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Film Censor Joins Dublin Festival
09 Dec 1999 :
An early launch for the 15th Dublin Film Festival this week heard festival chairman Lewis Clohessy announce not only the seeds of a festival line-up but also that Sheamus Smith, the Film Censor, has joined the board. While that probably rules out the possibility of seeing a rerun of the recently banned Dogme film, the Idiots, new festival programme director Paul Taylor has his sights set high.

Announcing his current best bet, the European premiere of Canadian hit Rollercoaster, he confessed to be still finding his feet in the new post “I’ve only been here six weeks and it has been hard to pin big titles down so early but we are getting there.” he said. With an already agreed line-up which steers clear of the Hollywood fare that some claim marred the festival in the past, a new identity appears to be taking shape for the Dublin event.

Joining Rollercoaster in the programme will be the Danish thriller Bloody Angels and the latest from North African filmmaker Youssef Chahine’s latest, The Other. Also promised is the world’s first festival screening of East of A, a New York comedy of manners and the new Barbara Hershey vehicle Drowning on Dry Land.

“We’re also building up a distinctly strong French presence under the festival umbrella” explained Paul Taylor, offering some hope to those who lamented the passing of the popular French Film Festival this year. He also earmarked the festivals commercial bent by adding “we’ll certainly be doing justice to Hollywood this year with films under negotiation from the likes of Rob Reiner, Tim Robbins, Lawerence Kasdan, Wes Craven, Sofia Coppola and Brian de Palma”. Pat Murphy’s Nora and Vinnie Murphy’s Accelerator appear set to be launched at the festival and the American indie Limp has confirmed and currently billed as ‘soon-to-be controversial’.

Chairman Lewis Clohessy predicts a “slow build-up” and while “acknowledging difficulties” for the festival in the recent past the festival is now gearing up to build a new image for 2000. Having recently appointed a new festival manager, Joy Giovannelli, the team are confident that they can rejuvenate and in fact reinvent the 15-year-old event, which this year is sponsored by Miller and runs from the 6th – 16th April. In the coming months IFTN will feature interviews with the festival team and strive to keep abreast with the programme as it grows.



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