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Brian Bowe @brian-bowe.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Today we’re Crying at the Movies with Box Office Supervisor Emma Flynn. Last Cinema Cry? BLUE HERON @ Light House Cinema “I saw it on my own, and there wasn’t a dry eye among the 30 or so other people at that screening” 👉 Read Emma’s full piece here: reelfeels.substack.com/p/crying-at-...

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Brian Bowe @brian-bowe.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Today we're Crying at the Movies with Charlie Kendellen. ✍️ Charlie is a writer and film journalist, with bylines including The University Observer and HeadStuff. Last Cinema Cry? THE SHEEP DETECTIVES Read her full piece here 👉 open.substack.com/pub/reelfeel...

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Brian Bowe @brian-bowe.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Laurie Anderson with Sex Mob at Dublin’s National Concert Hall last night. Part concert, part sermon, with an encore consisting of a Tai Chi workshop. Very fun.

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Brian Bowe @brian-bowe.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

RIP Tony Rayns. One of my favourite cinema experiences was spending an afternoon @irishfilminstitute.bsky.social in front of Rayns and Tsai Ming-liang for EAFFI 2019 (@eastasiaffirl.bsky.social), as seen in this blurry photo below. Rayns was full of wisdom and warmth, passion and curiosity.

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Brian Bowe @brian-bowe.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Today we're Crying at the Movies with photographer and writer Alex Sinclair. Last Cinema Cry? SOUND OF METAL @irishfilminstitute.bsky.social Read Alex's full piece 👉 reelfeels.substack.com/p/crying-at-...

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Brian Bowe @brian-bowe.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

I’m back in print @sightsoundmag.bsky.social So glad to be featured in such a jam-packed issue. Available on newsstands now. Quick, huff up that new print smell while it’s still fresh!!

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Brian Bowe @brian-bowe.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Today we’re Crying at the Movies with writer-director David Prendeville! Last Cinema Cry? CRIES AND WHISPERS @irishfilminstitute.bsky.social "This is a film that feels wrought from the most anguished corners of the soul” Read David’s full piece 👉 reelfeels.substack.com/p/crying-at-...

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Brian Bowe @brian-bowe.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

Favourite first-time watches of May 2026: • Night of the Juggler (1980) • The Wyrm of Bwlch Pen Barras (2023) • Maîtresse (1975) • Jean de Florette (1986)

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Brian Bowe @brian-bowe.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

"When someone influences how you see art, they inevitably change how you see life" Today we're Crying at the Movies with writer, journalist David Monaghan. Last Cinema Cry? THE STRAIGHT STORY @irishfilminstitute.bsky.social Read David’s full piece 👉 reelfeels.substack.com/p/crying-at-...

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Brian Bowe @brian-bowe.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

I’m hoping all this goofy Vin Diesel content coming out of Cannes eventually leads to a colourful cameo in a Safdie movie. Perhaps an eccentric bingo hall owner who makes a dishonest living scamming widows? Unlikely, but wd be fun seeing big Vinny go on a run playing kooky parts in auteur pics.

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Brian Bowe @brian-bowe.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

Today on Reel Feels we're crying at the movies with actor and writer Dylan Tighe Last Cinema Cry? FOR SAMA (2019) @irishfilminstitute.bsky.social "It stands as the most intimate indictment of war I have seen on film” Read Dylan’s full piece 👉 reelfeels.substack.com/p/crying-at-...

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Brian Bowe @brian-bowe.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

Today we’re Crying at the Movies with filmmaker Ellius Grace  Last Cinema Cry?  ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER   "Willa's existence is political, revolutionary, with so many difficult, unknowable sides — and sometimes that’s how it feels to be mixed race"  read his full peice 👉 reelfeels.substack.com

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Brian Bowe @brian-bowe.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

New blog! Today we’re Crying at the Movies with writer-producer Jahvar McLean. Last cinema cry? My Daughter Is a Zombie “Sometimes it takes a zombie film to make you call your mother.” Read his full piece 👉 reelfeels.substack.com/p/crying-at-...

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Brian Bowe @brian-bowe.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

Oh, I was just there over the weekend — the Edgar Kaufmann office designed by Frank Lloyd Wright was quite a sight! 😍

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Brian Bowe @brian-bowe.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

The Rio did not disappoint — Funky-ass lobby with a box tv playing Dumbo on VHS, hip ushers and hipper clientele, a fabulous (and tall) screening room with dimmed exit signs, and gender-neutral toilets. Top marks all round!

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Brian Bowe @brian-bowe.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

Today, we're crying at the movies with film editor STEPHEN STAUNTON Last Cinema Cry? 28 YEARS LATER "At a time when I needed it, this offered something strangely comforting: Not a promise of survival, but a reminder of why life matters" Read his full piece 👉 reelfeels.substack.com/p/crying-at-...

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Brian Bowe @brian-bowe.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

I rented BARB WIRE (1996) on YouTube like a good, law-abiding citizen and was fed a horribly cropped version, all stretched out to shit. Tell me, how am I meant to fully appreciate a bald Udo Kier with half his shiny head out of frame??

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Brian Bowe @brian-bowe.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

Kicking off the 10th East Asia Film Festival Ireland @irishfilminstitute.bsky.social with Agnis Shen Zhongmin’s debut, SHANGHAI DAUGHTER 🇨🇳

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Brian Bowe @brian-bowe.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

We're Crying at the Movies with critic and radio host Philip Bagnall @cynicalfilm.bsky.social Last Cinema Cry? HAMNET "I staggered out from that screening with reddened eyes, relieved to find friends who shared the same feelings just a few rows behind me" 👉 reelfeels.substack.com/p/crying-at-...

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Brian Bowe @brian-bowe.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

Nothing infuriates me more than seeing people with their phones out during a movie. But when it’s a bunch of giddy grannies trying to get a snap of the King on the big screen, I let it slide. “Didn’t he have lovely eyelashes.” You’re damn right he did, Eleanor. Damn right!

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Brian Bowe @brian-bowe.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

My sincere apologies to whoever was sitting behind me during SIRĀT @irishfilminstitute.bsky.social yesterday and had to watch my head bobbing for two hours straight. But damn! Between this, Bugonia, Marty Supreme and OBAA, we’ve been spoiled rotten with some cracking scores the last 6 months.

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Brian Bowe @brian-bowe.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

Today, we're crying at the movies with academic and film festival co-director SARAH CULLEN. Last cinema cry? 28 YEARS LATER. "...sentimentalism is a helluva drug, and I’d prefer to be drawn in by it than never feel anything." full piece 👉 reelfeels.substack.com/p/crying-at-...

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Brian Bowe @brian-bowe.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

Anyway, really liked that goofy finger scene 🌲⛺️👉👉👉⛪️🌲 and love me a bit of Abbott, especially when horny and pathetic.

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Brian Bowe @brian-bowe.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

On paper it’s everything I could want: historical epic about a fundamentalist raver! And while the dancing/chanting set pieces are sublime, the performances great across the board, I felt at a distance for most of the film, unable to get any sense of character as we hurtled through the decades…

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Brian Bowe @brian-bowe.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

Wuthering Heights? Ah it’s alright, but that bit where Cathy’s dad is rooming with Heathcliff has serious sitcom spinoff potential! Gimme some of that! Do they have a household chore rota?

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Brian Bowe @brian-bowe.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

“We're not freaked out. We're just two normal, slightly confused people trying to be connected to the whole damn rotten enchilada!” Yes. That pretty much sums it up, all right. To be alive, in love and scared of everything. Sissy knows the suss.

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Brian Bowe @brian-bowe.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

If you’re looking for Sunday matinee viewing, line up ROBIN AND MARIAN (1976). Both a quietly affecting meditation on aging and a fun little meta-textual riff on Connery’s post-Bond star persona — here playing a man rebuilding his sense of self after years of bloody heroics.

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Brian Bowe @brian-bowe.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

ICYMI Today we’re crying at the movies with film writer and poet CIARÁN O’ROURKE. Last cinema cry: CHE “…brought me closer to the brutality of the world – our world – that killed him, and which he had struggled to change for the better” Full piece 👉 reelfeels.substack.com/p/crying-at-...

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Brian Bowe @brian-bowe.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

A round of applause for casting director Meredith Tucker 👏👏

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Brian Bowe @brian-bowe.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

Your Monday morning read is here! After a brief getaway to the International Film Festival Rotterdam, I’m back in the hot seat and ready to big-ups our recent film coverage over at HeadStuff, all thanks to our talented (and lovely!) group of writers. 👏 👏 Check the comments for more

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Brian Bowe @brian-bowe.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

Sometimes a shorts programme can be saved by just one film. Today, this was that film. Best use of VR I've seen, and the Q&A which followed was similarly refreshing in its candour and humility. (The language some filmmakers use you’d swear they learned how to talk through writing grant proposals.)

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Brian Bowe @brian-bowe.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

Favourite first-time watches of January 2026: • Heavenly Creatures (1994) • Ruggles of Red Gap (1935) • Marty Supreme (2025) • Cluny Brown (1946)

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Brian Bowe @brian-bowe.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

“Shooting on film is cheaper than on digital, because with digital you have to buy a new camera every couple of years, while a film camera last generations.” — Tetsuya Maruyama

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Brian Bowe @brian-bowe.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

Extremely happy to see Rotterdam’s Cinerama survived last year’s looming closure. My fav festival spot, always heaving with hungry film fans.

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Brian Bowe @brian-bowe.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

We here have but one thing in common, we’re about to watch Nakahara Shun’s joyous and salacious sex comedy Anxious Virgin: One More Time, I Love You (1990).

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Brian Bowe @brian-bowe.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

NEW BLOG POST 📽️ Actor RICHARD MCWILLIAMS has appeared on Fair City, Vikings and was recently nominated Best Actor and at the 15th Underground Cinema Film Awards. The last time he cried in a movie theatre? Andrei Zvyagintsev’s 2017 searing drama LOVELESS 👉 reelfeels.substack.com/p/crying-at-...

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Brian Bowe @brian-bowe.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

Mickey Squires (Richard Bernstein) was in attendance for MICKEY & RICHARD, a heartfelt portrait of the gay porn icon and brilliant archive of the its golden age. Dublin’s GAZE film festival would be doing well to grab this for their summer lineup. 👀

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Brian Bowe @brian-bowe.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

Saw this lad through a window. Think I’ll call him Pep Chumney.

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Brian Bowe @brian-bowe.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

Really liking the fest poster this year. Also, being back I’m instantly reminded of how much legroom Dutch cinemas offer. Heaven.

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Brian Bowe @brian-bowe.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

Last night’s Q&A screening of Ben Wheatley’s BULK made for a lovely evening @irishfilminstitute.bsky.social

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Brian Bowe @brian-bowe.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

SONG SUNG BLUE really hit my sweet spot. A perfectly pitched underdog biopic that wears its goofy heart on its sleeve, proudly embracing the dizzying feel of TV movie melodramas. And wow, at a daunting 133 mins, it sure goes down easy. 🌩

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Brian Bowe @brian-bowe.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

A bunch of great write-ups from our team this week -- including news of IMBOLG, an upcoming Dublin festival celebrating women who terrify, both on screen and behind the camera.

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Brian Bowe @brian-bowe.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

The Academy overlooking Daniel Lopatin’s Marty Supreme score has to be the biggest snub. A downright shame.

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