Forgotten Irish movies.

Beechwoodspark

The Continental Op wrote: »

Flight of the Doves 1971. Long may it remain forgotten. Saw it at the cinema when it came out - thought it was dreadful but it gets some people all excited https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/film/flight-of-the-doves-deserves-to-be-a-national-institution-1.3827375

It’s still shown on RTÉ every few months

Grandeeod

Hangdogroad wrote: »

Ah ok, I was mixing it up with Spacejacked.

You're grand. Spacejacked was indeed made in Connemara. I'd consider lots of films from Cormans base there, to be Irish in a way. A pity it didn't last long. It was funny to see all these exploitation films coming out of Galway with many Irish crew and the Dublin filmmaking community's disgust at it. Great days.:D

Ryan's Daughter by the great David Lean. Most people wouldn't have heard of it were it not for that piece on Reeling in the Years and it is in no way as well remembered as much of his other films eg Laurence of Arabia, Dr Zhivago

Mad_maxx

what was that movie set in east donegal in a small protestant community ?, actress ( whos name escaped me ) became the lover of two brothers while working on a farm circa 1965 , one played by ciaran hinds , the other by Donal Mc cann

looked it up , December Bride

odyssey06

Mad_maxx wrote: »

what was that movie set in east donegal in a small protestant community ?, actress ( whos name escaped me ) became the lover of two brothers while working on a farm circa 1965 , one played by ciaran hinds , the other by Donal Mc cann

December Bride.

Thought it was compelling.
Actress was British... Saskia Reeves.

Mad_maxx

odyssey06 wrote: »

December Bride.

Thought it was compelling.
Actress was British... Saskia Reeves.

it was pretty good , she was a good actress , remember playing the sister of clive owen in a british movie around that time , brother and sister in an inscestous relationship

Hangdogroad

This Is The Sea. Another largely forgotten one with Gabriel Byrne, also starred Samantha Morton. Set in the North.

skooterblue2

Patser wrote: »

All dogs go to Heaven

Then that also includes all the Don Bluth studio as well,
Fielefel Mouse
Fielefel goes west
A Mouses Tale etc etc

magick

War of the Buttons

Hangdogroad

Undercurrent. Early Liam Cunningham role. I know I saw it on RTE at some point , online details of are very sketchy but it was a crime thriller.

Declan A Walsh

It's clear from the numerous examples that certain Irish actors were very busy on the big screen!

the purple tin

The Race- Colm Meaney, so-so film where his daughter enters a go-kart race.

O Mary This London- Two young lads take a girl to England for an abortion. Shown once in the 90s on BBC and then completely erased from history. Very good film.

Breakfast on Pluto- Cillian Murphy in drag.

The Actors- Comedy with Michael Caine, Dylan Moran, Michael Gambon. Daft but quite funny.

The Boxer- Daniel Day Lewis gets out of prison in Belfast during the troubles.

breezy1985

the purple tin wrote: »

The Race- Colm Meaney, so-so film where his daughter enters a go-kart race.

O Mary This London- Two young lads take a girl to England for an abortion. Shown once in the 90s on BBC and then completely erased from history. Very good film.

Breakfast on Pluto- Cillian Murphy in drag.

The Actors- Comedy with Michael Caine, Dylan Moran, Michael Gambon. Daft but quite funny.

The Boxer- Daniel Day Lewis gets out of prison in Belfast during the troubles.

Breakfast on Pluto is one of the best to come out of Ireland. Liam Neeson and Ruth Negga alongside Cillian Murphy with Cunningham, Rea and Gleeson getting cameos

the purple tin

breezy1985 wrote: »

Breakfast on Pluto is one of the best to come out of Ireland. Liam Neeson and Ruth Negga alongside Cillian Murphy with Cunningham, Rea and Gleeson getting cameos

Based on a Patrick McCabe novel.
They should make more films from his books.

breezy1985

the purple tin wrote: »

Based on a Patrick McCabe novel.
They should make more films from his books.

Speaking of books Borstal Boy is a movie of Brendan Behans book on his time as a young prisoner.



Its not great though and I wouldn't class it as an Irish film as the movie feels very English despite the author.

Sgt Hartman

breezy1985 wrote: »

Speaking of books Borstal Boy is a movie of Brendan Behans book on his time as a young prisoner.



Its not great though and I wouldn't class it as an Irish film as the movie feels very English despite the author.

I remember Danny Dyer being in it, I thought it was quite poor. I also remember seeing it on DVD in HMV a couple of years after it was released. The DVD cover was sexed up to make it look like a "gritty Danny Dyer Prison Movie" in order to fool people into buying it.

Hangdogroad

The Fifth Province, never seen just recall reading about it in Film Ireland magazine in late 90s. Surrealist fantasy Euro co production.

Hangdogroad

Sgt Hartman wrote: »

I remember Danny Dyer being in it, I thought it was quite poor. I also remember seeing it on DVD in HMV a couple of years after it was released. The DVD cover was sexed up to make it look like a "gritty Danny Dyer Prison Movie" in order to fool people into buying it.

Terrible piece of casting and yeah I did a double take when I saw that dvd cover in a rental shop. Danny Dyer as Brendan Behan, wtf? That was the first I'd heard of it.

the purple tin

Isolation. Horror film from 2005 about a killer cow!

Hangdogroad

the purple tin wrote: »

Isolation. Horror film from 2005 about a killer cow!

Ruth Negga as a traveller. One of the strangest pieces of casting I've seen.

breezy1985

Hangdogroad wrote: »

Terrible piece of casting and yeah I did a double take when I saw that dvd cover in a rental shop. Danny Dyer as Brendan Behan, wtf? That was the first I'd heard of it.

Dyer doesnt play Behan he plays his friend who from what I remember was this really quiet and camp kid but no that Dyer is famous the DVD box has this real "hard" picture of him and not Behan

Hangdogroad

breezy1985 wrote: »

Dyer doesnt play Behan he plays his friend who from what I remember was this really quiet and camp kid but no that Dyer is famous the DVD box has this real "hard" picture of him and not Behan

Ok, I'm relieved to hear that . I read the book when I was in my teens and had no idea it had been made into a film till I saw that dvd cover. No way was I watching it .

Patser

skooterblue2 wrote: »

Then that also includes all the Don Bluth studio as well,
Fielefel Mouse
Fielefel goes west
A Mouses Tale etc etc

No, I checked on this beforehand.

Spielberg was involved in the American Tail movies, and insisted they be made in America, so Bluth opened a studio in Arizona.

All Dogs go to Heaven was his big Dublin based movie, some staff did transfer over to help in America - but later Dublin based movies flopped (they did do some of A land before time) and Bluth studios closed, but left a legacy in Ireland of animation and also computer game animation, that still exists today.

Hangdogroad

This got a limited release in a couple of Cork cinemas in 2005. Its staggeringly bad, think a really pretentious Fatal Deviation with added Celtic mystical mumbo jumbo.

https://youtu.be/cQkP_XNou5s

breezy1985

Hangdogroad wrote: »

Ok, I'm relieved to hear that . I read the book when I was in my teens and had no idea it had been made into a film till I saw that dvd cover. No way was I watching it .

I could be remembering it very wrong but I found it a bit light on politics and very soft up until one very serious about turn at the end.

PointHop123

'Goldfish Memory' (2003)- I saw that in a cinema in Amsterdam (who knows why?) - it's a rom-com about relationships.

'Parked' (2011) starring Colm Meaney about a middle aged man who becomes homeless and lives in his car.

'A date for Mad Mary' (2016) - quite recent. Decent film.

cml387

I seem to remember "The Girl With Green Eyes" being on television one Sunday afternoon (it wasn't BBC, I checked Genome) and thinking it was a bit "adult" for that timeslot. Edna O'Brien's adaptation of her own book "The Lonely Girl".
Not bad, I seem to remember, being part of the gritty real life films being made in those days.

Del.Monte

Hangdogroad wrote: »

This got a limited release in a couple of Cork cinemas in 2005. Its staggeringly bad, think a really pretentious Fatal Deviation with added Celtic mystical mumbo jumbo.

https://youtu.be/cQkP_XNou5s

You got me - I've never seen this before and having just looked at it for a couple of minutes it looks like it could be right up there with Fatal Deviation. I'll be getting in a few bottles of cider before settling down to watch it tonight.

Capt'n Midnight

SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »

Barry Lyndon

one of the most visually beautiful films ever made

pause any scene and its like a painting

Way off topic but, Ran by Akira Kurosawa is similar - it's either an action scene or a painting.

RandomViewer

magick wrote: »

War of the Buttons

RTE regularly show it on Sunday afternoons, doesn't seem to know what era it's supposed to be based in, has a green post van which would indicate late 80's but a lot of the rest seems earlier

Capt'n Midnight

Another Shore (1948) Ealing Comedy set and filmed in Dublin so YMMV

Man of Aran (1934)

The Informer (1935) Hollywood (4 Oscars) does John Ford doing a Liam O'Flaherty story count ?

Thelonious Monk

interlocked wrote: »

I'm pretty sure that it was filmed in Toners in Baggot Street, great, great film, one of Leone's best

Think you might be right, I should know that really given the amount of money I've poured into Toners over the last few years!

Thelonious Monk

Ok it's not Irish but it's a Christopher Walken film probably from the 2000s or very late 90s, I can't remember much about it except there's a character in it played by the not Brendan Gleeson actor in I Went Down. And he's just in New York or something with his Dublin accent. Anyone seen it?
I know I could search the internet for it but sure that'd take the fun out of discussion forums!

Grandeeod

the purple tin wrote: »

Isolation. Horror film from 2005 about a killer cow!

Hopefully it stays in Isolation forever. Irish horror movies are 30 years behind the curve.

RandomViewer

The Closer You Get, Ian Hart wandering around Kincasslagh

Grandeeod

Del.Monte wrote: »

You got me - I've never seen this before and having just looked at it for a couple of minutes it looks like it could be right up there with Fatal Deviation. I'll be getting in a few bottles of cider before settling down to watch it tonight.

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

the purple tin

Odd Man Out.
40s thriller with James Mason. He gets injured and left behind after an armed robbery and has to try to make his way across Belfast to safety.
Great old film.

Grandeeod

Sahake hands with the Devil - 1959. Shot on location in Ireland and at Ardmore studios. James Cagney and a young Steptoe by the name of Harry (without the H) Corbett. A young Richard Harris too and an Irish based story.

the purple tin

Assault of Darkness aka Legend of the Bog aka Bog Bodies aka Bog Body.
Vinnie Jones hunts a 2000 year old re-animated bogman.

Thelonious Monk

Dracula Untold. Filmed in Ireland and directed by my mates little brother, we're high achievers in Artane. Supposed to be sh*te but it really killed it at the box office and made a fortune.

RandomViewer

Rawhead Rex, dodgy 80's horror

Jimbob1977

The Johnstown Monster

A kids film about a Loch Ness style creature in an Irish lake.

1970s

the purple tin

Are there any Irish made films that have stood the test of time and would still be well known in UK and US?

Grandeeod

the purple tin wrote: »

Are there any Irish made films that have stood the test of time and would still be well known in UK and US?

I'll offer up My Left Foot and The Field. No Irish money involved, but Irish stories, producers and Director. Not a mad fan of Sheridan, but back then they tried and earned Oscars and nominations. Both films very well known around the world.

Hangdogroad

I Cant...I Cant... (1970). Also known as Wedding Night. Irish films dont get much more obscure than this one. Saw clips of it on the Blizzard Of Odd. Dennis Waterman is in it, screenplay by Lee Dunne, once the most banned writer in Ireland. Apparently this was banned here for years because if its exploration of sexual mores.

Del.Monte

In truth thread title is a bit off as these days everything is blurred with the pace of things, films, acts of terror, pandemics, crises etc. and today's blockbuster is soon forgotten.

Grandeeod

Hangdogroad wrote: »

I Cant...I Cant... (1970). Also known as Wedding Night. Irish films dont get much more obscure than this one. Saw clips of it on the Blizzard Of Odd. Dennis Waterman is in it, screenplay by Lee Dunne, once the most banned writer in Ireland. Apparently this was banned here for years because if its exploration of sexual mores.

One of the very few Irish based films that actually dealt with real life crap. Nowhere to be seen. It was a darker version of the English film, The Family Way starring Hayley Mills and her Dad with H Bennet. Roles and reasons reversed. The IFI have it and should show it more.

breezy1985

the purple tin wrote: »

Are there any Irish made films that have stood the test of time and would still be well known in UK and US?

The Commitments.


What is an Irish made film ? Especially nowadays as everything is a co-production

RandomViewer

Hush a bye baby, Sinead with hair O'Connor

Grandeeod

breezy1985 wrote: »

The Commitments.


What is an Irish made film ? Especially nowadays as everything is a co-production

When I was in Film School way way back, I asked Noel Pearson that question. It was at a time when "Irish Films" were produced and Directed by non Irish people. Maybe an Irish Director. Maybe an Irish story/setting with American/British oroducers/Directors. At the time a true Irish made film was apparently Irish money and Irish crew. That only existed in state funded shorts. Therefore it never existed. We never actually had a film industry like other countries and still don't.