Luna Carmoon's 'Hoard,' Finneas meets Sydney Lima, The Banshees of Inisherin, Sargent and Fashion
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Luna Carmoon: “Even when I was little I was always in touch with my shadow”
After her debut film Hoard earned her a thunderous standing ovation at Venice last year, for Issue 7, British filmmaker and rising star Luna Carmoon sat down with A Rabbit’s Foot to discuss her upcoming feature, the state of British cinema, and her love of the macabre. “I never enjoyed cartoons as a kid, I would always be searching for the darker things,” she tells Luke Georgiades. “I’ve had a lot of dark things happen in my life, and they’re some of the funniest moments. I’ve seen big court cases, people dying in horrific ways, skeletons coming out the closet—at the end of the day you’ve gone through this pure adrenaline of tearing yourself apart and it ends with laughter.”
Sydney Lima meets Finneas
“It’s my team’s job to rush me in and out of things, but I actually have nowhere to be.” From the calm waters of Echo Park in Los Angeles, Sydney Lima catches up with singer-songwriter and producer Finneas who has just been awarded the Best Original Song Academy Award for ‘What Was I Made For?’ in Barbie. In an exclusive interview for A Rabbit’s Foot, Finneas talks Oscars (“It feels like a school assembly,”) his early acting career (“I’m not going to tell people the titles because I don’t want people to look them up,”) Guinness (“In Ireland, they call it the black stuff,”) being a Lefty (“left-handed”) and plenty more.
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Postcard from Galway: visiting the pub from The Banshees of Inisherin
The entrepreneurial landlord of Mee’s Pub in Kilkerrin, Galway, had a brilliant idea: taking the pub, JJ Devines, from The Banshees of Inisherin filmset then installing it, brick by brick, inside the smoking area of his own pub. Returning to his Irish roots, Sam Murphy went on a road trip to the film set (which has become something of a tourist attraction) and found Taylor Swift rumours, miniature donkeys and a very good pint of Guinness.
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Sargent and Fashion
Known as a painter of portraits, John Singer Sargent is now being examined in light of his status as a fashion stylist. ‘Sargent and Fashion,’ a new exhibition at the Tate Britain in London is a curation of around 60 paintings in which clothes are richly rendered, used as symbols of identity, class and desire. Further illuminating the Sargent’s relationship to fashion, many of the paintings are shown alongside the period dress and accessories worn by the models themselves.
