Exploring the City and the Self in Jeune Femme Sinead McCausland May 17, 2018 Close-Up, Features, One Off Whether you're a Francophile or not, we’ve all seen and experienced at least one version of the streets of Paris. In 1951’s An American in Paris, Vincente Minnelli turned the Parisian streets into an...
Short of the Week – Chops Sinead McCausland January 29, 2018 Features, Independent, Short of the Week https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wWxtmUB8uYI Director, writer, and animator Jac Clinch has created an impressive filmography that details the frustrations of small-town life in Britain. With his...
Most Beautiful Island – Review Sinead McCausland December 3, 2017 Reviews Directed, written, and produced by the film’s star Ana Asensio, Most Beautiful Island is a confident and innovative feature film debut. Following the film’s protagonist Luciana, an undocumented immigrant...
Gender, Observation and the Fourth Wall in Sally Potter’s Orlando Sinead McCausland September 27, 2017 Analysis, Close-Up, Features Death. Love. Poetry. Politics. Society. Sex. Birth. These are the visual chapters of Sally Potter’s enchanting third feature Orlando. A loose adaptation of Virginia Woolf’s 1928 novel of the same name, the...
Short of the Week – MANOMAN Sinead McCausland August 21, 2017 Features, Independent, Short of the Week https://vimeo.com/173524321 MANOMAN is a short film that viewers should watch more than once in order to grasp its smart, cinematic spectacle. Due to the film's surrealist humour, the viewer can easily...
Best Films Never Made #41: J. J. Abrams and Ron Howard’s The Dark Tower Sinead McCausland August 16, 2017 Behind The Curtain, Best Films Never Made, Features After nearly 10 years of development, The Dark Tower is finally coming to the big screen. Under the direction of Nikolaj Arcel (A Royal Affair), the movie hopes to launch an expansive film and television...
Why Shaun of the Dead is Edgar Wright’s Best Film Sinead McCausland June 20, 2017 Analysis, Features, Opinion Fans often underestimate the staying power of Shaun of the Dead, the first of Edgar Wright's "Three Flavours Cornetto" trilogy. When held up against Wright's more recent films like Hot Fuzz, The World's End,...
Short of the Week – Over Sinead McCausland June 5, 2017 Independent, Short of the Week https://vimeo.com/121667533 Cinema's main purpose is not just to tell a story, but the story of a person. When these stories and people are shrouded in mystery, they become more fascinating to...
Short of the Week – Sweet Maddie Stone Sinead McCausland March 20, 2017 Features, Independent, Short of the Week https://vimeo.com/154873241 Brady Hood’s realist NFTS short film, Sweet Maddie Stone, proves the electrifying force of the realist genre. The story is simple, but its protagonist is not; Jessica...
La La Land and the Question of Authorship in Film Sinead McCausland February 26, 2017 Analysis, Close-Up, Features Damien Chazelle's nostalgic musical La La Land puts its behind-the-scenes artists to full use, creating poetic and fanciful imagery and prompting the question of who the author of a film really is. It's a...
