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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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George White

Samsonsmasher wrote: »

The Treaty is a forgotten film starring Brendan Gleeson as Michael Collins and Barry McGovern as De Valera which is vastly superior to the Neil Jordan travesty which wasted the talents of Liam Neeson and Alan Rickman and played fast and loose with history. Ian Bannen reprises the role of David Lloyd George who he played in another acclaimed biopic tv series.

Rebel Heart was a nice mini series starring James Darcy set between 1916 and 1922. He plays a young medical student who fights in the Easter Rising the Irish War of Independence and Irish Civil War. Brendan Coyle is excellent as Michael Collins who takes him under his wing.
Loosely based on the careers of IRA commanders such as Ernie O'Malley and James Ryan it is great stuff. Much better than the more recent Rebellion and it's follow up Revolution starring Brian Gleeson in a very similar role who shines despite a weak script and poor production values.

Bannen only played DLG once. The biopic miniseries you're thinking of was Philip Madoc.

fryup

Remember a few years back Matthew Modine was in co Limerick & Clare filming a movie called The Martini Shot..whatever happened to it? was it ever released?

New Home

Not sure if it's been mentioned (or if it should be on this), but "The Tuxedo" with Jackie Chan was filmed partially along the Quays by the IFSC.

Bobblehats

New Home wrote: »

Not sure if it's been mentioned (or if it should be on this), but "The Suit" with Jackie Chan was filmed partially along the Quays by the IFSC.

Otherwise known as the Tuxedo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RC9aEdCb9_M

Back then scenes such as these weren’t so common, so a lot of rubbernecking and general astoundment from the locals.

New Home

Thanks

. Either I misremembered the title, or the Suit was a working title.

ohnonotgmail

what was the indian film that had a ridiculously over the top scene filmed on the LUAS?

Hangdogroad

ohnonotgmail wrote: »

what was the indian film that had a ridiculously over the top scene filmed on the LUAS?

https://www.reddit.com/r/ireland/comments/c5v0ic/bizarre_clip_from_a_bollywood_movie_set_in_dublin/

Bobblehats

- yeh Ek The Tiger.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JGPu3X-cnwY

Best tell those lads we ride inside the carriage here...

vriesmays

Gentle gunman - old movie about IRA bombing the London underground.

Hangdogroad

The Fifth Province, never seen this, just remember reading an article about it at the time of its release. It sounded like awful pretentious nonsense and despite some heavy hitters in the cast such as Ian Richardson its sunk into total obscurity.

https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0119117/

saabsaab

Hangdogroad wrote: »

The Fifth Province, never seen this, just remember reading an article about it at the time of its release. It sounded like awful pretentious nonsense and despite some heavy hitters in the cast such as Ian Richardson its sunk into total obscurity.

https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0119117/

Sounds like it's worth a watch.

vriesmays

Round Ireland with a fridge.

Hangdogroad

Flick (2000). Another one I remember being in the cinema a really short time and then vanishing. One red haired guy in it who was in loads of Irish movies in the late 90s/00s.

silverharp

this isnt half bad if you like old B&W films, stars Patrick McGoohan

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ap-CB3Zi-oY

bodhrandude

Hangdogroad wrote: »

Flick (2000). Another one I remember being in the cinema a really short time and then vanishing. One red haired guy in it who was in loads of Irish movies in the late 90s/00s.

Would it have been Neil Jordan's The Butcher Boy. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118804/

Eamonn Owens is the red haired guy.

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Hangdogroad

bodhrandude wrote: »

Would it have been Neil Jordan's The Butcher Boy. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118804/

Eamonn Owens is the red haired guy.

David Wilmot was the guy I was thinking of. I see from here he was in the Clinic which which I never got into. Recognised his face from a few Irish movies late 90s early 00s.

No, Flick is the actual name of the movie I was talking about.

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0932837/

Optimalprimerib

I'll never remember the name of this but it was about a shy pious man that falls in love with this rebellious woman who turns out to be a cat burglar. He then gets involved. I remember enjoying it but it was fairly tame.

The one scene I do remember was her coaxing him to have sex with her in one of the houses and he goes limp during sex because a statue of mary was looking at him. He turns it around and keeps going.

Tom Mann Centuria

Optimalprimerib wrote: »

I'll never remember the name of this but it was about a shy pious man that falls in love with this rebellious woman who turns out to be a cat burglar. He then gets involved. I remember enjoying it but it was fairly tame.

The one scene I do remember was her coaxing him to have sex with her in one of the houses and he goes limp during sex because a statue of mary was looking at him. He turns it around and keeps going.

Spookily I was just thinking of the same film. Have it in my head that one of the lead actors is English and she puts on a pretty ropey Irish accent but might be misremembering that bit.

Hangdogroad

Optimalprimerib wrote: »

I'll never remember the name of this but it was about a shy pious man that falls in love with this rebellious woman who turns out to be a cat burglar. He then gets involved. I remember enjoying it but it was fairly tame.

The one scene I do remember was her coaxing him to have sex with her in one of the houses and he goes limp during sex because a statue of mary was looking at him. He turns it around and keeps going.

Sounds like When Brendan Met Trudy.

Hangdogroad

Light Years Away, technically a French production but filmed in the West Of Ireland and theres a lot of "I know that face" Irish actors in supporting parts.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080373/

George White

The Eternal (1998)

Bonkers Michael Almereyda-directed adaptation of Stoker's Jewel of the 7 Stars, relocated to Connemara, with Christopher Walken in a pre-Wild Mountain Thyme Irish role as Galwegian Joe Dolan-loving warlock Bill Ferriter.
Only partly Irish (the bulk of the film shot in a gothic manor in Yonkers, Almereyda turning down IFB money to shoot there), with exteriors in Dublin and Connemara, and Karl Geary and Jared Harris (playing an American) as the main Irish talent.

RandomViewer

George White wrote: »

The Eternal (1998)

Bonkers Michael Almereyda-directed adaptation of Stoker's Jewel of the 7 Stars, relocated to Connemara, with Christopher Walken in a pre-Wild Mountain Thyme Irish role as Galwegian Joe Dolan-loving warlock Bill Ferriter.
Only partly Irish (the bulk of the film shot in a gothic manor in Yonkers, Almereyda turning down IFB money to shoot there), with exteriors in Dublin and Connemara, and Karl Geary and Jared Harris (playing an American) as the main Irish talent.

If you watched now would you expect Anderson Dawes accent from Harris?

saabsaab

'The Canal' 2014, Irish Horror..

BettyS

Probably mentioned already but “This Is My Father”

Katgurl

Crush proof. I actually would love to see it again.

Trojan Eddie. Terrible.

[Deleted User]

The Thief
A short film made in 1994 or 1995.
About a robbery on a Spar (Donnybrook I think)
Filmed in UCD
Soundtrack uses Mazzy Star's Fade Into You.

An Claidheamh

Del.Monte wrote: »

Roundwood Reservoir in County Wicklow was one of many locations that had a military presence during the 1970s - of course they are too busy these days on peacekeeping overseas to look after home security. :rolleyes:

Wasn’t as if they were protecting Irish people from a certain foreign military presence in the 1970s, like Dublin, Armagh, Louth, Monaghan,.... reservoirs in Wicklow though ...

They spend most of their time in barracks these days, not doing much.

An Claidheamh

Probably been said before, but are there any archived videos of Colin Murphy’s ‘Blizzard of Odd’ Irish film reviews I.e taking the p1ss out of them?

A lot of people don’t realise, it was he who introduced Taafin to most people in Ireland, years before the guys who made a meme out of it

Hangdogroad

An Claidheamh wrote: »

Probably been said before, but are there any archived videos of Colin Murphy’s ‘Blizzard of Odd’ Irish film reviews I.e taking the p1ss out of them?

A lot of people don’t realise, it was he who introduced Taafin to most people in Ireland, years before the guys who made a meme out of it

Theres a few episodes of BOD here on this channel, the one featuring Taffin not among them unfortunately. Think this was the last series. Pretty sure Taffin was featured in the first series but none of those earlier episodes are online

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mKBvFl8iEUw

vriesmays

Rewind - Amy Huberman gets stalked by an ex. Based on a short film. Another of those Film Board schemes to help kill off the director's feature film career.