When I was growing up, St. Patrick’s Day was heralded by an annual airing of The Quiet Man on New York television. This year, Irish-Americans and film buffs alike have a new way to celebrate with Olive Films’ release of an excellent feature-length documentary called Dreaming the Quiet Man. Bearing a 2012 copyright, produced by the Irish Film Board and directed by Sé Merry Doyle, this entertaining film, narrated by Gabriel Byrne, follows three streams: the tourist industry that has grown up around the village of Cong, where the movie was shot in 1951, the making of the film (including rare color home footage and the memories of some locals who participated), and a look at ...
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- 3/10/2015
- by Leonard Maltin
- Leonard Maltin's Movie Crazy
Born an American of Japanese decent and soon quarantined to the Tule Lake War Relocation Center in northern California after the bombing of Pearl Harbor as child, Jimmy Teru Murakami was permanently scarred by the experiences he and his family endured during the war. Decades later, after he had been nominated for a pair of Academy Awards for his shorts The Magic Pear Tree and The Snowman, as well as having collaborated with Roger Corman on the sci-fi feature Battle Beyond the Stars, Murakami confronted the realities of nuclear war by stretching the boundaries of traditional animation with his bracing blacker-than-black satirical comedy, When The Wind Blows.
Based on Raymond Briggs’ brutal graphic novel of the same name, the tale follows a senior couple who lived through World War II as part of the British army and fought the good fight, now elderly, living rurally and long out of the loop of real world politics.
Based on Raymond Briggs’ brutal graphic novel of the same name, the tale follows a senior couple who lived through World War II as part of the British army and fought the good fight, now elderly, living rurally and long out of the loop of real world politics.
- 12/9/2014
- by Jordan M. Smith
- IONCINEMA.com
Blu-ray Release Date: Nov. 11, 2014
Price: Blu-ray $29.95
Studio: Twilight Time
The 1986 animated film When the Wind Blows is a dark comedy-drama directed by veteran Japanese-American animator Jimmy Murakami, who passed away this year at the age of 80.
Jim and Hilda Bloggs (voiced by legendary English actors Peggy Ashcroft and John Mills), a middle-class, elderly British couple who, with the help of government-issued pamphlets, build a shelter and prepare for an impending nuclear attack, unaware that times and the nature of war have changed from their romantic memories of World War II. There home is hit indirectly by a Soviet nuclear bomb, leaving it in ashes and barely standing, with the couple surviving by ducking behind a door that Jim set up as an inner refuge. But barely surviving the attack is not enough, as they steadily fall prey to lethal radiation sickness…
A well-regarded Britsh cult entry (and a sad one!
Price: Blu-ray $29.95
Studio: Twilight Time
The 1986 animated film When the Wind Blows is a dark comedy-drama directed by veteran Japanese-American animator Jimmy Murakami, who passed away this year at the age of 80.
Jim and Hilda Bloggs (voiced by legendary English actors Peggy Ashcroft and John Mills), a middle-class, elderly British couple who, with the help of government-issued pamphlets, build a shelter and prepare for an impending nuclear attack, unaware that times and the nature of war have changed from their romantic memories of World War II. There home is hit indirectly by a Soviet nuclear bomb, leaving it in ashes and barely standing, with the couple surviving by ducking behind a door that Jim set up as an inner refuge. But barely surviving the attack is not enough, as they steadily fall prey to lethal radiation sickness…
A well-regarded Britsh cult entry (and a sad one!
- 10/9/2014
- by Laurence
- Disc Dish
Sé Merry Doyle's documentary 'Dreaming The Quiet Man', Tom Hall's 'Sensation' and Darragh Byrne's 'Parked' are among the titles set to screen at the Toronto Irish Film Festival on March 9th and 10th. Opening with 'Dreaming the Quiet Man', the festival will see 11 Irish movies receive their Canadian debut screenings. Spotlighting emerging Filmmakers in 2012, Tirff will also feature the work of Toronto-based Irish filmmakers.
- 2/16/2012
- IFTN
The Los Angeles Irish Film Festival has announced its line-up for 2011. A tribute to Irish Actress Fionnula Flanagan (The Guard, The Other's) will be awarded on the opening of the festival followed by a special screening of 'The Guard'. The line-up has a wide range of Irish features, shorts and documentaries, including the Us premiere of Sé Merry Doyle's feature documentary 'Dreaming the Quiet the Man' and the west coast premiere 'The Swell Seasons', featuring Glen Hansard (Once).
- 9/12/2011
- IFTN
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