On The Picture Show this week:
On tonight’s The Picture Show, Philip Molloy chats to Irish director and writer, Ivan Kavanagh about his newly released feature film The Canal.
Kavanagh is proving to be one of Ireland’s most versatile and creative filmmakers having written, directed and edited five features and ten short films including the ‘Tin Can Man’ (2007), ‘Our Wonderful Home’ (2008) and ‘The Fading Light’ (2009).
Kavanagh describes The Canal as a “Psychological horror” and states that he wanted to make a film that “had a real visceral impact on the audience which would leave them stunned.
The Dublin filmmaker discusses the cinematic appeal of horror movies and says that “cinematically you can do absolutely anything with them; you can push the medium as far as you want to go.”
The Canal is an Irish ghost story that follows film archivist David, (Rupert Evans) his wife Alice (Hannah Hoekstra) and their 5-year-old son, Billy. (Calum Heath) All seems well until David begins to suspect that Alice is cheating on him. This stress compounded with the discovery of a film-reel from 1902 that shows his house as the setting of a brutal series of murders by a man named William Jackson causes David to become progressively more unsettled and unhinged. When a shadowy figure of a man, who resembles Jackson, starts to appear to him, David becomes convinced that the presence never wants him or his family to leave.
(Cert: 16)
Also coming up:
Joseph McBride an American screenwriter, film historian and professor in the Cinema Department at San Francisco State University joins The Picture Show tonight to discuss the work of Orson Welles. (1915 – 1985)
As an expert on the famous actor, writer and director, McBride talks about how Welles “revolutionised the art of filmmaking with his first feature Citizen Kane, made when he was only 25.”
In 1970, Orsen Welles began work on his innovative comeback movie The Other Side of the Wind; However, although Welles finished shooting the movie he never managed to finish the post-production. Now, the unfinished film might finally see the light of day as film distributor Royal Road have bought the rights to the movie.
The Picture Show, tonight at 6pm, on Newstalk 106-108 FM.
