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A video essay from filmmaker Stephen Murphy, to wit:

… bad films can be as influential as good ones. This episode focuses on The Phantom Menace, a film that is particularly influential and particularly bad. Modern blockbuster culture started in 1999 when George Lucas released his prequel into the world and cinema changed forever…

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For the day that’s in it.

The tale of Margaret Kehoe, fatally injured on April 24th, 1916, while helping the wounded during that day’s rising effort.

Jane Lawrenson writes:

The video was produced by bigOmedia for the Ireland2016 team. It was directed by Kate Dolan and had an almost all female creative team working on it. It was made for International Women’s Day and for the launch of the 1916 Women’s programme.

Olga Wehry [1916] and Amy DeBhrún [2016] are the featuring actors. The video focuses on the differences and similarities between two women 100 years apart. It honours the women of 1916 while celebrating the women who are creating the Ireland of tomorrow.

Thanks Sinéad McCarthy

Women of Ireland 1916|2016

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Earlier: Defiant Women