Film Interviews

Not many films shot in five days get cinema releases. However, Cathal Kenna's For Molly isn't like other movies. This labour of love made on a shoestring budget, tells the story of young Irish couple Evan (Kieran O'Reilly) and Laura…

Those with a love of all things gothic should do themselves a favour and seek out the photography of Simon Marsden. His monochrome stills of eroding castles are mini time machines. They take one away from modernity, transporting them into…

Debates can rage as to what’s better: the practicality of digital or the look of film. However, Lady makes a strong case for the latter, with its’ stylish grainy textures making the movie look like it’s from another time. This is…

One of my favourite openings to a movie ever is the first scene of 2001 Taiwanese coming-of-age drama Millennium Mambo. In a long take, lead actress Shu Qi walks at night through a tunnel, holding a cigarette, dressed-up. It’s a simple…

O’Brien spoke to Headstuff about the festival’s special guest, it’s inclusiveness and why one of its’ screenings is making ripples in the film community. To listen to the interview, follow the link below the article As Wes Anderson’s…

Louisa Fielden has built an impressive resume working behind-the-scenes in television and directing music videos and shorts in the past few years. Her latest work, the 17-minute People You May Know, has been selected to screen at this…

Paul Grimstad writes (Paris Review, New Yorker, London Review of Books, Times Literary Supplement, Music and Literature), teaches (Yale, NYU, Columbia), and composes film scores (Frownland, Heaven Knows What, the upcoming Jobe’z World and…

Leitrim based film maker Sean Clancy has been quietly making waves in the short film and music video scene over the past few years. Shot in 2016, his first feature Locus of Control is a dramatic step up from the short form to the long and…

Emer Reynolds is an Emmy nominated, multi-award winning documentary director and editor. She is warm and funny, uses words like ‘anthropomorphising’ in general conversation, and is very gracious when answering your foolhardy questions on…

Winner of the Best Director at Cannes, winner of the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival, nominated for the Palme D'Or at Cannes on 7 separate occasions, Hou Hsiao Hsien is one of the most accomplished and highly regarded film makers of…