Originally published in print February 2021. Shooting a festival-quality film may seem like a rather unrealistic creative endeavour for a student. It can be particularly daunting when you read of “low budget” independent films that cost roughly €1,000,000. Unfortunately for … Continue reading Making a Festival Film on a Student (Lack of) Budget
Many of my generation went through the most significant developmental phase of our lives over the last decade, and many of us were influenced by cinema and the stories it showed to us. Maybe we fell in love (I did, … Continue reading Formative Films of the Decade Originally Published in Print February 2019
Best International Feature Film – Peter Horan Dolor y Gloria / Pain and Glory (Pedro Almodóvar, 2019) Sensitive and sensuous in equal measure, Pain and Glory is an intensely personal piece for Spanish auteur, Pedro Almodóvar. Although not quite autobiographical, … Continue reading Three Other Oscar Nominations
●●●○○ In her seminal essay, ‘The Politics of Abstraction,’ experimental filmmaker Barbara Hammer advocated that ‘radical content deserves radical form.’ Cats is an adaptation of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s musical of the same name, which, in turn, is an adaptation of … Continue reading Cats // Review Peter Horan purrs over Tom Hooper’s film adaptation of Cats