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Good Irish Films

  • 02-04-2004 1:33pm
    #1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 80 ✭✭


    I recently purchased "Veronica Guerrin" on dvd - really excellent! Beautiful locations (shot round Dublin) and the acting was brilliant (an all Irish cast 'cept for Kate Blanchet).

    I would like to know if there are any other "Irish" films that you'd recommend...

    So far I have: The Commitments
    Veronica Guerrin
    The Matchmaker
    Sunday Bloody Sunday (a recreated docu-drama) *this one is difficult to watch*

    and I've an order in for: The Boxer
    In the Name of the Father


    Any others that I should keep an eye out for?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,343 ✭✭✭polarbelly


    i loved intermission


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 143 ✭✭Aidan Lynch


    If you can get your hands on "I went down", starring Brendan Gleeson, it's one of the best Irish movies I've seen. It was out about 5 years ago or so, but you shuld be able to get it anywhere you can get good indie movies.

    If you do get it, let me know where, coz I'd love to buy a copy.

    P.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 726 ✭✭✭lamda


    Good Irish films are very hard to come by.... after much thought i've come up with a few...

    Disco Pigs
    On The Edge (cillian murphy connection purely coincidental)
    Butcher Boy - which is actually a great great film book is brilliant aswell.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 866 ✭✭✭Rockiemalt


    strange coincidence. just started studying irish films in college.

    song for a raggy boy
    goldfish memory
    last of the high kings


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 223 ✭✭luce


    Originally posted by lamda
    cillian murphy connection purely coincidental
    ...but well appreciated I'm sure :p


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 86 ✭✭trent_derby


    I must say that i thought that veronica guerin was really bad. The worst bit was when a TD, yes a TD was called a "member of parlament"???!!!!. And a lot of the characters were very inacurate. (especially the TD in question, Who in the whole film has a suit on, the man is notorious for NEVER wearing a shirt and tie)

    Most recently I did like intermission.
    Although it was shot like a bicardi ad!!!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 362 ✭✭ThatBloke


    yeah, not seen the film yet, but apparently the sunday indo is portrayed as a bastion of good journalism when in reality it's a muck-raking tabloid in broadsheet form


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,048 ✭✭✭DerekD Goldfish


    If you do get it, let me know where, coz I'd love to buy a copy
    You can get I went down on www.musicselection.com ive seen a number of films listed and I went down was the only decent one. if sure more good irish filims exist I just havent seen many.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 143 ✭✭Aidan Lynch


    Thanks Derek,
    It actually does come up on a few web searches, now that I've bothered to look :)

    Pity it only seems to be on VHS, but it's still worth the buy. When it was in the cinema, I think I went about 4 times, bringing various people to see it. They were all as impressed as I was (thank god - I get it badly wrong sometimes and I'm made suffer for it)

    P.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 702 ✭✭✭roxy


    Heehee you can see my primary school in "I Went Down".....that shot of downtown Edenmore at the end is really..em..special.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,345 ✭✭✭RobertFoster


    Originally posted by trent_derby
    Most recently I did like intermission.
    Although it was shot like a bicardi ad!!!

    I liked it too - though, like the Commitments, there seemed to be a lot of cursing - are we really like that?

    what do you mean, "shot like a bicardi ad"?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 362 ✭✭ThatBloke


    Feck internet shopping, credit cards and all that hassle, I used to work in Xtra Vision, here's a tip for ya; just pick out the film ya want and dont bring it back, the maximum charge for all those older (not new release) films is €10, no 28 day delivery crap or anything :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,330 ✭✭✭✭Amz


    "Some Mother's son" was good

    "Guests of the nation" Film version of the short story...
    "Poultry in motion"
    "Puckoon"
    "The Revolution will not be televised" Documentary film yeah but really good all the same.
    "The Company of Wolves"
    "Yu Ming is ainm dom" Very funny film :)

    All I can think of that haven't been mentioned or whatever.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 86 ✭✭trent_derby


    what do you mean, "shot like a bicardi ad"?

    Just the way that the camera moved like a home video, which i find a lot of the bicardi ads look like too. Obviously minus the vinnie jones and the hot latino chicks!!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,371 ✭✭✭acquiescefc


    I went to see a preview of a supposedly unfinished film called 'man about dog', twas a deadly film. I think there was one scene missing from version I saw.
    Similar to Snatch and filmed mostly up north about these guys who get given a greyhound that is crap and sell it to some knackers then realise the dog only chases live animals and then runs like lightning so they steal it back.

    Personally thought it was more enjoyable than Intermission.

    Not heard anything else about it anywhere, brilliant film I thought, great characters and very funny.

    Anyone else seen or heard about it???


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,371 ✭✭✭acquiescefc




  • Closed Accounts Posts: 275 ✭✭butterfly


    Originally posted by ThatBloke
    the sunday indo is in reality a muck-raking tabloid in broadsheet form

    that was beautifully said..

    ok i'm not saying it's the best film ever but when brendan met trudy's pretty funny

    also going to repeat the disco pigs/ intermission submissions.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 80 ✭✭christi


    I'll look into all of your suggestions..... I hope I can find them!

    Again thanks


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29 fat slide


    Originally posted by Rockiemalt
    strange coincidence. just started studying irish films in college.

    song for a raggy boy
    goldfish memory
    last of the high kings


    goldfish memory was the biggest pile of ****e ever to have robbed 90 minutes from my life.

    only redeeming features -

    your one from riverdance (or whatever) was practically the only acting talent in it

    couple of good tunes

    some interestingly composed scenes


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 524 ✭✭✭buzzerbuckley


    sadly most irish movies are rubbish:mad:

    everything is at 100mph and the character deveopment is non existant.the general has to be one of the worst films ever made,though ordainary decent criminal beats it.pure dirt.

    here are some exceptions:

    my left foot:excellent
    angelas ashes: not bad
    h3:quite good
    the courier:bit dated but not bad
    joyriders:ditto
    michael coliins:very good
    in the name of the father :good
    the butcher boy :good
    da:good
    eat the peach:very good

    the commitements:quite good


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 223 ✭✭luce


    About Adam is alright. Not brilliant, but by no means rubbish.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 454 ✭✭bandit


    Intermission and I went down would both get my vote along with a film i caught there a while ago called Dead Bodies which is for want of a better descripton like an Irish Shallow Grave.

    An added bonus to 'I went down' is the fact that Karl Fletchers bird from from Dream Team gets tehm out for the lads in it :D


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5 caro


    im starting a petition to have colin farrel killed, diced and fed to angry dolphins


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,048 ✭✭✭DerekD Goldfish


    I'll sign that


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 80 ✭✭christi


    I say spare the "dirty" bugger's life - simply because he's Irish :)


    And Re: "About Adam"

    Yeah, by no means rubbish... I liked it - I know chick flick.... but the use of Christina Rossetti's "Goblin Market" was genius, and the movie is worth watching just for that!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 16 SolidSnake


    On the nose is good and evelin was made in ireland there both good films


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 80 ✭✭christi


    I've taken note of all of your suggestions - this little indulgence of mine is going to cost me an arm & a leg... and perhaps an ear :) Wen't to HMV this afternoon and not much there, but I can order every title... so that's what I'm going to do - buy two at a time.

    My first two ordres are: In the Name of the Father & I went down.

    Thanks Board - really!

    Time to tuck me into bed and fall into the abyss of sleep while listening to Phantom :)

    Sweet dreams & Nightmares To all

    xxx


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,710 ✭✭✭Kurdt


    has war of the buttons been mentioned?

    i remember thinking it was great when i was a wee young fella but i saw it last christmas methinks and it wasn't too great!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,710 ✭✭✭Kurdt


    oh and into the west


    tayto tayto


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 454 ✭✭bandit


    Its the Rockies ossie

    :D


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 223 ✭✭luce


    Oh wow War of the Buttons and Into the West!!! :D:D:D
    *Lucy takes a trip down memory lane*


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 102 ✭✭ilovehoovering


    How Harry Became A Tree - stars Colm Meaney and Cillian Murphy as his useless son.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5 caro


    being irish is no excuse for being a gimp, especially when u go abroad and develop a thick dublin accent and some oirish charm cos its the only way people will pay any attention to you even though all you really need is a good swift kick in the nuts.

    into the west ruled. damn horse... aah memories


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 11 stacy


    when you think of great irish films, one just rises above the rest.

    FATAL DEVIATION


    http://www.risingsunproductions.net/features/deviation.html


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 28 catgirl


    i'd sign the petition to get rid of colin farrel, but don't feed him to the dolphins. poor dolphins. fish would be much better any day than that muck. besides it's cruelty to animals.

    i love war of the buttons! i haven't watched it years, but now you've made me want to go and rent it out. thank you.

    i love that bit in into west where they're in the lift with the horse. classic tayto...

    :D


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 77 ✭✭McGonagles


    Originally posted by Paul Clarke
    If you can get your hands on "I went down", starring Brendan Gleeson.

    The music on it was by The Mexican Pets, I think...

    It also has yer man who was the best man in Fergus's Wedding and
    the guitarist in Paths To Freedom / Spin The Bottle... good actor,
    forget his name.

    Also look out for The Halo Effect, when and if it gets a release.
    It was closing film in this year's Dublin Film Festival, and it has a Phil
    Lynott theme running through it (Philomena Lynott is in the credits
    for providing old posters and helping get music clearance)

    There's a review of it on IMDB.com which is pretty accurate...
    ...if you have spent more than a weekend in Dublin, you will be
    looking at familiar lamp posts and corners, trying to guess where
    it was set, as Stephen Rea's character hums "Old Town".


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 143 ✭✭Aidan Lynch


    Yeah, now that you've reminded me, the soundtrack on I Went Down was pretty good an' all. They even had "Don't lead me down" by Revelino.

    Have to go out and get a copy now. I just know that, as soon as I get it on VHS, it'll be released on DVD. It's always the way.

    P.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 143 ✭✭Aidan Lynch


    Oh, and it ended with that great Lír song as well:
    "There are more things"


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 77 ✭✭McGonagles


    The Case of Majella McGinty was a brilliant Irish short, about a girl who hides in a suitcase.

    And speaking of the Mexican Pets, frontman Pat Clafferty did some good film music.
    Most obvious one being for Blessed Fruit (by Orla Walsh)

    IMDB entry is here:
    http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0319070/

    They list it as being from the UK, but don't worry,
    it's as Irish as Jimmy Rabbitte's b****x!

    The snag with short films is that they usually get shown once in a film
    festival, once at a launch event (usually in the IFC), and aired once or
    twice late at night on RTE2. And then you never see them again.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1 bilbao


    I'd put Magdalen sisters... if i remember well, it's been made by a Scottish film-maker, Peter Mullan, but actresses are definitevely Irish, & the story too.
    It's quite violent though (mentally speaking). If you like Irish history, it's a film to watch.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 80 ✭✭christi


    All of the suggestions have been noted - the soundtrack for I went down as well, and as soon as HMV calls to tell me that the copy of "the boxer" that I ordered over ten days ago now is in - (slow as molases they are), I'm going to put in an order for a few of the titles that you've all so unselfishly told me about... And their being so many good movies, I think it best if I nock-off a bank on the way to the store : ) Oh goodie, then I will use all the trashie publicity to #1 help sell my book and #2 to protest the price of dvds in Canada... honestly - drugs are cheaper!

    Again, thank you for all of the great suggestions.

    And added to the list "the general"


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