Writer/producer/director John "Point Blank" Boorman, currently working on a remake of his 'King Arthur' film "Excalibur" with director Bryan "Superman Returns" Singer, will receive a lifetime achievement award from the Irish Film & TV Academy during its seventh awards event, February 20.
Although he was born in England, Boorman has Irish roots, chairing the Irish Film Board as well as the National Film Studios (Ardmore Studios).
Beginning with the 1974 action fantasy "Zardoz", starring Sean Connery, Boorman has filmed four of his 19 movies in Ireland, including 2006's "The Tiger's Tail", starring actor Brendan Gleeson, who will host Boorman's program event.
Boorman is also noted for the Us feature "Deliverance"...
Although he was born in England, Boorman has Irish roots, chairing the Irish Film Board as well as the National Film Studios (Ardmore Studios).
Beginning with the 1974 action fantasy "Zardoz", starring Sean Connery, Boorman has filmed four of his 19 movies in Ireland, including 2006's "The Tiger's Tail", starring actor Brendan Gleeson, who will host Boorman's program event.
Boorman is also noted for the Us feature "Deliverance"...
- 1/21/2010
- by Michael Stevens
- SneakPeek
The Irish Film & Television Academy (Ifta) has announced details for their inaugural Ifta Music Forum, focusing on Music for the Moving Image, which will take place in Dublin on 4 September 2009. Guests include Oscar winning composer Dario Marianelli (Atonement); Maggie Rodford, MD of the Air Edel Group, one of the world's leading music publishing and production companies; music supervisor/score co-ordinator and director of Hot House Music Becky Bentham, whose credits include 'Mamma Mia!', 'Hotel Rwanda', 'Blood Diamond' and Neil Jordan's latest 'Ondine'; and acclaimed Irish director Kirsten Sheridan, whose feature August Rush received a Grammy and Oscar nomination for its original soundtrack; along with representatives of Oscar winning, ultra low budget feature film 'Once', David Collins (tbc). Other participants and guests include a range of Irish composers from the Music chapter of the Academy and invited experts such as: Ifta...
- 8/27/2009
- IFTN
Here's what The Tiger's Tail wants to be: a pensive meditation on the malleability of identity, and the complex journey to accepting and eventually embracing one's life choices in middle age. Here's what it actually is: hopelessly, excruciatingly, incorrigibly dull.
The initial premise -- that of a man randomly encountering his doppelganger -- has all the potential to provide for an interesting character study or an original, paranormal mystery tale. The themes such a plotline opens up for exploration are sundry: living life myopically versus seeing the big picture, gaining appreciation through another's envy for what is yours, hell, even natural human duality. Unfortunately, The Tiger's Tail decides not to go any of these routes, and instead paves its own horribly awkward and tedious way. Throwing in a bunch of unrelated theories and mythologies as an afterthought doesn't help much in terms of giving a convoluted, unexplained, nonsensical plot line any depth or even reason.
The initial premise -- that of a man randomly encountering his doppelganger -- has all the potential to provide for an interesting character study or an original, paranormal mystery tale. The themes such a plotline opens up for exploration are sundry: living life myopically versus seeing the big picture, gaining appreciation through another's envy for what is yours, hell, even natural human duality. Unfortunately, The Tiger's Tail decides not to go any of these routes, and instead paves its own horribly awkward and tedious way. Throwing in a bunch of unrelated theories and mythologies as an afterthought doesn't help much in terms of giving a convoluted, unexplained, nonsensical plot line any depth or even reason.
- 8/20/2009
- by Inna Mkrtycheva
- JustPressPlay.net
If you're going DVD shopping today, there are a few decent choices, however I wouldn't really recommend either I Love You, Man or 17 Again unless you absolutely love Paul Rudd or Zac Efron. Instead, I can wholeheartedly recommend the Oscar-nominated French film The Class, and the indie comedy Gigantic is at least worth a look. Also in stores this week is the '50s sci-fi spoof Alien Trespass, the direct-to-dvd sequel to Road Trip, and a Michael Jackson documentary, plus all four Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movies on Blu-ray! Will you be spending your hard-earned cash on anything this week? I Love You, Man [1] (DVD, Blu-ray [2]) 17 Again [3] (DVD, Blu-ray [4]) The Class [5] (DVD, Blu-ray [6]) Gigantic [7] Alien Trespass [8] (DVD, Blu-ray [9]) Road Trip: Beer Pong [10] Gooby [11] Almost Heaven [12] The Last Resort [13] Steppin' [14] The Tiger's Tail [15] The Art of War III: Retribution [16] Dark Rising [17] Dead by Dawn 2: The Return [18] Moonwalking: The True Story...
- 8/11/2009
- by Sean
- FilmJunk
'Outsourced' opens Palm Springs fest
The Palm Springs International Film Festival, which continues to expand its lineup, will launch Jan. 4 with John Jeffcoat's Outsourced, a romantic comedy set in India in which an American novelty-product salesman is sent to train his replacement. The 18th edition of the fest, which runs through Jan. 15, will screen a record-setting 254 films, representing 73 countries.
The schedule, which concludes with closing-night film The Tiger's Tail -- a thriller directed by John Boorman -- will include three world premieres, 47 U.S. premieres and 29 North American premieres.
One of the fest's calling cards is the attention it pays to the films that have been officially submitted to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for consideration for the foreign-language film Oscar, and this year, it will present 55 of the 61 films that have been entered in that category.
"The festival this year represents a heady blend of star power and cinematic excellence," festival director Darryl Macdonald said. "The film lineup is exceptionally potent and diverse, reflecting the emergence of vibrant new voices in unexpected corners of the world, even as it spotlights established masters like Paul Verhoeven, Lars von Trier and John Boorman."...
The schedule, which concludes with closing-night film The Tiger's Tail -- a thriller directed by John Boorman -- will include three world premieres, 47 U.S. premieres and 29 North American premieres.
One of the fest's calling cards is the attention it pays to the films that have been officially submitted to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for consideration for the foreign-language film Oscar, and this year, it will present 55 of the 61 films that have been entered in that category.
"The festival this year represents a heady blend of star power and cinematic excellence," festival director Darryl Macdonald said. "The film lineup is exceptionally potent and diverse, reflecting the emergence of vibrant new voices in unexpected corners of the world, even as it spotlights established masters like Paul Verhoeven, Lars von Trier and John Boorman."...
- 12/20/2006
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
'Outsourced' opens Palm Springs fest
The Palm Springs International Film Festival, which continues to expand its lineup, will launch Jan. 4 with John Jeffcourt's Outsourced, a romantic comedy set in India in which an American novelty-product salesman is sent to train his replacement. The 18th edition of the fest, which runs through Jan. 15, will screen a record-setting 254 films, representing 73 countries.
The schedule, which concludes with closing-night film The Tiger's Tail -- a thriller directed by John Boorman -- will include three world premieres, 47 U.S. premieres and 29 North American premieres.
One of the fest's calling cards is the attention it pays to the films that have been officially submitted to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for consideration for the foreign-language film Oscar, and this year, it will present 55 of the 61 films that have been entered in that category.
"The festival this year represents a heady blend of star power and cinematic excellence," festival director Darryl Macdonald said. "The film lineup is exceptionally potent and diverse, reflecting the emergence of vibrant new voices in unexpected corners of the world, even as it spotlights established masters like Paul Verhoeven, Lars von Trier and John Boorman."...
The schedule, which concludes with closing-night film The Tiger's Tail -- a thriller directed by John Boorman -- will include three world premieres, 47 U.S. premieres and 29 North American premieres.
One of the fest's calling cards is the attention it pays to the films that have been officially submitted to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for consideration for the foreign-language film Oscar, and this year, it will present 55 of the 61 films that have been entered in that category.
"The festival this year represents a heady blend of star power and cinematic excellence," festival director Darryl Macdonald said. "The film lineup is exceptionally potent and diverse, reflecting the emergence of vibrant new voices in unexpected corners of the world, even as it spotlights established masters like Paul Verhoeven, Lars von Trier and John Boorman."...
- 12/17/2006
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Shell game: 16 vie for fest prize
MADRID -- A raft of world premieres and works from such directors as John Boorman, Tom DiCillo and Agnieszka Holland make up some of the 16 films that will compete for the Golden Shell at the 54th annual San Sebastian International Film Festival, as organizers announced the official section lineup Thursday. Boorman's A Tiger's Tail, the mysterious story of a Dublin man who discovers that he's being followed by a murderous double trying to take his place, heads a list of high-profile world premieres. Heddy Honigmann's Forever (Holland), a creative look at the Parisian celebrity cemetery Pere Lachaise; Tom DiCillo's irony-filled Delirious (U.S.), a comedy about chance, friendship and the hollowness of fame; and Rajko Grlic's Border Post (Bosnia-Herzegovina-France), a metaphor for the disintegration of the former Yugoslavia, also are among the world premieres on tap.
- 8/24/2006
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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