A question of taste: James Mullighan

JAMES MULLIGHAN is in his second year as programme director of the Cork Film Festival, which runs until Sunday. Originally from South Australia, he has worked at Sony Classical and Columbia records, as well as helming the Edinburgh International Film Festival.

Best recent book: One of the biggest Australian movies around at the moment is a portmanteau adaptation of Tim Winton’s short story collection The Turning, with each chapter made by an entirely different cast and crew. I felt I should revisit it before seeing the movie.

Best recent film: First, South Australian resident Rolf de Heer’s amazing Charlie’s Country, which opened the festival. Second, I was blown away by the power and strangeness of Myroslav Slaboshpytskiy’s The Tribe, a gripping drama with no dialogue or titling.