Absolutely, youâre like an IDF AA Gill.
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I donât follow?
Not a great gag if Iâm explaining. Idf known for slaughter. AA gill for being a ruthless film reviewer
I chanced upon this on BBC2 one Saturday morning in about 1999 or 2000 and I really liked it.
I watched Il Postino with me Mam the New Yearâs Eve before last and I very much liked that.
I think that might be the last film I watched as my concentration span and ability to look at screens for extended periods of time has collapsed.
I like the following films:
Scum
The French Connection 1 and 2
Day Of The Jackal
Winterâs Bone
Some Danish film I saw about Somali pirates
The Secret In Their Eyes
The Italian Job (though Iâm not sure Iâve ever seen the first half an hour of it)
The Bridge On The River Kwai (though Iâm not sure Iâve seen the first hour of it)
Mr. Jones
Red Road
Educating Rita
A Dry White Season (I watched this on BBC 2 after the third round of the 1994 US Masters)
The Edukators
I like anything by Alan Clarke or Alan Bleasdale or most of Ken Loachâs stuff I think. I really liked a Ken Loach film called My Name Is Joe.
Iâm sure Iâve watched hundreds of other films but I canât think of any off the top of me head.
I like me British gritty dramas and foreign language films and drama series. They make me feel superior and intellectual.
Never got round to watching Cathy Come Home which is near the top of me bucket list.
Those Danish crime series are off the hook brilliant.
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I loved this. If it had been American it would be deemed a cult classic by the BROs.
As it is it stands largely unwatched and unremembered despite being the best dystopian representation of Thatcherâs Britain on film Iâve seen.
Itâs a bit like A Clockwork Orange except good.
Iâve watched about half of them and enjoyed them. I brought Mrs Barnes to see Cinema Paradiso in The Stella in Rathmines recently. It was tremendous.
The Secrets we Keep is a new Danish whodunnit/social commentary series on Netflix that i thoroughly enjoyed. The Danes donât kick many wides.
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Cinema Paradiso is near the top of me bucket list. I was going to watch it the night after I watched Il Postino but there was darts on.
Me Mam keeps bugging me to go and watch a film with her in the Stella. We had a look in there last year after having some pub grub in Rody Bolandâs during the England v France rugby match and it looks very lovely.
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The Stella is fantastic. Keep an eye on the website. They show some brilliant old films as one offs and a lot of the better modern ones too.
Pulp fiction is absolutely iconic. The soundtrack is outrageously good, travolta and Jackson are the greatest double act since butch and sundance, theres one epic scene after anotherâŚjack rabbit slims, the gimp, the adrenaline shot, the taxi driver, the gold watch, the brief caseâŚ
Christopher walken, uma thurman, bruce willis, travolta, Jackson and that lassie from the commitments all give the best performances of their career.
The âtyranny of evil menâ speech has literally overtaken the bible as the âgo toâ line for crazy Christian nationalists.
If you dont love it youâre probably just dead between the ears, and youâve no soul.
(Samuel L. Jackson isnât as scary looking in real life @Fagan_ODowd )
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I was literally just looking at it there now. Theyâre showing On The Waterfront which was one of me oulâ fellaâs favourites. And Twelve Angry Men which is one of mine.
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âInjecting its compendium of crime tales with the patois of everyday conversation, Pulp Fiction is a cinematic shot of adrenaline that cements writer-director Quentin Tarantino as an audacious purveyor of killer kino.â
I think Jake Humphrey must have written that?
I see Bruce Willis is Pub Fiction. If there was ever a reason to not watch a filmâŚ
Itâs 25 years since Coventry were in the top division
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I couldnât believe that when I saw it as well.
They were nearly gone altogether.
Rubbish, 2001 is only a couple of years ago.
The amount of American troops stationed around the world is staggering.
Japan 54K, South Korea 24K, and Germany 36K to name but a few.
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Had a girlfriend years ago. Her auld boy (an elderly man when I knew him) was drafted into the Army around Korea time, was stationed in Japan. His son/ her brother went straight into the US army after school, off to South Korea. Both Cork men.
Neil Lennon coaches Dunfermline.
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Iâd say youâll save yourself time in the long run if you actually watched the film, instead of spending hours reading about it.
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Moya Brennan dated Adam Clayton
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