Best Irish Films

Lenny Abrahamson's movies are always good - "Garage", "Adam and Paul", "What Richard Did"

"The Quiet Man, entertaining though it may be, is a great example of Ford becoming even more Fordian (in a bad way)"

ur watching things badly, get better at watching things

Silence
Rocky Road to Dublin

Rocky Road to Dublin seconded

Garage not the best film to watch alone on new year's eve

Very good tho I'll have me cyanide now

My left foot

One sad Irish film after another

thats p much a comedy tbh

As in piss in the wind type comedy?

My Left Foot is pretty funny

I guess i feel it is sad because of the difficulties he had to endure, regardless of his personality. But there were definitely some funny moments. It's a sadness that hits you after when pausing for a moment to think about it, even though on the surface he's like any other pain in the ass artist

There's the McDonagh/Gleeson trilogy: In Bruges / The Guard / Calvary.

And I Went Down for that matter.

not a fan of colin farrell tbh

hes prob at his best in in bruges just sayin

I liked him in Intermission - as yer man says 11 years ago, its main attraction is just being very good at documenting (and taking the piss out of) what Dublin was like at a specific time.

will watch intermission then

Profanity
155 uses of "fuck" and infrequent use of "cunt" throughout.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0332658/parentalguide

it is hilarious. think i recommended it to some other ilxors on another thread or maybe via some other form of communication, real-life or social media, can't remember. i watched it again last year and still laughed throughout.

and yeah it's one of the few things where farrell is likeable, the script and character work particularly well for him.

I thought Farrell was rally good in The Lobster

the feral

can we get thoughts on the commitments

i rewatched it on sunday night. it didn't hold up for me tbh.

i hadn't seen it in about 20 years

not seen the film in years but did the book in school and even then was having reservations. the whole premise is fairly iffy with lots of slightly racist stuff, and it should have been about house and techno music, which was actually popular in working class dublin and did come from black america. but obv roddy doyle is old and rockist.

fair

ok I'm going to spoiler alert this even though I'm talking about a 26 year old movie:

the character development is non-existent, nobody changes. the characters are not particularly likable in the first place. not least the protagonist, whose pontificating about music and especially soul is a lot of essentialist bobbins - soul is the rhythm of sex and the factory, it's simple music, but it brings you a sense of transcendence and it's the music of the working classes. then there's the whole "irish are the blacks of europe, dubliners are the blacks of ireland, and northsiders are the blacks of dublin". no. black people are the blacks of europe.

there's a romantic storyline between the protagonist and one of the backing singers which consists of her obviously liking him and him rebuffing her by acting like he doesn't notice she obviously likes him.

lot of the boys perving at the girls and going "phwoar" and making double-entendres and being told to fuck off, seems quite of its time now.

it's fairly long, 100 minutes or so, but the running time is padded hugely by the musical numbers, which are fine enough if you like a serviceable irish cover-band playing 60s soul music.

the ending - none of them make it in the music industry, other than the frontman who is an arsehole and who the rest of the characters call an arsehole the whole movie long, but they're all better for the experience somehow, despite their live going back to the same old shite.

All of that is accurate and not actually ime scoring any points

Jimmy rabbitte is an arsehole.

Everyone else is varying degrees of arsehole or trash.

No, this doesn't change throughout the movie. Some shit happens, nobody develops as a character, people fuck up relationships, the music is undeniably good and everyone finishes up no wiser or better off.

And it's a great movie, taken on those terms and not with any templates applied imo. Patchy and all as the plot, acting and actual realism are.

then there's the whole "irish are the blacks of europe, dubliners are the blacks of ireland, and northsiders are the blacks of dublin". no. black people are the blacks of europe.

even at the time i wondered how he got away with this. i actually loved the barrytown trilogy of books in my teens, mainly because of the dialogue i guess, and some of the thoughts of the characters, but i think the van and the snapper are far, far better than the commitments. paddy clarke, ha ha ha is good too.

essentially the commitments has too much of roddy doyle pontificating about culture - the van and the snapper are a lot more about human behaviour - that said the snapper is p fucking weird too. like a character is raped but it's all okay in the end cos she loves her baby.

That movie about two cork lads finding a bale of drugs from last year looked good.

Sing street was a charming but lazy hackjob.

was gonna mention paddy clarke but didnt want to steer us off topic

i feel like doyles characters thoughts are what interest me about his work

Agreed that the van is the best movie from Doyle's books, if that's actually what you said. Because Colm meaney is magnificent.

dmac is that young offenders

i enjoyed young offenders, was daft but made me laugh

Ya. Must catch it

When will technology allow for a third policeman adaptation

I mean really it's about at swimtwobirds but I will accept the Hobbit as a starter

young offenders is on us netflix so i'll probably watch that one soon

found an irish lady on okcupid a few weeks ago and she wrote that she didn't read much but to recommend books so i recommended an o'nolan one

never got a response

Probably set her off on mega man 4 there when what she needed might've been super Mario land 2

what if i don't play super mario land 2

Let her go, twas never meant

So what you're saying is I should've said maeve binchy

Was she specifically looking for an Irish book tho

i want to say no so i know where you're going with this and i actually thought that was my mistake after i sent the msg

no big deal

live and learn