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Posts Tagged "ireland"
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Man of Aran **** (1934, Colman ‘Tiger’ King, Maggie Dirrane, Michael Dirrane) – Classic Movie Review 5720
Writer/ cinematographer/ director Robert J Flaherty’s notable 1934 documentary feature film of life on the Isle of Aran in North Ayrshire features the real fishermen and crofter people, and shows their various struggles to live. (By […]
The Commitments *** (1991, Robert Arkins, Michael Aherne, Angeline Ball, Maria Doyle, Dave Finnegan, Bronagh Gallagher) – Classic Movie Review 5047
Director Alan Parker assembles a likeable cast of youngish people searching after that elusive fame in his hit 1991 musical drama about the rise and fall of a Dublin soul band called The Commitments. It […]
The Run of the Country *** (1995, Albert Finney, Matt Keeslar, Victoria Smurfit) – Classic Movie Review 4932
Matt Keeslar plays Danny, a rebellious teenage boy who is having trouble with his father (Albert Finney), a short tempered Irish rural policeman, in director Peter Yates’s well-crafted, sincere, heart-tugging 1995 slice of Irish baloney. […]
Finian’s Rainbow **** (1968, Fred Astaire, Petula Clark, Tommy Steele, Don Francks, Keenan Wynn) – Classic Movie Review 4728
Fred Astaire is still nimble and sprightly at the age of 69 as Finian McLonergan, and Petula Clark is pleasing as his daughter Sharon, in director Francis Ford Coppola’s highly appealing 1968 movie version of […]
The Last of the High Kings [Summer Fling] ***½ (1996, Jared Leto, Gabriel Byrne, Catherine O’Hara, Christina Ricci, Colm Meany, Stephen Rea, Lorraine Pilkington, Emily Mortimer) – Classic Movie Review 4666
Co-writer/ director David Keating’s 1996 Irish comedy drama little winner is appealing and intelligent, with a beautifully crafted script by Keating and Gabriel Byrne. This surprisingly sweet Irish tale is lit up with a cute […]
Cherrybomb *** (2009, Rupert Grint, Robert Sheehan, James Nesbitt, Kimberley Nixon) – Classic Movie Review 4632
Rupert Grint stars as teenager Malachy who is spending his holidays working at the Titanic leisure centre and enjoying the company of his dangerous drug-dealing best buddy Luke (Robert Sheehan) in the Belfast suburbs in summer. […]
Hidden Agenda **** (1990, Frances McDormand, Brian Cox, Brad Dourif, Mai Zetterling, Jim Norton) – Classic Movie Review 4,147
Ken Loach’s distinguished, controversial 1990 political thriller Hidden Agenda stars Brian Cox as a tough police detective investigating the murder of an American human rights lawyer in Belfast, with the help of the man’s girlfriend […]