‘I'd many near escapes of the brutal 1970s education system. I was lucky’
Director Sophie Fiennes pulls no punches - making her the perfect director to make a biopic of the magnificent Grace Jones
Oscars countdown starts here. And the Irish are in the race
Several films with Irish involvement impressed critics at the Toronto Film Festival
McDonagh wins People’s Choice Award at Toronto film festival
The prize for London-Irish author’s film ‘Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri’ raises hopes for Oscar success
Grace Jones: ‘Carry yourself with class’
The icon of sound and style on partying in Dublin, why the Eighth Amendment should be scrapped and how she learned from the likes of Talking Heads, Cyndi Lauper and Debbie Harry
Grace Jones to play Dublin in September for Irish-produced film of her life
The singer will perform for one night, and footage from it will appear in Blinder Film’s documentary
A new British/Irish documentary on Grace Jones is in the pipeline
She’s one of the most compelling singers to ever grab a microphone and glare down the barrel of an audience, but how much do we really know about Grace Jones?
The pervert’s guide to Slavoj Zizek
Firebrand Slovenian academic Slavoj Zizek has spent his entire career dismantling culture and exposing the banality of conventional wisdom. He’s delivering his splenetic opinions again in Sophie Fiennes’s ‘The Pervert’s Guide to Ideology’. “Life is shit,” he says. “But it’s relatively okay today.”
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