httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dS9jc3BnLRc&feature=player_embedded

Five things you need to know:

1. Twilight’s R-Patz really wants to get rid of that sappy teen idol image.

2. He’s only gone and done a film with the Greatest Living Canadian (after
Shatner) David Cronenberg.

3. This is the second Cronenberg flick this year, after so-so Fassbender kinky shrink flick A Dangerous Method. This one looks a bit more Cronenbergian, like.

4. It’s based on a Don DeDillo book. Which you should read. It’s inspired by Ulysses, kinda.

5. It debuted at Cannes last week, to mixed reviews. It’s out here next month. We’re there.

Cosmopolis (IMDB)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AGfrAzs5rms

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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