The ‘threequel’ of Flavorwire’s ongoing series of compilations of famous actors in their first film roles includes Bill Murray, Tom Hanks, Steve Buscemi, Paul Newman, Robin Williams, Robert Downey Jr and others.

Previously: Where They All Began (parts 1 and 2)

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Five things you need to know:

1. Barbaric Genius is a documentary about London-Irish author, chessmaster and troubled soul John Healy, author of The Grass Arena, a seminal autobiography that you need to track down immediately. Now, that’s what we call a summer read.

2. Venerable thespian Mark Rylance played Healy in the BBC version of The Grass Arena.

3. A truncated take on Barbaric Genius ran on RTE a few months back – this is the feature length version. It’s better. In fact, it’s the best Irish documentary of 2012.

4. Director Paul Duane previously directed a short film, My Dinner With Oswald, written by controversial Irish Times film critic Donald Clarke. Watch it here:

5. Barbaric Genius opens at the IFI Dublin today.

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You like craftsmanship?

Jamie Murphy writes;

I’ve just finished printing ‘Albert, Ernest & the Titanic’, my letterpress book created at Distillers Press in the National College of Art and Design for my MA in Visual Communication. All the illustrations were cut by hand and all the type was set by hand. Rich Gilligan has just shot the promo video (above). The book is on exhibition during the NCAD graduate show opening June 8th.


Letterpress printing?

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