Verna: Shouldn’t you be doing your job? Tom Reagan: Intimidating helpless women is my job. Verna: Then go find one, and intimidate her. It is the writing that first grabs you as the whiskey-soaked and beautifully lit world of Miller’s Crossing takes shape on the screen. Then the interiors, particularly […]
The LA Times blog has noted Pete Postlethwaite’s top 5 performances and this list is exactly the one I would have formulated. Note that Gabriel Byrne produced the first film and starred with Pete in the second film in this list (that’s the Byrne-ing connection and one of the reasons […]
Update: Although the documentary itself seems to be unavailable for purchase, the book upon which it is based, Emeralds in Tinseltown: The Irish in Hollywood, can be purchased at Amazon. — The Holidays are here! And our first present has arrived. This Saturday, Christmas Day, at 10:00pm, TV3 in Ireland […]
As reported here earlier, Gabriel Byrne served on the Best Film jury, which was chaired by Patricia Clarkson. The awards were handed out on October 27. The award for Best Film was presented to director Alexei Popogrebsky for How I Ended This Summer by the jury chair Patricia Clarkson, who […]
October is turning out to be a very busy time for Gabriel Byrne! Here is the latest information about his schedule: October 1: The Irish Arts Center Eleventh Annual Spirit of Ireland Gala. Gabriel is one of the honorary chairs (along with Liam Neeson and others). Among the honorees this […]
There are two things you need to know about the film Smilla’s Sense of Snow. First, there is a lot of snow. A great deal of snow. Snow on the ground. In the air. Everywhere. And there is ice. And cold water. And icebergs. And even full-blown, life-sized glaciers. If […]