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Forgotten Irish movies.

Hangdogroad

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?

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Hibernicis

flasher0030 wrote: »

I know I'm name-dropping an Irish film for the sake of it being Irish, and that it's not really forgotten.
But Flight of the Doves. Was always on around St Patricks Day. I remember when I was a youngster, one scene used to freak me out. when one of the youngsters spotted a tattoo on the baddie, and pushed him into the sea. I think it was from a lighthouse. The details are a bit sketchy, but it was something like that.

No need for the details to be sketchy

Flight of the Doves with our very own Dana as Sheila O'Ryan

fatbhoy

Garage was good, as was Adam & Paul.

Water John

Thelonious Monk wrote: »

It's not Irish really, A Fistfull of Dynamite, but James Coburn plays an Irish guy, and I'm pretty sure they filmed some of the scenes in The Long Hall pub, where he's thinking back of being in Dublin and the IRA and all that. Then he goes to Mexico and is an explosives expert. Sergio Leone directed it and music from Ennio Morricone, the dream team.

Would that then be a Potato Western?

War of the Buttons filmed around Skibbereen. Made by David Puttman who lives near there.

Fuascailteoir

Song of granite was another good Irish film that went under the radar.

Hangdogroad

November Afternoon, John Carneys first film. Very low budget, I remember continuity errors like one characters sideburns disappearing and reappearing in the same scene.

padd b1975

This is my Father.

Not exactly 100% irish, but filmed here and has a lot of irish actors.

Colm Meaney is brilliant as a camp B&B owner.

Great film though, I would highly recommend it.

Hibernicis

Water John wrote: »

War of the Buttons filmed around Skibbereen. Made by David Puttman who lives near there.

I had completely forgotten that one. Very well acted and very enjoyable.

Tony EH

It's not forgotten, but I can't believe 'The Field' hasn't has a Blu Ray release yet.

Thing is, most so called "Irish" films are anything but. They usually have a majority financial input from abroad.

tylercheribini

Taffin!

landofthetree

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_of_the_High_Kings

Last of the High Kings.

Seen the trailer for it but never watched it.

landofthetree

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moondance_(film)

Moondance.

1995 film with a great cover of Van Morrisons Madame George at the end.

paul71

Not Irish but filmed in Celbridge, The Blue Max

whisky_galore

High Spirits. Peter O'Toole, Steve Guttenberg and Liam Neeson star, but it's kind of shyte.

Song for a Raggy Boy, usual bleak Catholic Ireland with expected school thrashings.

guitarhappy

Duffy's Irish Circus, from 2006, a documentary film about the last family circus in Ireland, won a lot of prestigious film awards.

The Mighty Celt, about a boy who trains greyhound racing dog to be a winner but gets jacked by criminals. Actually filmed mostly in Belfast but it's a story worth mentioning.

Hibernicis

skooterblue2 wrote: »

A Disney Production, The Fighting Prince of Donegal

Even the mention of that Pinewood Studios embarrassment makes my skin crawl

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-c3lqpRxqw4

Hangdogroad

High Boot Benny. That was one bizarre film. The coach from Clash Of The Ash was screwing a sexy school teacher out in the middle of nowhere and theres this punk guy running around in the nip.

Tuco88

My favourite Irish films are... The Field and War of the Buttons.

Michael Collins and The wind that shakes the barley was ok.

From School
Into the West, its all they had on tape fuking seen it 40 times (A hung over teacher on Mondays ha)
Did anyone mention My left Foot???

Seamai

whisky_galore wrote: »

High Spirits. Peter O'Toole, Steve Guttenberg and Liam Neeson star, but it's kind of shyte.

I'd forgotten about that, Mary Coughlan played
a banshee in it. Utter tripe.

paul71

Tuco88 wrote: »

My favourite Irish films are... The Field and War of the Buttons.

Michael Collins and The wind that shakes the barley was ok.

From School
Into the West, its all they had on tape fuking seen it 40 times (A hung over teacher on Mondays ha)
Did anyone mention My left Foot???

I forgot "My Left Foot"

and if we go down the route of Oscar films there is also "Once"

Hangdogroad

Seamai wrote: »

I'd forgotten about that, Mary Coughlan played
a banshee in it. Utter tripe.

Neil Jordan's first dud after a string of really solid films.

Be right back

[Deleted User] wrote: »

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...

The matchmaker is the last one.

[Deleted User]

Da.
Screen play by Hugh Leonard with a strange mix of Hollywood actors and Fair City cast

[Deleted User]

The Continental Op wrote: »

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

Soundtrack is great; Roy Budd and a decent Dana track.

Heroditas

No mention of Eat the Peach yet? The film where the lads build a wall of death in the middle of a bog.
If ever there was a film that encapsulated the nothingness and bleakness of the 80s, that was right up there with the best. I think it was even shown on Christmas Day one year. Even Christmas had to be a bit grim back then. Nowadays we have our weekly dose of misery porn on the Late Late instead.

dasdog

landofthetree wrote: »

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_of_the_High_Kings

Last of the High Kings.

Seen the trailer for it but never watched it.

I was an extra in that - fed and paid £50 a night, given a pouch of tobacco and told to hang around a beach rolling cigarettes which I added a little Moroccan to on the sly.

Met Gabriel Byrne who was an absolute gent to everyone.

Fuascailteoir

Heroditas wrote: »

No mention of Eat the Peach yet? The film where the lads build a wall of death in the middle of a bog.
If ever there was a film that encapsulated the nothingness and bleakness of the 80s, that was right up there with the best. I think it was even shown on Christmas Day one year. Even Christmas had to be a bit grim back then. Nowadays we have our weekly dose of misery porn on the Late Late instead.

Was that not just outside clonee

[Deleted User]

Here's six gems

Small Engine Repair (2006)
Came out around the same time as Garage

Drinking Crude (1997)
Colin Farrell's first film. I reviewed it on IMDB and had random Americans emailing me for copies for years.

The Last Bus Home (1997)
Two punks meet on the day of the Pope's visit in 1979.

Guiltrip (1995)
Rough Gerry Stembridge effort.

The Fantasist (1986)
Serial killer down the country. Directed by Robin Hardy who did The Wicker Man.

Quackser Fortune Has A Cousin In The Bronx (1971)
Gene Wilder, Margot Kidder and Mynah from Glenroe

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qUKhLmwRd7Q

Joe_ Public

NewbridgeIR wrote: »

Here's six gems

Small Engine Repair (2006)
Came out around the same time as Garage

Drinking Crude (1997)
Colin Farrell's first film. I reviewed it on IMDB and had random Americans emailing me for copies for years.

The Last Bus Home (1997)
Two punks meet on the day of the Pope's visit in 1979.

Guiltrip (1995)
Rough Gerry Stembridge effort.

The Fantasist (1986)
Serial killer down the country. Directed by Robin Hardy who did The Wicker Man.

Quackser Fortune Has A Cousin In The Bronx (1971)
Gene Wilder, Margot Kidder and Mynah from Glenroe
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qUKhLmwRd7Q

Don't think I've ever heard of any of those apart from the Gene Wilder one which i assume is the one partly shot in the gravedigger.

[Deleted User]

That's it Joe

The Continental Op

NewbridgeIR wrote: »

Soundtrack is great; Roy Budd and a decent Dana track.

Saw it as a kid at the cinema and thought it was dull and boring. I think its a "Marmite" film some people love it I hate it.