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Post by Maolsheachlann on Sept 13, 2017 19:27:48 GMT
Vote for one of the listed films or nominate your own.
No quibbling over the definition of an Irish movie. It can be Far and Away or Leap Year, if you want.
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Post by cato on Sept 13, 2017 20:52:31 GMT
Unfortunately I would have to say most Irish films are dire. There are some lovely exceptions though.
I voted for The Quiet Man which is simply as Irish as tayto crisps and Guinness.
I loved the details in Michael Collins like tram lines over O Connell St but thought the big historical errors were silly and unnecessary propaganda.
In recent times I loved the Film version of John Banvilles The Sea. It's one of those movies that prompt Proustian nostalgia guilt and sadness.The imagery lingers in your mind. I liked Ford's Men of Aran which even when it was made was depicting a way of life that had disappeared.
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Post by Maolsheachlann on Sept 13, 2017 21:24:14 GMT
I keep meaning to see Man of Aran. I actually borrowed it to watch once, but it was a library DVD which could only be played on a multi-region player.
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Post by cato on Sept 13, 2017 21:44:40 GMT
I always wonder why RTE can't show an Irish Classics movie series or any themed series of older films to expose the public to the classics and forgotten gems.
I remember a series they ran on Film Noir a few few years back which ran late at night once a week. It wouldn't cost a fortune .
BBC used to show classic black and white movies on rainy Saturdays in my childhood which were the most enjoyable part of my education looking back at it now.
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Post by Tomas on Nov 2, 2017 21:03:08 GMT
Impossible to say what film to vote for since I´ve only seen about ten Irish films all in all. Voted for Michael Collins here. Also liked, in different ways, these other films seen recently: The Gentle Gunman (Dirk Bogarde and John Mills), Sunday (almost semi-documentary as a film), and ´71. But none of them would be a candidate for best film ever. I think that In the Name of the Father would be a good choice after Michael Collins. Long ago I thought Angela´s Ashes was interesting at the cinema but suspect it wouldn´t keep much interest if I saw it today. Same goes for The Commitments that I saw as a student in Stockholm - in 1991. Time flies, like wild geese...
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Post by Maolsheachlann on Nov 2, 2017 21:09:49 GMT
Michael Collins is the correct answer! Congratulations!
I was talking to two colleagues about movies today and wondered aloud what had happened to the film about 1916 that was supposedly in production a few years back. They both loudly asserted that nobody would be interested in it. I was taken aback. I'd be interested in it!
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Post by Tomas on Nov 2, 2017 21:14:03 GMT
Write them back! The Diary of a Nobody is not a bad company.
Glad to cash in the holiday at Mauritius ;-)
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Post by Antaine on Nov 5, 2017 13:39:01 GMT
They're making a film set in Ireland called Black '47. It stars Hugo Weaving. I was an extra in it, but I'm in a crowd so I wouldn't expect to see me. I was the "best dressed peasant" according to the other peasants.
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Post by Maolsheachlann on Nov 6, 2017 9:40:35 GMT
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Post by kj on Nov 6, 2017 13:14:13 GMT
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Post by Maolsheachlann on Nov 7, 2017 0:24:29 GMT
I know I was looking for bleak fiction, recently, but I meant GENTEEL bleak! Anything involving poverty depresses me too much... |
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Post by cato on Dec 22, 2020 20:39:22 GMT
John Le Carrie's 1965 movie version of the Spy that came in from the Cold was filmed in part in the Dublin liberties and Smithfield as apparently they resembled the devastated cities of Germany in 1945.
Recently I saw Educating Rita again which is an enjoyable Irish based movie.
The lonely passion of Judith Hearn was filmed in Dublin too but based in Belfast in the Brian Moore novel. Moving tragic depiction of a spinster played by Maggie Smith.
A great Christmas movie or rather little Christmas Irish movie is John Ford's The Dead based on Joyce's short story. I try to watch it every year on the Epiphany.
These may not be great movies . Good movies perhaps.
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Post by kj on Dec 22, 2020 20:48:04 GMT
Definitely not the greatest movie ever made, but the 1973 rendering of Brian Moore's Catholics is remarkably relevant to current social and religious affairs. It's set in a future where a Third Vatican Council has been held. Ecumenicism has been pushed to new levels. The Vatican has been alarmed to learn that the Latin Mass has made an unexpected comeback in a remote part of western Ireland, thanks to a group of monks living on a small island. An emissary is sent (Martin Sheen) to tell the Abbot (Trevor Howard) to desist or face the consequences. It's well worth a watch. Catholics - 1973 |
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Post by cato on Dec 22, 2020 21:12:50 GMT
Definitely not the greatest movie ever made, but the 1973 rendering of Brian Moore's Catholics is remarkably relevant to current social and religious affairs. It's set in a future where a Third Vatican Council has been held. Ecumenicism has been pushed to new levels. The Vatican has been alarmed to learn that the Latin Mass has made an unexpected comeback in a remote part of western Ireland, thanks to a group of monks living on a small island. An emissary is sent (Martin Sheen) to tell the Abbot (Trevor Howard) to desist or face the consequences. It's well worth a watch. Catholics - 1973Only saw this once many years ago on TV. Definitely worth a watch .The Brian Moore novella it is based on is one of my favourite books. Although a non believer Moore treated religion in a serious way. The loss of faith is one of the reoccurring themes in most of his novels. Most contemporary Irish writers in contrast probably wonder what's the big deal with apostasy or collapsing into atheism. |
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Post by Maolsheachlann on Dec 23, 2020 12:59:18 GMT
Definitely not the greatest movie ever made, but the 1973 rendering of Brian Moore's Catholics is remarkably relevant to current social and religious affairs. It's set in a future where a Third Vatican Council has been held. Ecumenicism has been pushed to new levels. The Vatican has been alarmed to learn that the Latin Mass has made an unexpected comeback in a remote part of western Ireland, thanks to a group of monks living on a small island. An emissary is sent (Martin Sheen) to tell the Abbot (Trevor Howard) to desist or face the consequences. It's well worth a watch. Catholics - 1973Only saw this once many years ago on TV. Definitely worth a watch .The Brian Moore novella it is based on is one of my favourite books. Although a non believer Moore treated religion in a serious way. The loss of faith is one of the reoccurring themes in most of his novels. Most contemporary Irish writers in contrast probably wonder what's the big deal with apostasy or collapsing into atheism. You seem to be a "fierce" reader, Cato! How many books do you think you read a week? I love reading (almost better than anything else in the world) but I'm quite a slow reader. |
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