Category Archives: Irish Cinema

My Favorite Nicolas Roeg Films

18 Wednesday Jul 2018

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1.   Don’t Look Now (1973)

2.   Performance (1970)
(co-directed with Donald Camell)

3.   The Man Who Fell to Earth (1976)

4.   Walkabout (1971)

5.   Bad Timing (1980)

6.   Eureka (1983)

7.   Track 29 (1988)

8.   Insignificance (1985)   

9.   Cold Heaven (1991)
(I watched it online)

10. Castaway (1986)
(no relation to the 2000 film with Tom Hanks)
(I watched it on an old VHS tape)

11. The Witches (1990)

12. Full Body Massage (1995)
(Cable Film)
(I watched it on an old VHS tape)

13. Two Deaths (1995)
(I watched it online)

14. Glastonbury Fayre (1972)
(co-directed with Peter Neal)
(Concert Film)

15. Puffball (2007)

* * * * (Out of * * * *) (Short Cinema)

1.   Aria (1987)
(Segment: “Un ballo in maschera”)
(Anthology Film)

2.   Hotel Paradise (1995)
(I watched it when it was online)

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1.   Samson and Delilah (1996)
(Cable miniseries)

2.   Heart of Darkness (1993)
(Cable Film)

3.   Sweet Bird of Youth (1989)
(the 1962 version is very good too)
(TV Film)

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My Favorite Martin McDonagh Films

06 Wednesday Jun 2018

Posted by in 2000's Cinema, 2010-Present Cinema, American Cinema, British Cinema, British Filmmakers, Cinema, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Film Directors, Greatest, Irish Cinema, Irish Filmmakers, Lists, Martin McDonagh, Short Cinema, Top 312

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1.   Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017)

2.   Seven Psychopaths (2012)

3.   In Bruges (2008)

* * * * (Out of * * * *) (Short Cinema)

1.   Six Shooter (2004)

My Favorite Ken Loach Films

26 Saturday May 2018

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1.   I, Daniel Blake (2016)

2.   The Wind That Shakes the Barley (2006)

3.   Land and Freedom (1995)

4.   Kes (1969)

5.   Raining Stones (1993)

6.   Riff-Raff (1991)

7.   Sweet Sixteen (2002)

8.   My Name Is Joe (1998)

9.   Ladybird, Ladybird (1994)

10. Hidden Agenda (1990)

11. Family Life (1971)

* * * * (Out of * * * *) (Short Cinema)

1.   Tickets (2005)
(His section of the film)
(co-directed with Abbas Kiarostami and Ermanno Olmi)

2.   11’09″01 September 11 (2002)
(Segment: “United Kingdom”)

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1.   Looking for Eric (2009)

My Favorite Werner Herzog Films

26 Thursday Apr 2018

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1.   Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1972)

2.   Grizzly Man (2005)
(Documentary)

3.   Fitzcarraldo (1982)

4.   Lessons of Darkness (1992)
(Documentary)

5.   The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser (1974)

6.   Stroszek (1977)

7.   Nosferatu the Vampyre (1979)

8.   Lo & Behold, Reveries of the Connected World (2016)
(Documentary)

9.   The White Diamond (2004)
(Documentary)

10. Ballad of the Little Soldier (1984)
(Documentary)

11. Fata Morgana (1971)
(Documentary)

12. Cobra Verde (1987)

13. Woyzeck (1979)

14. Bad Lieutenant: Port Call of New Orleans (2009)

15. Rescue Dawn (2006)

16. The Wild Blue Yonder (2005)
(Documentary)

17. Invisible (2001)

18. Cave of Forgotten Dreams (2010)
(Documentary)

19. Into the Abyss (2011)
(Documentary)

20. Encounters at the End of the World (2007)
(Documentary)

21. Little Dieter Needs to Fly (1997)
(Documentary)

22. Happy People: A Year in the Taiga (2010)
(Documentary)

23. The Great Ecstasy of Woodcarver Steiner (1974)
(Documentary)

24. Land of Silence and Darkness (1971)
(Documentary)

25. Where the Green Ants Dream (1984)

26. Heart of Glass (1976)

27. Even Dwarfs Started Small (1970)

28. Signs of Life (1968)

29. Herdsmen of the Sun (1989)
(Documentary)

30. The Dark Glow of the Mountains (1984)
(Documentary)

31. My Best Fiend (1999)
(Documentary)

32. Wheel of Time (2003)
(Documentary)

33. How Much Wood Would a Woodchuck Chuck (1976)
(Documentary)

* * * * (Out of * * * *) (Short Cinema)

1.   La Soufriere (1977)
(Documentary Short)

2.   Precautions Against Fanatics (1969)

3.   Ten Minutes Older (2002)
(Segment: “Ten Thousand Years Older”)

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1.   The Flying Doctors of East Africa (1969)
(Documentary)

My Favorite Stuart Gordon Films

22 Sunday Apr 2018

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1.   Re-Animator (1985)

2.   From Beyond (1986)

3.   Dagon (2001)

4.   Castle Freak (1995)

5.   Dolls (1987)

6.   The Pit and the Pendulum (1991)

* * * * (Out of * * * *) (Cable/Television)

1.   Dreams in the Witch-House (2005)
(Episode of Masters of Horror)
(Cable)

2.   The Black Cat (2007)
(Episode of Masters of Horror)
(Cable)

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1.   Stuck (2007)

2.   The Wonderful Ice Cream Suit (1998)

3.   King of the Ants (2002)

4.   Edmond (2005)

5.   Fortress (1992)

6.   Robot Jox (1990)

7.   Space Truckers (1996)

My Favorite Robert J. Flaherty Films

13 Friday Apr 2018

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1.   Nanook of the North (1922)
(Documentary)

2.   Louisiana Story (1948)

3.   Moana (1926)
(Documentary)
(no relation to the 2016 Disney film)

4.   Man of Aran (1934)
(Documentary)

5.   The Titan: Story of Michelangelo (1950)
(Documentary)

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1.   Elephant Boy (1937)
(co-directed with Zoltan Korda)

My Favorite Neil Jordan Films (New)

30 Wednesday Sep 2015

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1.   Byzantium (2012)

2.   The Company of Wolves (1984)

3.   Breakfast on Pluto (2005)

4.   The End of the Affair (1999)

5.   Ondine (2009)

6.   The Butcher Boy (1997)

7.   The Good Thief (2002)

8.   The Miracle (1991)
(I saw it on an old VHS Tape)

9.   The Crying Game (1992)

10. Mona Lisa (1986)

11. Angel (1982)

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1.   In Dreams (1999)

2.   The Brave One (2007)