Forgotten Irish movies.

Hangdogroad · 13-10-2020 7:56pm #1

I was just thinking about how in the 90s there were an awful lot of Irish movies released that would be in the cinema for a week and then disappear. Sweety Barrett was one. Brendan Gleeson as the title character, it came right after the General. Odd film, he played a guy with learning difficulties who runs away from the circus (Brendan O Carroll has a cameo as the bullying ringmaster). A very young Andrew Scott plays a barman and Andy Serkis was in it looking like Rory from Glenroe sporting a curly mullet and denim jacket. Never see it shown on telly. Can anyone think of any other examples?

circadian · 13-10-2020 7:58pm

Taffin.

KaneToad · 13-10-2020 7:58pm

Eat the Peach

and

I went Down

Archeron · 13-10-2020 7:59pm

Grabbers

Mad_maxx · 13-10-2020 8:00pm

Lamb

early liam neeson movie where he plays a christian brother

Dtp1979 · 13-10-2020 8:00pm

The most fertile man in Ireland

hynesie08 · 13-10-2020 8:01pm

circadian wrote: »

Taffin.

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

Hangdogroad · 13-10-2020 8:02pm

Mad_maxx wrote: »

Lamb

early liam neeson movie where he plays a christian brother

I remember that being shown on RTE.. One grim film particularly the ending.

McGinniesta · 13-10-2020 8:02pm

Irish films are usually gash.

I mean total fanny.

odyssey06 · 13-10-2020 8:04pm

The Hard Way.
Starring Patrick mc Goohan and Lee van Cleef

Tow · 13-10-2020 8:05pm

Boy Eats Girl: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boy_Eats_Girl

hynesie08 · 13-10-2020 8:06pm

The matchmaker starring janeane garofalo.

Neds wake.

Macdarack · 13-10-2020 8:06pm

The run of the country

Hangdogroad · 13-10-2020 8:07pm

Reefer And The Model. Hard to view now unless you come across a VHS copy.

E mac · 13-10-2020 8:08pm

'The lilac bus' dunno if it's forgotten but used to be on RTE a lot back in the day

spurious · 13-10-2020 8:08pm

Garage.

Fuascailteoir · 13-10-2020 8:09pm

Playboys

For Forks Sake · 13-10-2020 8:10pm

Two pages in without this, standards are slipping around here lads

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IPne3Wh0lqk

For Forks Sake · 13-10-2020 8:11pm

This is a strange short film

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

odyssey06 · 13-10-2020 8:12pm

The Miracle - Neil Jordan film starring Donal McAnally and Beverley d'Angelo.

Beechwoodspark · 13-10-2020 8:13pm

The one where a fella turns into a rat

Think it’s called

Rat

Hangdogroad · 13-10-2020 8:17pm

Beechwoodspark wrote: »

The one where a fella turns into a rat

Think it’s called

Rat

Yeah, I never saw that one but remember reading about it at the time. Another one of those ones that was the cinema for a really short while and then disappeared.

Dyr · 13-10-2020 8:17pm

Hangdogroad wrote: »

looking like Rory from Glenroe sporting a curly mullet and denim jacket.

There was a law passed in 1982 that 70% of Irish film characters would be thus attired

This is going to be a list of absolutely dire films with the slight exception of Garage

As somebody has already noted, Irish films are a ball of ****e

Fuascailteoir · 13-10-2020 8:19pm

Shrooms

hynesie08 · 13-10-2020 8:21pm

Fuascailteoir wrote: »

Shrooms

Never mind irish, that can barely be classified as a movie

cloudatlas · 13-10-2020 8:22pm

There was a recent Irish Times list https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/film/the-50-best-irish-films-ever-made-in-order-1.4238979 The 50 best Irish films ever made, in order

It left out the McDonagh brothers which I felt was extraordinary.

They also left out Neil Jordan's 'The Miracle' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJrl2MajPy4

It was very much a list made for the person who wrote the list but it shouldn't be titled 'best'.

The Continental Op · 13-10-2020 8:22pm

Flight of the Doves 1971. Long may it remain forgotten. Saw it at the cinema when it came out - thought it was dreadful but it gets some people all excited https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/film/flight-of-the-doves-deserves-to-be-a-national-institution-1.3827375

E mac · 13-10-2020 8:24pm

Bambi wrote: »

There was a law passed in 1982 that 70% of Irish film characters would be thus attired

This is going to be a list of absolutely dire films with the slight exception of Garage

As somebody has already noted, Irish films are a ball of ****e

There's a bleakness to Irish films in the 80s. The countryside is full of nothingness and people wishing their lives were better always on the brink of moving away....(ya I know still could be the case)

13-10-2020 8:25pm

Was going to post The Run of the Country and see it has been got.

There were also two more I've seen on TV a couple of times and enjoyed, but forget the names.

One I think may be called About My Father were James Caan comes back to Ireland to learn about his father, flashback and its Aidan Quinn.

There was another pretty entertaining one where an assistant to an American presidential candidate is sent back to Ireland to trace his roots. She's played by an annoying American comedian lady with black hair, it's set in a seaside town and there's a love interest that's played by the Irish fella from braveheart.

Jesus Christ, what a post, I sound like my mother...

Fuascailteoir · 13-10-2020 8:27pm

Ah there was a decent one called pilgrim hill. Nicely made about rural isolation and made on a shoestring

Skill Magill · 13-10-2020 8:31pm

I think? Giz a smoke and giz yer jacket
Love to see it again

Tuco88 · 13-10-2020 8:33pm

Rawhead Rex... Irelands greatest horror film.

E mac · 13-10-2020 8:34pm

Skill Magill wrote: »

I think? Giz a smoke and giz yer jacket
Love to see it again

Reminds me of Adam and Paul kinda forgotten by me anyway...

Hangdogroad · 13-10-2020 8:35pm

Skill Magill wrote: »

I think? Giz a smoke and giz yer jacket
Love to see it again

Was that in black and white? I seem to remember Colin Murphy ripping the p!ss out of it in the Blizzard Of Odd in that weekly section that focused on bad Irish movies

E mac · 13-10-2020 8:35pm

E mac wrote: »

Reminds me of Adam and Paul kinda forgotten by me anyway...

Which reminds me ...'inside I'm dancing'

IAMAMORON · 13-10-2020 8:37pm

Disco Pigs

E mac · 13-10-2020 8:40pm

The Disappearance of Finbar

Skill Magill · 13-10-2020 8:40pm

Hangdogroad wrote: »

Was that in black and white? I seem to remember Colin Murphy ripping the p!ss out of it in the Blizzard Of Odd in that weekly section that focused on bad Irish movies

It was indeed, the off license in Ranalagh was in it, and Nell McCafferty. Defo had an Adam and Paul vibe to it. Thought it was hilarious, and not in a rippin the píss out of it kind of way

IAMAMORON · 13-10-2020 8:40pm

Cal - with Helen Mirren and John Lynch

Also heavily features the music " The Long Road " made by Mark Knopfler.

Pocaide · 13-10-2020 8:42pm

Man about dog

Hangdogroad · 13-10-2020 8:43pm

E mac wrote: »

The Disappearance of Finbar

Johnathan Rhys Myers just before his Michael Collins moment. All I remember was his character was extremely unlikeable and there was this really weird musical segment with a guy who looked like Bono in his mid early 90s white makeup period singing a song about Finbar going missing.

odyssey06 · 13-10-2020 8:44pm

The Last of the High Kings... Jared Leto with a spot on Irish accent.

Covidhaveago · 13-10-2020 8:49pm

Crush Proof

E mac · 13-10-2020 8:49pm

Hangdogroad wrote: »

Johnathan Rhys Myers just before his Michael Collins moment. All I remember was his character was extremely unlikeable and there was this really weird musical segment with a guy who looked like Bono in his mid early 90s white makeup period singing a song about Finbar going missing.

Funnily enough I had to Google Michael Collins (film) to remember JRM the actor whom I knew was in that film in order to remember the name of it....and yes crappy film.

For Forks Sake · 13-10-2020 8:51pm

That's f*cking delish man

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J-TiCyJpdhQ

Dyr · 13-10-2020 8:53pm

E mac wrote: »

There's a bleakness to Irish films in the 80s. The countryside is full of nothingness and people wishing their lives were better always on the brink of moving away....(ya I know still could be the case)

And all the way through the 90s and 00s onwards, every second Irish film is about some salt of the earth oddball written by some gob****e that went to UCD

Seamai · 13-10-2020 8:57pm

E mac wrote: »

There's a bleakness to Irish films in the 80s. The countryside is full of nothingness and people wishing their lives were better always on the brink of moving away....(ya I know still could be the case)

It doesn't get much bleaker than The Outcasts from 1982, I must have walked out before the end because apparently there was a scene in it with a woman having sex with a goat which I definitely don't remember.

iamstop · 13-10-2020 8:58pm

The Butcher Boy

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Butcher_Boy_(1997_film)

Hangdogroad · 13-10-2020 8:59pm

Covidhaveago wrote: »

Crush Proof

That was an attempt to make a gritty film about Dublin skangers but the script and storyline was laughable. I think it was written and directed by an American.

Seamai · 13-10-2020 8:59pm

iamstop wrote: »

The Butcher Boy

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Butcher_Boy_(1997_film)

I really like The Butcher Boy, Irish humour at it blackest and most warped.

odyssey06 · 13-10-2020 9:00pm

I only remember these as they filmed around D3...
The Courier - Gabriel Byrne
A Man of No Importance - Albert Finney

Forgotten Irish movies.

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