This afternoon.
Outside Leinster House, Dublin 2
Childcare workers calling for calling for a wage hike amid claims that some people in the sector are earning less than €10 per hour.
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This afternoon.
Balally Luas station
Colm Walsh writes:
Was it for this? When’s Santy coming?
What you may need to know
1. In another case of the coincidences that cinema is capable of, just as the USA stumbles through a political and social crisis that could well be its undoing, along comes this intense-looking drama recreating another of that country’s defining moments.
2. Following the assassination of her husband John F. Kennedy (Caspar Phillipson), Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy (Natalie Portman) attempts to make sense of her own shattered life as American politics swirls around her. The story is framed by the famed “Camelot” interview Kennedy did with Life magazine’s Theodore H. White (Billy Crudup) following her husband’s funeral.
3. Far from being a cloying, formulaic historical drama, however, Jackie has been described as having “the sophisticated psychological aesthetic of a Jonathan Glazer movie”.
4. Speaking of Glazer, Jackie’s soundtrack has been composed by Mica Levi. Levi is responsible for the distressing score to Glazer’s equally distressing Under the Skin (2013). That should give one an idea of what to expect.
5. Prolific Chilean director Pablo Larraín is behind the camera. He has already released two films in 2016, (El Club and Neruda), and is making his English-language debut here.
6. Spielberg had his eye on the script originally, before it got in to the hands Darren Aronofsky (who directed Portman to her Oscar for Black Swan in 2010). Aronofsky eventually passed it on to Larraín and took up producer duties himself.
7. From the opening close-up, Natalie is obviously gunning for her second Oscar. She’s appeared in some awful tripe since Black Swan, but at the end of the day there’s nothing wrong with taking a few Marvel paychecks while waiting for the next big fish to come along. She also wrote, directed and starred in Hebrew-language historical drama A Tale of Love and Darkness.
8. At first glance, Jackie may look like histrionic Hollywood Oscar-bait, but the arthouse credentials behind the camera and Larraín’s distinctive visual style suggest something much more interesting. No doubt Jackie will feature heavily come Awards season.
Verdict: Jackie O Face
Release date: December 2, 2016
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This afternoon.
Aviva Lansdowne Road Nua, Dublin 4
The announcement of Ireland’s entry into the ‘candidate’ phase of the selection process to determine the host for the 2023 Rugby World Cup. An all-island bid will compete against France and South Africa to host the championship.
Wedgie!
From Top: Taoiseach Enda Kenny and unidentified; Enda Kenny; from left: Enda Kenny, former Tanaiste and rugby international Dick Spring, Northern Ireland Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness and Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport Shane Ross; Martin Mc Guinness, former Ireland Rugby International Brian O Driscoll, Enda Kenny and Dick Spring.
Rugby World Cup 2023: Ireland ready to stage a tournament ‘like no other’ (Irish Times)
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Conor Browne writes:
Studio apartment for 975 a month – only 4 nights a week though. To the streets with you on the weekends you peasant!
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A video ad for the new Wah Wah Club in the Grand Social, Dublin 1.
Unce, unce, unce.
Thanks Jason
Wes Enzinna in Mother Jones writes:
Given what we’re seeing in the election’s aftermath, photographer-filmmaker Lucian Read clearly picked a prescient title for his recent mini-doc series on inequality in the United States: America Divided, which aired on EPIX in October and November, took us to corners of a nation still hurting from the Great Recession—from an addiction-ravaged Rust Belt town reeling from factory closures to New York City, where the housing crisis proved devastating to many Latinos and African Americans.
Premiering here, Read’s latest short film, Mni Wiconi: The Standing at Standing Rock, turns a camera on the plight of Native Americans, a group that has been neglected and wronged perhaps more than any other in this nation.
This Gorgeous Short Film Takes Us to the Heart of the Dakota Access Pipeline Standoff (Mother Jones)
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Charmaine Kenny at the Irish Workshop, online home of Irish-made crafts and whatnot, writes:
Artist Vincent Keeling has captured heroes of Irish literature and music in his black-and-white portrait collection. Vincent is one of Ireland’s most talented portrait artists and has 13 of his prints available on The Irish Workshop. His prints are limited edition too. Special Christmas present, anyone?
Vincent Keeling Portraits (The Irish Workshop)
Irish-made stocking fillers to broadsheet@broadsheet.ie marked ‘Irish-Made Stocking Fillers’. No fee.