https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h3HmUFM50uQ
José Jimenéz writes:
I thought I had seen everything. This selfish motorist decides to drive on the footway in order to avoid the traffic queue. Unbelievable!
Could not manage to get the reg, otherwise this would have gone straight to the gardaí.
Anyone?
What you may need to know:
1. Two Disney remakes on the trot? Give the people what they want. Next week it’ll be a Tibetan film festival winner projected onto the side of a yak; promise.
2. Jon Favreau is on directorial duties for this “live-action” (CGI, really) remake of the iconic 1994 animation. He’s got form in the pantheon of animated animals; his last outing was the 2015 remake (what is going on??) of The Jungle Book.
3. Much was made of the impressive (and almost entirely black) cast when it was first announced. James Earl Jones reprises his role of Mufasa from the original; multi-talented Renaissance man Donald Glover plays Simba and the brilliant Chiwetel Ejiofor takes over from Jeremy Irons as villainous uncle Scar. Beyoncé, Keegan-Michael Key and Alfré Woodard also feature.
4. Elton John’s songs from the original (including the Circle of Life heard in this trailer) will be reworked for the remake; safe to assume Beyoncé will belt one or two out. Hans Zimmer is also in there, because as well as having scored the original, he has apparently been contracted to score every film that gets made these days.
5. It is quite pleasing to see those opening shots from the original recreated, as well as that famous scene of the wildebeest charging down the hill. With that in mind, I’m curious as to how much this movie will stray from the original screenplay – which, as we all know, was a retelling of Shakespeare’s Hamlet. If that is the case, this movie’s real raison d’etre will be the visuals.
6. As a technical exercise, The Lion King looks like it will be another great leap forward in ultra-realistic CGI. But for me, the advances in cinematic visuals are becoming a bit of a problem.
7. The tagline for Superman back in 1978 was “You will believe a man can fly”. Audiences had simply never seen such a thing. Jurassic Park changed everything 15 years later with its depiction of dinosaurs; one of several times Spielberg managed that feat.
8. 25 years after that, he tried to change the game again, by extrapolating the notion as far as it can logically go. This year’s hyperactive (and terrible) Ready Player One threw absolutely everything at the screen all at once. It was an epileptic nightmare that proved that there is officially nothing that CGI can’t do.
9. Because of that, it almost feels as if nothing can be impressive anymore. Certainly not in the same way as seeing Christopher Reeve fly 40 years ago, or a T-Rex running amok in 1993. Because when we know there is simply nothing that can’t be depicted, what is the point in depicting anything?
10. I’m after getting off the point completely. Yay, The Lion King!
Doug’s verdict: You will believe a lion can talk
Release: July 19, 2019
Best Laid Plans.
From the new album Can’t Trust The Rain by Strand.
Can’t Trust The Rain is out now and available on 12in 180g vinyl and CD in Tower Records Dublin, Freebird Records Dublin, The Dingle Record Shop in Dingle Co Kerry, and Strand’s Facebook page.
Video by theatre director Jason Byrne.
Thanks Niall Toner
Frank O’Dea, at Balla Bán Gallery, Westbury Mall, Dublin 2, writes:
“Huge savings today only at our gallery!”
Paschal Donohoe, the then Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform, launching the Public Services Card (PSC) in 2016
This afternoon.
Solicitor Simon McGarr has again claimed the Department of Social Welfare collects and processes biometric facial recognition data, contrary to the department’s assertion that it doesn’t.
Mr McGarr supports his claim with the following…
National History Museum
I visited the Natural History Museum in Dublin on Wednesday, which was wonderful. It was full of visitors and schoolchildren and the exhibits, of course, in their beautiful mahogany glass cases.
However, wet day as it was, I noticed that the glass ceiling of the museum is leaking in quite a few spots, exposing many of the larger stuffed animals to rain.
Is the OPW planning to seal the holes in the roof?
Linda O’Nolan,
Milltown,
Dublin 6.
Natural History Museum: another glass ceiling (The Irish Times letters page)
Pic: Your Days Out
Martin McAleese with his report into the Magdalene Laundries
This weekend.
The Frontline Defenders‘ Dublin Human Rights Festival will take place at the Wood Quay Venue, Smock Alley Theatre and The International Bar.
As part of the festival…
Tomorrow, at 1pm, at the Wood Quay Venue…
Maeve O’Rourke, of the Irish Council for Civil Liberties, will present a follow-up report to the Department of Justice’s assertion that there is an “absence of any credible evidence of systematic torture or criminal abuse” in the Magdalen Laundries.
Specifically, in August 2018, the Department of Justice told the UN Committee Against Torture:
“While isolated incidents of criminal behaviour cannot be ruled out, in light of facts uncovered by the McAleese Committee and in the absence of any credible evidence of systematic torture or criminal abuse being committed in the Magdalen laundries, the Irish Government does not propose to set up a specific Magdalen inquiry or investigation. It is satisfied that the existing mechanisms for the investigation and, where appropriate, prosecution of criminal offences can address individual complaints of criminal behaviour if any such complaints are made.”
The Department of Justice’s assertion came after the Sate rejected the UN Committee Against Torture’s call for an investigation into allegations of ill treatment of women in Magdalene Laundries.
Ms O’Rourke will also be joined by Stixy Nyaluso, of the Movement of Asylum Seekers in Ireland, who will outline some of the conditions experienced by people living in Direct Provision.
The Dublin Human Rights Festival is organized in partnership with the Dublin City Council, Irish Council for Civil Liberties, National Women’s Council of Ireland, Fighting Words, the Latin America Solidarity Centre and the National LGBT Federation.
See programme of events here
Previously: ‘The Irish Government Does Not Believe A New Inquiry Is Warranted’
