Irish films

Attol · 20-01-2006 1:01pm #1

I'm feelin a tad homesick so have decided to get some Irish films to help me out a little. I've got 2 rolls of Silvermints that my dad has just brought home for me from a business trip to Dublin, I've ordered a few Ross O'Carroll Kelly books off Amazon, read Boards and now I need films. I'm open to any suggestions. I saw Inside I'm Dancing and thought it was an excellent film. Irish fims seem to be a bit more original than the regurgitated rubbish that seems to be all Hollywood is capable of spinning out any more(I know there are some exceptions but I really haven't been wowed by any American films lately). So what should I watch?

DonkeyStyle \o/ · 20-01-2006 1:07pm

Into the west.
The Commitments.
The Van.

Muckmagnet · 20-01-2006 1:08pm

I saw a good movie last night called breakfast at pluto , great irish cast , cillian murphy,brendan gleeson and gavin friday . check it out

toffeapple · 20-01-2006 1:08pm

I went down..very funny

Beruthiel · 20-01-2006 1:08pm

I thought 'the field' was an excellent movie

toffeapple · 20-01-2006 1:09pm

THe field is brilliant

DonkeyStyle \o/ · 20-01-2006 1:11pm

Oh and don't forget Intermission !

Goodshape · 20-01-2006 1:12pm

There was quite a good film I saw recently about a guy who gets left at the alter and a woman he meets (who is also having relationship problems) who end up going to Donegal together (yer mans honeymoon destination).

Very uninspiring story (on the face of it) but very well done I thought and definitely very 'irish'. Not at all your typical hollywood 'rom/com'.

Afraid I can't remember the name though :-/ ...maybe someone else knows it? It came free with some newspaper a couple of months ago.

Retr0gamer · 20-01-2006 1:14pm

Honeymooners?

Supposed to be quite good although haven't seen it myself.

Goodshape · 20-01-2006 1:17pm

Retr0gamer wrote:

Honeymooners?

Yea, it's something like that I think. Although I searched for Honeymooners and got nothing but this. And it's defenitely not that.

garred · 20-01-2006 1:33pm

The Snapper
Also Lamb, saw this years ago must track it down on dvd.

toffeapple · 20-01-2006 1:34pm

garred wrote:

The Snapper - "Whats the point in having a jaysus gun without jaysus bullets":D
Also Lamb, saw this years ago must track it down on dvd.

EH ..thats from "i went down"

garred · 20-01-2006 1:41pm

My bad....edited.

spiderlegs · 20-01-2006 7:05pm

The snapper
The van
The Commitments
Adam and Paul (reminds ya of the scumbags)
The Actors (Dylan Moran is hillarious)
Intermission
The Field
Just go adn watch Tommy Tiernan's new DVD "Loose" its hillarious

Hope some of my suggestions help and you don't feel homesick anymore.