Query about 1990s RTE Film Noir show

Mr. 'H'

Does anybody remember back in the early 90s RTE ran a show with a bearded presenter introducing the feature presentation, which if I remember, was usually two film noir pictures back to back?

It used to run on a Friday night, about 11.30 p.m.?

I always thought that Raymond's character in Bachelors Walk was modeled after him in that show - remember his character gets a job presenting wearing a trench coat and a fedora?

Corholio

Yes i remember that, cant for life of me think of the name of the presenter though. He was fairly well known on RTE around that time in the 90's far as i can remember. He used to talk a bit about the films beforehand, and the thing i remember was he used to give pretty cool trivia and tell us to look out for certain things during the film. Was a good show.

iMax

That guy runs a production company now. They did Failte Towers.

Ciaran B

The host did some stuff on TG4 as well. He appeared as a Talking Head in that fake documentry show they used to do. Can't remember the name of it.

HungryJoe

the friday night movie slot was called "the last picture show", it was presented by brian reddin, and it was brilliant. we'd rush home from the pub on fridays to see what brian had in store for us - sometimes it'd be a famous film like psycho or brazil but once in a while he'd show a gem i'd never heard of.

reddin introduced each film with some background about the production, the cast and crew, some trivia, etc. his enthusiasm for the films was great. my only complaint was that he had a tendency to give away too much of the plot when he was introducing a film. sometimes i'd tape the whole thing and i'd watch the film first, followed by his introduction in case he gave away some vital plot twist. i still have some of them on vhs.

pity rte don't do anything like this any more, it'd be cheap as chips. i guess they're not interested in catering for people who like classic films. sad to see reddin producing rubbish like the ex files and fáilte towers now but i guess that's where our priorities are.

delbertgrady

They weren't always film noir - I remember them showing Smile and I Love You, Alice B. Toklas, for example - but the great thing about it was that they used to often show films that weren't available at the time on video, something that's less likely now with even the most obscure films being available on Region One DVD.
My only grievance was that Reddin used to blatantly poach a lot of material from other sources. I know there's a limit to what you can say in a couple of minutes, and certain bits of trivia are always going to be inevitable, but there was one film in particular - possibly Nicolas Roeg's Bad Timing - where his introduction was practically lifted wholesale from Mark Cousins' comments on the same film from when it was shown on BBC's Moviedrome.

AnonoBoy

iMax wrote: »

That guy runs a production company now. They did Failte Towers.

Brian Reddin wasn't involved in Failte Towers. He's left that production company a few years.