Filmmaker Bertie Brosnan is promoting his latest work ‘SINEATER‘. I spoke to him about why he got into film, his experience on the US film scene and the positive attention he received from the Cannes film festival for his film ‘Jacob Wrestling The Angel‘. We discuss the differences between art house cinema and commercial cinema and how…
My art teacher always used to say “hard work always beats natural talent that doesn’t work hard.” And repeatedly that mantra has proven itself true. I had a conversation with a friend the other day, basically we discussed how great ideas only come at times we don’t want or need them. In places where you’re…
“You wanna know why most actors don’t make it? It’s because they’re boring, and they’re f***ing normal. I see all these CV’s of these guys emailing me, going you know please hire me or whatever, and their faces are boring, their backgrounds are boring, they’ve got nothing to say, they’ve got no heap of pain to transmute into an experience for an audience, whereas it’s the guy who’s got a heap of tattoos over his face – He goes in the consider pile.”
I caught up with Roy Duffy, frontman for Dublin Junk-Rock band Squarehead and asked him about his experience in the band, what they’ve done and what they intend to do next.
While ‘O’ was still raw, and ‘9’ simply twisted the knife, Rice releases his latest after a long period of inactivity, and as the album clearly shows, a long period of self reflection. You can see a progression here from where he was, jealous and bitter at her moving on, to a man blaming himself…
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