Either movies by or about the Irish are fair game as your favorites.
My all time fav Irish movie is "Waking Ned Divine" Its a story of a man who, upon learning hes won the sweeptsakes of several hundred thousand pounds, drops dead of a heart attack. Thats how the story begins and fun ensues (not for the ded Mr Divine though, he remains dead throughout the movie and is only infrequently summoned)
It is redolent of "Chickee flickee", BUT I shall add this to my list for my Netsflix (mrs F is in charge of the que).
I am using the contributions as a source of what new movies to rent. Irish movies are, as a class of flicks, some of the best about the people they portray.
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Tue 13 Mar, 2012 08:26 pm
Hear My Song - loved it. Loved it. Not available on netflix last I saw.
his son Tony wrote the adaptation of a James Joyce story. his daughter Angelica starred in it.
from wikipedia
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According to Pauline Kael, "Huston directed the movie, at eighty, from a wheelchair, jumping up to look through the camera, with oxygen tubes trailing from his nose to a portable generator; most of the time, he had to watch the actors on a video monitor outside the set and use a microphone to speak to the crew. Yet he went into dramatic areas that he'd never gone into before - funny, warm family scenes that might be thought completely out of his range. Huston never before blended his actors so intuitively, so musically."
It was adapted from the short story "The Dead" by James Joyce (from his short works collection Dubliners), and nominated for an Academy Award for Writing Adapted Screenplay. It was also nominated for an Academy Award for Costume Design.
The film takes place in Dublin in 1904 at an Epiphany party held by two elderly sisters. The story focuses attention on the academic Gabriel Conroy (Donal McCann) and his discovery of his wife Gretta's (Anjelica Huston) memory of a deceased lover.
James Joyce + John Huston + touch of girlie = pretty fine