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Respiro
Set on the beautiful and sun-drenched fishing island of Lampedusa, to the south of Sicily, Emmanuele Crialese's eerie and sensual 2002 Cannes Critics Week Grand Prize Winner is a celebration of the natural whilst a depiction of the harsh and stifling ways of traditional island life.
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- 1029 reads
Iron 3
Young Tae Suk rides around the city on his motorbike, stopping to attach flyers to the front doors of varying neighbourhoods' homes. He returns a couple of days later. If a flyer is unclaimed, this means the owner is away.
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- 952 reads
Umberto D
Umberto Domenico Ferrari, a retired civil servant, played by Carlo Battisti, struggles to get by on a meagre state pension in post-war Rome. He takes to the streets in protest, alongside scores of agitated pensioners who are easily forced back in retreat. His rental debt to a tyrannical landlady, in whose house he has been resident for twenty years, escalates beyond hope. As part-payment, but to his shame, Umberto's room is hired out to prostitutes by the hour. His only friends are an adoring dog, Flik, and the pregnant maid, Maria, played by Maria-Pia Casilio, in whom our leading man confides.
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- 1064 reads
Ossessione
Luchino Visconti, Aristocrat and Marxist, became interested in film-making when Coco Chanel introduced him to Renoir. His first feature, Ossessione, going by the working title of Palude, was adapted from James M. Cain's novel The Postman Always Rings Twice. The film, accompanied by a powerful and tense music score, was made in 1942 war-torn Italy and immediately banned by the Fascist dictatorship.
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- 1003 reads
I am America
I am abandoned like the milk-carton children. They should put my face on coke cans instead. I am broken like the plastic kiddie pool. Dirty sins flood the yard in Genesis 6. I am cracked-up like the junkie in the school parking lot.
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- 1013 reads
Have You Heard The Hooligans
A band by the name of The Hooligans have sprung up and are scattering their music and Craic everywhere they go .
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- 3660 reads
The Craic Going Off
A brief look at Irish comic Jimeoin - his first Ever Movie and some of his songs .
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- 1392 reads
Bohinta Mystic Time
Featuring here Bohinta an Irish band with modern day mystic .
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- 6778 reads
White Wheels In
A Gaze From the outside looking in at Belfast Singer Songwriter Andy White.
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- 1308 reads
Off The Cuff With Mary Duff
Looking behind the country music scenes with the quiet and well loved Irish Country singer Mary Duff .
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- 10743 reads