Donald Clarke

• Moaning
• July 28, 2011, 14:25

Last week, despite being on holiday, I filed a Screenwriter column concerning the naughty way film distributors present quotes out of context for their promotional material. Regular readers will be aware that I have touched on this subject at least …

• Uncategorized
• July 26, 2011, 23:44

I have just come back from interviewing Elena Anaya, star of Pedro Almodóvar’s excellent new film The Skin I Live In.You’ll have read about it. A creepy horror flick with shades of Georges Franju’s Eyes Without a Face, it stars Antonio Banderas …

• Television
• July 24, 2011, 22:39

When I wasn’t working, I spent my holiday time cruising the outer Narnia of the television universe. There’s plenty to discover there. Who knew there were so many places to buy things that chop vegetables with such great ease? But …

• Uncategorized
• July 15, 2011, 11:49

Hope everybody is enjoying the rain. Gawd, with all that stuff in the sky, Harry Potter is really going to clean up. There will be silence from this place for a while as I am taking a few days off …

• Box Office Figures Film Festivals
• July 12, 2011, 19:23

This weeks’s box-office news brings interesting tidings.  Both The Guard and The Tree of Life have gone bananas. To deal with the Irish beast first, John Michael McDonagh’s film hoovered up in excess of half a million euro at the …

• Politics Trailerspotting
• July 10, 2011, 22:31

We’re not really giving it a handbagging. We’re merely expressing a few reservations. Look, I understand that it’s outrageous to offer any meaningful assessment of an upcoming project on the basis of a teaser trailer. But I am, nonetheless, going …

• Politics Way off topic
• July 7, 2011, 21:42

Yes, I know, I know. “Gotcha” was actually a Sun headline.  But it does seem enormously appropriate in this case. As you will be aware, James Murdoch, a close relative of The Lord of the Flies, has announced that, following …

• Film Festivals Politics
• July 5, 2011, 22:47

Okay, I think we have to tread very carefully here. Here is a photograph of Michael D Higgins, amiable Presidential candidate, launching the Galway Film Fleadh tonight. As you might expect, he delivered a charming oration peppered with melodic sentences …

• Fashion Way off topic
• July 4, 2011, 22:25

News has just reached us that the creator of the world’s greatest shoe has died. You can take your brogues, sneakers, sandals and gumboots. As far as this writer is concerned, the most magnificent of all shoes remains the classic …

• Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy Trailerspotting
• July 1, 2011, 22:01

It’s here everybody. It’s here! The very first teaser trailer for Tomas Alfredson’s Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy has made it into cyberspace. This writer has not tired of boring you about his enthusiasm for John Le Carré’s great spy novel and …