More ‘Small Engine Repair’

February 13, 2007 at 2:54 pm

Plug plug plug: next week is the 2007 Jameson Dublin International Film Festival — some great movies being shown, I’m looking forward to it. Most of all, though, I want to recommend Small Engine Repair, which I’ve written about before. It’s being shown in the festival at 6:20 PM on Wed 21st Feb in IFI 1 — tickets can be booked online here, at EUR 9 apiece.

Writer and director, Niall Heery, won the Breakthrough Talent Award at this year’s Irish Film and Television Awards at the weekend. Nice one Niall!

Go see it if you get a chance — it’s a fantastic movie, in my opinion. And be sure to vote for it for the festival’s Audience Award…

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‘Small Engine Repair’

July 19, 2006 at 12:52 pm

Last Friday, I visited the Galway Film Fleadh to see the Irish premiere of a new feature-length movie called Small Engine Repair, which was directed by a mate of mine called Niall Heery.

I loved it — funny, extremely black comedy, reminded me a lot of The Deer Hunter in visual style, but unmistakably Irish at the same time. (Blog movie reviews seem to be out of favour right now, so I’ll leave it at that.)

Here’s hoping it picks up wider distribution very soon — it deserves to be big, I think. Nice one, Niall! Happily, the voters of the Fleadh agreed – it went on to win the Best First Feature award.

Actually, it’s been a good year for friends and family at the Fleadh — I note that my cousin, Eoin Ryan, picked up first prize for Best Irish Short Animation with his excellent short, Demon. cool!

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Lean’s got a weblog

August 3, 2005 at 2:22 am

Friends: the ex-Iona readers, and those with an interest in urban design, might like to go take a look at citynoise.blogspot.com — Lean Doody’s new urban design weblog.

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