| EVENTS RELATED TO FILM SCHOOL Thursday November 30th The lecture is hold in English and open to everybody. NO FEE! When the average cinema buff thinks of Irish film, two names come to mind right away: Jim Sheridan and Neil Jordan. Of the films directed by these two countrymen and contemporaries, a number have reached Estonian screens, but both men undoubtedly merit major attention as filmmakers whose works are beloved by both critics and ordinary cinema audiences. This year, Black Nights offers an opportunity to make a closer acquaintance with the younger but more prolific of them. Born in 1950, Neil Jordan was originally a prose writer, and alongside
Ingel/Angel (1982) The Company of Wolves 1984 Reviews of the films on pp 203-205 in the BNFF catalogue and on the webpage |
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at Stuttgart University in 1998 and entered the Corporate Communications Division of the BMW AG the same year. He has worked as spokesperson for TV and Photo for Rover Ltd. and BMW AG. Since 2003 he is the Manager for Product Placement and Film/AV Media at BMW Group, concerning BMW, MINI and Rolls-Royce. In 2006 he began the Professorship for Corporate Communications at the University of Applied Sciences Mittweida in Germany.
filmmaking, he continues to be active in this field to this day. Indeed, this Jordan retrospective was inspired by the publication of Krista Kaer’s translation of his fourth novel, “Shade” (2004). Jordan came to cinema relatively late, making his debut in 1982. By now he has already directed 15 full-length feature films, of which the BNFF audiences will see one-third.