Paul Markey
@boothprojection.bsky.social
Former child actor 🎥/ Present day adult / Last man standing in a booth/Projectionist at the Irish Film Institute 📽/Writer for RTE_Culture/ All opinion & laments are my own.
https://www.rte.ie/author/847675-paul-markey/
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Sentimental hogwash? No. It IS a wonderful life on Sunset Boulevard at the Irish Film Institute this Christmas.
@irishfilminstitute.bsky.social #sunsetblvd #itsawonderfullife #projectionbooth
@irishfilminstitute.bsky.social #sunsetblvd #itsawonderfullife #projectionbooth
December 14, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Sentimental hogwash? No. It IS a wonderful life on Sunset Boulevard at the Irish Film Institute this Christmas.
@irishfilminstitute.bsky.social #sunsetblvd #itsawonderfullife #projectionbooth
@irishfilminstitute.bsky.social #sunsetblvd #itsawonderfullife #projectionbooth
Screen testing this morning @irishfilminstitute.bsky.social a shining example of cinema. Showing from today in 4K and a decent volume. #stanleykubrick #projectionbooth #irishfilminstitute
December 12, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Screen testing this morning @irishfilminstitute.bsky.social a shining example of cinema. Showing from today in 4K and a decent volume. #stanleykubrick #projectionbooth #irishfilminstitute
Found footage from the Irish Film Institute projection booth in 2025. @irishfilminstitute.bsky.social
December 5, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Found footage from the Irish Film Institute projection booth in 2025. @irishfilminstitute.bsky.social
From up in the booth at the Irish Film Institute in 2025. @irishfilminstitute.bsky.social
December 5, 2025 at 5:10 PM
From up in the booth at the Irish Film Institute in 2025. @irishfilminstitute.bsky.social
Woody is 90 today. He’s been writing for 75 years. At least 50 of those on the same typewriter. #WoodyAllen #projectionbooth #irishfilminstitute
December 1, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Woody is 90 today. He’s been writing for 75 years. At least 50 of those on the same typewriter. #WoodyAllen #projectionbooth #irishfilminstitute
BARRY LYNDON artefacts, from my own collection and the KUBRICK exhibition some years ago.
July 17, 2025 at 5:04 PM
BARRY LYNDON artefacts, from my own collection and the KUBRICK exhibition some years ago.
Sunday in the booth with Dietrich & Lubitsch @irishfilminstitute.bsky.social #marlenedietrich #ernstlubitsch #projectionbooth 📽️
June 22, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Sunday in the booth with Dietrich & Lubitsch @irishfilminstitute.bsky.social #marlenedietrich #ernstlubitsch #projectionbooth 📽️
Due to the particular 2.76:1 picture ratio chosen by director Danny Boyle, 27 YEARS LATER has been assigned its own special 🎆 Projector lens 📽️ in Screen 1 at @irishfilminstitute.bsky.social. Along with our drop down masking, this ensures the film image will be concentrated & entirely black bar free.
June 18, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Due to the particular 2.76:1 picture ratio chosen by director Danny Boyle, 27 YEARS LATER has been assigned its own special 🎆 Projector lens 📽️ in Screen 1 at @irishfilminstitute.bsky.social. Along with our drop down masking, this ensures the film image will be concentrated & entirely black bar free.
Super spiffy print. 📽️
May 3, 2025 at 10:24 PM
Super spiffy print. 📽️
#DavidLean’s THE BRIDGE ON THE RIVER KWAI will showing from a lovely NEARLY NEW #35mm 📽️ print on Saturday afternoon May 10th at the @irishfilminstitute.bsky.social
April 23, 2025 at 8:22 PM
#DavidLean’s THE BRIDGE ON THE RIVER KWAI will showing from a lovely NEARLY NEW #35mm 📽️ print on Saturday afternoon May 10th at the @irishfilminstitute.bsky.social
THIS HAPPY BREED (1944), Dir: #DavidLean, #35mm 🎞️ restored print from 2008 @irishfilminstitute.bsky.social #ProjectionBooth 📽️
April 6, 2025 at 4:14 PM
THIS HAPPY BREED (1944), Dir: #DavidLean, #35mm 🎞️ restored print from 2008 @irishfilminstitute.bsky.social #ProjectionBooth 📽️
March 23, 2025 at 5:10 PM
My film worker dad, John Markey, & me on a visit to the set of KUNG FU DEADLY, a Kung Fu supernatural comedy now filming in Dublin based on my screenplay. My dad has doubled for #JohnHurt, #GeoffreyRush, and got punched by #SeanConnery (though not at the same time). @irishfilminstitute.bsky.social
March 12, 2025 at 7:46 PM
My film worker dad, John Markey, & me on a visit to the set of KUNG FU DEADLY, a Kung Fu supernatural comedy now filming in Dublin based on my screenplay. My dad has doubled for #JohnHurt, #GeoffreyRush, and got punched by #SeanConnery (though not at the same time). @irishfilminstitute.bsky.social
Screen testing RAN (1985), Dir: #AkiraKurosawa at @irishfilminstitute.bsky.social #ProjectionBooth from a stunning 4K DCP 🎆
March 7, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Screen testing RAN (1985), Dir: #AkiraKurosawa at @irishfilminstitute.bsky.social #ProjectionBooth from a stunning 4K DCP 🎆
My few words from up high on Ireland's love affair with cinema-going. The things I've seen....mostly baldness and bums on seats. #ProjectionBooth @irishfilminstitute.bsky.social
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March 4, 2025 at 3:11 PM
My few words from up high on Ireland's love affair with cinema-going. The things I've seen....mostly baldness and bums on seats. #ProjectionBooth @irishfilminstitute.bsky.social
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March 2, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Now up in the living room. My dad worked on #EatThePeach 🎞️ as #EamonMorrissey’s stand in. It’s taken me years to find the poster. #ProjectionBooth #Irishfilminstitute 📽️
February 15, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Now up in the living room. My dad worked on #EatThePeach 🎞️ as #EamonMorrissey’s stand in. It’s taken me years to find the poster. #ProjectionBooth #Irishfilminstitute 📽️
From the projection booth at @irishfilminstitute.bsky.social 📽️
January 30, 2025 at 7:11 PM
From the projection booth at @irishfilminstitute.bsky.social 📽️
There are no intermissions for projectionists 📽️.
#TheBrutslist at the #IrishFilmInstitute on the last remaining #70mm projector in Ireland.
#TheBrutslist at the #IrishFilmInstitute on the last remaining #70mm projector in Ireland.
January 26, 2025 at 4:54 PM
There are no intermissions for projectionists 📽️.
#TheBrutslist at the #IrishFilmInstitute on the last remaining #70mm projector in Ireland.
#TheBrutslist at the #IrishFilmInstitute on the last remaining #70mm projector in Ireland.
The last remaining #70mm projector 📽️ in Ireland running daily at #TheIrishFilmInstitute. She may not look like much but she’s got it where it counts.
January 24, 2025 at 10:19 AM
The last remaining #70mm projector 📽️ in Ireland running daily at #TheIrishFilmInstitute. She may not look like much but she’s got it where it counts.
From the 📽️ Projection Booth: How Letterboxd turned Gen Z onto movies like The Brutalist rte.ie/culture/2025/0… via @rte @IFI_Dub
January 24, 2025 at 9:10 AM
From the 📽️ Projection Booth: How Letterboxd turned Gen Z onto movies like The Brutalist rte.ie/culture/2025/0… via @rte @IFI_Dub
In eras past we’d call him prophet or seer. In our time filmmaker. I feel so sad. But blessed too to have lived in his time. How we see the world is unique to us all. But David Lynch’s vision was as deep as Mariana Trench where even the horrible was beautiful.
www.rte.ie/culture/2025...
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January 17, 2025 at 9:11 AM
In eras past we’d call him prophet or seer. In our time filmmaker. I feel so sad. But blessed too to have lived in his time. How we see the world is unique to us all. But David Lynch’s vision was as deep as Mariana Trench where even the horrible was beautiful.
www.rte.ie/culture/2025...
www.rte.ie/culture/2025...
The Brutalist, #70mm, 1.66 Ratio, has a 25 minute intermission: 10 min to clean, thread and check the projector + 15 minute on screen countdown. #irishfilminstitute #projectionbooth #thebrutalist
December 23, 2024 at 11:39 PM
The Brutalist, #70mm, 1.66 Ratio, has a 25 minute intermission: 10 min to clean, thread and check the projector + 15 minute on screen countdown. #irishfilminstitute #projectionbooth #thebrutalist
Preparing for 🩸Orlock at the Irish Film Institute. NOSFERATU (2024), #35mm print. #ProjectionBooth 📽️#roberteggers #LilyRoseDepp #Nosferatu
December 13, 2024 at 5:44 PM
Preparing for 🩸Orlock at the Irish Film Institute. NOSFERATU (2024), #35mm print. #ProjectionBooth 📽️#roberteggers #LilyRoseDepp #Nosferatu