The footage that makes up “Berlusconi's Mousetrap,” an account of what happened in Genoa at the G8 meeting three years ago, was shot by as many as 200 videographers. Two weeks were spent going through 300-400 hours of video material to produce a more manageable 14 hours of footage. This was truly a group and […]
Michael Collins is the author of The Meat Eaters, The Life and Times of a Teaboy, The Feminists go Swimming, The Emerald Underground, The Resurrectionists, The Keepers of Truth and Lost Souls. The last three novels are mysteries that present a bleak portrait of the failed side of America: declining industrial towns pinning their hopes […]
Michael Moore’s documentary has set off both polemics and box office records, but when the fuss dies down, is the film any good?
(Copyleft Indymedia.ie Robert Looby.) We are no stranger to the detective whose private life is a mess. “The Job” is summarised on one website as follows: “Denis Leary … stars as Mike McNeil, an unorthodox New York detective who's trying to juggle work along with his complicated personal life,” (1) and in a review of […]
(Editor’s note: This article was written, deliberately, before the May Day protests in Dublin – as an analysis of the media’s attitudes to the protests. In the end, there were some scenes of violence in Dublin – with around 25 protesters arrested) A young man turns up on your doorstep. He is looking for your […]
Tim Pat Coogan describes interviewing Flann O’Brien in 1964 after the publication of The Dalkey Archive. The interview was carefully planned. Apart from getting him to talk, there was one other main objective: to keep O’Brien away from the drink. It was to take place at 8.30 on a Saturday morning so that he could […]
