Galway Film Society Presents...<br>
To celebrate the continued success of the Galway Film Society, Ireland's longest running and largest film club, David O Mahony from access>CINEMA traces its history from humble beginnings to its current position as a champion of non-mainstream cinema in the West of Ireland. <br>
DV Devotee<br>
Veteran filmmaker Jon Jost on his love for digital video and why he'll never go back to film. <br>
The Audience of Wolves<br>
Guest editor Felim Mac Dermott on truly earning that applause. <br>
Life on the Margins<br>
Ross Whitaker talks to Conor McDermottroe about his debut feature Swansong: Story of Occi Byrne.

<strong>Beyond the Cutting Room</strong><br>
<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Mary Sweeney, long-time editor and collaborator with David Lynch, talks about the transition to directing with her first feature <em>Baraboo</em>.</span> Read more <a title="Beyond the Cutting Room" href="http://www.filmireland.net/2009/12/04/issue-131-beyond-the-cutting-room/"><span style="color: rgb(128, 0, 128);">here</span></a>
<p style="text-align: center;"><strong>Happily Ever After?</strong><br>
<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">RTe's Storyland competition was no fairytale: success required a huge amount of hard graft. However, for those willing to put in the effort, Storyland did grant some filmmaker wishes: recognition, networking opportunities and the golden egg - funding. Angela Nagle reports.</span>

<p style="text-align: center;"><strong>A Haunted Look</strong><br>
Hugh O'Conor talks to actor Ciaran Hinds and writer/director Conor McPherson about their supernatural feature, <em>The Eclipse</em>. Read more <a title="A Haunted Look" href="http://www.filmireland.net/2009/12/04/issue-131-a-haunted-look/" target="_self"><span style="color: rgb(128, 0, 128);">here</span></a>
<p style="text-align: center;"><strong>Business of Acting</strong><br>
How to get ahead in acting? Gordon Gaffney talks to the Gaiety School of Acting, actor's agent Maureen McGlynn and casting directors Thyrza Ging and Maureen Hughes.
<p style="text-align: center;"><strong>London Calling</strong><br>
Alright. You've had your big breaks: you were the back-end of the orange caterpillar in the latest Meteor ad and second punter from the left in the pub on<em> Fair City</em>. Nonetheless, it looks like the emerald isle will all too easily contain your talents. But what about our real rising stars? Does a talented actor have to leave Ireland in order to make it? Niamh Creely investigates.

<p style="text-align: center;"><strong>Absolutely Critical</strong><br>
The professional film reviewer is critical of film but are they critical to film? David O Mahony talks to <em>The Irish Times</em>' Donald Clarke.
<p style="text-align: center;"><strong>Work You Can Bank On?</strong><br>
Adam Lacey chats to Voicebank, an Irish agency for talented talkers. Read more <a title="Work You Can Bank On" href="http://www.filmireland.net/2009/12/04/issue-131-work-you-can-bank-on/" target="_self"><span style="color: rgb(128, 0, 128);">here</span></a>
<p style="text-align: center;"><strong>Not Just Another Bee Movie</strong><br>
Ross Whitaker puts the spotlight on <em>Colony</em>.
<p style="text-align: center;"><strong>The Irish New Wave</strong><br>
Guest editor Hugh O'Conor revels in the current abundance of excellent Irish film.

All aboard the skylark. The new issue of Film Ireland is out now and is jam-packed with all the latest from the world of Irish film!<br>
This issue focuses on this year's wonderful Jameson Dublin International Film Festival and highlights the finest current Irish films on offer.<br>
We also bring you the best of German-Irish co-production and the Irish Film board have shipped over 200 copies to give out at their stand at Berlinale The Berlin International Film Festival.<br>
We talk to James Hickey of the IFB and continue our guild features on directors, writers and cinematographer. And much, much more... What else could any lover of Irish film want?<br>
Ross Whitaker talks to James Hickey, the new CEO of the Irish Film Board, about funding, film and finding an audience.<br>
Festival director Grainne Humphreys looks forward to, and back on, the Jameson Dublin International Film Festival with Brogen Hayes.<br>
Paul Webster talks to Michael Garland, one of the producers of Death of a Superhero, a new German-Irish co-produced feature and Ian Fitzgibbon, its director.<br>
Paul Lynch talks to the filmmakers behind a new German-Irish co-production, Saving the Titanic.<br>
Niamh Creely takes a look at the Arts Council's art documentary scheme Reel Art and talks to Oonagh Kearney, director of one of this year's three features.<br>
Steven Galvin catches up with Emile Dinneen in the editing room as he put the final touches to Nightdancers in time for JDIFF.<br>
Shane Kennedy talks to actor and this year's presenter of the IFTAs, Simon Delaney<br>
Shane Perez reports on the Galway Film Centre's interview with celebrated American TV-writer Vince Gilligan.<br>
Niamh Creely talks to filmmaker Michael Lavelle about his experiences shooting a short film in Germany.<br>
Film Ireland talks to Marc-Ivan O'Gorman, filmmaker and director of the first Irish film Festival of India.<br>
Director Shimmy Marcus on making films in The Factory.<br>
DOP Robbie Ryan discusses his approach to film work.<br>
Writer Eoghan Mac Giolla Bhride tells us about his experiences as a co-writer on the screenplay for this new Irish film.<br>
Maeve Clancy explores the world of Post-Production in Film Ireland's comic page.<br>
Paul Lynch explores why superheroes movies are no longer films for our times.<br>
And our Regulars include:<br>
Up Close with Brendan Gleeson & My Inspiration with Ivan Kavanagh<br>
Your Updates for all the latest news, awards and screenings.<br>
Spotlight on Frank Berry, director of Ballyman Lullaby<br>
On Set - a report from the set of the BBC's Being Human<br>
ShortSpace<br>
Reviews: Bernadette: Notes on a Political Journey, Dreams of a Life, Ballymun Lullaby<br>
Festivals - all the latest reports & previews<br>
Filmbase News<br>
Equipment<br>
MEDIA Desk

<strong>Irish Animators for Annecy</strong></p>
<p>Anna Rodgers assesses the Irish animation scene.</p>
<p><strong>In the Bronx</strong></p>
<p>Niall McKay meets director Macdara Vallely to talk about his new feature, <em>Babygirl</em>.</p>
<p><strong>It's in the Post</strong></p>
<p>Paul Webster takes a look at the Irish post-production scene.</p>
<p><strong>In the Limelight</strong></p>
<p>Gordon Gaffney shines a light on the JDIFF Irish Talent Spotlight.</p>
<p><strong>Dublin's Fair City</strong></p>
<p>Niamh Creely talks to Irish location manager Peter Conway about shooting in Dublin.</p>
<p><strong>&nbsp;Grand Masters</strong></p>
<p>Paul Callanan at the 23rd Cork French Film Festival on guests &nbsp;Pierre etaix and Jean-Claude Carriθre.</p>
<p><strong>The Making of <em>Moon</em></strong></p>
<p>Shane Perez&nbsp; reports on the fascinating Galway Film Centre masterclass on the making of Duncan Jones' <em>Moon</em>.</p>
<p><strong>Demanding Audiences</strong></p>
<p>Niall Kitson checks out a new wave of online services that are putting pressure on distribution models</p>
<p><strong>Moore Please</strong></p>
<p><em>Film Ireland</em> catches up with the Oscar®-nominated director of&nbsp; <em>The Secret of Kells</em>, Tomm Moore.</p>
<p><strong>Moving Pitchers</strong></p>
<p>Niamh Creely sharpens her pencil for the UNTITLED Screenwriting Competition and Story Campus.</p>
<p><strong>Distribution</strong></p>
<p>Maeve Clancy explores the world of distribution in<em> Film Ireland'</em>s comic page.</p>
<p><strong>Sounding Off</strong></p>
<p>Nadine O'Regan investigates why <em>Stella Days</em> upset the residents of Borrisokane.</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>Plus all our regulars:</p>
<p><strong>Up Close</strong> - with Anjelica Huston, plus Paul Rowley on 'My Inspiration'.</p>
<p><strong>Your Updates</strong> - all the latest Irish film news.</p>
<p><strong>On Set</strong> - Rory Cashin on the set of Mark O' Connor's latest<em>, King of the Travellers</em></p>
<p><strong>Spotlight</strong> - Steven Galvin takes in the sounds of the Casbah with Safinez Bousbia, director of <em>El Gusto.</em></p>
<p><strong>Reviews</strong> - <em>Albert Nobbs, The Other Side of Sleep, The Pier, Stella Days, This Must Be the Place</em></p>
<p><strong>Festivals</strong> - all the latest festival reports &amp; previews</p>
<p><strong>ShortSpace</strong> - the latest ShortSpace short film news, plus Mark Noonan on 'How I Short'.</p>
<p><strong>Filmbase News</strong> - all the latest from Filmbase</p>
<p><strong>Equipment</strong> - we get our hands on the RED Scarlet camera.</p>
<p><strong>MEDIA Desk</strong> - news &amp; dates to keep in your MEDIA Diary.</p>

<strong>Good Vibes</strong></p>
<p>Paul Webster talks to directors Lisa Barros D'Sa and Glenn Leyburn about recreating the '70s Belfast punk scene in their new film, <em>Good Vibrations</em>.</p>
<p><strong>Song for Amy</strong></p>
<p>Steven Galvin catches up with director Konrad Begg as he prepares for his new film's premiere at this year's Fleadh.</p>
<p><strong>A Dangerous Documentary</strong></p>
<p>Ross Whitaker talks to Paul Duane about his latest documentary <em>Very Extremely Dangerous.</em></p>
<p><strong>Pilgrim Hill</strong></p>
<p>Niamh Creely talks to Gerard Barrett about his debut feature, which is set in his home county, Kerry, and due to screen at this year's Fleadh.</p>
<p><strong>All The Elements</strong></p>
<p>Ross Whitaker talks with Ed Guiney and Andrew Lowe of Element Pictures about their current success and their plans for the future</p>
<p><strong>Yes we McCann</strong></p>
<p>Gemma Creagh chats with Belfast actor Martin McCann about being Bono, his buddies and his role in James Marsh's Shadow Dancer, which closes this year's Fleadh.</p>
<p><strong>FORD</strong></p>
<p>Martin Cusack reports from Ireland's first symposium on the legendary filmmaker John Ford.</p>
<p><strong>Sundance London 2012</strong></p>
<p>Emmet O'Brien reports from the inaugural Sundance London Film and Music Festival.</p>
<p><strong>25 Years of <em>Film Ireland</em></strong></p>
<p>We celebrate our birthday by taking a look over the last 25 years</p>
<p><strong>Sound of Silence</strong><br>
Niamh Creely talks to director Pat Collins about his film, <em>Silence,</em> which is screening at this year's Fleadh.</p>
<p><strong>Life through a Lens</strong></p>
<p>Steven Galvin talks to Ciaran Tanham, president of the Irish&nbsp; Society of Cinematographers (ISC), about his recent project, A Kiss for Jed.</p>
<p><strong>The Write Stuff</strong></p>
<p>Claire Dix has written and directed two award-winning short films. After recently winning the Zebbie for Best Short Film Script for her short film<em> Downpour,&nbsp; </em>Steven Galvin caught up with her to find out about her approach to writing.</p>
<p><strong>Sounding Off</strong></p>
<p>Mark O'Connor lays out his vision for a new cinematic movement in Ireland.</p>
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<p>And all our <strong>Regulars</strong>, including</p>
<p><strong>Up Close</strong> - with John Ford, plus Ian Palmer on ‘My Inspiration'.</p>
<p><strong>Your Updates</strong> - all the latest Irish film news.</p>
<p><strong>On Set</strong> - a report from the set of <em>Black Ice</em>.</p>
<p><strong>Spotlight</strong> - on Norah McGettigan's <em>Sanctuary.</em></p>
<p><strong>Reviews</strong> - <em>Charlie Casanova, Barbaric Genius, A Kiss for Jed, John Ford: Dreaming The Quiet Man.</em></p>
<p><strong>Festivasl</strong> - all the latest festival reports &amp; previews.</p>
<p><strong>ShortSpace</strong> - the latest ShortSpace short film news, plus Neil O'Driscoll on ‘How I Short'.</p>
<p><strong>Filmbase News</strong> - ll the latest from Filmbase.</p>
<p><strong>MEDIA Desk</strong> - news &amp; dates to keep in your MEDIA Diary.</p>
<p><strong>&nbsp;Equipment</strong> - we take a look at Final Cut X.</p>
<p><strong>Get into Film! - Get into<em> Film Ireland</em>!</strong>

<strong>Seven Psychopaths</strong><br>
Scott Townsend talks to writer/director Martin McDonagh about his upcoming film, <em>Seven Psychopaths<em>.</em></em></p>
<p><strong>Saoirse</strong><br>
Jason O’Mahony meets the talented Saoirse Ronan to chat about her already impressive list of acting credits, and her upcoming film, <em>Byzantium</em>.<em><em><em><em> </em></em></em></em></p>
<p><strong>The Good Man</strong><br>
Steven Galvin catches up with filmmaker Phil Harrison to find out more about his thought-provoking debut feature.</p>
<p><strong>Folk Tale</strong><br>
Steven Galvin chats to director Tony Donoghue, whose breathtaking new short <em>Irish Folk Furniture</em> is an animated documentary about repairing and recycling old hand-painted furniture in rural Ireland.</p>
<p><strong>Talking TV Drama 2012</strong><br>
Shane Perez reports from the Galway Film Centre’s two-day TV writing industry event.</p>
<p><strong>Production Values</strong><br>
Barbara Galavan, chief executive of Screen Producers Ireland (SPI), talks to <em>Film Ireland</em> about the challenges facing the Irish film industry</p>
<p><strong>In Stitches</strong><br>
A killer clown returns from the dead to exact revenge. Where does a director like Conor McMahon get his inspiration? Gordon Gaffney gets all the gory details.</p>
<p><strong>Great Dane</strong><br>
This November, the SUBTITLE European Film Festival is casting a spotlight on Simon Staho, so Niamh Creely took the opportunity to ask this extraordinary filmmaker a few burning questions</p>
<p><strong>Doing It for Themselves</strong><br>
With self-distribution becoming more widespread, <em>Film Ireland</em> talks to three Irish filmmakers who made the decision to release their own film.</p>
<p><strong>Stuffing the Tiger</strong><br>
<strong></strong>Donald Taylor Black tells <em>Film Ireland</em>&nbsp;about the process of making his latest documentary, <em>Skin in the Game<em>.</em></em></p>
<p><strong>In Camera</strong><br>
Darklight Festival 2012 welcomed celebrated Oscar®-nominated cinematographer Seamus McGarvey as their special guest. McGarvey took part in an in-depth discussion with filmmaker Kieron J. Walsh <em>(Jump) </em>and<em> Film Ireland’s </em>Steven Galvin brings us highlights from that fascinating and entertaining talk</p>
<p><strong>In the DollHouse</strong><br>
Kirsten Sheridan talks to Steven Galvin about her approach to writing and her feature <em>Dollhouse<em>, </em></em>which is screening at the Cork film fest.</p>
<p><strong>Sounding Off</strong><br>
Eilis Mernagh argues that low-budget, high-concept is the way to go to make successful movies in a recession</p>
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<p>Plus all the usual&nbsp;<strong>Regulars, </strong>including:</p>
<p><strong>Up Close</strong> -&nbsp;with Gabriel Byrne plus Magnus Martin (<em>Jackpot</em>) on ‘My Inspiration’.<br>
<strong>Your Updates</strong> -&nbsp;all the latest Irish film news.<br>
<strong>Spotlight</strong> -&nbsp;<em>Men at Lunch.&nbsp;</em>Seán&nbsp;Ó Cualáin’s<em> d</em>ocumentary.<br>
<strong>On Set</strong> -&nbsp;a report from the set of&nbsp;the latest <em>Die Hard</em> film.<br>
<strong>ShortSpace</strong> – the latest ShortSpace short film news,<br>
<strong>Reviews</strong> -<em> Grabbers, My Brothers, Dreamtime Revisited, Shadow Dancer, What Richard Did, Seven Psychopaths</em><br>
<strong>Festival</strong> -&nbsp;all the latest festival reports &amp; previews.<br>
<strong>Filmbase News</strong> – all the latest from Filmbase.<br>
<strong>Equipment</strong> – the Canon EOS C300<br>
<strong>MEDIA Desk</strong> – MEDIA Diary</p>