Karl Whitney

Incredibly playful and entertaining films, even when the material is dark

I have the letters (somewhere!) and an assortment of DVDs from Fopp, but hadn't seen any of the Doinel films apart from 400 Blows.

On a Truffaut kick too, digging through what's on the BFI Player.

Me planning my next project

Alan Shearer all narrative and no critical analysis

Need a disgraced/discarded RTE star who does a podcast reflecting on their own insignificance and the essential meaninglessness of life. Better than using digital means to chase the buzz of their former celebrity. Partridge has shown you the way!

Never not doing a Dunkirk.

The Square, Tallaght

What you’re writing needs to be mysterious even to yourself for as long as you can manage it. That mystery is what keeps you going.

You want to preserve the conundrum at the core of what you’re doing.

Beginnings www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/ar...

Beginnings www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/ar...

Very United post-Fergie (Alex not Sarah) panic from the royals at the moment.

In Focus: Ebo Taylor 20th February 2026 Playing Funk, Afrobeat, Highlife. A two-hour tribute celebrating the legacy of the late, great Ebo Taylor — pioneering guitarist, composer, arranger, producer, and bandleader who helped define modern ...

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Ebo Taylor obituary Ghanaian guitarist, arranger, singer-songwriter and cult hero who rose to fame outside Africa only late in life

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Diaries, like personal growth, are forever a work in progress Documenting the great and small moments in your every day life serves many purposes, even — perhaps especially — when it’s not for publication, writes Karl Whitney

Have been reading Helen Garner's diaries while thinking about my notetaking habits. www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/ar...

Diaries, like personal growth, are forever a work in progress Documenting the great and small moments in your every day life serves many purposes, even — perhaps especially — when it’s not for publication, writes Karl Whitney

Have been reading Helen Garner's diaries while thinking about my notetaking habits. www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/ar...

Why Frederick Wiseman Was the Greatest Documentary Filmmaker Ever In nearly sixty years of nonfiction filmmaking, Wiseman passionately probed the nodal points of political and social power and connected them in a cinematic universe of his own.

Considering and celebrating the career of Frederick Wiseman, the greatest of all documentary filmmakers:
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Frederick Wiseman, 96, Penetrating Documentarian of Institutions, Dies He exposed abuses in films like “Titicut Follies,” a once-banned portrait of a mental hospital, but ranged widely in subject matter, from a Queens neighborhood to a French restaurant.

Frederick Wiseman, a director whose rigorously objective explorations of social and cultural institutions constitute one of the more revered bodies of work in American documentary filmmaking, died on Monday. He was 96. nyti.ms/4qGpq55

The Perec Case | Paul Keegan | Granta ‘Perec went into analysis because he suspected that the ludic bent of his writing was in fact blocking an approach to his life story.’ Paul Keegan on Georges Perec’s psychoanalytic sessions with…

‘Perec went into analysis because he suspected that the ludic bent of his writing was in fact blocking an approach to his life story.’

Paul Keegan on Perec’s decision to enter analysis with Pontalis.

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Relic of a bygone era.

'Alone at home all evening, polishing my rave review of Wayne's World'
- Helen Garner, How to End a Story: Collected Diaries

With huge leaps forward in jumper fluff-shaving technology we're looking at the world's first fully shaved jumper by 2038.

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Valuable work thanks

Bez: Karl, can you call me back and see me? I'll go and put my teeth in. I ain't got no teeth in, so you won't be able to understand that.
KW: Okay, I'll give you, I'll call you back in five, will it?
Bez: All right, then mate, one sec.
KW: Okay.

KW: Hello, is that Bez?
Bez: It is, yeah.
KW: Hello, Bez. I'm Karl. [Bez's publicist] was in touch with you earlier about me calling you.
Bez: Yeah, hello. Hi, Karl. How are you?
KW: I'm doing well. How are you?

Just used Microsoft Word's audio transcription feature on an old file.