Bella is a young woman brought back to life by a brilliant and unorthodox scientist. Under the scientist’s protection, Bella is eager to learn. Hungry for the worldliness she is lacking, Bella runs off on a whirlwind adventure across the continents.Read More »
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Yorgos Lanthimos – Poor Things (2023)
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Vinny Murphy – Accelerator (2000)
1991-2000AdventureDramaIrelandVinny MurphyA Belfast man, who steals cars for a living, dreams of retiring to Barcelona. Suddenly he finds himself in conflict with a crazed gangster, who desires the first man’s girl friend. The two decide to settle the situation with a race run with 12 of their friends. The trick is that they have to steal the cars for the race.Read More »
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John Boorman – I Dreamt I Woke Up (1991)
1991-2000ClassicsDocumentaryIrelandJohn BoormanAnother in the series The Director’s Place.
Filmmaker John Boorman pulls an “8 1/2”-and a good one-in I Dreamt I Woke Up. In this rambling reflection on Boorman’s life and career, the director appears as himself, while John Hurt shows up as his alter ego. Boorman’s son Charley plays “The Green Man,” a far-from-veiled reference to his starring appearance in his dad’s The Emerald Forest. And Janet McTeer rounds out the cast as an “everywoman”, essaying all sorts of hallucinatory roles. Short (1944) and bittersweet, I Dreamt I Woke Up was filmed in County Wicklow, Ireland; it was first shown in the US at the Telluride Film Festival ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie GuideRead More »
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Martin McDonagh – The Banshees of Inisherin (2022)
2021-2030ComedyDramaIrelandMartin McDonaghTwo lifelong friends find themselves at an impasse when one abruptly ends their relationship, with alarming consequences for both of them.Read More »
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Joe Lawlor & Christine Molloy – The Future Tense (2022)
2021-2030Christine MolloyDocumentaryIrelandJoe LawlorSynopsis
Staged as a series of voiceover sessions, The Future Tense unfolds as a poignant tale of tales, exploring the filmmakers’ own experiences in aging, parenting, mental illness, and the brutal history beneath Ireland’s heavy earth.Read More » -
Ciarán Foy – Citadel (2012)
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Tommy Cowley is a young father inflicted with chronic agoraphobia since his wife was brutally attacked by a gang of a twisted feral children. Trapped in the dilapidated suburbia of Edenstown, he finds himself terrorised by the same gang, who now seem intent on taking his baby daughter. Torn between the help of an understanding nurse and a vigilante priest, Tommy sets out to learn the nightmarish truth surrounding these hooded children. He also discovers that to be free of his fears, he must finally face the demons of his past and enter the one place that he fears the most – the abandoned tower block known as the Citadel.Read More » -
Mac Dara Ó’Curraidhín – A Boatload of Wild Irishmen: The Life of Robert Flaherty (2010)
2001-2010DocumentaryIrelandMac Dara Ó'CurraidhínRobert Flaherty (1884-1951) was the man credited with being the father of the modern documentary film after he produced and directed ‘Nanook of the North’ in 1922. Flaherty is one of the great name directors in the history of cinema and to this day films such as ‘Nanook of the North’, ‘Moana’, ‘Man of Aran’ and ‘Louisiana Story’ are widely regarded as classics and still regularly screened.Read More »
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Ruan Magan – 100 Years of Ulysses (2022)
2021-2030DocumentaryIrelandRuan MaganOne hundred years ago, on February 2nd 1922, James Joyce’s Ulysses was published by Sylvia Beach in a small bookshop in Paris. The book, which consumed 7 years of Joyce’s life, years in which his family’s circumstances were very difficult, would have a profound and unprecedented impact on the literature and culture of the century to follow.
No twentieth century novel has rivalled Ulysses in its reach.Read More »
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Kate Dolan – You Are Not My Mother (2021)
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In a North Dublin housing estate Char’s mother goes missing. When she returns Char is determined to uncover the truth of her disappearance and unearth the dark secrets of her family.Read More »