Pippa is about to come out in the States on November 27th. Feeling hopeful.
November 20th, 2009 | 
Author: First of all I want to thank those of you who are writing to me about Pippa. It’s so heartening to see that people –at least a few people–are “getting” the film. I just came back to Ireland from 8 days in the States promoting Pippa, first in LA then NYC. I think maybe in Pippa I have stumbled on a character and a story that larger numbers of people can identify with than usually happens with my films. I have been described as a filmmaker who makes up characters it’s hard to love or even like Read the rest of this entry »
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Thinking about writing again.
Having been through it a good few times now I can recognize this feeling of confusion I have about what to write next. I have too many impulses, and I am falling in love with one idea after another with a very particular fickleness and lack of concentration that always happens to me when I have finished a film and it’s about to come out. Read the rest of this entry »
What happened to Pippa at the Toronto Film Festival
Toronto turned out to be one of those shards of light that illuminate the days around them, before and after. I wasn’t expecting much, Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: My First Blog
This is my first blog. It’s very exciting. I think of my audience as a series of individuals rather than a mass, maybe because relatively speaking I have always had a pretty small audience. Somehow this feels like a somewhat personal way of reaching you, whoever you are. Read the rest of this entry »