Only in Ireland would the business newspapers cover our film industry better than the media papers! The latest article* is called RTE criticised for not supporting film-makers where our national broadcaster is described as 'contemptuous' of Irish directors and is 'derelict' of its cultural duty. Who in their right mind would say this stuff? None other than Simon 'On the way out' Perry. A few departing, harsh words eh? The gist of the article is that Irish films are too cinematic to get screened by RTE. This is a laugh as most of our feature films are nothing more than TV drama anyway? Most of our directors are journey-men hacks who have about as much passion for cinema as chef Gordon Ramsay has for fake crab meat! What Perry seems to be saying is that thanks to him he's discovered some Irish directing talent but RTE don't want to know? The problem is that though the directors of Garage/Once/Kisses are certainly a notch above what's come before that's no right for RTE to screen these films? If they won't regularly screen films by truly great international directors why should they screen the occasional success from our Film Board?
*26-12-2010
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