THAT S&S ARTICLE!

Don't agree with some parts of this article on Irish cinema in September's Sight and sound magazine. For example the Irish Film Board is not the be all and end all in current Irish cinema. Plenty of Irish filmmakers are working outside of the 'system'. Also, Lenny Abrahamson while certainly our most acclaimed new filmmaker is not the sole future for cinema here. There's no mention of Ivan Kavanagh either who is our most promising new director. Points agreed on: Perrier's bounty was sh*te, there were too many features funded in 2008 (twenty eight!), most Irish filmmakers could do with watching some OLD classic films, Conor McPherson's films are indeed 'hard-to-classify films' (but they're also sh*te!). Thankfully there's no mention of Kirsten Sheridan in the article but some new female directors get a mention.