Belfast movie: Kenneth Branagh has begun shooting the semiautobiographical indie drama – “my most personal film,” as per the screenwriter-director – set in the turbulent Northern Ireland of the late…
Michael Fassbender as Bobby Sands in director Steve McQueen’s Hunger. With six wins, Steve McQueen’s Hunger was the big winner at the 2009 Irish Academy Awards. The story of Irish…
Canadian Movie Awards: Olivier Gourmet in Congorama Quebec’s 2007 Jutra Awards, presented on Sunday, Feb. 18, offered a whole array of surprises. Even though the bilingual box office smash Bon…
Shot with nonprofessionals in the manner of post-World War II Italian neorealist classics like Vittorio De Sica’s Bicycle Thieves and Umberto D., Kurdish-Iranian filmmaker Bahman Ghobadi’s Iraq invasion drama Turtles…