The Dingle Film Festival (Dff) will welcome international guests this year such as Emmy winning 'Mad Men' writer Lisa Albert; Emmy winning writer of 'The Tracey Ullman Show' Marc Flanagan and recipient of this year's Gregory Peck award, Jean-Jacques Beineix. The festival will launch on March 17th with a screening of Geoff Wonfor's 'We'll Always Have Dingle'.
- 3/3/2011
- IFTN
By Marc Flanagan
Last year, through a series of happy coincidences, I received an invite to a film festival held on the west coast of Ireland, the Dingle Film Festival, a relative newcomer to the Irish film festival lineup.
I accepted without a moment's hesitation, and I have just returned from my second visit to Dingle or, as it is presented on every other road sign, "An Daingean" (many signs are in Gaelic, adding to the mystery/adventure of driving in the Emerald Isle).
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Last year, through a series of happy coincidences, I received an invite to a film festival held on the west coast of Ireland, the Dingle Film Festival, a relative newcomer to the Irish film festival lineup.
I accepted without a moment's hesitation, and I have just returned from my second visit to Dingle or, as it is presented on every other road sign, "An Daingean" (many signs are in Gaelic, adding to the mystery/adventure of driving in the Emerald Isle).
<img style="margin: 10px; height: 367px; width: 250px; float: left;" alt="Marc Flanagan" src="/files/u3568/marc_...
- 4/22/2010
- by Lisa Horowitz
- The Wrap
As part of the Dingle Film Festival's comedy programme, the festival has teamed with the Irish Film Board to provide a series of events and screenings dedicated to the funnier side of filmmaking. Industry events billed for the festival include a special event entitled 'Don't Make Me Laugh' which will specifically explore the art of writing comedy for the screen and a special presentation of Ifb award winning comedy short films. 'Don't Make Me Laugh' will be chaired by Ifb Development Executive Andrew Meehan and panelists will include Emmy Award winning screenwriter Marc Flanagan (The Tracy Ullman Show) stage, radio, screen and TV writer Pearse Elliot (Man About Dog); and producer Ned Dowd (Shanghai Noon). The seminar will explore the challenges of writing comedy for the screen, various approaches to character development, the role of TV in promoting talent as well as examining what makes comedy travel. The panel will...
- 9/1/2009
- IFTN
By Marc Flanagan
A few weeks ago the MPAA honored one of America's treasures, Mel Brooks. I was happy to read about this acknowledgement from the Association and I felt that if the MPAA can honor him, well, so can I.
I have the great pleasure of knowing Mr. Brooks, which amazes me to this day. When I was growing up I collected comedy albums; Jonathan Winters, Stan Freeberg, Lenny Bruce, et al, my favorite was: "The Thousand Year Old Man" with Carl Reiner and Mel Brooks.
I didn't set out to memorize it, I just listened to it endlessly and it left its tread marks on my brain ... &quo...
A few weeks ago the MPAA honored one of America's treasures, Mel Brooks. I was happy to read about this acknowledgement from the Association and I felt that if the MPAA can honor him, well, so can I.
I have the great pleasure of knowing Mr. Brooks, which amazes me to this day. When I was growing up I collected comedy albums; Jonathan Winters, Stan Freeberg, Lenny Bruce, et al, my favorite was: "The Thousand Year Old Man" with Carl Reiner and Mel Brooks.
I didn't set out to memorize it, I just listened to it endlessly and it left its tread marks on my brain ... &quo...
- 8/3/2009
- by Lew Harris
- The Wrap
By Marc Flanagan
I was shocked to hear of the passing of Michael Jackson, as we all were. And as some wag noted on Facebook, "When people ask me what I was doing when I heard that Michael Jackson had died, I was remembering what I was doing when I heard that Farah Fawcett had died."
For me, it was Michael.
Sometime in ‘93, I was renting a house in Brentwood, while in construction on my house in Santa Monica (which is now for sale -- at considerably less then what it was worth in 2007 -- so it goes) ... but I digress. My next-door neighbor was a dentist; he lived with his girlfr...
I was shocked to hear of the passing of Michael Jackson, as we all were. And as some wag noted on Facebook, "When people ask me what I was doing when I heard that Michael Jackson had died, I was remembering what I was doing when I heard that Farah Fawcett had died."
For me, it was Michael.
Sometime in ‘93, I was renting a house in Brentwood, while in construction on my house in Santa Monica (which is now for sale -- at considerably less then what it was worth in 2007 -- so it goes) ... but I digress. My next-door neighbor was a dentist; he lived with his girlfr...
- 7/1/2009
- by Lew Harris
- The Wrap
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