The Irish actress earned raves in the November coming-of-age movie Lady Bird, which was directed to great acclaim by indie darling Greta Gerwig. Prior to that, Ronan was in the visually-groundbreaking (if coolly reviewed) Loving Vincent, which told the story of painter Vincent van Gogh’s life and featured thousands of hand-painted scenes. The new year will see Ronan in a range … [Read more...] about Irish Eye on Hollywood:
Saoirse Ronan Just Can’t Do Wrong
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Barry Lyndon Joins the Criterion Collection
In the annals of classic Irish films, Barry Lyndon holds a strange spot. It has impeccable credentials: the stars include Irish American, Ryan O’Neal, (best known for Love Story, What’s Up, Doc?, and Paper Moon, also featuring his daughter Tatum) and Armagh native Patrick Magee. There’s also good source material – the novel The Luck of Barry Lyndon, by William Thackeray. The … [Read more...] about Irish Eye on Hollywood:
Barry Lyndon Joins the Criterion Collection
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Samuel Beckett’s “Film” and “Notfilm”
It sounds like a Ph.D. candidate’s idea of a joke: What do you get when you cross the great Irish playwright Samuel Beckett with the American comic genius Buster Keaton?
You get one of the strangest movies in cinematic history.
And a recent DVD release takes us for a peek behind the existential scenes. It all begins in 1964, when Beckett, at the heights of his fame, set out … [Read more...] about Irish Eye on Hollywood:
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TV & Streaming Report
Here are some new, recent, and noteworthy Irish shows streaming on various services.
ABC has given Irish American comedy veteran Tim Doyle the go-ahead to shoot a show about what Variety calls “an Irish-Catholic family with a working class dad, traditional mom and eight sons as they struggle to cope in the turbulent 1970s.” Doyle has spent decades in the comedy business, … [Read more...] about Irish Eye on Hollywood:
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Wild Irish Women: Rita Hayworth, the Ravishing and Ravished Redhead
The tragic star who burned too bright but always gave the loveliest light. Her mother, the improbably named Volga, was an ex-Ziegfeld Girl, born to a printer, Allynn Hayworth, and his wife, Maggie O’Hare, the daughter of Patrick and Bridget O’Hare, immigrants from Ireland. Her father, Eduardo Cansino, as black-hearted a villain as ever lived (saving a few of her husbands), … [Read more...] about Wild Irish Women: Rita Hayworth, the Ravishing and Ravished Redhead