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LIFE IN A DAY

You Tube linked up with Academy Award winning director Kevin MacDonald and celebrated producers Ridley and Tony Scott and invited the whole world to film whatever happened in their lives on one single day : July 24th 2010.  They were totally overwhelmed when some 8000 people from 192 different countries sent in over 4000 hours of … Continue reading

LIFE ITSELF

There are very rare occasions when the somewhat jaded and sceptical Press and Movie Industry audience at the Sundance Film Festival are ever moved to tears. The genuine kind that is. The screening of this highly emotional documentary to a venerated member of the clan was one such occasion, and I swear at one time … Continue reading

LIFE OF PI

Academy Winner Director Ang Lee is a masterful storyteller from ‘The Ice Storm’ to ‘Brokeback Mountain’ he never fails to totally engage our imagination with the magnificent and moving films he make. This time out he has taken the award-winning global best-selling novel by Yann Martel and turned into a phenomenal visual delight. The story … Continue reading

Life’s A Breeze

Despite the title, life hardly seems like a breeze for three generations of this Irish family who live hand to mouth in a Dublin suburb. The matriarch Nan is a bit of a hoarder so the rest of the family devise a plan to get her out of her House one day so that they can … Continue reading

LIGHTS IN THE DUSK

This is my third movie from idiosyncratic Finnish filmmaker Ari Kaurismaki that I have seen in as many weeks, and I am developing quite a taste for his work. This one is the last in his ‘loser’ trilogy and deals with loneliness and is heart wrenching sad. It is the tale of a Security Guard who … Continue reading

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