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Seachd: The Inaccessible Pinnacle is the first feature film in Scottish Gaelic. It is a film from the Scottish Gaelic community starring local Gaelic-speaking actors from the Highlands and Isles and was filmed entirely on the Isle of Skye (An t-Eilean Sgitheanach) off the West Coast of Scotland. Seachd is not a Hollywood film. The film was shot across just 25 days on a tiny budget, but it is a film with a big heart and it represents the lives of people living in a part of the world that...
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Seachd: The Inaccessible Pinnacle is the first feature film in Scottish Gaelic. It is a film from the Scottish Gaelic community starring local Gaelic-speaking actors from the Highlands and Isles and was filmed entirely on the Isle of Skye (An t-Eilean Sgitheanach) off the West Coast of Scotland. Seachd is not a Hollywood film. The film was shot across just 25 days on a tiny budget, but it is a film with a big heart and it represents the lives of people living in a part of the world that...
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It has been estimated that an overwhelming percentage of Welsh films and television dramas are intentionally based upon other literary sources. This overwhelming dependence upon literary adaptation is primarily from important Welsh literary or cultural sources. This suggests an attempt to ‘recall and recollect’ and to re-‘write the nation’, after a period of suppressed or neglected representations of Welsh-ness. While Dave Berry’s book and other studies have attributed this Welsh...
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Who's Your favorite Welsh filmmaker? Is it Justin Kerrigan, director of Human Traffic (1999)? [Summary: Bad boys in Cardiff get loaded and the kids have irreverent, outrageous fun. Sex is important to the plot.] Is it Kevin Allen, director of Twin Town (1997)? [Summary: Bad boys in Swansea get loaded and the kids have irreverent, outrageous fun. Sex is important to the plot.] Do you like to get together 'dros y penwthynos' with your mates, tip a few pints, while you watch, for the...
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Celtic Cult Cinema Blog expands to new Welsh Film Symposium site: Mark Woods says: "Croeso i drafodaeth 'da fi ar y we, gyda newyddion cerddoriaeth, ffilmiau, barddoniaeth, ffuglen, dramau, a storiau byr y Gymru." "Welcome to my online symposium, your one source for news and reviews about new and old, Welsh Music, Film, Poetry, Fiction, Dramas, and Short Stories." In June 2007 I completed my Ph.D. in Film Studies at the University of Glamorgan in Wales, and for the past five years I have...
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BBC Headroom supports World Mental Health Day with the transmission of Alastair Campbell's moving film, Cracking Up London, UK October 10, 2008 -- This week, as the world's attention turns to issues of good ...
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A major figure in international film distribution turned studio head and leading producer of big-budget Hollywood action fare, Kassar is reputed to be the youngest person to ever form his own foreign ...
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The 13th Pusan International Film Festival wrapped on Friday with top prizes from its New Currents competition section shared between Korea's "Land of Scarecrows" and Japan's "Naked of Defenses." Helmer Roh ...
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I still haven't gotten 'round to writing about some of the best movies I saw at the 2008 Toronto International Film Festival, including "Wendy and Lucy," "Liverpool," "35 Rhums" and "Goodbye Solo": Here's what ...
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If you're in the Clarksdale, Mississippi area this Saturday night, be sure to drop by the Delta Cinema to catch the worldwide premiere of M For Mississippi , a documentary film said to capture the "raw, raucous ...
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"Despite his commitment to forward-actuated narratives and his characters' ability to movea 'and fast; they often runa 'through the world, Jean-Pierre Melville makes meaty films, a cinema of heft." Ryland ...
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The government agency charged with selling Australia to the world is about to launch an international advertising campaign based on the yet-to-be released Baz Luhrmann film Australia.
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The Pusan International Film Festival owes much to Chinese director Zhang Yuan. When I asked Zhang to participate in the first Busan festival in 1996, he came right over from Paris without hesitation, said Lee ...
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I just had to upload this photo for obvious reasons, and more details about this famous Thai movie star from the world's expert on Thai cinema, Wise Kwai.
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October 05, 2008 A scene from German filmmaker Till Kleinert's Cowboy which scooped the coveted Iris Prize award.
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