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		<title>Why so little chatter about Dickens?</title>
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The question is, of course, more than a little facetious. Having kicked off sometime in 1978, the Dickens bicentennial has now passed through about five media cycles. You know how these things go. Four hundred articles appear. Then somebody pens a piece wondering &#8220;Why oh why is everyone writing about bloody Dickens?&#8221; Then one of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/screenwriter/2012/02/09/why-so-little-chatter-about-charles-dickens/</link>
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		<title>The strange story of the Jack and Jill press show.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s an odd one. Every now and then, some distributor will fail to screen a film for the press in this territory. More often than not the movie will be shown to our cousins across the Irish Sea. A good example is the recent Liam Neeson thriller The Grey. It is not unreasonable for readers [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/screenwriter/2012/02/06/the-strange-story-of-the-jack-and-jill-press-show/</link>
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		<title>Farewell Ben Gazzara</title>
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Just look at this now-poignant Life cover from 1969. Three of the finest actors of their generations &#8212; all good pals &#8212; have got themselves dolled up for the photographer. It&#8217;s Peter Falk, John Cassavetes and Ben Gazzara. Don&#8217;t they look indescribably suave as they prpare for Cassavetes&#8217;s great Husbands? With the death of Gazzara [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/screenwriter/2012/02/04/farewell-ben-gazzara/</link>
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		<title>A word from The Muppets.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There is only a week to go before the release of the much-anticipated Muppets film. It offers everything you could possibly ask for from a movie starring 30-year-old felt puppets. Walk don&#8217;t run and all that malarkey. Tara Brady of this organ was in London last week for an interview with the esteemed Miss Piggy. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/screenwriter/2012/02/02/a-word-from-the-muppets/</link>
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		<title>Can Les Misérables work on screen?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[After his success with the worthy The King&#8217;s Speech, Tom Hooper could, one assumes, take his pick of attractive properties. Come hither, Tom. Make your long-cherished version of Crime and Punishment. Embark on a biopic of Winston Churchill. Adapt Strictly Come Dancing into a &#8220;major motion picture&#8221;.

Lordy, Hugh Jackman has let himself go.
Instead he looks [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/screenwriter/2012/01/31/can-les-miserables-work/</link>
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		<title>Liam Neeson is not becoming a Muslim</title>
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Well, that&#8217;s my guess. There have been few more peculiar examples of the gossip machine working in overdrive than the recent minor furore surrounding Liam Neeson&#8217;s imminent conversion to Islam. Here&#8217;s what happened. The great man, currently an unlikely action hero, was discussing a recent shoot in Istanbul. The controversial phrase read as follows: &#8220;The Call [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/screenwriter/2012/01/29/liam-neeson-is-not-becoming-a-muslim/</link>
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		<title>Screenwriter&#8217;s shamefully poor Oscar nap.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Well, it wasn&#8217;t a complete disgrace. Screenwriter, at least, managed to have all the front runners in place. But, in two areas at least, I received a fairly serious drubbing. Your correspondent felt that both Tomas Aflredson&#8217;s Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy and Stephen Daldry&#8217;s Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close would (and not just because their [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/screenwriter/2012/01/24/screenwriters-shamefully-poor-oscar-nap/</link>
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		<title>Bumper final Oscar prediction post.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have been relatively quiet about the Oscars this year. There are two reasons for this. Firstly, I am sick of being shouted at every time I make such a post. I know they don&#8217;t mean anything. But I still enjoy playing the game. The second reason for the relative silence stems from performance anxiety. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/screenwriter/2012/01/21/bumper-final-oscar-prediction-post/</link>
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		<title>Trailerspotting ponders Will Ferrrrrrrelllll</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It is a completely insecure rule of thumb that any film whose trailer is thigh-slappingly amusing throughout is bound to be a dead loss. But I state that principle anyway. You suspect that the film-makers have panicked and thrown all their best jokes into the promo. One becomes even more suspicious if that film is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/screenwriter/2012/01/20/trailerspotting-ponders-will-ferrrrrrrelllll/</link>
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		<title>The Artist is a silent film? You&#8217;re kidding me!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s one of those delightful non-stories. The sensationalist version of the headline goes like this: PUNTERS DEMAND REFUNDS AFTER DISCOVERING THE ARTIST IS SILENT FILM. A more accurate translation of the facts would run: A FEW PUNTERS IN ONE CINEMA HAVE DEMANDED REFUNDS BECAUSE THEY&#8217;RE BLEEDING HALF-WITS.

Huh? Huh? I can&#8217;t hear anything!
Yes, as the Guardian [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/screenwriter/2012/01/18/the-artist-is-silent-a-film-youre-kidding-me/</link>
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