Forgotten Irish movies.

breezy1985 · 17-10-2020 12:40pm

EmmetSpiceland wrote: »

Well...

He refused the drink cause he's on duty. The episode is racist as F but nothing to do with him.

That episode also contains an Aran jumper that would give the nuns a heart attack

thebronze14 · 17-10-2020 12:53pm

Don't know if was mentioned but Wakewood, a horror movie from 2009. Wasn't a classic by any stretch of the imagination. Just watched it as it was filmed in Pettico, which is not too far from where I'm from. Didn't realise Aidan Gillen was in it

odyssey06 · 17-10-2020 1:22pm

Deleted User wrote: »

Divine Rapture 1995
Abandoned
with Marlon Brando

Gets more write ups than many films that were actually made.
I think there was an article about it in a recent Ireland's Own.

vriesmays · 17-10-2020 2:45pm

Anton - director got laughed at and slated on RTE's The View. Now hiding in a log cabin in the West after his career crashed.

Hangdogroad · 17-10-2020 4:23pm

Budawanny was another strange one. Controversial when it came out, circa 1987. The storyline about a parish priest fathering a love child was pretty prescient given what would come out about Bishop Brennan, I mean Eamon Casey.

RandomViewer · 17-10-2020 4:57pm

cj maxx wrote: »

Does anyone remember Run Of The Country.
Say nothing till you hear more

Albert Finney as a guard on the border, mid nineties, Main character is an awful moaner

flossy1 · 17-10-2020 5:09pm

60 years ago I saw Caption Boycott At the time I did not understand it very well . So last week I saw it on TV .It is funny Great old Irish actors .Full of history
and shows how England did not understand then .same today. PS i love old b/w movies

Grandeeod · 17-10-2020 5:55pm

flossy1 wrote: »

60 years ago I saw Caption Boycott At the time I did not understand it very well . So last week I saw it on TV .It is funny Great old Irish actors .Full of history
and shows how England did not understand then .same today. PS i love old b/w movies

Interesting fact about it. The horse racing scene was shot at Mullingar race course, now long gone.

breezy1985 · 17-10-2020 5:59pm

flossy1 wrote: »

60 years ago I saw Caption Boycott At the time I did not understand it very well . So last week I saw it on TV .It is funny Great old Irish actors .Full of history
and shows how England did not understand then .same today. PS i love old b/w movies

I refuse to watch it ; )

thejuggler · 17-10-2020 6:09pm

Eat the Peach (1986) starring Niall Toibin. Motorcycle wall of death Irish style.....

interlocked · 17-10-2020 9:23pm

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0060177/

The Blue Max, largely filmed in Ireland in 1966 starring George Peppard (He of the A team), James Mason and Ursula Andress. A big budget movie about a German air ace in WW1 and his obsessive quest to win the Blue Max, the award for 20 kills.

One of the most notable thing about this film was that the stunt pilot, Derek Pigott, flew a total of 32 passes, including 17 through the narrow span, under the railway viaduct at Fermoy in a triplane. He had a four foot clearance either side of the narrow span. No one else would do it....., mind you he lived to the age of 96!

cml387 · 18-10-2020 4:26pm

thejuggler wrote: »

Eat the Peach (1986) starring Niall Toibin. Motorcycle wall of death Irish style.....

Pat Kenny was in Eat The Peach, as himself. In fact without bothering to look it up, was it he who saw the actual wall of death in Longford on which the film was based?

the purple tin · 18-10-2020 4:37pm

thejuggler wrote: »

Eat the Peach (1986) starring Niall Toibin. Motorcycle wall of death Irish style.....

Wasn't that the one where they went to the dodgy border pub asking for petrol after they ran out. Little knowing that 'Petrol' was the nickname of an old provo

WhenPigsCry · 19-10-2020 11:07am

Randy Archer wrote: »

As for that Irish Times article - hilarious . They put in a film that had NOTHING to do with Ireland as a subject or location as number 1 . Ignore funny films like I went Down . They put in Johnny Connors Card board gangster dirge despite it being no better than the two films mentioned above

The character of Barry Lyndon is Irish, and the early scenes are set in Ireland.

keano_afc · 19-10-2020 11:18am

I've seen some of these "forgotten" movies on TV quite recently.

WhenPigsCry · 19-10-2020 11:25am

keano_afc wrote: »

I've seen some of these "forgotten" movies on TV quite recently.

Someone mentioned Rawhead Rex, which is available on BluRay, has been the subject of a recent Newstalk documentary on its production, and of a RedLetterMedia YouTube video with nearly 500k views. “Forgotten”

WhenPigsCry · 19-10-2020 11:32am

“Horowitz in Dublin”, 70s crime mystery with Harvey Lembeck and Sinéad Cusack. Whole thing is on YouTube. Looks a bit dull but there is footage of Dublin at the time that might be of interest to some.

sconhome · 19-10-2020 11:34am

"Children in the Crossfire"

About kids from Belfast who are sent to America for the summer for a break. How the change of surroundings allowed religious divides to break down.

El Tarangu · 19-10-2020 12:09pm

RandomViewer wrote: »

El Tarangu wrote: »

I don't know if it is still well-known now, but the Crying Game (and the 'twist') was a huge cultural touchstone when it came out - Mayor Quimby references it on an episode of the Simpsons in '93 or '94, so you don't much more mainstream awareness than that.

Naked gun2 does as well,

It occurs to me know that 'Ace Ventura: Pet Detective', came out about the same time, and also had a cross-dressing romantic storyline; it seems like accidently kissing a bloke in a dress was a big concern for cinema-goers in the early 90s

ShyMets · 19-10-2020 12:52pm

Not an Irish made move but an honorable mention to High Spirits.

Steve Guttenburg, Daryl Hannah, Liam Nesson, Ray McAnally & a slightly sloshed Peter O'Toole.

Utterly terrible stuff

Atlantic Dawn · 19-10-2020 12:54pm

thejuggler wrote: »

Eat the Peach (1986) starring Niall Toibin. Motorcycle wall of death Irish style.....

Dealz are selling copies of this for €1.50 on dvd.

El Tarangu · 19-10-2020 1:04pm

Atlantic Dawn wrote: »

Dealz are selling copies of this for €1.50 on dvd.

They seemed to be giving it away with one of the Sunday papers every other week back in the mid-00s

BailMeOut · 19-10-2020 1:10pm

Lovely slow moving film called 'The Secret of Roan Inish' with the late Mick Lally

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Secret_of_Roan_Inish

RandomViewer · 19-10-2020 1:40pm

WhenPigsCry wrote: »

Someone mentioned Rawhead Rex, which is available on BluRay, has been the subject of a recent Newstalk documentary on its production, and of a RedLetterMedia YouTube video with nearly 500k views. “Forgotten”

Newstallk means forgotten in my view, it and Radio Maria share the the same response "who put that fxxking sh1te on"
Watched Rawhead Red alongside The Revenge of Billy the Kid around 1991-2 haven't seen either since

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0102783/

The Young Wan · 19-10-2020 2:17pm

When Brendan Met Trudy

breezy1985 · 19-10-2020 2:50pm

ShyMets wrote: »

Not an Irish made move but an honorable mention to High Spirits.

Steve Guttenburg, Daryl Hannah, Liam Nesson, Ray McAnally & a slightly sloshed Peter O'Toole.

Utterly terrible stuff

Shot at Dromoland Castle former seat of the Earls of Thomond

Del.Monte · 19-10-2020 3:08pm

breezy1985 wrote: »

Shot at Dromoland Castle former seat of the Earls of Thomond

Shot at Dromore Castle - not the same place. The one that looks like the Rock of Cashel from a distance.

WhenPigsCry · 19-10-2020 3:12pm

RandomViewer wrote: »

Newstallk means forgotten in my view, it and Radio Maria share the the same response "who put that fxxking sh1te on"
Watched Rawhead Red alongside The Revenge of Billy the Kid around 1991-2 haven't seen either since

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0102783/

It probably deserves to be forgotten but Arrow Films rescued it from obscurity for a restored br release.

odyssey06 · 19-10-2020 3:25pm

ShyMets wrote: »

Not an Irish made move but an honorable mention to High Spirits. Steve Guttenburg, Daryl Hannah, Liam Nesson, Ray McAnally & a slightly sloshed Peter O'Toole. Utterly terrible stuff

Directed by Neil Jordan too! Roger Ebert said...
Jordan insists the film was taken from him and recut by the studio, but it's hard to imagine how any editor could've made sense out of this unholy mess.

I suspect the cast had more craic making it than any of the audience watching it...

breezy1985 · 19-10-2020 3:29pm

Del.Monte wrote: »

Shot at Dromore Castle - not the same place. The one that looks like the Rock of Cashel from a distance.

The person why showed me the film told me it was Dromoland. It was the only reason I watched that nonsense.

Should of known it was gonna be awful with Guttenburg in it. Sure we all know the real reason he was a star

ShyMets · 19-10-2020 3:30pm

odyssey06 wrote: »

Directed by Neil Jordan too! Roger Ebert said...
Jordan insists the film was taken from him and recut by the studio, but it's hard to imagine how any editor could've made sense out of this unholy mess.

I suspect the cast had more craic making it than any of the audience watching it...

I thought O'Toole had quit the booze by the time this was made. But watching the trailer again, I'm not so sure

Hangdogroad · 19-10-2020 3:40pm

RandomViewer wrote: »

Newstallk means forgotten in my view, it and Radio Maria share the the same response "who put that fxxking sh1te on"
Watched Rawhead Red alongside The Revenge of Billy the Kid around 1991-2 haven't seen either since

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0102783/

Rawhead Rex is probably better known in Britain than it is here. I think they're bigger into their horror, cult cinema there and it was written by Clive Barker who has a big following among horror fans.

Hangdogroad · 20-10-2020 8:09pm

All Souls Day (1997). Directed by Alan Gilsnan who's generally better known for documentaries. Saw it at the Cork film festival.

Grandeeod · 20-10-2020 8:31pm

A real forgotten Irish film and a greatly under appreciated film at that. At the time, I was immersed in the horror genre, but I remember it's eventual release which was a couple of years after the official release date. Grim. Really grim and while it had it's production problems, it was quite simply a brilliant depiction of inner city Dublin issues during very hard times.

Pigs - Directed by Cathal Black. Officially 1984.

RandomViewer · 21-10-2020 12:00am

Hangdogroad wrote: »

Rawhead Rex is probably better known in Britain than it is here. I think they're bigger into their horror, cult cinema there and it was written by Clive Barker who has a big following among horror fans.

I think they may have been trying to piggyback on Barkers Hellraiser but Rex is no Pinhead

Del.Monte · 21-10-2020 11:09pm

Grandeeod wrote: »

You'll need more than a few bottles of Cider.:eek: I watched it this afternoon. However the production values are better than Fatal Deviation at least.:D

I finally watched "Biopsy Shake" tonight - alcohol free - but I might as well have been langered as I couldn't understand it from beginning to end. Some pretty women but no sex and the out-takes were more fun than the movie - especially the unfortunate horse stopping to take a leak. Were there many drugs involved do you think?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQkP_XNou5s

Hangdogroad · 22-10-2020 1:01am

Del.Monte wrote: »

I finally watched "Biopsy Shake" tonight - alcohol free - but I might as well have been langered as I couldn't understand it from beginning to end. Some pretty women but no sex and the out-takes were more fun than the movie - especially the unfortunate horse stopping to take a leak. Were there many drugs involved do you think?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQkP_XNou5s

One of the oddest things about that film, and theres plenty odd about it ,are the comments in the YouTube video. Theres not a single negative as far as I can see. And an awful lot from Asia for some reason.

dd973 · 22-10-2020 1:08am

Anyone remember Captive?, Dublin crime film around the mid 80's.

Hangdogroad · 22-10-2020 1:31am

dd973 wrote: »

Anyone remember Captive?, Dublin crime film around the mid 80's.

Is that the one the Edge did the soundtrack music for? I vaguely remember reading an article about it when it came out but have never seen it.

firefly08 · 22-10-2020 2:01am

Nothing Personal starring James Frain, Ian Hart, Michael Gambon, and that fella who kind of looks like Brian Kennedy.

Very good film, and you can find it on youtube.

JP Liz V1 · 22-10-2020 2:14am

Did The Playboys get a mention, Robin Wright Penn and Albert Finney

Del.Monte · 22-10-2020 6:53am

dd973 wrote: »

Anyone remember Captive?, Dublin crime film around the mid 80's.

Are you sure about the title as I can't find any mention online?

Fr Tod Umptious · 22-10-2020 7:05am

Del.Monte wrote: »

Are you sure about the title as I can't find any mention online?

Can't Link it now but if you Wikipedia The Edge you'll find a link to it there.

AnRothar · 22-10-2020 8:23am

Del.Monte wrote: »

Are you sure about the title as I can't find any mention online?

The Captive on IMDB

odyssey06 · 22-10-2020 8:26am

This is Sinead O'Connor & The Edge, from the Captive soundtrack. Great track. Video is from a different movie.

Del.Monte · 22-10-2020 8:29am

Fr Tod Umptious wrote: »

Can't Link it now but if you Wikipedia The Edge you'll find a link to it there.

"Captive"

Okay, so here's the IMDB entry for the movie - only vaguely Irish connections that I can find are that the Edge and SInead O'Connor were involved in the soundtrack? It was about the Patty Hearst kidnapping and released in 1986. Was it shot in Dublin - can't find any reference to that? https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090795/

Del.Monte · 22-10-2020 8:34am

And no, it was shot in the UK https://www.mikesouthon.biz/portfolio/captive-full so unless someone knows better it is not a forgotten Irish movie.

Forgot to mention that the full movie is available at that link.

Ashbourne hoop · 22-10-2020 9:14am

firefly08 wrote: »

Nothing Personal starring James Frain, Ian Hart, Michael Gambon, and that fella who kind of looks like Brian Kennedy.

Very good film, and you can find it on youtube.

John Lynch. Yeah it's not bad at all.

vriesmays · 24-10-2020 3:25pm

Pigman murders.

odyssey06 · 24-10-2020 3:43pm

vriesmays wrote: »

Pigman murders.

Terrible thing to be going around killing pigmen.

I'm at one with George Costanza on them...
"I wish there were pigmen. You get a few of these pigmen walking around I'm looking a whole lot better. Then if somebody wants to fix me up at least they could say, Hey he's no pig-man! "

Forgotten Irish movies.

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