To view more from the collection click here. This film is part of the IFI’s newly unveiled collection F-Rated: Short Films by Irish Women. A young man nervously calls a maternity hospital for news of his young wife.Īlthough many of those interviewed admitted they do not use the service anymore, the phone box is a fondly remembered feature of Irish village life. In Donegal, a man laughingly recalls how two women became trapped inside one while trying to wait out a bad storm. "Bye Bye Now" from the IFI features a couple in Mayo who are celebrating their 50th-anniversary and credit the box for helping to keep their long-distance romance alive.
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The phone box would assume a monumental role in many people’s lives allowing them to stay connected with loved ones and receive all sorts of important news.
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When phone boxes were first introduced in Irish villages in the 1920s, there was stern competition between local businesses to have one installed outside their property.
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Slacktory would like to remind us all that phone booths are not always safe spaces in movies."Bye Bye Now," a short Irish film from 2009, is now available to stream for free on the Irish Film Institute's IFI Archive Player.Okay, okay, here’s one more from Little White Lies: in praise of Bob Hoskins‘ performance in The Long Good Friday.Want to conjure most excellent and bodacious vibes? Look no further than this supercut of all the phone booth moments in Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure.More work from Little White Lies: here’s their montage of how Spanish auteur Pedro Almodóvar uses sound design to construct vibrant, tactile worlds.And another: a montage of every single Matt Damon cameo.Here’s another taste of Little White Lies‘ work: a love letter to the less popular B-movie monsters of the 1950s.You can subscribe to their YouTube account here. And you can check out their official website here. You can follow Little White Lies on Twitter here. The above video was directed and written by Luís Azevedo and Jake Cunningham, respectfully. This video comes courtesy of the fine folks over at Little White Lies, a film-obsessed magazine based in the United Kingdom.
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Watch “ Missed Calls: A Eulogy For The Movie Phone Booth”: In that spirit, here’s a video essay that celebrates the booth’s cinematic impact. But it lives on, eternally, on-screen as one of the greatest cinematic locations of all time. In the real world, the phone booth has fallen into obscurity over the years. And so the phone booth presents an intriguing paradox: a glass cage with the potential to transport its user anywhere - including, if you’re in the right booth, across time and space itself. They can offer a refuge from Hitchcock’s hysterical birds and (temporarily) from hungry intergalactic blobs.īut they can also act as temples of human connection: oases of intimacy in anonymous cities and lonely truck stops. They are an ideal location for espionage and intrigue a secretive dispensary of intel and an essential life-line when you suspect all your other avenues are bugged. Invented in the late 19th century around the same time as the moving image, phone booths are an essential stage for some of cinema’s most memorable, tense, and emotionally-charged moments. There’s something special about the smaller, less assuming cinematic locations: the bathtubs, the car trunks, and the diner counters that elevate the commonplace into more dramatic territory.Īnd there are few locations more humble and cinematic than the telephone booth.
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