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Forgotten Irish movies.

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    #572
    George White
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    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.


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    #573
    fryup
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    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?


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    #574
    New Home
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    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.


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    #575
    Bobblehats
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    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.


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    #576
    New Home
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    Thanks :). Either I misremembered the title, or the Suit was a working title.


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    #577
    ohnonotgmail
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    what was the indian film that had a ridiculously over the top scene filmed on the LUAS?


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    #578
    Hangdogroad
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    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/


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    #579
    Bobblehats
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    - yeh Ek The Tiger.

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


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


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    #580
    vriesmays
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    Gentle gunman - old movie about IRA bombing the London underground.


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    #581
    Hangdogroad
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    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/


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    #582
    saabsaab
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    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.


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    #583
    vriesmays
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    Round Ireland with a fridge.


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    #584
    Hangdogroad
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    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.


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    #585
    silverharp
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    this isnt half bad if you like old B&W films, stars Patrick McGoohan

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

    A belief in gender identity involves a level of faith as there is nothing tangible to prove its existence which, as something divorced from the physical body, is similar to the idea of a soul. - Colette Colfer



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    #586
    bodhrandude
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    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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    If you want to get into it, you got to get out of it. (Hawkwind 1982)



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    #587
    Hangdogroad
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    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.

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    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/


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    #588
    Optimalprimerib
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    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.


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    #589
    Tom Mann Centuria
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    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.

    Oh well, give me an easy life and a peaceful death.



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    #590
    Hangdogroad
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    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.


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    #591
    Hangdogroad
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    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/


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    #592
    George White
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    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.


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    #593
    RandomViewer
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    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?


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    #594
    saabsaab
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    'The Canal' 2014, Irish Horror..


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    #595
    BettyS
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    Probably mentioned already but “This Is My Father”


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    #596
    Katgurl
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    Crush proof. I actually would love to see it again.


    Trojan Eddie. Terrible.


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    #597
    NewbridgeIR
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    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.


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    #598
    An Claidheamh
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    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.


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    #599
    An Claidheamh
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    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


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    #600
    Hangdogroad
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    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


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    #601
    vriesmays
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    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.


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