This week John Kelly is joined by senator David Norris and journalist Sinead Gleeson.
Film Ghost Town by David Koepp
Ricky Gervais, in his first major Hollywood role, is Bertram Pincus, a man with minimal people skills who drops dead out of the blue, is restored to life and then finds he is able to see ghosts. Among the spirits now deluging him for favours is Frank Herlihy (Greg Kinnear), intent on stopping his wife Tea Leoni’s new marriage.
Film Of Time and the City by Terence Davies (The House of Mirth, Distant Voices, Still Lives, The Neon Bible)
Stylish British film-maker Terence Davies turns his camera lens on Liverpool where he grew up in the 1950s and 60s. In Of Time and the City, a deserved hit at last year’s Cannes, Davies recalls his early life there with a mix of newsreel, documentary footage and his own memories, exploring the inevitable changes the passing of time makes to our sense of place.
Book Home by Marilynne Robinson
Brother and sister Jack and Glory Boughton return to Gilead, she to care for their dying father, he in search of peace after a lifetime of troubles. Home also marks the return of Pulitzer Prize–winning author Marilynne Robinson to Gilead, the setting and title of her acclaimed book from 2004. Family ties, the passing of the generations, love and death and faith, all are interrogated in this lyrical novel.
Art Recent Finds by Sean Lynch
The Gallery of Photography plays host to this new exhibition from Sean Lynch which unearths almost-forgotten historical topics, from the filming of The Spy Who Came in from the Cold in Dublin 1965 and the stir caused by Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor’s arrival in the city, to a vandalised statue of Bill Clinton.