Enda Walsh talks to RTÉ Arena about his new Illuminations film
Updated / Monday, 18 Jan 2021
07:00
Playwright Enda Walsh has brought together a wonderful group of collaborators for his new short film
Touch. It explores what it is to be alone and to be isolated during the pandemic. He talks to
RTÉ Arena above.
The film is part of
RTÉ Illuminations and performed by Rosaleen Linehan, with visuals from Jack Phelan and score from Irene Buckley - watch it here, and find out more about the
Illuminations project here.
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20 of the Best Films of 2020
Updated / Monday, 28 Dec 2020
08:27
Here s hoping we re back to all this in 2021
In the year that lasted a decade, the movies helped us to escape like never before. Here are some of our boltholes.
Uncut Gems
Sarah McIntyre says: It is rare that a film as relentlessly propulsive and uniquely gripping as
Uncut Gems comes along - probably about as rare and mesmerising as the uncut opal around which a lot of the action centres in this high-octane thriller. From acclaimed sibling filmmaking duo Josh and Benny Safdie, who were behind the excellent 2017 crime-drama
Uncut Gems similarly thrives on chaos and a mounting sense of stress that verges on panic-inducing. Adam Sandler puts in a career-best performance as Howard Ratner, a fast-talking Manhattan diamond district jeweller who funds his compulsive gambling habit with increasingly high-stakes dodgy dealings. An endlessly nerve-wracking, visceral assault of a movie.