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Forgotten Irish movies.

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  • #662
    dubstepper
    Registered Users Posts: 592 ✭✭✭dubstepper


    In Fear. That didn't take long


  • #663
    Ash.J.Williams
    Registered Users Posts: 20,929 ✭✭✭✭Ash.J.Williams


    dubstepper wrote: »
    In Fear. That didn't take long

    filmed in devon :)


  • #664
    dubstepper
    Registered Users Posts: 592 ✭✭✭dubstepper


    Ash.J.Williams wrote: »
    filmed in devon :)




    My mistake. Few miles east of Dubln :D


  • #665
    Ash.J.Williams
    Registered Users Posts: 20,929 ✭✭✭✭Ash.J.Williams


    moving target - starring don the dragon wilson :)

    set in Galway

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ORhmLO2Gbc


  • #666
    vriesmays
    Registered Users Posts: 1,570 ✭✭✭vriesmays


    Murphy's stroke - about a horse betting scam, got the DVD free with a newspaper.


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  • #667
    Conall Cernach
    Registered Users Posts: 1,924 ✭✭✭Conall Cernach


    Has Widows' Peak had a mention yet? Mia Farrow, Adrian Dunbar, Natasha Richardson, Joan Plowright and Jim Broadbent starred. It was written by Hugh Leonard. I saw it in the cinema when it was released in the mid 90s but I can't remember the plot at all.


  • #668
    Hangdogroad
    Registered Users Posts: 4,870 ✭✭✭Hangdogroad


    Conall Cernach wrote: »
    Has Widows' Peak had a mention yet? Mia Farrow, Adrian Dunbar, Natasha Richardson, Joan Plowright and Jim Broadbent starred. It was written by Hugh Leonard. I saw it in the cinema when it was released in the mid 90s but I can't remember the plot at all.

    I'm sure I saw it on the telly but likewise cant remember much only that it was set in the 20s or 30s.

    Mention of Mia Farrow has reminded me of Angela Mooney Dies Again. Havent seen full film but saw some clips on I think the Movie Show with Dave Fanning. Didnt make me keen to rush out and watch it.


  • #669
    NewbridgeIR
    Registered Users Posts: 3,707 ✭✭✭NewbridgeIR


    Conall Cernach wrote: »
    Has Widows' Peak had a mention yet? Mia Farrow, Adrian Dunbar, Natasha Richardson, Joan Plowright and Jim Broadbent starred. It was written by Hugh Leonard. I saw it in the cinema when it was released in the mid 90s but I can't remember the plot at all.

    It was filmed in Inistioge; we used to go up there and watch. Summer of 1993.


  • #670
    AlejGuzman68
    Closed Accounts Posts: 125 ✭✭AlejGuzman68


    Ash.J.Williams wrote: »
    moving target - starring don the dragon wilson :)

    set in Galway

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ORhmLO2Gbc

    I just watched that and was just beyond cringe! Can't believe Don Wilson agreed to star in it.What was most cringy was the car chase and how the horses were just sitting in the stalls all saddled and bridled.


  • #671
    NewbridgeIR
    Registered Users Posts: 3,707 ✭✭✭NewbridgeIR


    Hangdogroad wrote: »
    Remember RTEs "Ireland On Film" season which they ran circa 98/99? A lot of the films mentioned were shown including I Went Down and a good few more obscure films like Alisa and Korea.

    I taped most of those. I also remember
    The Boy From Mercury
    Drinking Crude
    Joyriders

    They showed lots of shorts then too.


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  • #672
    Del.Monte
    Registered Users Posts: 12,363 ✭✭✭✭Del.Monte


    "CONTRACTORS"


    Watched these two shorts today - can't remember how I came across them. I thought it might have been this thread but on checking it seems not.


    Described as a black comedy concept sequel short film for potential Irish TV series about two hit men for hire. A strange effort from the people that brought you "Thank you, come again" and it is difficult to tell whether it's supposed to a drama or a 'fly on the wall' documentary about life on de Nortside. Absolute tripe but at least they didn't take long to watch.



    https://vimeo.com/277864241

    ****



  • #673
    Hangdogroad
    Registered Users Posts: 4,870 ✭✭✭Hangdogroad


    I remember an independent film about New Age Travellers made in West Cork in 1995 called Changing Times. I knew someone in it so went to its (only) screening. Complete rubbish, the director had gotten a generous enough grant from the Arts Council and most of that must have gone on a scene where a caravan goes on fire.


  • #674
    soiseztomabel
    Registered Users Posts: 401 ✭✭soiseztomabel


    Hangdogroad wrote: »
    I remember that being shown on RTE.. One grim film particularly the ending.

    Just searched it on Wiki, jaysus


  • #675
    Ash.J.Williams
    Registered Users Posts: 20,929 ✭✭✭✭Ash.J.Williams


    Hangdogroad wrote: »
    I remember an independent film about New Age Travellers made in West Cork in 1995 called Changing Times. I knew someone in it so went to its (only) screening. Complete rubbish, the director had gotten a generous enough grant from the Arts Council and most of that must have gone on a scene where a caravan goes on fire.

    One of my life highlights was making it to a summer solstice new age traveler rave in a bog in horse and jockey, it was unreal. A better movie than changing times I’d imagine


  • #676
    vriesmays
    Registered Users Posts: 1,570 ✭✭✭vriesmays


    Fistful of dynamite - IRA western, part of it filmed in Toners Pub, Dublin.


  • #677
    Del.Monte
    Registered Users Posts: 12,363 ✭✭✭✭Del.Monte


    vriesmays wrote: »
    Fistful of dynamite - IRA western, part of it filmed in Toners Pub, Dublin.


    Hardly forgotten. It's a classic western and better known as "Duck, you Sucker!". :D

    ****



  • #678
    RandomViewer
    Registered Users Posts: 6,191 ✭✭✭RandomViewer


    Del.Monte wrote: »
    Hardly forgotten. It's a classic western and better known as "Duck, you Sucker!". :D

    James Coburn and Rod Steiner, TG4 Friday nights quite regularly


  • #679
    Hangdogroad
    Registered Users Posts: 4,870 ✭✭✭Hangdogroad


    Rare trailers for both Reefer And The Model and Budawanney are included here from when RTE screened them over Christmas 1990.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-qneIj47oxg


  • #680
    Hangdogroad
    Registered Users Posts: 4,870 ✭✭✭Hangdogroad


    The Eliminator, very low budget but great fun. I saw it in the much missed Kino cinema in Cork. The only Irish based film I can think of with a Vietnam War flashback.

    https://variety.com/1997/film/reviews/the-eliminator-1117341454/


  • #681
    odyssey06
    Registered Users Posts: 27,793 ✭✭✭✭odyssey06


    Filmed in Ireland rather than an 'Irish' movie, Benedict Arnold: A Question of Honor, a period piece TV Movie 2003 set during the American War of Independence starring Kelsey Grammer and Aidan Quinn.

    I had no idea it was filmed in Ireland, but the numbers of Irish in the supporting cast should have been a giveaway e.g. John Kavanagh, Flora Montgomery.

    https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0321416/locations?ref_=tt_dt_dt

    "To follow knowledge like a sinking star..." (Tennyson's Ulysses)



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  • #682
    George White
    Registered Users Posts: 1,284 ✭✭✭George White


    Love in Kilnerry - https://www.irishpost.com/entertainment/story-of-irish-village-with-raging-erections-inspires-comedy-film-144007


  • #683
    Del.Monte
    Registered Users Posts: 12,363 ✭✭✭✭Del.Monte


    George White wrote: »
    Love in Kilnerry - https://www.irishpost.com/entertainment/story-of-irish-village-with-raging-erections-inspires-comedy-film-144007


    Don't get the Irish connection except that it's on the rubbish Irish Post website?

    ****



  • #684
    odyssey06
    Registered Users Posts: 27,793 ✭✭✭✭odyssey06


    As Luck Would Have It.

    Recent cheesy Hallmark romcom filmed in Waterford starring Allen Leech (Downton Abbey)

    https://m.imdb.com/title/tt13775584/

    "To follow knowledge like a sinking star..." (Tennyson's Ulysses)



  • #685
    Del.Monte
    Registered Users Posts: 12,363 ✭✭✭✭Del.Monte


    "As Luck Would Have It" - never heard of it but it looks dreadful begorrah leprechaun style tourist board muck. Watched that IMDB trailer - that'll do. :D

    ****



  • #686
    vriesmays
    Registered Users Posts: 1,570 ✭✭✭vriesmays


    How about you - middle-class old timers in a home.


  • #687
    Mad_maxx
    Registered Users Posts: 13,505 ✭✭✭✭Mad_maxx


    stuck with half an hour of a god awful irish movie with pat shortt , tommy tiernan , charlie murphy and Fran from love hate

    once it got to the bit where charlie murphy was performing BDSM on a bare arsed Pat Shortt , it was time to get out of Dodge


  • #688
    vriesmays
    Registered Users Posts: 1,570 ✭✭✭vriesmays


    Dark lies the island.


  • #689
    Mad_maxx
    Registered Users Posts: 13,505 ✭✭✭✭Mad_maxx


    vriesmays wrote: »
    Dark lies the island.

    thats the one

    pure garbage


  • #690
    EmmetSpiceland
    Registered Users Posts: 10,521 ✭✭✭✭EmmetSpiceland


    Mad_maxx wrote: »
    stuck with half an hour of a god awful irish movie with pat shortt , tommy tiernan , charlie murphy and Fran from love hate

    once it got to the bit where charlie murphy was performing BDSM on a bare arsed Pat Shortt , it was time to get out of Dodge

    But sure once you’ve “finished”, and cleaned up, there’s not much else keeping your interest.

    The tide is turning…



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  • #691
    odyssey06
    Registered Users Posts: 27,793 ✭✭✭✭odyssey06


    vriesmays wrote: »
    Dark lies the island.

    I havent read the Kevin Barry stories it is based on... so dunno if it worked better on the page.
    There were a couple of scenes that were intriguing but overall a mess.

    "To follow knowledge like a sinking star..." (Tennyson's Ulysses)



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