Robert O'Meara
@Bobunsound
Director, Producer, Writer, Soft Shoe Dancer, Part time podcaster. Film, music, books & art.
Delighted to join @colebrax on one of my favourite podcasts @WrongReel to discuss all things Irish film focusing on the last thirty years.
WR496 - @Bobunsound joins us for a celebration of Irish cinema over the last 30 years: bit.ly/2Vc0sPM
Starting the week off with another movie that's been kicking around on my watchlist for quite some time.
Richard Dreyfuss and Roy Scheider pleasure boatin’ on the set of Jaws. Don’t tell Quint! 😂
'What you have by heart, the bastards cannot touch, they cannot take it from you ... What you don't know by heart, you really haven't loved deeply enough.' George Steiner on the importance of learning by heart. I've seen this countless times, and it never ceases to move me.
‼️ Limited edition paperback of Alan Sharp’s novel based on his screenplay for NIGHT MOVES 📖 plumeriapics.co.uk/shop/ols/produ…
If anybody wants to pre-order from the UK my book "Travels through the Spanish Civil War" out November with @HurstPublishers, Watersons have 25% off from now until Thursday 31st night. Follow link and when checking out +add promotional code “SUMMER25” waterstones.com/book/travels-t…
Andy Garcia, Robert De Niro, Charles Smith, Kevin Costner and Sean Connery at the premiere of The Untouchables, 1987.
Bobbie Gentry 🎩🪄 Ode To Billie Joe Happy Birthday to the mysterious queen of Southern Gothic, Bobbie Gentry! Born July 27, 1942 🎂🎂🎂 A voice like no other, storytelling that chills, and a song that still leaves us wondering what was thrown off that Tallahatchie Bridge. ♥️
Roy Thinnes in, The Invaders (TV Series 1967–1968)
Thrilled to see this photo, never seen before, posted today. Capucine being interviewed on stage at The San Sebastián Film Festival in 1969, where The Exquisite Cadaver was Spain’s official entry,me waiting in the wings. You can see by the look on my face how much I adored her.
A real treat tonight on #NoirAlley. RIFIFI might warrant consideration as the most entertaining of all French crime films merely on the strength of its characters. When you fold that breathless, thirty-minute heist sequence into the mix, it becomes a thing of wonder. #TCMParty
A beautifully constructed document of its time. apple.news/AZqMJ072SRhSbZ…
Happy Birthday to Helen Mirren who turns 80 today! 🎂 ¡Felicidades! Here in her breakout role Age of Consent (1969) Michael Powell
“People will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think.” Aldous Huxley, July 26, 1894 – November 22, 1963. Photo by George Platt Lynes
Quintessential cover art/design from the late-1960s to mid-1970s.
Black Voices: An Anthology of Afro-American Literature Edited by Abraham Chapman This was an essential multi-genre anthology from 1968, published by Mentor. 720 page mass market paperback. Table of Contents below.
Sitting on the Trinty College grounds, the same place Maturin attended over 200 years ago.
Maria Schneider & Jack Nicholson in 'Professione: reporter' 1975 dir. Michelangelo Antonioni