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After the success of Steve McQueen and Sam Taylor-Wood, the UK Film Council aims to fund debuts by a new crop of artists turned film-makers First came Turner prize-winner Steve McQueen's gritty film Hunger , about the IRA...
Sinn Fein leader says American role in Ireland is crucial MADISON – A bit of gallows humor was perfectly appropriate after Gerry Adams had described a lifetime struggle to end deadly persecution and bring freedom to Irish...
By Kevin Myers Friday November 13 2009 On Tuesday last, Stormont united to receive Yvonne McEwen's list of some 9,000 Irish dead serving with British forces during the Second World War. Of plans to renovate the cemetery, and,...
Very funny guy, John O’Farrell. His columns are a hoot and his excellent memoir, Things Can Only Get Better, turned me temporarily into an insomniac. His latest book, a facetious history of the last 60 years, lacks the cohesion...
This decade has given rise to a fragmented, pick’n’mix cinematic culture - but what are the top 100 movie masterpieces of the last ten years? The succès d’estime of Steve McQueen’s Hunger and Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s...
5/5 STARS - Bededeum are an Italian folk prog band from Carrara, in Tuscany. They've been active since 1997 and the present line up features Antonio Pincione (classical and acoustic guitars, bouzouki,...
Jacques Chirac has criticised Margaret Thatcher's handling of the 1981 Irish hunger strike in which ten IRA prisoners died, in his much-awaited memoirs published this week. The 76-year-old former French president launches the...
Silvio Berlusconi is a wanted man: an unnamed Italian publishing company has told the author of a book about the world’s greatest rule-breakers that an Italian edition of the work must contain a chapter on the colourful...
IFC Films Reviewed for Arizona Reporter by Harvey Karten Grade: B Directed by: Andrea Arnold Written By: Andrea Arnold Cast: Katie Jarvis, Michael Fassbender, Kierston Wareing, Rebecca Griffiths, Harry Treadaway, Sydney Mary...
Ben Hoyle, Arts Correspondent Sam Taylor-Wood was on the red carpet at Cannes when she realised that British artists had arrived in the film world. “I had a funny moment with Steve McQueen,” she said, before last night’s...
