Best picture 2007:"And the Oscar goes to….”

[MC Moot]

“The Wind that Shakes the Barley”…..I know it’s really early going but I saw it this weekend and it’s an amazing movie….by far my favorite film based on or set against the “Troubles”…..."Amazing Grace” is being hailed as pretty epic...but it will take a very fine film to better this flick…..I recommend it highly....(y) :)

[abcdefz]

Cillian's good in it, I assume?

[MC Moot]

Oh yeah,I could listen to that accent alllll day....especially seeing as how for me he was previously “That guy from 28 Days Later”…I can’t even remember him being in “Cold Mountain”…???

[abcdefz]

Is he?

I've only seen him in 28 Days Later, Batman Begins, and Red Eye.

I saw Cold Mountain but don't remember it all that well.

[na§tee]

i would fuck him hard. EDIT: gently?

er, sorry, sexual tourettes.

cillian in a pretty boy, and i like his name and his big blue eyes and his lovely lilting accent.

red fucking road won the jury's prize in cannes in competition with this film though, booyah! palme d'or? eh, who cares! :cool:

i have met ken loach. he is intense. SOCIALIST THEMES A GO GO! at the premiere for ae fond kiss.

he has done a glasgow trilogy. you may want to check it out so you may so you may. that boy in sweet sixteen, martin compston, he was in red road, too, and i have made him numerous cups of sugary tea. he's a lovely lad. i'll be darned if people have problems with his accent though, ooh child.

cathy come home makes me sob like a little girl every. single. time.

[MC Moot]

(y) Is he?

I've only seen him in 28 Days Later, Batman Begins, and Red Eye.

I saw Cold Mountain but don't remember it all that well.

Oh,hell....didn't even realize/remember he was the Scarecrow.....I really have to re-watch that again sometime....(y)

[MC Moot]

he has done a glasgow trilogy. you may want to check it out so you may so you may. that boy in sweet sixteen, martin compston, he was in red road, too, and i have made him numerous cups of sugary tea. he's a lovely lad. i'll be darned if people have problems with his accent though, ooh child.

cathy come home makes me sob like a little girl every. single. time.

O.k,will look for them...this was actually the first Ken Loach movie I've seen.....

[abcdefz]

I haven't seen a single one of his movies. I'm kinda scared of stridency.

[na§tee]

yup, check out some ken loach, i think you would like it very much a-z. you too moot.

my name is joe is quite outstanding, too. peter mullan is great in it. peter mullan has touched my ass. thanks, peter.

in his early career he made quite a few adaptations from some trotskyist playwright i cannae remember. now, all his films are written by paul laverty, who is an alumni of the university i work for! and he is very strident, too. then he got tired of feature film making and put his attentions into documentaries, and then he returned.

many a film student essay has concentrated on how academic marxists accuse him of being never really being able to deliver an effective social critique since his use of 'mainstream' film making stuffs negate anything revolutionary in his content.

i vote WRONG (case in point: the REAMS of stuff written about barley after it won the palme d'or in cannes saying that it was basically the most pro-IRA film ever) but i won't start my 3rd year dissertation here on film and politics. yawnfest i am sure.

anyway. YES. don't be scared, and dig some stuffs out.

i am going to rent the wind that shakes the barley tonight (y) i am struggling to picture cillian murphy's face with those lips and those eyes as a revolutionary but i'm sure they had pretty revolutionaries back in the day, didn't they? :cool:

[JobDDT]

...Wild Hogs!

[roosta]

.by far my favorite film based on or set against the “Troubles”…...

Just so ya know, most people refer to the "troubles" as being the second period of IRA activity, from the 60s on.

I still havn't seen this yet. Every girl I know who saw it said they cried their eyes out, but that isn't saying much.

[MC Moot]

Just so ya know, most people refer to the "troubles" as being the second period of IRA activity, from the 60s on.

I still havn't seen this yet. Every girl I know who saw it said they cried their eyes out, but that isn't saying much.

Me mudders maiden name was Hodgins,so,I know well enough friend....my runner up is "The Boxer"......and my fave general Irish madness movie is "The Butcher Boy".....Neil Jordan is pretty much brilliant.....(y)

[roosta]

Me mudders maiden name was Hodgins,so,I know well enough friend....my runner up is "The Boxer"......and my fave general Irish madness movie is "The Butcher Boy".....Neil Jordan is pretty much brilliant.....(y)

oh right..then why did you refer to this film as being about the "troubles"? :confused:

[MC Moot]

oh right..then why did you refer to this film as being about the "troubles"? :confused:

Well,because there are 2 distinct periods in Irish "history" referred to as "The Troubles".....the "Tan Dat" (conflict that caused our familial emmigration) and then the later period of strife created by the establishment of the "Irish Free State"......although I'm sure you're right that the common reference is with regards to the latter....

[roosta]

Well,because there are 2 distinct periods in Irish "history" referred to as "The Troubles".....the "Tan Dat" (conflict that caused our familial emmigration) and then the later period of strife created by the establishment of the "Irish Free State"......although I'm sure you're right that the common reference is with regards to the latter....

yeah, i know the history, i live here, but my point was nobody really calls the first period the "troubles"..i was jus' sayin'.


anyways...

[MC Moot]

nobody really calls the first period the "troubles"..i was jus' sayin'....

Except for the critique I hacked it from.....;) :)

[roosta]

Except for the critique I hacked it from.....;) :)

well...you can go by what the majority of people say or what certain articles say...