The 14th Dublin Film Festival is into its last two days. Today's highlights include David Cronenberg's eXistenZ (see Cinema listings below); Irish director Martin Duffy's US feature, The Bumblebee Flies Anyway, with Elijah Wood; Christopher Eccleston and Saskia Reeves in Heart, scripted by Jimmy McGovern and directed by Charles McDougall; the searing Yugoslavian drama, The Powder Keg, set in Belgrade; and two Irish films - John Lynch's Night Train with Brenda Blethyn and John Hurt, and John Carney and Tom Hall's Park with Des Nealon and Claudia Terry.
The Bernardo Bertolucci retrospective continues today with his Oscar-winning epic, The Last Emperor, and his latest film, Besieged. Bertolucci will participate in a public interview tomorrow at Virgin Cinemas.
Tomorrow's schedule kicks off with the new Woody Allen movie, Celebrity, followed by Stephen Frears's The Hi-Lo Country, and the festival's surprise film. The event closes tomorrow night with the world premiere of Deborah Warner's The Last September, adapted by John Banville from the novel by Elizabeth Bowen, and starring Maggie Smith (above, in a scene from the film), Michael Gambon and Fiona Shaw.
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