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Post by topbilled on Mar 2, 2023 0:02:07 GMT
I like YOUNG CASSIDY (1965).
I also think SHAKE HANDS WITH THE DEVIL (1959) contains one of James Cagney's best performances.
How about you?
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Post by Fading Fast on Mar 2, 2023 8:00:20 GMT
One I enjoy is the lesser-known effort "The Rising of the Moon" from 1957.
From my write up three-years back: It's a short movie (eighty minutes) composed of three twenty-ish minute vignettes (based on three short stories) about life and times in "old" Ireland, each with an introduction by narrator Tyrone Power who, as is the skill of actors, appears to be casually talking to you as he leans against a doorframe in an old Irish cottage.
Full comments here: "The Rising of the Moon"
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Post by BingFan on Mar 3, 2023 22:59:41 GMT
A lesser-known but very good movie for St. Patrick’s Day is I See A Dark Stranger (1946). It’s the story of a young Irish woman who took her blowhard father’s stories of the Irish uprising too much to heart and, acting on the resulting anti-British sentiments, gets herself into a very difficult situation in wartime Britain. The stars are Trevor Howard and a very young Deborah Kerr, both of whom are outstanding. It’s from the writing/producing/directing team of Frank Launder and Sidney Gilliat, whose screenplay has the same mixture of drama and light comedy as their script for Hitchcock’s The Lady Vanishes.
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Post by galacticgirrrl on Mar 4, 2023 1:17:58 GMT
Faith and Begorrah! I didn't think I would find this film holiday so scintillating. The selections thus far are fabulous. And for me there is much to discover beyond famine, the troubles and little green men. For starters... What could be more intriguing than the possibility that one of the most iconic images of the movie industry is Irish? Suspend your disbelief and follow along for a bit of fun and frivolity. Myth or Magic? Or dare I say...blarney?  Cillín Chaoímhín Mathew Guirke emigrated to America in 1850 from from the ancient Irish village of Hollywood in County Wicklow. At one point in his extensive adventures he built a cabin near Los Angeles and named it Hollywood. He also bought a race track and started a small community. Was he the inspiration behind Harvey H. Wilcox's 1887 Hollywood land deed?  Seamus Goes to Hollywood www.gullibletravels.net/2018/04/20/hollywood-county-wicklow/How did Hollywood get its name? It all started in Ireland www.irishcentral.com/travel/hollywood-name-irelandThe history of the Hollywood sign, from public nuisance to symbol of stardom theconversation.com/the-history-of-the-hollywood-sign-from-public-nuisance-to-symbol-of-stardom-78584 |
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Post by galacticgirrrl on Mar 4, 2023 1:41:29 GMT
Next up in my Wild Irish Rose movie-a-thon will be a cartoon. Many of us were lucky enough to experience cartoons before the main fare in the days of yester yore where you ventured out to a theatre to realize your celluloid dreams. I seem to recall standing for the national anthem and people being allowed to smoke but this could be a hazy memory, pun intended. What cartoon would be better for St. Patrick's Day than one we all love - surprisingly, because this Queen of Cartoons may have violated all three of these ancient warnings signs: No Irish, no blacks, no dogs.   Following the bread crumb trail of just exactly who inspired Betty Boop will leave you dazed and confused. Like Hansel and Gretel, and Dorothy, you'll have have trouble getting back home after you venture down this road. A good starting point is the recent PBS item/retraction/clarification below - Betty Oops.  Further proof she may in fact be Irish!? When Ms. Boop peeped out from her black & white two tone world we discovered auburn hair.  Betty OopsLast modified on August 11, 2022 A short item promoting PBS’ Black History Month programming suggested the Betty Boop cartoon character was based on a Black performer of the Jazz Age. That’s not entirely true. Quicker action to retract the article could have kept PBS from being widely tagged on social media as a source of a revised origin story for Betty Boop. www.pbs.org/publiceditor/blogs/pbs-public-editor/betty-oops/ |
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Post by galacticgirrrl on Mar 4, 2023 1:56:23 GMT
Next Up in the Program: The ShortI don't remember film shorts from my early going film days. They must have been much more pleasant than the innumerable adverts that seem to have taken their place. My choice is a fabulous universal ghost story, narrated by the brilliantly impertinent Orson Welles. Return to Glennascaul (1951)
A film by Hilton Edwards Dublin Gate Theatre Productions 23 minutes  The film was nominated for an Oscar for Best Short Subject.  Orson Welles, on break from filming Othello, relates a tale he heard one spooky Irish midnight not so long ago when, driving through the countryside, he picked up a man with car trouble who told of a strange encounter with two hitchhikers.  Be sure to catch the Peter Bogdanovich introduction....afterwards. youtu.be/2Z6p3tF2Oj4 
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Post by galacticgirrrl on Mar 4, 2023 2:16:03 GMT
 So many features to choose from, some I can find online, some are a bit more elusive. This must be a great one, or has the quintessential version just remained elusive? Kathleen Mavourneen (1906) Kathleen Mavourneen (1911) Kathleen Mavourneen (1913) Kathleen Mavourneen (1919) Kathleen Mavourneen (1930) Kathleen Mavourneen (1937) Looks like I'll be going with 1919: At the release of the 1919 film, Irish and Catholic groups protested not only the depiction of Ireland but the use of a Jewish actress for the leading role. Fox Film Corporation pulled the film after several movie-theater riots and bomb threats.  |
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Post by galacticgirrrl on Mar 4, 2023 3:01:41 GMT
The two I need to see, unless someone here speaks with sage advice to the contrary.... The un-filmable book with some surprisingly good reviews: Ulysses (1967)
Ulysses is a 1967 drama film loosely based on James Joyce's 1922 novel Ulysses. It concerns the meeting of two Irishmen, Leopold Bloom and Stephen Dedalus, in 1904 Dublin. Strick earned an Oscar nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay. The film was entered into the 1967 Cannes Film Festival. It was reportedly jeered at its first screening. During the second showing, French subtitles were seen to have been scrubbed out by a grease pencil. "When I went to the projection room to protest, the committee was waiting for me", Joseph Strick later recalled. "I was forcibly ejected, pushed down the steps and suffered a broken foot. I withdrew the film from Cannes."
 A rope segregates female and male Victoria University students watching Ulysses in July 1972.
Only one review on the imdb for this next one - Delicate and brooding - 8/10 A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1977)A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is a 1977 film adaptation of James Joyce's 1916 novel of the same name, directed by Joseph Strick. It portrays the growth of consciousness of Joyce's semi-autobiographical character, Stephen Dedalus, as a boy and later as a university student in late nineteenth-century Dublin.  |
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Post by galacticgirrrl on Mar 4, 2023 3:27:25 GMT
And finally some mirth from the illustrious Lemass years... Broth of a Boy (1959)
A British TV producer is traveling in Ireland when he comes across a village where they are planning a birthday party for the oldest man in the world. He decides he wants to make a film about this man, but Patrick Farrell is not the delightful old man one would hope him to be. And he is not enthusiastic about making a big deal of his upcoming birthday either.  I will redeem myself for such frivolity and finish with one last short: Oidhche Sheanchais (1935)Drama/Short ‧ 11 mins A 1935 Irish film directed by Robert J. Flaherty. It was produced during the sound recording session for his more famous docufiction film Man of Aran and is notable as the first Irish language sync sound film. A well-known storyteller, Tomás Ó Dioráin tells tales of the sea around a fire in an old Irish cottage.  I am sorry to see I have but scratched the surface... Ireland in Focus: Film, Photography, and Popular Culture www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt1j2n901?turn_away=trueHollywood Irish: John Ford, Abbey Actors and the Irish Revival in Hollywood www.amazon.ca/Hollywood-Irish-Abbey-Actors-Revival/dp/1843511819Why Hollywood gets the Irish so wrong www.bbc.com/culture/article/20201210-why-hollywood-gets-the-irish-so-wrongList of American actors of Irish descent en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_American_actors_of_Irish_descentEleven early Hollywood stars with Irish roots They set the Hollywood standards: they were talented, glamorous and influential. And they were Irish.www.irishcentral.com/roots/genealogy/early-hollywood-stars-irish-roots |
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Post by mr6667 on Mar 6, 2023 5:48:44 GMT
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Post by mr6667 on Mar 6, 2023 6:01:35 GMT
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Post by BingFan on Mar 16, 2023 22:08:00 GMT
I assume most folks are already familiar with The Quiet Man (1952), John Ford’s tale of an Irish-American (John Wayne) who returns to his birthplace in the old country and falls in love with an Irish lass (Maureen O’Hara).
A few other movies about Irish folks that may be less familiar but are very entertaining:
The Irish In Us (1935) — Real-life pals James Cagney, Pat O’Brien, and Frank McHugh play Irish-American brothers who are, respectively, a boxing manager, a New York cop, and an NYC firefighter. Jimmy and Pat fall out over Olivia DeHavilland, whom they both love. It’s very funny.
Three Cheers for the Irish (1940) — Irish-American NY cop Thomas Mitchell is forced to retire, giving up his beat to new officer Dennis Morgan, who falls in love with Mitchell’s youngest daughter, Priscilla Lane. A predictable but very funny conflict ensues, as Mitchell becomes a city alderman and tries to break up the young couple.
The Luck of the Irish (1948) — Tyrone Power is a foreign correspondent who’s changing careers to work for an American millionaire (Lee J. Cobb) as he starts out in politics. In Ireland before leaving for the US, Power falls in love with innkeeper Anne Baxter and has an encounter with a leprechaun (Cecil Kellaway). Everyone ends up in New York, where Power must choose between working for the millionaire and journalism, and between the Irish innkeeper and the millionaire’s daughter. An enjoyable comedy-fantasy.
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