February 3, 2011
Sean’s favourite Irish rock band … he particularly liked the tracks ‘Revelate’ and ‘Fake’, and used to play them a lot on his computer … also one or two others that I can’t now find. He enjoyed the Once movie as well … Hansard and Irglova received an Oscar for the ‘Falling Slowly’ song. (more…)
December 8, 2010
Sean liked film. He hadn’t gone to the cinema all that often since he was a child, but he watched a lot of films on television, often with his mum and me, or on the computer. He liked to discuss them afterwards (or sometimes while they were on – a practice that had to be curbed). He often drew attention to technical aspects, such as very long tracking shots; he noticed things that most people wouldn’t (without being taught them in a media class). I think he could have had a career in film-making – he had a great eye.
Sean was an enthusiastic admirer of certain actors, such as Robert de Niro, Al Pacino and Daniel Day Lewis, and would watch anything with one of them in it. Conversely, he had a deep and abiding loathing of Clint Eastwood. He wasn’t very keen on rom-coms either. (more…)
