Dublin Films

Fanfan

What Dublin films are there.....
Van,Snapper,Accelerator, Commitments any other good films????

Thomas_S_Hunterson

Intermission, i didn't like it though

c - 13

Adam&Paul - Liked This
Goldfish Memory - Hated This
Into The West ?

DublinWriter

There's a new one coming out next week staring Brendan Gleeson and directed by John Boorman, "Tiger's Tail" I think it's called.

shane86

Fanfan wrote:

What Dublin films are there.....
Van,Snapper,Accelerator, Commitments any other good films????

There is Ordinary Decent Criminal with......oh wait, GOOD Dublin films, sorry.

Theres the original General film.

johnny_ultimate

Adam & Paul was the only one I was ever really impressed with

irishbigfoot

When Brendan met Trudy
The Halo Effect
Headrush
Dead Bodies

Decent enough films set in Dublin- often let down one way or the other but not bad if you happen to come across them- wouldnt go hunting them down though.

J.R.HARTLEY

there was one called crush proof about a little scumbag straight out of mountjoy, goes robbing horses and tries to ride to galway, along the way he hangs the guy who ratted him outand iirc his best friend dies, it's not even very good but it's in dublin

c - 13

Also just remembered "Spin the bottle" - Comedy, have to say I enjoyed that one !

Kipperhell

There is a really old film called "Rooney" about a Dublin binman which is worth watching. The old scenes of Dublin are pretty interesting
"Flight of the Doves" is a good one for children and the scenes of Dublin
"Pigs" Although I never saw it was about the Dublin underworld and meant to be quite good.

"Micheal Collins" is mostly set in Dublin

jomo25dub

I ain't seen it but presumbaly the 1967 version of Ulysses is set in Dublin.

The Dead (1987), with Anjelica Huston and Donal McCann, is set in Dublin too in 1904. It was John Huston's last movie.

The movies based on Sean O'Casey's plays are based in Dublin too. These include Hitchcock's Juno and the Paycock and John Ford's The Plough and the Stars.

Of the more recent titles, I'd agree with the other posters. Adam and Paul is probably the best of them. Goldfish Memory tired to be too trendy and features a very glossy view of the city. Intermission features a very funny Deirdre O'Kane, the rest is ok.

The Roddy Doyle films are beginning to appear of their time. The Dublin of The Van, The Snapper and The Commitments is probably gone. But the best adaptation of his work, for me, was the TV series Family, which I saw when it originally aired but have not seen since.

monkeyfudge

I thought The Actors was very good and a great showcase for Dylan Moran's talents.

Diogenes

monkeyfudge wrote:

I thought The Actors was very good and a great showcase for Dylan Moran's talents.

Wow a fan of "The Actors", I'd heard rumours they existed but thought them myths, I never thought I'd actually met one....

There's the very odd "Quackser Fortune...." an old Gene Wilder film where he plays a "nightsoil man" in Dublin's inner city, or "A Man of no importance" staring Albert Finney, or the late 80s joyriders. There's also Alan Gillesnan, surreal and highly funny docu-comedy "The Road to God know's where" Which is more of a mediation on pre celt tiger ireland, but one of the best Irish film's I've ever seen.

I suspect you could find A man of no importance in the shops, but good luck on the rest.

Accelerator

The best film is Accelerator!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
2. The Generall
3. Adam and Poul

cailinoBAC

I liked 'The Actors' too, didn't understand all the bad reviews it got. Still, I love Dylan Moran so maybe that blinded me.

faceman

Desperately Seeking susan was set in liverpool but filmed in Dublin.
Wasnt most of jackie chan's The Medallion set and filmed in dublin too?

I often find that many irish/dublin films suffer from emphasising how irish they are rather than let plot and story play out.

gogglebok

Did you mean Educating Rita? A lot of that was shot around Trinity.

Latchy

A week in the life of martin cluxton .

I was an extra in it to

Raekwon

About Adam was shot in Dublin (Dalkey & Temple Bar to be exact).

It's one of the very few Irish movies that makes Ireland look like a wealthy country with mainly middle class characters which is rather a unique concept compared to the droves of working class & historical movies that are usually made here.

Latchy

gogglebok wrote: »

Did you mean Educating Rita? A lot of that was shot around Trinity.

Supposed to be set in Liverpool to yes .

I think the restaurant on dame street were many of the scenes were also shot is well gone .

Nolanger

Agnes Browne

Another Shore - '40s movie about a guy sitting all day on the College Green bank steps waiting for a possible traffic accident outside TCD

Boy From Mercury - sci-fi for kids

Fantasist - '80s sex thriller

Front Line

Inside I'm Dancing

Joyriders - forgotten '80s movie

Last Bus Home

Last of the High Kings

My Left Foot

Mystics - embarrassing

Night Train - filmed I think in Britain but set in Ranelagh?

On the Edge

On the Nose

Pavee Lackeen - best Irish movie so far this decade

Rat - comedy set in Kimmage - one of the best forgotten Irish movies

Speed Dating - don't bother

Tara Road

Trouble With Sex

Ulysses - '60s version is better than the recent one

When the Sky Falls - another forgotten Veronica Guerin movie

Pigman II

Goldfish Memory is worth watching just because it makes Dublin look amazing. I barely recognised the place.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0366527/

gandalf

Don't forget Once as well

Nolanger

Don't forget Studs either.
Actually, it has already been forgotten.

flybynight

Last Days in Dublin