BFF 19: Birds of Passage
April 17th, 2019 | by Conor Smyth
Plagues, locusts and temptation in the desert: Birds of Passage is biblical in its grandeur and moral ruin. The current …
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BFF 19: A Bump Along The Way
April 15th, 2019 | by Conor Smyth
Opening the 19th Belfast Film Festival, Mark Cousins, newly installed Chairperson and mega-watt generator of cinematic enthusiasm, advertised the rectangular …
Belfast Film Festival Euro Comedy Season
January 24th, 2019 | by Richard Davis
The Belfast Film Festival’s Euro Comedy season continues this week with two eccentric, original offerings: The Man without a Past …
Pull Focus: I, Dolours
August 15th, 2018 | by Conor Smyth
Maurice Sweeney didn’t want to make a Spotlight special, lost in the evening television schedule, he tells the audience after …
Pull Focus: The Image You Missed
August 15th, 2018 | by Conor Smyth
Outlining an ethics of documentary making in The Image You Missed, the late, acclaimed film-maker Arthur MacCaig (via Ernest Larsen’s …
Pull Focus: The Lonely Battle of Thomas Reid
August 14th, 2018 | by Conor Smyth
The word ‘foreign’ is used a lot in The Lonely Battle of Thomas Reid, Feargal Ward and Tadhg O’Sullivan’s portrait …
Belfast Film Fest: The Rider
April 23rd, 2018 | by Conor Smyth
Lame horses get shot and broken cowboys get put out to pasture in Chloé Zhao’s The Rider, a soulful, touching …
Belfast Film Fest: Golden Dawn Girls
April 19th, 2018 | by Conor Smyth
Ourania Michaloliakou, a dumpy Greek twenty-something, loves Disney movies. She has a bookcase full of them. She loves board games …
Kissing Candice
June 20th, 2018 | by Conor Smyth
This review was originally published as part of the Belfast Film Festival ’18 coverage. The Omagh-born Aoife McArdle showcased her …
Belfast Film Fest Blog: Day 9
April 7th, 2017 | by Conor Smyth
It’s engines go for festival, and we’ll be running daily reactions, reviews and previews of upcoming screenings here on this …
