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	Atlanta Film Society \| Intermission
		Intermission, written by playwright/director Mark O'Rowe, and directed by first-time director John Crowley, is a large ensemble piece with 11 main characters, 54 overall characters, all connected through the aforementioned John (Cillian Murphy), his beloved Dierdre (Kelly Macdonald), an Irish pub and a common theme.
		The film resembles religious allegory (loosely) in many ways, as it is not only about people in the midst of an intermission, but they are also all seeking redemption.
		Intermission may not be a classic in the making, nor is the style completely original, but it is great fun nonetheless.
	aaronfilms.tripod.com /reviews/intermission.htm (591 words)

	Intermission (2003) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Overall the film is pretty good, but when the story isn't really going anywhere, it drags and the chaos of it becomes a little grating.
		It's also difficult to understand what the actors are saying sometimes because of their thick Irish accent and slang.
		It's a pretty good film, though, the kind I might watch in the future if I'm channel-surfing and I come across it.
	www.imdb.com /title/tt0332658 (412 words)

	COLIN FARRELL FANSITE
		Intermission is an urban love story about people adrift and their convoluted journeys in the search for some kind of love.
		Intermission is the first feature from established theatre talents, director John Crowley and writer Mark O’Rowe, and the ensemble cast includes Colin Farrell, Colm Meaney and Cillian Murphy in a story about the unforeseeable fallout that ensues from a young couple’s break-up.
		Intermission is a Euros 4m Ireland-UK co-production backed equally by the Irish Film Board (its largest investment in an Irish film) and the UK Film Council, and utilising Ireland’s Section 481 and the UK’s Sale andLeaseback funding schemes.
	www.colinfarrellfansite.com /filmintermission.htm (1478 words)

	Intermission (2004): Reviews
		Intermission is like a creme brulee, invigoratingly grainy when you bite into it but sweet and soft underneath.
		The film opens with a very literal bang, but ultimately the characters are infinitely more interesting than the plot and the ensemble cast performs tremendously making the sum worth far more than the individual pieces.
		It is an inspiration that comes from the most inspired and influential film of the 1990's, "Pulp Fiction." And while no out-chronology, interwoven film has yet to touch it, Intermission shows exactly why "Pulp Fiction" was such a landmark film of contemporary cinema and such a great impact on every single film since then.
	www.metacritic.com /film/titles/intermission (1624 words)

	Intermission
		A little ways into Intermission, it becomes clear that there are too many characters and that as hard as the film tries, it will not amount to much.
		Intermission is a series of interconnected stories that take place in a seedier section of Dublin.
		This is the film that, at time could use subtitles because the accents are so heavy.
	www.haro-online.com /movies/intermission.html (471 words)

	Intermission London Movie Review
		Intermission is the feature debut of theatre director John Crowley — it was one of the best films at this year’s Edinburgh Film Festival and is certain to be both a critical and commercial hit now that it’s getting a nationwide release.
		The script is both witty and intelligent, with similar incidents recurring throughout the rest of the film — notably in the ‘romance’ between Noeleen and Oscar.
		Murphy and MacDonald are essentially the centre of the film and they’re an appealing couple, but there’s also strong support from the likes of Shirley Henderson, Ger Ryan (as Sally and Deirdre’s Mum) and especially relative newcomer David Wilmott as the love-starved Oscar (his video shop excursions are a definite highlight).
	www.viewlondon.co.uk /review_1861.html (433 words)

	NYCFilmCritic.com: My Architect/Intermission
		It used to be that when a child of a well-known father or mother wanted to air their feelings about said parent, they wrote a tell-all book.
		His father may be the film's subject, but it's really about Nathaniel's attempts to come to terms with Kahn's legacy.
		While it's probably the weakest of those three movies, Intermission is still a kick to watch, a darkly comic gem that--as many people have already noted--plays like a cross between Love Actually and Trainspotting.
	www.nycfilmcritic.com /display_film.php?id=92 (679 words)

	Intermission (2003): Cillian Murphy, Kelly MacDonald, Colm Meaney, Colin Farrell - PopMatters Film Review
		One conspicuous example Intermission's mordant comedy is the recurring plot device of the boy in the orange coat.
		John (Cillian Murphy) is a decent, if unerringly dull fellow, and though the movie throws all sorts of obstacles in his way, the frequent left turns in his story are just that: momentary detours meant to provide squeamish drama before the inevitable happy resolution.
		Crowley's film is an intriguing beginning to what will hopefully be a long and eventful career.
	www.popmatters.com /film/reviews/i/intermission-dvd.shtml (1060 words)

	KDHX Film Review - Intermission (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Like many a film these days, this Irish movie is about sex and violence.
		Lives collide all over this film, like silver balls against pin ball bumpers, but that is Crowley’s point.
		Intermission is amusing, a reminder of what goes on between reels.
	www.kdhx.org /reviews/intermission.html (339 words)

	Entr'acte / 1924 / film review / Rene Clair / Dada (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		This extraordinary early film from director René Clair was originally made to fill an interval between two acts of Francis Picabia’s new ballet, Relâche, at the Théâtre des Champs- Elysées in Paris in 1924.
		Music for the film was composed by the famous avant-garde composer Erik Satie, who appears in the film, along side its originator, Francis Picabia.
		Hence, one possible interpretation is that the film is mocking mankind's attempts to cope with the brevity of his existence.
	frenchfilms.topcities.com /nf_Entre_acte_rev.html (477 words)

	Movie Habit: Review of Intermission (2004), *** 1/2
		This is the most logically character-driven film in quite some time, an accomplishment all the more impressive considering the large ensemble cast that is being juggled.
		With its independent film sensibilities, Intermission has a satiric edge that is comfortable poking fun at life in Ireland as well as taking jabs at the media and the contributions to Irish culture made by the United States.
		Intermission is a low-budget independent film from Ireland, and that works to the movie’s advantage as it reverts back to good old-fashioned storytelling and a collection of memorable characters that make this Intermission a break well worth taking.
	www.moviehabit.com /reviews/int_da04.shtml (723 words)

	Movie DVD for Intermission
		The film focuses on the lives of a lot of miserable people, some who’ve just gotten out of a relationship, others who have found love, and others who have found love from the people who are just out of relationships.
		I think Intermission is a great first attempt from writer Mark O’Rowe and director John Crowley, but as a film it’s a bit ambitious, attempting to tell too many stories with too many characters within too short a time.
		The visual style of the film, and the way it attempts to weave its characters are both quite brilliant, but the end result comes up short because we never feel attached to the story we are watching.
	www.cinemablend.com /review.php?id=719 (1190 words)

	channel4.com/film - Intermission
		This is a film that delights in shifting tone, juxtaposing its comic moments with its more violent passages to a startling degree.
		At the heart of the tale is John (Murphy), an inarticulate young man who has just split from his girlfriend Deirdre (Macdonald), claiming he wanted to break up to see if she truly loves him.
		Finally, there is Mick (O'Byrne), a bus driver who is sacked after he loses control of his vehicle when a mysterious child hurls a rock at the windscreen.
	www.channel4.com /film/reviews/film.jsp?id=122698 (317 words)

	DVD Times - Intermission (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		The debut effort from theatre director John Crowley, ‘Intermission’ has a giant cast, a careening plot and an in-your-face, take-no-prisoners attitude that certainly keeps one glued, or should one say stuck, to the screen for its running time.
		This is the way the film is supposed to look however and not the fault of the anamorphic transfer which conveys Dublin’s grey skies and gritty streets convincingly to your screen.
		'Intermission' is somewhat sloppily put-together, has rather a lot of mediocre songs (apart from the early U2) and a script that sometimes lapses into the dreadful banality of the TV soap opera.
	www.dvdtimes.co.uk /content.php?contentid=13105 (748 words)

	RTE.ie Entertainment - Intermission makes top of Film Board
		'Intermission' has become the all time top-grossing film at the Irish box office for Bord Scannán na hÉireann/the Irish Film Board.
		In eight weeks since its release in Ireland, the John Crowley directed film has taken over €2.2 million and is now the 7th highest grossing title overall at the Irish box office in 2003, ahead of Hollywood titles such as 'Catch Me If You Can' and 'the Pirates Of The Caribbean'.
		'Intermission', which will be released in the UK on 28 November, has received 11 nominations for the Irish Film and Television Awards and John Crowley recently took home the UIP Award for Best Director at the Cork Film Festival.
	www.rte.ie /arts/2003/1022/intermission.html (164 words)

	ALEXANDER FILM COMPANY
		The b/w scans are from a group of films the author uncovered recently in a warehouse.
		As 'cheesy' as intermission films may appear today, it cannot be denied that they all featured extremely high production values, first-class animation, sound work and opticals.
		After production, the films were sent to the local theatres, and screened according to a particular schedule (in the mid 50s, this was usually a one week flight, but longer times evolved).
	www.driveinworkshop.com /alexander/alexandr.htm (704 words)

	Flash Film Works - Intermission (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		"Intermission" explores the deep psychosexual relationship between the working class and their post modern, post industrial, post cereal capitalist oppressors.
		The film acts as a cautionary tale, illustrating the dangers of a godless scientific technogarchy, wielding their mighty power uncontrolled, unchecqued, and unleaded.
		He has currently taken up residence in your cerebral cortex and is working to over come the debilitating effects of inertia.
	www.flashfilmworks.com /48-intermission.htm (103 words)

	Eyeball Kid - Film Reviews, Movie Reviews - Intermission - Review
		Meaney's performance is the standout of the film, as his Clannad-loving hard man with an eye for justice pursues the criminals and the limelight in equal measure and to hilarious effect.
		The film centres around the story of John (the excellent Cillian Murphy) and Deirdre (Kelly Macdonald –whose Irish accent is almost forgiveable, and certainly proves that fellow Celts can master it better than the Americans - yes we're pointing at you Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman).
		Nonetheless, ‘Intermission’ is as ambitious a project as we've seen in some time from homegrown Irish cinema.
	www.eyeballkid.com /intermission_movie_review.htm (360 words)

	Orlando Weekly - Film Review - Intermission
		Normally, this hateful technique is used to tart up movies in which not much happens anyway, but to have it short-circuit a passage that should by all rights be a tour de force — well, it's enough to make you doubt the existence of a true and loving God.
		In a way, though, it's a perfect introduction to "Intermission," which is consistently undercut by its ingrained tendency toward the crass.
		Only to provide an appropriate symbol for "Intermission," which from its obnoxious look to its comedic coprophagia shows a limitless propensity for taking a perfectly respectable framework and pooping all over it.
	www.orlandoweekly.com /film/review.asp?rid=4085 (510 words)

	OFFOFFOFF film review INTERMISSION Irish movie by John Crowley with Colin Farrell, Shirley Henderson, rest of cast ...
		It's a scene ripped almost from the opening of "Out of Sight." Colin Farrell, turning a little Clooney-esque charm on a blushing shop clerk, in a ploy to sweet-talk her out of the proceeds from the till.
		Sometimes scattershot, sometimes on target, the film tries to do a lot of things at once.
		Still, the results are fairly pleasing, owing to a few inspired plot surprises (keep your eye on the kid in the red jacket) and the winning personalities of the actors.
	www.offoffoff.com /film/2004/intermission.php (420 words)

	The DVD Maniacs - Forum - Where Eagles Dare DVD is missing footage (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		The intermission music wasn't included but let's not pretend this was an actual part of the film.
		Often, the films would have entrance music, an intermission(with music), an entr'acte(this opens the second half of the film--music plays), and aften The End pops on screen, there would be exit music.
		Most of these longer films in a second-run engagement would be missing their original opening, intermission, entr'acte, and exit musics.
	www.dvdmaniacs.net /forums/printthread.php?t=9594 (2068 words)

	BBC - Films - Intermission
		He also happens to be the manager of the bank that Lerhiff's got his eye on.
		Ensemble dramas are always more than the sum of the top billed name, though, and "Intermission" proves to be a real actors' showcase, with three outstanding performances from Henderson, MacDonald and Murphy.
		See what films are opening in the UK in 2006 and beyond
	www.bbc.co.uk /films/2003/09/12/intermission_2003_review.shtml (403 words)

	BBC - Films - Cillian Murphy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		And in film and TV, I try to base it on the words on the page and the people involved, not so much commercial reasons.
		Sometimes the darker stuff has greater potential for drama, it's always interesting to investigate things that you might come across in your own life.
		I'd love to work in America, some of my favourite films come from America, [and] there are some great directors over there.
	bbc.co.uk /films/2003/11/25/cillian_murphy_intermission_interview.shtml (516 words)

	Film Ireland - News
		Originally presented as a film installation as part of his Herald or Press show at the Douglas Hyde Gallery, Byrne's New Sexual Lifestyles film is based on a transcript of a panel discussion that appeared in Playboy magazine in 1973.
		The filmed re-enactment of this discussion with contemporary actors engages with the inherent theatricality of revisiting such a culturally specific time and context.
		Filmed in the well-known and celebrated late modernist structure, the Goulding Summer house in County Wicklow, which was built in 1972, the location itself brings its own timely history to the work.
	www.filmireland.net /news2.htm (2807 words)

	NightB4 : Films : Intermission
		This film is not showing at any cinema we cover for the rest of the week.
		This film was a little hard to get into as it had several story lines going on at once.
		Classic Irish film with all the colourful language you would expect from the gritty working class people the film portrayed.
	www.nightb4.com /films/1753 (295 words)

	Intermission film review :: Monkeyboy Review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Rumour has it that whilst filming his scenes for Intermission, Farrell stuck a brush up his arse so he could sweep the floor as well.
		Intermission is one of those films that are known as an ensemble piece.
		They're not Oscar worthy by any stretch of the imagination, but they suit the tone of the film, which veers from light hearted romp to sudden bursts of bloody violence with consummate ease.
	www.monkeyboyreview.co.uk /filmreviews/review/Intermission-143 (521 words)

	Intermission
		Director John Crowley's quirky, wildly unpredictable Intermission is a tonic for many mainstream films today; a cascade of various characters that intersect with sometimes volatile results.
		The film uses the now popular Pulp Fiction or Magnolia plot structure, visiting various storylines until they finally converge and make their relation to one another known.
		Brilliantly written by Mark O'Rowe, the film keeps the viewer's interest from start to finish, if for no other reason to see how backwards each character can become before realizing that all their effort could be better used by simply stating what they want.
	www.reelcriticreviews.com /reviews/intermission.htm (484 words)

	RTE.ie Entertainment - Intermission to open NY Film Fleadh
		Irish film 'Intermission', starring Colin Farrell and Cillian Murphy, is slated to open the New York Film Fleadh on 18 March.
		The Fleadh is an annual 4-day Irish film festival, which includes screenings of features, documentaries and short films.
		The New York Film Fleadh will take place from 18 to 22 March.
	www.rte.ie /arts/2004/0227/intermission.html (142 words)

	Intermission DVD review - Time Out Film (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		From its gobsmacking opening to the bravura climax, this first feature has a verve, energy and surprise that knocks you sideways.
		Murphy is John, who's split up with Deirdre (Macdonald) because she didn't refuse when he suggested it.
		That's barely the half of it, but it gives some notion of screenwriter O'Rowe's restless, roustabout ingenuity, his readiness to mix up sentiment, anarchy and farce.
	www.timeout.com /film/dvd.php?id=90637&redirect=true (256 words)

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