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- Product Spotlight: Ireland
- The Biz Interview: Ross Munro
- The Biz Interview: Robert David Duncan
- Movie Contest: A Legacy of Whining
| | PRODUCT SPOTLIGHT: | | The Cinema of Neil Jordan by Carole Zucker  The Cinema of Neil Jordan discusses his entire output as part of the first comprehensive study of Jordan's career, looking beyond ideological and national concerns to view his films through the prism of Celtic folklore, fairy tales, the gothic, romanticism and postmodernism. The most internationally renowned of Irish film directors, Neil Jordan's diverse work has spanned gothic horror (The Company of Wolves, and Interview With the Vampire), Irish history (Michael Collins), literary adaptation (The End of the Affair) and sexual identity (The Crying Game, and Breakfast on Pluto), while retaining a distinctive stylistic flair for fantasy and the carnivalesque. Incorporating discussion of Jordan's award-winning literary work and benefiting from extensive access to Neil Jordan's personal archives, this book explains the mythic and poetic impulses that suffuse the director's work. Our Price: $27.00 Paul Meier Dialect Services: The Irish Dialect by Paul Meier  Paul Meier, a leading teacher of accents and dialects, and dialect coach for theatre and film, has helped actors the world over for more than 40 years with his booklets and CDs, to improve their "acting with an accent." The Irish Dialect (approximately 20 pages and 30 minutes of recording on the accompanying CD), is one in Paul Meier's acclaimed dialect instruction series, easy enough for the beginner, yet rigorous enough for the most experienced professional. Using the booklet and CD's clear demonstration and simple exercises, no matter what your level of training, you will quickly become proficient in The Irish Dialect you need in films, theatre, TV, radio, voice-over, ventriloquism, and stand-up comedy. These proven materials demonstrate all the "signature sounds" of the dialect in simple word lists, then in practice sentences, and finally in more challenging practice material. Paul Meier also demonstrates rhythm, intonation, and tonal placement. All practice sentences and monologues are expressed both in the International Phonetic Alphabet (I.P.A.) and in Paul Meier's successful "number keying" system for the non-I.P.A. user. He concludes the booklet and CD by speaking two great audition monologues (one male and one female) from a play or film in The Irish Dialect. Our Price: $28.50 The Mai by Marina Carr  The Mai is a full-length drama by Marina Carr. The events of two summers, the conversations and stories of seven women, the history of a family and their broken and cruel love is remembered, recounted, and relived by The Mai's eldest daughter who fuses past and present, history and lore, into a story as intimate, unique, disturbing, affectionate, and recognizable as all family stories. An accomplished, beautiful forty-year-old woman, The Mai has always sought an exceptional life. Robert, her cellist husband, has always felt stifled by The Mai's ideals of perfection. After seventeen years he leaves her, whereupon she sets about building a dream house in the hope that he will one day return to her. From her fairytale castle, The Mai waits by the window for her dark-haired prince to return. Set in the inspiring surrounds of the West of Ireland, on the banks of the legendary Owl Lake, we enter this world on the day of Robert's return after an absence of four years. In the midst of Mai's and Robert's troubled reunion are the idiosyncratic characters that comprise the family. Irreverent and unapologetic, the opium-smoking one-hundred-year-old matriarch, Grandma Fraochlan, presides over all. The "Spanish Beauty," as she is known, with her "ancient and fantastical memory" and mythical presence, reminds us that the past is looming ever present. Her daughters, Agnes and Julie, meddle in the affairs of their three nieces, with comical tenacity. Deeply theatrical and profoundly intense, The Mai is an epic tale of love and loss, of elusive dreams shattered by vulgar but inescapable reality. Our Price: $12.95 The Seafarer by Conor McPherson  The Seafarer is a full-length drama by Conor McPherson. A hardened alcoholic returns to his Dublin home to care for his brother, who was recently blinded in a drunken fall. As he tries to stay sober for Christmas, a visit from a mysterious stranger forces him to confront his troubled conscience. The Seafarer is a chilling play about the sea, Ireland, and the power of myth. It's Christmas Eve, and Sharky has returned to Dublin to look after his irascible, ageing brother who's recently gone blind. Old drinking buddies Ivan and Nicky are holed up at the house too, hoping to play some cards. But with the arrival of a stranger from the distant past, the stakes are raised ever higher. Sharky may be playing for his very soul. A breathtaking supernatural play from the author of The Weir. The Seafarer was first staged in 2006 at the National's former Cottesloe Theatre (now The Dorfman Theatre) in London. Our Price: $12.95 The Cripple of Inishmaan by Martin McDonagh  The Cripple of Inishmaan is a full length comedic drama by Martin McDonagh. With this bleak yet uproariously funny play, the Anglo-Irish dramatist fulfills the promise of his award-winning The Beauty Queen of Leenane while confirming his place in a tradition that extends from Synge to O'Casey and Brendan Behan. Set on a remote island off the west coast of Ireland in 1934, the play is a strange comic tale in the great tradition of Irish storytelling. Word arrives on Inishmaan that the Hollywood director Robert Flaherty is coming to the neighbouring island of Inishmore to film his documentary Man of Aran. No-one is more excited than Cripple Billy, an unloved boy whose chief occupation has been gazing at cows and yearning for a girl who wants no part of him. For Billy is determined to cross the sea and audition for the Yank. And as news of his audacity ripples through his rumour-starved community, The Cripple of Inishmaan becomes a merciless portrayal of a world so comically cramped and mean-spirited that hope is an affront to its order. Our Price: $12.95 | | THE BIZ INTERVIEW: | | Ross Munro  As the writer, director, and star of A Legacy of Whining, Ross Munro has put his lifelong love of movies into creating his own cinematic labour of love. The end result is a brand new Canadian film that will celebrate its world premiere at the Vancity Theatre in Vancouver on April 5th. Ross Munro joined us to give us the inside word on everything we need to know about A Legacy of Whining and why you should see it! Read the interview here! | | THE BIZ INTERVIEW: | | Robert David Duncan  As an established director and actor, Robert David Duncan has seen it all on both sides of the camera. His newest acting project is A Legacy of Whining, in which he plays Dunc, an old high school friend to Ross Munro's Mitch. As they reach a critical juncture in their lives, they share a memorable reunion in which their pasts, presents, and futures collide. Just ahead of the film's world premiere at the Vancity Theatre on April 5th, Robert David Duncan talked to us about how his time as an actor and director influenced his work on A Legacy of Whining. Read the interview here! | | MOVIE CONTEST: | | A Legacy of Whining  BizBooks.net is offering the chance to attend the world premiere of A Legacy of Whining in Vancouver. A Legacy of Whining not only throws gasoline on the familiar cinematic trope of male mid-life crisis but watches gleefully as it sits back and throws a lighted match onto the proceedings. Inspired by its love of early 1970's American buddy films, this shaggy dog comedy (played out in one desperation-soaked dreamlike evening) tells the tale of two former high school friends, Mitch and Dunc, who reunite thirty years later in an attempt to resurrect the faded corpse of their "glory years" only to find, perhaps, that the past ain't all it's cracked up to be… Starring Ross Munro and Robert David Duncan and Angie Descalzi. Written and Directed by Ross Munro. Full details here! |
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