MC Consensus: Ireland (No, you can't vote for Leprechaun)

[Spinal]

This thread has been abandoned. Please revise your lists for the British Isles thread.

[Lazlo]

1. Once
2. Brooklyn
3. The Wind That Shakes the Barley
4. In America
5. Bloody Sunday
6. Calvary
7. Barry Lyndon
8. Room
9. Song of the Sea
10. Intermission

[Grouchy]

I don't feel qualified enough to do this one but I look forward to the final list.

Mine would be almost exclusively the McDonagh brothers... and In the Name of the Father. I really hope Calvary makes the list, though.

[Spinal]

1. Once
2. The Commitments
3. In the Name of the Father
4. Excalibur
5. Barry Lyndon
6. Brooklyn
7. The Crying Game
8. Circle of Friends
9. Michael Collins
10. The Boxer

Well, that was harder than I thought it would be. I think I have to stop there.

[dreamdead]

How is The Crying Game not available? Humbug.

Haven't seen The Magdalene Sisters, and Sarah's raved about that, so I'll get to that this week. Also, also me to rec Huston's The Dead for this...

[Melville]

1. Hunger
2. Once
3. The Lobster
4. The Butcher Boy
5. The Guard

I decided to exclude movies that didn't seem remotely Irish, like Match Point.

[Yxklyx]

Can we include Northern Ireland? It shows up as UK on imdb.

[Yxklyx]

1. The Dead - John Huston
2. In the Name of the Father - Jim Sheridan
3. In America - Jim Sheridan
4. The Butcher Boy - Neil Jordan
5. Hunger - Steve McQueen
6. My Left Foot - Jim Sheridan
7. The Secret of Roan Inish - John Sayles
8. The Commitments - Alan Parker
9. Breakfast on Pluto - Neil Jordan
10. The General - John Boorman

If Northern Ireland is allowed then just making one change:

1. Odd Man Out - Carol Reed
2. The Dead - John Huston
3. In the Name of the Father - Jim Sheridan
4. In America - Jim Sheridan
5. The Butcher Boy - Neil Jordan
6. Hunger - Steve McQueen
7. My Left Foot - Jim Sheridan
8. The Secret of Roan Inish - John Sayles
9. The Commitments - Alan Parker
10. Breakfast on Pluto - Neil Jordan

[Peng]

Feeling like The Crying Game and '71 should be included, no (even though the IMDB doesn't state so)? Still, I list 12 just in case those aren't allowed so you can move the bottom two up.

1. In America
2. Once
3. Song of the Sea
4. The Land Before Time
5. '71
6. Byzantium
7. My Left Foot
8. The Crying Game
9. Brooklyn
10. Angela's Ashes
11. Waking Ned Devine
12. The Guard

[Mysterious Dude]

I'm not sure Ireland's output is really worthy of our attention. But here goes...

1. Once (2007)
2. Bloody Sunday (2002)
3. Hunger (2008)
4. The Wind That Shakes the Barley (2006)
5. The Secret of Kells (2009)
6. Waking Ned Devine (1998)
7. My Left Foot (1989)
8. The Magdalene Sisters (2002)
9. Angela's Ashes (1999)
10. In the Name of the Father (1993)

[baby doll]

Wait, so Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Poland, and Russia all get lumped together, but we can't include Ireland with the UK? (Incidentally, all of my top five films are British-Irish co-productions.)

Barry Lyndon (Stanley Kubrick, 1975)
Hunger (Steve McQueen, 2008)
Match Point (Woody Allen, 2005)
The Wind That Shakes the Barley (Ken Loach, 2006)
Mister Lonely (Harmony Korine, 2007)

[baby doll]

Edit: Breakfast on Pluto out, Mister Lonely in. (I'm still going through IMDb's list of Irish movies chronologically.)

[Spinal]

Can we include Northern Ireland? It shows up as UK on imdb.

I'm going to allow it.

[Spinal]

In general, there seems to be a lot of grey area here with the films you have listed. So I am going to allow you to use your own discretion since it might make for a more interesting list.

The Crying Game
Excalibur
'71

All eligible.

[Spinal]

I'm not sure Ireland's output is really worthy of our attention. But here goes...


Maybe, I overestimated it. Oh well.

[Spinal]

Never mind. I'm abandoning this and we're going to a big British Isles thread. Hold on.