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AN IRISH DIRECTOR’S debut film has been selected for the prestigious Director’s Fortnight at this year’s Cannes Film Festival.
Sci-fi film Last Day on Mars, directed by Ruairí Robinson, is one of 21 films chosen as part of the lineup for the annual sidebar at Cannes next month.
Robinson was nominated for an Oscar in 2002 for Best Animated Short Film. Last Day on Mars is his first full-length film and was part-funded by the Irish Film Board and the British Film Institute.
The film stars Liev Schreiber, Olivia Williams and Romola Garai and is about a crew of astronauts who make a major scientific discovery while carrying out research on Mars – but then one by one succumb to a mysterious force.
Ruairí Robinson said it was a “very exciting and wonderful endorsement of the creative talents of my cast and crew,” adding:
My head just exploded.
A number of other Irish films have been selected for the Director’s Fortnight in the past, including the Lenny Abrahamson-directed Garage. Sofia Coppola, Werner Herzog, Michael Haneke and Spike Lee all had their debut films selected for Director’s Fortnight over the past three decades.
The full list of films in Cannes Directors’ Fortnight:
Above the Hill – Raphael Nadjari
Les Apaches – Thierry De Peretti
Ate ver a luz – Basil Da Cunha
Blue Ruin – Jeremy Saulnier
The Congress – Ari Folman
La Danza de la realidad – Alejandro Jodorowsky
L’Escale – Kaveh Bakhtiari
La Fille du 14 Juillet – Antonin Peretjako
Henri – Yolande Moreau
Ilo Ilo – Anthony Chen
Jodorowsky’s Dune – Franck Pavich
Last Days on Mars – Ruairi Robinson
Les Garçons et Guillaume, à table! – Guillaume Gallienne
Magic Magic – Sebastian Silva
On the Job – Erik Matti
The Selfish Giant Clio Barnard
Tip Top – Serge Bozon
Ugly – Anurag Kashyap
Un voyageur – Marcel Ophuls
El verano de los peces voladores – Marcela Said
We Are What We Are – Jim Mickle
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Friday’s answer = 11
Why?
The written numbers are the number of digital lines making up the preceding number.
It was too simple! Pointless really…
I got it by chance. I saw the difference between the pairs of digital numbers was 6, 6, 12, 12. I thought then the penned in numbers had a similar pattern 7, 9, 9, 11. I thought there must be another 11 then. The real reason makes more sense but it’s funny how this worked out.
Maybe yours is the real reason and mine is by chance.
We’ll probably never know.
Did the same as Mr Dragmire.
You still recognised the pattern Mr dragmire.
Geez, no explanation for Friday’s answer which wasn’t a maths puzzle and no clarification for Tuesday’s mess up either, ending with a whimper.
Tuesday’s was OK – the absence of explanation was unfortunate.
Half the children had a dog – so their can’t be 25 or 27 children, other wise you have half a dog!
So there were either 15 or 26 Dogs
But there were 3 times as many dogs as cats – so which of 15 & 26 is divisible by 3?
OK
15 dogs, 5 cats, 8 goldfish & 2 hamsters – 30 pets – and also 30 children.
It wanted number of pets not number of students. 24 students would have 25 pets between them and 30 students would have 30 pets between them. The only conditions are that total #students must be divisible by 6 and that total #pets must be divisible by 5.
Tuesdays answer could have been 25 also. 12 dogs, 4 cats, 7 goldfish & 2 hamsters equal 25.
All the people that got their knickers in a twist on Tuesday can now un twist them :)
But they haven’t cleared up the confusion despite the reams of comments pointing out their mistake.
What was their mistake on Tuesday? I can’t see one.
With the way the question was phrased both 25 and 30 are possible answers.
The answer is dependant on the assumption that each child only has one pet. It may seem trivial but saying that half the children have dogs doesn’t help at all without that knowledge. It should have just said half the pets are dogs or made it clear that each child had only one pet.
Ok – I see how that could be possible if you allow for a pupil having two pets.
A bit of a contrived gripe in my view.
Not really contrived in my opinion. That caught me up as well until I said fe<k it and just made the assumption. I wrote it in my copy book and everything. Really should have stated it in the question.
Has Jane found out how many kids were in that classroom ? Classic!!
Have you figured out that 72 isn’t the answer to today’s one?
Yes I have ,Leopold.
4/5 not bad, water one got me.
water a vexed question right now – especially if one is asked to pay for it.
Professor layton; journal style
I thought the teeth brushing one was poorly worded. I got the “correct” answer if I based the time on 50 mins ie subtracting the rinsing time.
Seconds not mins!
72 should have been the right answer ..
72 is the right answer if you’re looking at the big numbers.
But the next number will be one of the faint numbers.
I think it’s 11.
If you loop the faint numbers, skipping one number each time, you get 11.
The 7 goes with the second 9
And the first 9 goes with the first 11
So the next loop would make it 7 to 9 to 11. The loops are overlapping
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