{"id":1573,"date":"2024-11-27T16:48:57","date_gmt":"2024-11-27T16:48:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebratingcinema.com\/?p=1573"},"modified":"2026-03-18T22:47:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T22:47:13","slug":"rich-peppiatt-on-kneecap-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebratingcinema.com\/rich-peppiatt-on-kneecap-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Rich Peppiatt on Kneecap (2024)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In&nbsp;<em>Kneecap<\/em>, Rich Peppiatt delivers a raw and politically charged origin story about JJ, a Belfast teacher, and two self-proclaimed &#8220;low-life scum,&#8221; Naoise and Liam, who form the first Irish-speaking hip-hop group. The film is a powerful act of cultural resistance, celebrating the revitalization of the Irish language through music.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Peppiatt discusses with our host Elliot the film\u2019s roots in Belfast&#8217;s rich, turbulent history and the creative process that unfolded over many drinks with the Kneecap group. This conversation explores the film\u2019s personal and political layers, focusing on the vital importance of storytelling in preserving language and identity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Book tickets to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.lab111.nl\/movie\/kneecap\/\">\u2060Kneecap\u2060<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Book tickets to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.lab111.nl\/celebrating-cinema-film-club-one-from-the-heart-reprise-incl-intro\/\">\u2060CC Film Club: One From The Heart\u2060<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button is-style-fill\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-text-color has-background wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/linktr.ee\/celebratingcinema\" style=\"color:#000000;background-color:#ffc8dc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/nl\/podcast\/celebrating-cinema\/id1558165273 noopener\"><strong>Subscribe to our podcast<\/strong><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-spotify wp-block-embed-spotify wp-embed-aspect-21-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"Spotify Embed: Rich Peppiatt on Kneecap (2024)\" style=\"border-radius: 12px\" width=\"100%\" height=\"152\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/embed\/episode\/63o66uAqkblVvKo1yxU6RE?si=1cab7baa3499448b&#038;utm_source=oembed\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">FILMS MENTIONED<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Kneecap (Rich Peppiatt, 2024)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>It (Tommy Lee Wallace, 1990)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>One Rogue Reporter (Rich Peppiatt, 2014)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Lawrence of Arabia (David Lean, 1962)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>La Haine (Mathieu Kassovitz, 1995)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Am\u00e9lie (Jean-Pierre Jeunet, 2001)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Hunger (Steve Mcqueen, 2008)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Our hosts<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery alignwide has-nested-images columns-4 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1542\" height=\"2313\" data-id=\"1431\" src=\"https:\/\/celebratingcinema.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/sophie.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1431\" srcset=\"https:\/\/celebratingcinema.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/sophie.jpeg 1542w, https:\/\/celebratingcinema.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/sophie-200x300.jpeg 200w, https:\/\/celebratingcinema.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/sophie-683x1024.jpeg 683w, https:\/\/celebratingcinema.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/sophie-768x1152.jpeg 768w, 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src=\"https:\/\/celebratingcinema.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Hugo-scaled.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1429\" srcset=\"https:\/\/celebratingcinema.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Hugo-scaled.jpeg 1707w, https:\/\/celebratingcinema.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Hugo-200x300.jpeg 200w, https:\/\/celebratingcinema.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Hugo-683x1024.jpeg 683w, https:\/\/celebratingcinema.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Hugo-768x1152.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/celebratingcinema.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Hugo-1024x1536.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/celebratingcinema.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Hugo-1365x2048.jpeg 1365w, https:\/\/celebratingcinema.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Hugo-480x720.jpeg 480w, https:\/\/celebratingcinema.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Hugo-720x1080.jpeg 720w, https:\/\/celebratingcinema.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Hugo-500x750.jpeg 500w, 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The film is a powerful act of cultural resistance, celebrating the revitalisation of the Irish language through music. In conversation with Elliot, Peppiatt discusses the film&#8217;s roots in Belfast, the specific challenge of making a political film that&#8217;s also genuinely funny, and why the Irish language \u2014 long suppressed and slowly reclaimed \u2014 deserves its own cinema.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1166,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"audio","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_crdt_document":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-audio","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-episodes","post_format-post-format-audio"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebratingcinema.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1573","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebratingcinema.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebratingcinema.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebratingcinema.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebratingcinema.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1573"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/celebratingcinema.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1573\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2003,"href":"https:\/\/celebratingcinema.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1573\/revisions\/2003"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebratingcinema.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebratingcinema.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebratingcinema.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebratingcinema.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}