Good Irish Films

christi

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?

polarbelly

i loved intermission

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.

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.

Rockiemalt

strange coincidence. just started studying irish films in college.

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

luce

Originally posted by lamda
cillian murphy connection purely coincidental

...but well appreciated I'm sure

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!!!

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

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.

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.

roxy

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

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"?

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

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.

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!!

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???

acquiescefc

Just asked Mr and Mrs Google and....

http://www.filmboard.ie/find_a_film.php?find=details&id=397

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.

christi

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

Again thanks

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

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

luce

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

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

caro

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

DerekD Goldfish

I'll sign that

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!

SolidSnake

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

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

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!

Kurdt

oh and into the west


tayto tayto

bandit

Its the Rockies ossie

luce

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

ilovehoovering

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

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

stacy

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

FATAL DEVIATION


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

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...

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".

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.

Aidan Lynch

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

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.

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.

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"