Irish movies/TV for a foreigner?

riffmongous

I need to come up with a few good examples of Irish movies/TV to show someone as part of a language exchange (Russian), but I'm struggling here. The problem is most of the Irish stuff I like is comedy, and comedy does not crossover well to non native speakers in my experience (everyone I've shown Father Ted to thinks it's ****e and I'm simple). To further complicate things I reckon they are a bit cultured shall we say so I'm wary of showing stuff with too much violence.. so any suggestions? So far I've ruled out the likes of Intermission, anything from Roddy Doyle, Love/Hate, Hunger, Paths to Freedom..

So far I've got 'The Field' -_-

snubbleste

The Field is violent

Mr. FoggPatches

You say that humour doesnt translate, so maybe Upwardly mobile will.be funny in Russian.

Lamb was a great film BTW

FTA69

The Commitments.

Edit: No Roddy Doyle? His books are some of the best portrayals of working class Dublin ever written.

My Left Foot is a good one

crossmolinalad

Bloody Sunday

snubbleste

Peig the Movie is a classic film noir

FTA69

Mr. FoggPatches wrote: »

You say that humour doesnt translate, so maybe Upwardly mobile will.be funny in Russian.

Lamb was a great film BTW

Sure doesn't he drown the youngfella in it? Great show all the same. The Garage is also good for a bit of the old depression.

Dravokivich

Into the West
War of The Buttons
Darby O'Gill and the Little People
Aidan Walsh - Master of the Universe

riffmongous

snubbleste wrote: »

The Field is violent

I suppose it is, it's plot serving violence at least though and iirc not gratuitous.. I haven't watched it in ages.

Looks like I'll have to go with Darby O'Gill

uch

Yu Ming Is ainm dom

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JqYtG9BNhfM

Billy86

I Went Down

Also a random unexpected one I've found is that while the likes of Fr. Ted hasn't fared well with non Irish people I've showed it to, The Rubberbandits seem to go over extremely well!

colm_mcm

Soupy Norman

snubbleste

Billy86 wrote: »

I Went Down

Rated X

sillysmiles

Eat the Peach?
I went down?

Cordell

The Guard and Calvary?

riffmongous

riffmongous wrote: »

I need to come up with a few good examples of Irish movies/TV to show someone as part of a language exchange (Russian), but I'm struggling here. The problem is most of the Irish stuff I like is comedy, and comedy does not crossover well to non native speakers in my experience (everyone I've shown Father Ted to thinks it's ****e and I'm simple). To further complicate things I reckon they are a bit cultured shall we say so I'm wary of showing stuff with too much violence.. so any suggestions? So far I've ruled out the likes of Intermission, anything from Roddy Doyle, Love/Hate, Hunger, Paths to Freedom..

So far I've got 'The Field' -_-

No comedy and no violence. You arent making things easy for yourself are you?

Red Rock - soap based around the Gardai in an urban community. Very good.
Single-handed - Drama series about a guard in a rural community. Also very good.
Ballykissangel - Drama series about a priest in a rural community.

Movies:
War of the Buttons - Drama about kids in a rural community


Are you starting to see a pattern?

EDIT: Damnit, forgot Into the West.

maudgonner

Fatal Deviation, a must.

_Whimsical_

There's What Richard Did. It's about a fight and the repercussions but not in the gangland, gratuitous violent way that a lot of Irish film and tv makers favour.

And there's mmm...
I guess there's a good reason I watch very little Irish film or TV.

Falling for a Dancer was a popular Irish mini series. It was on tv recently but made in the late 1990s. It's a period piece though so doesn't really matter.

There's Dancing at Lughnasa
Circle of Friends

They're all "old ireland" and more female interest though I'd say.

riffmongous

Few decent ones there lads, keep em coming

Calvary
Bloody Sunday
My Left Foot
Garage
Into the West

Yu Ming is also a classic

_Whimsical_

Oh Brooklyn was a very good film too.

Amber a tv series about a missing child was good too. It's set in the present too and gives a more affluent-ish look at Ireland than the usual tv stuff.

There was The Clinic as well. A medical drama set in the 2000s.

TICKLE_ME_ELMO

The Runway and Kisses are two great lesser known Irish films.

In America is a good one too.

Oh! Song of the Sea is a beautiful animated one with lots of Irish myths and legends thrown in for good measure.

Mr. FoggPatches

De ne ne ne ne neh neh neh neh neh ne
Ne ne ne ne ne ne-ne ne ne ne ne neh

Glenroe.

jester77

The Angelus

riffmongous

Deleted User wrote: »

No comedy and no violence. You arent making things easy for yourself are you?

Red Rock - soap based around the Gardai in an urban community. Very good.
Single-handed - Drama series about a guard in a rural community. Also very good.
Ballykissangel - Drama series about a priest in a rural community.

Movies:
War of the Buttons - Drama about kids in a rural community


Are you starting to see a pattern?

EDIT: Damnit, forgot Into the West.

Yeah well when I said all the Russian stuff I liked (comedy and violence mostly) the response was 'Sorry, never heard of them', only managed to save a bit of face thanks to knowing a few Tarkovsky movies.

quickbeam

Leap Year


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No, no, I'm kidding!!


Though About Adam is sorta alright, and, like Amber shows a more affluent side to Ireland.

Dravokivich

Actually just thought of another show, "Jack Taylor." Violence is moderate, as far as I recall.

Beanntraigheach

Strumpet City
Young Cassidy
Michael Collins

maudgonner

Strumpet City would be worth adding to the list. I didn't think Rebellion was great, but it's worth a look.

But d'you know what? Feck the drama, just show them Reelin' in the Years and be done with it.

Beanntraigheach

Or, for the more cerebral and cultured amongst them:
"Leprechaun in the Hood"

riffmongous

Yeah Strumpet City maybe. Also anyone remember Hands?

quickbeam

The film Haywire is partly set, and filmed, in Dublin, though very little else Irish about it.

Inside I'm Dancing was great.

maudgonner

riffmongous wrote: »

Yeah Strumpet City maybe. Also anyone remember Hands?

Hands is a classic. Also anything with Dick Warner sailing up canals

TICKLE_ME_ELMO

Gold is pretty good too. Sort of a gentle comedy, although James Nesbit's 80's style motivation videos in it are hilarious.

Do they need to be set in Ireland or just Irish film makers? Lenny Abrahamson's Frank is an interesting one and then you've got Room from last year too.

BabyE

Story of Ireland bbc presented by fergal Keane
Story of Ireland from our ancient ancestors through the ages from introduction to Christianity to the Vikings to the Anglo Saxon French Scandinavian Normans to the Brits to modern day

riffmongous

TICKLE_ME_ELMO wrote: »

Gold is pretty good too. Sort of a gentle comedy, although James Nesbit's 80's style motivation videos in it are hilarious.

Do they need to be set in Ireland or just Irish film makers? Lenny Abrahamson's Frank is an interesting one and then you've got Room from last year too.

Thematically about Ireland or Irish people I guess, Frank is close enough

TICKLE_ME_ELMO

Smalltown that was on TV3 recently is an exceptional piece of TV. The director, Gerard Barrett, has a couple of films too, Pilgrim Hill, a pretty slow and realistically depressing look at the life of an isolated rural farmer. Glassland is set in Dublin and is about a young man trying to look after his alcoholic mother.

riffmongous

maudgonner wrote: »

Hands is a classic. Also anything with Dick Warner sailing up canals

Yeah Waterways was another very good one, it's on my list

riffmongous

TICKLE_ME_ELMO wrote: »

Smalltown that was on TV3 recently is an exceptional piece of TV. The director, Gerard Barrett, has a couple of films too, Pilgrim Hill, a pretty slow and realistically depressing look at the life of an isolated rural farmer. Glassland is set in Dublin and is about a young man trying to look after his alcoholic mother.

Been meaning to watch Pilgrim Hill myself for a while now, I'll give the others a look too, nothing beats a bit of depression every now and again :pac:

Patser

Once

Sure that has foreigners learning English from Fair city in it too

SEPT 23 1989

My Left Foot

pawrick

The Lobster - staring Colin Farrell & Rachel Weisz

reminded me of some 1980's RTE type stuff bought from the eastern bloc

The Pheasant2

War of the Buttons is ****ing quality.

mdwexford

Bosco.

Beanntraigheach

"The Dead" (1987, directed by John Huston) is excellent.

JuliusCaesar

Goldfish Memories

Stigura

Pavee Lackeen.

I win the thread!

John Huston The dead its based on a short story by James Joyce win all round, if they are in to culture and would be good for the basis of a discussion of kitsch and sentimentality in a film like Love actuley verses the permanence in The dead.

fryup

i think Ryan's Daughter is a good movie to show someone who is new to the country and wants to get an idea of our history and be entertained at the same time

munster87

Fatal Deviation...a shining example of what Itish cinema can achieve and Mikey Graham's greatest work

The Backwards Man

Nobody suggest Taffin yet? Best Irish film ever

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tXcgt6l_LcA

Didas

No mention of Love/Hate yet?

In the Name of the Father
Wind that Shakes the Barley
In Bruges