Masterful.
University College Cork car park this morning.
Thanks Marie Dromey
Last night on Sandymount strand, Dublin.
What is that?
Thanks Lynsey Duncan
From RTE:
Inside the Department, John Lonergan’s School Principles and Scoil Mhuire. Clinical Psychologist David Coleman explores the issue of teen bullying in Bullyproof and Claire Byrne witnesses real rescues unfold in Ireland Search and Rescue.
In a new series Hector Ó hEochagáin takes to the highways and by-ways of Ireland and Irish Pictorial Weekly offers a satirical slant on Irish life.
The new season sees the return of the hugely popular The Voice of Ireland with Kathryn Thomas at the helm and Celebrity Bainisteoir is back with a new twist.
On RTÉ Two Craig Doyle holds court on his chat show and Singin’ Bernie Walsh has her eye on re-inventing breakfast television with the help of her trusty sidekick Brian.
Format Farm is an innovative series of exciting new Irish generated television entertainment programme formats including pilots like The Hit,The Takeover and Six in the City.
IFTA award-winning Love/Hate is back for its third season under King Nidge’s reign and Jojo and the kitchen crew return for a fifth season of RAW. Ireland’s favourite home-grown soap Fair City enters its 24th season and new crime series The Fall, starring Gillian Anderson and made in Belfast in association with RTÉ, makes its debut.
Nick Munier and Dylan McGrath are back to cook up a storm in the second series of Masterchef and three well known personalities take up the challenge of learning a musical instrument in Instrumental.
A Grand Experience charts a journey by three artists along the Grand Canal on board a barge while The Missing Bones of W.B. Yeats traces the mystery of Yeats’s final resting point.
The Choice is a new interview based format presented by Bláthnaid Ni Chofaigh which will explore the consequences of religious and ethical decisions. The Meaning of Life with Gay Byrne returns and Gay speaks to former President Mary McAleese and musician Noel Gallagher.
Hmm.
Previously: The RTE Guide Monkey Tennis Challenge
Thanks Ruairi Carroll
The pitch?
Via Croke Park’s GAA Museum:
Rooney (1957) is a film about a Dublin Corporation dustman who plays an All-Ireland Hurling Final for Dublin.
Anyone?
In her boots I would look a lot paler,
But a nation’s hopes rest on young Taylor,
No matter what judges say,
Her real fans in Bray,
And beyond, never ever will fail her
John Moynes
Unless you can do better?
Oh yes.
It’s a Katie Taylor ‘rick off.
Lines close at 3pm
Illustration by Brendan O’Rourke
The best Limerick will land an A3-sized poster of the digital painting (below) by Gianni Clifford, we featured yesterday:
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g4yp2t7Doac
What you may need to know:
1. Paranormal Activity 4? Seriously? Yes, seriously. Do you know how cheap these things are to make? This found footage crap is a licence to print cash.
2. The original Paranormal Activity (2007) remains the most profitable film ever made.
3. Rather than attempt to ape documentary film-making, these days they just hire actual documentary filmmakers to do ’em: PA3 & 4 were directed by Henry Joost and , Ariel Schulman who did the controversial Catfish (2010)
5. Wouldn’t it be hilarious if Scary Movie stars The Wayans Brothers did a found footage parody? No, it wouldn’t.
Release Date (Ireland): October
In the latest of an ongoing series of ‘musical experiments’, Charles Yang (violin): Michael Thurber (bass) and Eddie Barbash (you’ll see) of Collective Cadenza add a little democracy into their busking (all in aid of the WingSpan Arts NPO).
Previously: Six Decades Of Woo
Pizza
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For what they describe as a Mystery Film Experiment for their new album Valtari, Sigur Rós gave twelve filmmakers identical modest budgets and invited them to create videos based on ‘whatever came into their head’ when they listened to songs from the album.
This is Varúð, directed by Ryan McGinley.