KaneToad wrote: » Eat the Peach and I went Down
dd973 wrote: » I remember Captive from the mid 80's, U2 tune called Walk to the Water on the soundtrack.
RandomViewer wrote: » Is that where Heroine by Sinead and the Edge(realise how corny the name is when writing it) is from?
Making-of anecdote about Strength And Honour thats much more entertaining than the film (click on audio)
https://corkfolklore.org/archivecatalolgue/document/210
Seeing as the link has disappeared the film in question was called Last Days In Dublin.
Don't think this ones been mentioned. Born For Hell (1976). Europudding B movie slasher about an American Vietnam vet murdering nurses in Belfast, as if the place wasn't mental enough at the time. Some of it shot in Dublin apparently, haven't seen it.
Severin released it on BD last year; not got round to buying yet. Saw it in the 1980s on video - GRIM
Bad day for the cut, 2017
I try to avoid Irish films particularly the northern ones as they always have to be connected to the conflict. As if you want to be reminded of this messed up place when watching a film. I certainly didn't watch the 'Belfast' film due to it being about the unionist community. Maybe that makes be a bigot, I don't care, I can watch what I like.
O'Neill of the Glen/Ó Néill an Ghleanna (shown in the Bohemian Picture House in Phibsboro, Dublin, in summer 1916, and advertised at the time as 'Ireland's first film": https://earlyirishcinema.com/2016/08/25/irish-audiences-watch-oneil-of-the-glen-august-1916/)
Robert J. Flaherty's Man of Aran (1934) [a very politically significant documentary at the time]
John Ford's The Informer (1935) [based on the Liam Ó Flaithearta book of the same name about an IRA man who informs and then goes through a Raskolnikov-style guilt; one of Ó Flaithearta's few books which were not banned]. It actually won four Oscars in the 1936 Academy Awards - the most that year - including Best Director and Best Actor. The Screenwriter, Dudley Nichols, also won an Oscar, and he became the first person to winner of an Oscar to refuse it.
Last nerdy fact: until Bob Dylan won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2016, George Bernard Shaw was the only person to have won both an Academy Award and the Nobel Prize for Literature. His little-known Academy Award was given in 1939 for writing the script for the film version of his play Pygmalion.
Hangdogroad... where can one see it these days?
I had a movie once in my DVD collection called Headrush which was a comedy from approx early 2000's. It started an actor called Gavin Kelty. He was in quite a few fairly obscure Irish movies from that time period although I haven't seen him in anything in years. The movie also had a cameo from Huey Morgan of the Fun Loving Criminals as a cross dressing gang boss.
Don't know tbh, I saw it circa 1997 at the Cork Film Festival. I doubt if its on any streaming sites.
Ah I thought you might have a version based on your comment.
It's totally unavailable and you are one of the very few people who were blessed to see it. My understanding is it won't ever be released. There were clips on The Blizzard of Odd but I can't find the episode.
Yeah I remember seeing that episode of DFTG too.
I dont think the Eliminator has ever received a home media release. It was good fun, wouldn't mind seeing it again.
Steven Berkoff and BP Fallon too
I was going to buy the DVD last week. The seller (based in Ireland) had quite a few titles (20+) I wanted. Sent him a message asking if he would combine postage as Ebay was defaulting to £5 per item. He replied saying "No sorry". Tosser.
A Kiss for Jed Wood 2011
Always thought the title should have changed, too much likely confusion with Jedward, who were popular at the time!
I saw Eliminator in the IFC as far as I remember. Good fun. Sometimes confused with Accelerator that came out a couple of years after.
Angela's Ashes
Is this forgotten ellipses.
Still gets shown on RTE from time to time.
Setting is dismal grey, always raining "like Blade Runner without the special effects"
You can feel the dampness and cold in your bones.
A bit like watching Lawrence of Arabia, but in that case you crave a seat in the shade.
Assault of Darkness. About Bog Bodies.
Starring Vinnie Jones, awful stuff.
Strength and Honour is another sh!te Vinny Jones vehicle from around the same time which stars both himself and Michael Madsen as Traveller bare knuckle boxers.
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Robbed cars on fire off the banks of the Shannon. I saw winos fightin in the dark near Thomondgate . All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain.
Its dreadful. The director is a right spoofer, was spinning some bullshit about making a biopic of Brian Borou with Leo Decaprio. Hasn't done anything of note since.
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