The Sun, the Moon and Stars (1996) - Can't find a copy of this. Sounds interesting. An Irish kids fantasy starring Jason Donovan AND Angie Dickinson (bet she was chatted up by some aul lads who love Rio Bravo).
Spaghetti Slow (1996) directed by Valerio Jalongo • Reviews, film + cast • Letterboxd
Italian co-pro with Brendan Gleeson.
A Year 'til Sunday (1998) directed by Patrick Comer • Reviews, film + cast • Letterboxd
anyone seen this? 1998 GAA doc.
I've not seen it myself but you can watch it here:
https://dn721800.ca.archive.org/0/items/irish-films/The%20Sun%2C%20The%20Moon%20And%20The%20Stars.mp4
Circasia (1976) - RTE/Kevin McClory short of a Tom Duffy's Circus charity celebrity gala with Eric Clapton, Sean Connery, Danny Cummins, Judy Geeson, Shirley MacLaine, Siobhan McKenna, Burgess Meredith, Milo O'Shea, Henry Sellers and John Huston as ringmaster.
This is my father. Sad film but pretty good. Starring aidan quinn
And James Cann too.
An Everlasting Piece
chris walley and eanna hardwicke are in that too somehow
There seemed to be a real buzz around Irish film in the early 00s, plenty of celtic tiger movies ever if none of them were very good.
Yeah most ' Irish ' films I've seen are about americans coming back to do something . Not Irish at all
The government were giving incentives and tax breaks to films shot in Ireland back then weren't they? Even if your film didn't do great you were probably still making a profit anyway, so they kept pumping them out.
Another film from that period was Cowboys and Angels starring a young Allen Leech and the guy who played teenage Frank McCourt in Angela’s Ashes. They play two flatmates in Limerick with Leech’s character being flamboyantly gay and the Frank McCourt actor getting himself unwittingly involved with a dodgy drugs gang. Frank Kelly also has a small part in it. It’s watchable but pretty average at best.
“played by Darragh 'son of Donogh' O'Malley”
I had no idea they were related. Rather hard to believe.
The former appears now to be a bit of a knavely slob - a fan of Eoghan Harris and all that entails in recent years I believe.
Indeed. And now it's aged so horribly because there are parts of Dublin you can't walk down now, due to potentially losing your life.
because
Funny how some things age like wine, and others age like milk.
I think it's more that the idea was a bit fake and not based on reality, that a few young bachelors would all be living together in a nice apartment on bachelors walk. Firstly not many people live there and secondly they would usually be living out in the suberbs if at all. They were also a bit long in the tooth to be living together like that, might happen with young students but not realistic scenario in dublin. It isn't london, new York or Paris where that might have a basis in reality. It looked like they were trying to create a male version of sex and the city but it was all just too fake
Strange career. Voiced Nick Virago in the Lucasarts PC game Grim Fandango
Was Sean Bean's sidekick Patrick Harper in Sharpe, think Eoghan Harris had some involvement with the early scripts for Sharpe. Seems to be focused mainly on stage work in London of late.
Outside of Sharpe probably best known as the Irishman in Withnail And I,
"Perfumed ponce!"
Tigers tale…comically terrible, Brendan gleeson and yer one fro sex in the city
The Food Guide to Love (2013)
Irish/Spanish
I thought that was Michael Elphwick. 🤔
No, he played Jake the poacher.
Genuinely one of the greatest games ever made. LucasArts in the 90s and 00s made art.
this absolute masterpiece
Also appeared in the Long Good Friday, albeit briefly. He's the IRA driving the car at the end of movie
Wasn't O'Malley in On Home Ground, that ill-fated GAA drama that was intended to be the Next Glenroe, Sean McGinley, Amy fecking Huberman…
And an early role for Dominique McElligott.
https://stillslibrary.rte.ie/indexplus/image/3026/080.html
U-Turn, shot in Wicklow in 1970 by an Indian/US director called Dave Vadehra. I picked up a copy of a magazine called "This Week" dated July 1970 in a charity shop, it includes an article and photos on the the then as yet unnamed film, will scan them when I get the chance.
Among the cast was Susan Slott who later went on to play Shirley the Yank in Glenroe.
It received a screening in New York in 1972.
Has anyone seen a Colm Meaney film from the early 2000’s called How Harry Became a Tree?
I remember hearing of it or maybe even seeing the trailer, does that count?
I had the DVD, up to your post I thought I had the DVD, but I have looked and can't find it now, I can't remember anything about it, not sure I ever watched it, but now I want to…
I did a long time back. Wasn't up to much from what I recall.
