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Hole in the Head & The Cry of Granuaile: Movies Within Movies

So I haven’t used this blog in a while so I thought in lieu of updating my Letterboxd I’d put out a post about a funny pairing I saw at my local arts centre. Two low budget independently made Irish features about people exploring the effects of stories through film and how that descends them and their production further down strange rabbit holes (about as much as I can say without outright spoiling it). First up!

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Galway Film Fleadh 2021: Features

Same as before! Check out the Shorts post here.

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Galway Film Fleadh 2021: Shorts

No point in dawdling, let’s get into it:

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Quick Critique

Quick Critique: Black ’47

 

In the height of the Irish Famine, an army deserter named Feeney (James Frecheville) returns to Ireland to emigrate to America with his family.

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Quick Critique: The Breadwinner

 

Parvana (Saara Chaudry) is a young girl living in Taliban-occupied Kabul.

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Cork Film Festival 2017

Okay, let’s get this shit started!

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2016: Best Movies, 36-11

Read my So Bad It’s Good list here and my Worst Movies of 2016 37-11 here.

2016 was a pretty strong year for film, especially in more off-the-cuff independent affair.