My Journal of the 2006 Cork Film Festival…
Cork, Ireland, October 8 through 15

Jumping the queue (festival films seen and reviewed prior to the festival)
An Inconvenient Truth
The Truman Show

Sunday 8 October
Imagine This (short)
Death of a President

Monday 9 October
Lila dit ça (Lila Says)
The Rocket Post
Leonard Cohen: I’m Your Man

Tuesday 10 October
The Hamster Cage
The History Boys
Fish (short)
Hollywoodland

Wednesday 11 October
Special

Thursday 12 October
The Lives of the Saints
Middletown
Breaking the Rules

Friday 13 October
J’ai vu tuer Ben Barka (I Saw Ben Barka Get Killed)
Play
A Good Year
Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan

Saturday 14 October
Sixty Six
Soy Cuba (I Am Cuba)
Les Volets (The Shutters) (short)
The Namesake
Shortbus

Sunday 15 October
Twelve and Holding
The Faeries of Blackheath Woods (short)
Eut-elle été criminelle… (Even If She Had Been a Criminal…) (short)
Marie Antoinette

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My Commentaries

12 October 2006: I did it! I finally did it! I finally wrote a whole column about Cork without mentioning Roy Keane! Oops… [Pulling another Cork]
19 October 2006: Come to think of it, the family dynamics of The Hamster Cage might tell us more about current American politics than does Death of a President [Re-Corked]

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Links to official film festival sites