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The General
Special Programs in Focus - Rogues, Rebels and Romantics: A Season of Irish Cinema
Director : John BOORMAN Entry Year : 2013 (18)Country : IrelandRunning Time : 102min

John Boorman's career-long fascination with ambivalent or ambiguous protagonists reaches an apogee in the veritable antihero of The General, a character closely modelled on real-life Dublin gangster Martin Cahill, who in...
The Crying Game
Special Programs in Focus - Rogues, Rebels and Romantics: A Season of Irish Cinema
Director : Neil JORDAN Entry Year : 2013 (18)Country : IrelandRunning Time : 112min

Neil Jordan’s landmark film remains one of the key Irish films of the last 20 years. A skillfully written examination of race, gender and national politics that questions the audience’s assumptions and behaviours just as...
Once
Special Programs in Focus - Rogues, Rebels and Romantics: A Season of Irish Cinema
Director : John CARNEY Entry Year : 2013 (18)Country : IrelandRunning Time : 86min

John Carney’s Once is a modern-day musical. Set on the streets of Dublin, it features eight songs by Glen Hansard ? of Irish band The Frames ? who also stars in the film. Once tells the story of a busker and an immigrant...
Michael Collins
Special Programs in Focus - Rogues, Rebels and Romantics: A Season of Irish Cinema
Director : Neil JORDAN Entry Year : 2013 (18)Country : IrelandRunning Time : 132min

Neil Jordan’s hugely ambitious account of the rise of arguably the central figure in Ireland’s painful, bloody fight for independence. A subject which was always going to be controversial, but at heart it plays out on a ...
Leo the Last
Special Programs in Focus - Rogues, Rebels and Romantics: A Season of Irish Cinema
Director : John BOORMAN Entry Year : 2013 (18)Country : IrelandRunning Time : 104min

Awarded Best Director at the Cannes Film Festival 1970, John Boorman’s early masterpiece is a fascinating allegory of class and racial tension. Marcello Mastroianni plays a bored and exiled monarch living in a run-down L...
In the Name of the Father
Special Programs in Focus - Rogues, Rebels and Romantics: A Season of Irish Cinema
Director : Jim SHERIDAN Entry Year : 2013 (18)Country : IrelandRunning Time : 135min

Winner of Berlinale’s Golden Bear Jim Sheridan’s fascinating 1993 feature is based on the autobiography of Gerry Conlon, a Belfast Catholic who spent nearly fifteen years in British prisons for a crime he didn’t commit. ...
In America
Special Programs in Focus - Rogues, Rebels and Romantics: A Season of Irish Cinema
Director : Jim SHERIDAN Entry Year : 2013 (18)Country : IrelandRunning Time : 90min

The semi-autobiographical In America tells the story of a family of Irish immigrants trying to succeed in New York. Written by Jim Sheridan with his daughters Kirsten and Naomi, and shot in the aftermath of 9/11, the fil...
Garage
Special Programs in Focus - Rogues, Rebels and Romantics: A Season of Irish Cinema
Director : Lenny ABRAHAMSON Entry Year : 2013 (18)Country : IrelandRunning Time : 85min

Lenny Abrahamson and Mark O'Halloran, the team behind the award-winning 2004 comedy drama Adam and Paul, reunited for this stuning character study of middle aged, lonely garage attendant played by well known Irish comedi...