Tom Collins' "Kings" likewise set to screen at fest
Declan Recks' "Eden" has been selected to screen as the opening nighttime film of the first Irish Film Festival of Los Angeles, which kicks off at the Clarity Theater in Beverly Hills on Oct. 2.
"Eden," starring Eileen Walsh and Aidan Kelly, is the portrait of a matrimonial couple that Eugene O'Brien adapted from his toy of the same name.
The end night special event on Oct. 5 will include two rare Irish dumb films accompanied by a live orchestra with an original contemporaneous score composed by Eimear Noone, Irish film composer and director of the Los Angeles Ballet.
The festival will also screen Tom Collins' "Kings," the first-class honours degree Irish-language film ever submitted in the best foreign-language category for an Academy Award.
Other titles in the lineup include "Grandpa...Speak to Me in Russian," directed by Louis Lentin; "Shalom Ireland," directed by Valerie Lapin; "Learning Gravity" (aka "The Undertaking"), directed by Cathal Black; Barry O'Neill's "Dick Dickman P.I."; and Irvin Kershner's 1964 film "The Luck of Ginger Coffey."
The fest will also host a gore discussion entitled "Shooting the Green: Funding and shooting in the Republic of Ireland." The panel, which will focus on how to tap into Ireland's tax incentives for co-production, will include Jonathan Loughran, vp Irish Film Commission U.S.; film and video financing lawyer Bill Grantham of Greenberg Traurig; and educator and producer Gabrielle Kelly.
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Mp3 music: Cursed
 Artist: Cursed: mp3 download Genre(s): Other Rock Cursed's discography:  Two Year: 2005 Tracks: 11  One Year: 2003 Tracks: 11 Not to be confused with a melodic, Doors-influenced New York City goth-rock outfit called Curse, Cursed is a Canadian hardcore band that is fronted by singer/lyricist Chris Colohan (wHO is well known on Canada's hardcore sentiment and is a former member of three different bands: Left For Dead, the Swarm and Ruination). Cursed isn't rather metalcore--not in the way that Hatebreed, Throwdown, NDE, Himsa, Brick Bath and Every Time I Die ar metalcore bands--but their tatty, raucous, vulgar, generally fast material does pack a very metallic punch. Hardcore (in a pre-metalcore sense) is their orientation, just Cursed take their portion of dying metallic component, alternative alloy and thrash inspirations (the Canadians' headbanger influences kitchen range from Entombed to Neurosis to the ill-famed Slayer). And piece Cursed is non a radical going from Colohan's premature bands, they aren't a carbon copy of whatever of them either. Doomed was formed in late 2001, when Colohan united forces with guitar player Christian McMaster (wHO has as well been with the band Haymaker), bassist Radwan Moumneh (an ex-member of The Black Hand and Ire) and drummer Mike Maxymuik (whose restart of Canadian affiliations has included Sinclaire and the Meligrove Band as well as Left For Dead). At the time, Cursed was paste crosswise different parts of Canada--some members were living in Montreal, Quebec, patch others were based in Toronto and Hamilton, Ontario. But despite the geographic challenges they faced, the members of Cursed were able-bodied to catch together for gigs in different cities and create a buzz on the Canadian hardcore scene in 2002--they received their portion of attending in both Toronto and largely French-speaking Montreal, and Colohan's presence as lead vocalizer sure as shooting didn't hurt. When Moumneh temporarily left Cursed, he was replaced by Tom Piraino (once of Grayline) on bass--and when Moumneh returned in 2003, he came back as a second guitarist instead of as a bassist. (In other hard-core bands, Moumneh has worked as a principal Cursed, he leaves the principal telling to Colohan). By having two guitar players rather of one, Cursed hoped to increase the thickness factor--and, to be certain, the two-guitar fire only adds to the band's metallic appeal. The first Cursed album, titled One, was released by Deathwish Records in 2003; the following year, they recorded their soph record album, Two. By the time Goodfellow Records (a modest indie label based in Hamilton, Ontario) released Two in early 2005, Piraino was no thirster a member of Cursed--and Dan Dunham (of Shallow North Dakota fame) had taken all over as the hardcore agitators' new bassist. |
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