filmsThe following is a press release about a new film, The Truth about Kathmandu, by Paddy Bushe
The accusation that Cathal Ó Searcaigh is an exploitative sex-tourist is a lie. This is the conclusion drawn at the end of a twenty-minute film, The Truth about Kathmandu, which will be shown as part of Féile na Gréine: [...]
My evenings have been filled with work and evening classes recently, so I’ve not been able to see any shows, hence this blog has gone quiet. The advantage of blogging is that it is entirely voluntary, no one is expecting me to supply a weekly review, and if I see a show I really don’t [...]
Mercifully, I had a fun diversion to avoid Valentine’s nonsense last night. One of the first films to sell out in the Jameson Dublin International Film Festival was I Sell The Dead, a comic horror flick that is the debut feature from writer/director/editor Glenn McQuaid.
It’s not a genre I’m familiar with, at all, so I [...]
Cathal Ó Searcaigh’s first extended English-language interview, since the scandal generated by the film Fairytale of Kathmandu broke a year ago, has hit the stands today in the current issue of Hot Press. You can read a statement about it here.
If you are a subscriber to Hot Press’s website, you can read the full interview [...]
Cathal Ó Searcaigh was invited to appear on the Late Late Show tonight. However, this morning they appeared to get cold feet about allowing him to speak live, and, perhaps under legal pressure from Vinegar Hill, the production company behind the controversial film Fairytale of Kathmandu, informed him that they would only proceed if his interview was [...]
Just finished four days of training at Filmbase doing a Camera & Lighting course. It’s been a long time since I have had such pleasure learning something, not since college in London, five or six years ago, doing my MA.
Dubliner Raja Nundlall is one of those special teachers who make their enthusiasm and passion for [...]
The Sunday Business Post has a report today that Neasa Ní Chianán had planned 5 years ago to do a documentary exploring the relationships of Cathal Ó Searcaigh with his “harem”.
Neasa Ní Chianáin suggested making a film which would explore ‘‘the harem of young men’’ befriended by Cathal Ó Searcaigh in a proposal made [...]
Written a month ago for Hot Press.
“Shaman poet Galsan Tschinag in his Defence of Poetry (Poetry International Web, 1999) made a chilling prophecy when he said that as civilisation advances, people suffering from the madness that is poetic sensibility are less and less tolerated. ‘Defence of poetry thus means,’ he says, ‘defence of humanity.’”
So writes [...]
Interesting
