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Forgotten Irish movies.

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  • #902
    odyssey06
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 38,049 ✭✭✭✭odyssey06


    Drinking Crude 1997

    I'll include a spoiler warning for the Golden Globes in reference to it, in case anyone planning on watching the ceremony tonight:

    This was mentioned by Colin Farrell in his Golden Globe acceptance speech, with a nod to fellow nominee Andrew Scott:

    He recalled their first movie together, Drinking Crude, and said: “(Andrew) who I did my first film with 25, 30 years ago. You can’t even find it on Betamax. It doesn’t exist. But we go back that far.”

    https://www.breakingnews.ie/entertainment/colin-farrell-recalls-first-film-with-andrew-scott-as-he-beats-him-to-award-1714473.html

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



  • #903
    [Deleted User]
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123025079#Comment_123025079

    I taped it off RTE in 1998 so it does exist on my off-air VHS cassette.

    After I reviewed it on IMDB, I regularly used to get emails from besotted female US fans looking for a copy.



  • #904
    odyssey06
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123025125#Comment_123025125

    Wow. Let's hope it surfaces.

    Once upon a time I had a setup I could transfer from VHS to DVD with scarts… TV had a built in VCR.
    The TV still works but not the VCR :(

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



  • #905
    [Deleted User]
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123025184#Comment_123025184

    Just had a look. The box where the tape was is proving difficult to locate. There was a purge done during Covid but I thought only dumped stuff that I had upgraded to DVD / BD. The Honeymoon Killers was the other film on the tape. I still have a working VCR and DVD recorder with a hard drive. Trying to see if I made a backup DVD-R copy but nothing so far…..



  • #906
    fluke
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    Moondance (1994) A neat enough movie about two brothers who fall for the same girl.



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  • #907
    George White
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,195 ✭✭✭George White


    Starring Ian Shaw (son of Robert, whose play The Shark is Broken is playing Dublin, where he plays his dad), Marianne Faithfull and in his only film (apart from Dick Dickman PI), Brendan Grace.



  • #908
    Hangdogroad
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    That reminds me, Dermot Morgans only film role was his cameo as a stand up comic (more or less playing his 80s self) during the pub stripper scene in Taffin.

    (Unless you count the animated short, Last Snow Of Winter, which he did voicework for and was released after his death)

    Post edited by Hangdogroad on


  • #909
    [Deleted User]
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    I found my Drinking Crude VHS tape.

    DC3.jpg

    I've stuck it on YouTube.

    https://youtu.be/v4pA7zKDiEw?si=gdU1OgfFxUF5zrXy


  • #910
    odyssey06
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 38,049 ✭✭✭✭odyssey06


    Fair play @NewbridgeIR

    Had a quick look, I think I must have seen some of it, a scene looked familiar… maybe flicking through channels during its TV broadcast.

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



  • #911
    Hangdogroad
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123026607#Comment_123026607

    Taken down already by a copyright strike, that's a shame.



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  • #912
    Hangdogroad
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123026055#Comment_123026055

    Brendan Grace has a number of other movie credits on his IMDB profile. All pretty obscure independent productions.

    An adaption of A Christmas Carol from 2012, as the Ghost Of Christmas Present. Brendan O`Carroll is in it as well. Directed by Jason Figgis.

    The Gift, 2017, directed by Damian O'Callaghan. BC has a cameo as "man".

    Tradition (2019) also directed by O'Callaghan, BC is credited as playing a priest.

    He has another credit in a 2013 Australian movie called Backyard Ashes as "person on the street". This could be a mistake, or maybe some Irish person added it for the laugh. If not I'm curious as to how he came to be in this.

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  • #913
    odyssey06
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 38,049 ✭✭✭✭odyssey06


    Someone hasn't forgotten "Waking Ned Devine"… it has been remade in French.

    https://www.imdb.com/title/tt31862997/

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



  • #914
    7sus4
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122967744#Comment_122967744

    The scene with the waitress alone is enough to make it worth watching.



  • #915
    George White
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,195 ✭✭✭George White


    Stars Gerard Darmon who I once watched in a film called Fear City, simply because it had Daniel Toscan du Plantier as himself, and was curious if his wife had a cameo.

    Now see Toscan du Plantier was married before Sophie to Marie Christine Barrault, who I mainly know as Richard Burton's dubbed wife in the Medusa Touch.



  • #916
    George White
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,195 ✭✭✭George White


    Anyone seen the 1990 Charley Boorman film Connemara?

    Finally watched Bob Quinn's Budawanny. Loved the novelisation twist.



  • #917
    George White
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,195 ✭✭✭George White


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/116658241#Comment_116658241

    impossible to find. IIRC shot at Roger Corman'Corman's studios in



  • #918
    George White
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,195 ✭✭✭George White


    Films set in Ireland

    San Demetrio London (1943)

    Night Boat to Dublin (1946)

    Doctor at Large (1957)



  • #919
    New Home
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123517445#Comment_123517445

    Widow's Peak is here, if it's of any use. https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x98ppy8



  • #920
    George White
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,195 ✭✭✭George White


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/116394095#Comment_116394095

    The Eternal. Was Trimark not Corman.

    New Home, I was talking about Angela Mooney.



  • #921
    Hangdogroad
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    Robin Hardys the Fantasist is up on YouTube. Its always been impossible to find so watched it the other night for the first time.

    Utterly bonkers film. Really bad Irish accent from Moira Harris. Glenroe, Fair City crossover with Mick Lally getting hammered with Jim Bartley. Well worth a watch for the 80s Dublin time capsule alone

    https://youtu.be/5wrlYDTDDW0?si=9f7icS1zZToap65k


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  • #922
    George White
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,195 ✭✭✭George White


    Also Mick Lally in old ageing makeup playing a 65 year old (cos Cyril Cusack dropped out late). Produced by (yes, THAT) Mike Murphy and Mark Forstater (father of JK Rowling's pal Maya Forstater, who's responsible for JKR's recent monomaniacal spiral).

    Thanks Louis Copeland.



  • #923
    Hangdogroad
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123584665#Comment_123584665

    Mike Murphy also has an uncredited voice role as the newsreader in a radio report on the murders in one scene.



  • #924
    [Deleted User]
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/114918327#Comment_114918327

    Could be a double bill with I Went Down.



  • #925
    silliussoddius
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    Sorry if it has been mentioned, but there is a film called Hard Times on some streaming channel. It's a fairly recent one about a stolen viagra shipment. Has anyone heard of it?



  • #926
    George White
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,195 ✭✭✭George White


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123584787#Comment_123584787

    Ah, was that him? Excellent.

    Part of what I call #rtecore (see also Marty Whelan in the Actors and The Plank Kenny in Eat the Peach, Charles Mitchel and Jimmy Greeley in the Outsider)



  • #927
    George White
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,195 ✭✭✭George White


    Gold in the Streets and A Further Gesture - both 90s films about Irish in New York.

    Gold in the Streets features some actual NYC footage, but there's scenes in a greenhouse that's pure Bray, and the bar was Ardmore. A few actual Americans (Jim Belushi, Frank Converse) pepper it.

    A Further Gesture (Stephen Rea as a Maze vet going to America) begins in Dublin as Belfast, but I believe most of the NYC footage was actually shot in New York.



  • #928
    silliussoddius
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    Sorry if it was mentioned (it's a big thread and the search function isn't great), Sunburn starring Cillian Murphy. Made in 1999 about young ones going to New York on the J1, wasn't too bad.



  • #929
    Declan05
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 62 ✭✭Declan05


    Haven't seen Ryan's Daughter on TV for ages, was very popular at one time.



  • #930
    10000maniacs
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    The Running Man 1963 starring Lawrence Harvey, Alan Bates and Lee Remick.

    Pretty good but dated noir movie set in Bray Co. Wicklow and Cadiz Spain.

    It was on TCM movies before Virgin got rid of the channel.



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  • #931
    George White
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,195 ✭✭✭George White


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123661555#Comment_123661555

    It's a British film that's shot here, still set in England (Bray, as it frequently does now, plays 'anonymous UK seaside resort').



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