Captain Lightfoot, with Rock Hudson, filmed mainly in Dublin, Clogherhead and Slane Castle.
https://youtu.be/k6RyR7U3DbE
Heard of this one but never saw it. The guy from Upwardly Mobile who died in an altercation outside a nightclub and received a paramilitary funeral pops up in this clip.
A troubled production. Beverly D'angelo was dating Neil Jordan, at the time. And he had a mistress who he got pregnant.
Made the whole production very uncomfortable for everyone else.
The Nephew, starring Pierce Brosnan and Donal McCann (RIP).
McCann's character finds out his sister has died in America. Then he discovers he has a nephew, and the nephew is black. Brosnan's movie studio produced it.
It was one of the last films McCann made before he died. I still haven't seen it, but I think even when it came out, the Irish critics were saying it had too much 'begorrah' in it.
An underrated film, imo, is This is My Father with James Caan and Aidan Quinn. And Aidan's brother directed it.
It doesn't get shown too much. Caan is great in it.
Kings, adapted from a stage play The Kings of Kilburn High Road, by Jimmy Murphy. Colm Meaney is the most well known actor. It’s about a group of emigrants in London who meet for the wake of a friend. Very poignant look at the experience of many Irish who travelled not too far away, but still never made it home.
Good film, the play was written by Jimmy Murphy though, not Martin McDonagh.
I remember watching it on TG4, it was aired over Christmas. Dialogue in both Irish and English.
Iirc still pops up in the schedules, outside of prime time now.
As with the man in orthopedic shoes, I stand corrected.
It's very good. Picked up the DVD last month.
I though the short name "Kings" was a bit bland and didn't do the movie any favours, could be about anything… The Kings of Kilburn High Street conveys a lot more about it.
I actually liked it. You could see her father really directed it, even if it had the daughter's name on it
In one of the scenes its pissing rain at a funeral and Flatley is holding his raincoat under his arm getting soaked.
In another scene, his hat instantly changes to another one when the shot pans to another camera.
Every scene is funny.
When he goes to fight this big guy, the whole fight happens benind a wall, we hear the bangs and thuds and Flatley eventually emerges from behind the wall unscathed presumably winning the fight.
When dancers try to direct/produce movies, this is usually the result.
He's still paying for that film. He took out a loan on his home to fund that film.
https://www.irishexaminer.com/news/courtandcrime/arid-41531099.html
The Boxer with Daniel Day Lewis is one that falls under the radar but something i really enjoyed.
Redemption of a Rogue (2020)
Prodigal son returns home for a funeral and to make up for past sins. Full of cliches and Father Ted-esque moments, but a decent enough movie all the same which slipped under the radar during Covid-19.
Property of the state - got shown in the cinemas but not out on DVD. About the guy Brendan O'Donnell.
Guiltrip (1995)
Bleak drama about a young married couple in a small town who's relationship is crumbling. Remember seeing this late one night on RTE1 years ago.
the blonde Jasmine from Fair City is in it
FIlmed in Athlone? The husband was in the Army and a lot of scenes revolved around the barracks.
Was just flicking through to see would anyone else mention it before I got a chance.
As a movie I really think it's up there with the best movies about Ireland/Irish people and it was doing the Irish language movie thing before it was cool.
Not sure if they have been mentioned already. Filmed in ireland, not sure who the producers were.
The Blue Max
Purple Taxi
I worked in London one summer and remember seeing a few fellas who were similar to the characters. Having said that, I think it can be a universal story where people are forced to emigrate and things don't go as planned.
Ardal O'Hanlon is involved with a charity, the Aisling Project, that helps people in that situation.
The Informant, from 1997. Stars Cary Elwes, Timothy Dalton, and Anthony Brophy.
Brophy plays an Ira member who turns informant.
An interesting film, I don't know if it had a limited release and then aired on TV, or what. Saw it once, back when Virgin Media was TV3, and then it was never shown again. The director has an impressive CV, including The Big Easy and Great Balls of Fire. Edit: incl trailer.
Delinquent season - only got a R1 DVD release. Two couples cheat on each other, Cillian Murphy gets beaten up.
Was shown on RTE1 iirc remember seeing it in the listings but didnt pull the trigger on recording it.
It's actually a sort of sequel to Harry's Game, based on the same series of books by Gerald Seymour. Insp. Rennie, Dalton's character had previously been in the ITV series of Harry's Game, played by Sean Caffrey.
It's on youtube backwards, for some reason. Wasn't Mary Coughlan the mistress? My semi-uncle Ralph worked on it.
More of a TV movie.
Filmed in Maynooth. The Roost lounge was used for the bar scene. Lounge was refurbed after so you may not recognise it today. I was an extra in it with other students at the time
Yeah, putting it up there backwards gets past the copyright bots. If you download the film (through a youtube downloader) you can flip it and fix it. But it's not a great movie, by all accounts. Not worth the effort.
Regarding MAry Coughlan, she probably was. Mary Coughlan was in quite a few Jordan films, including The Butcher Boy, High Spirits, and Breakfast on Pluto.
Also, that reminds me, High Spirits, an Irish movie set in a haunted castle, starring Steve Guttenberg, Darryl Hannah, Liam Neeson, Peter O'Toole,Beverly D'angelo (prior to Jordan doing the dirt on her), Donal McCann and Jennifer Tilly. It's been forgotten, and I think Jordan disavowed it as the studio edited it.
Bought it cheap on VHS, brand new, back in the day, at a local film fair. (Also got Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarves, that day). It's meant to be a comedy, and a young me with a really bad head cold enjoyed it, at the time. (Full film is on youtube, but it's also on Blu ray).
(Honestly, looking at the trailer, the effects still look pretty darn good.) And O'Toole is a lot of fun. I think this was his slow return back to headlining major films after his quitting the drink.
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