Regarded by his neighbours as a harmless misfit, eliciting idle kindness, benign tolerance and occasional abuse, Josie has spent all his adult life as the caretaker of a crumbling petrol station on the outskirts of a small town in the mid-west of Ireland. He is limited, lonely, yet relentlessly optimistic and, in his own peculiar way, happy. But then over the course of a summer, Josie’s world shifts. A teenager, David, comes to work with him. David likes him. They open up to each other and suddenly the lonely adult is drinking cans down at the railway tracks with the local kids. He is awakened to needs in himself that have never been met. And Carmel, from the local shop, who has always been kind to him, stirs feelings within him that he struggles to name. And then one thoughtless moment unravels the threads of faltering friendship. Events spiral. Josie’s life is changed, forever.
A masterclass of minimalist expressionism by a class master. Dave Heron provides 33 classic expressions as a unique guide for all budding actors, two faced gits and prospective brazen liars.
'Dave taught me everything I know about acting' - L. Olivier.
Two hitmen, the younger, Ray, the older, Ken, are sent to hide out in the strange Gothic, medieval town of Bruges, Belgium, after a hit they were involved with in London went wrong; hired to execute a Catholic priest, Ray also accidentally killed a seven-year-old boy outside a confessional.
While awaiting instructions from their boss, the volatile Harry Waters, who ordered the priest's killing for reasons only he knows, Ray attempts to deal with his darkness and despair over the death of the boy in this town that he can't bear, while Ken, who adores the place, tries to help his friend the best he can.
Ray meets a beautiful girl. Things start looking up. Ken gets the order from Harry to execute Ray. Things start looking down.
Romance and violence ensues. Honour and dramatic reversals abound. There will be dwarves and there will be drugs, and the dark, cobbled streets of this oddball town will be riven with blood and the retort of gunfire and the sickening screams of the guilty and the innocent. Few will get out of Bruges alive.
A universal story of disenfranchisement and search for identity. In the mid 1970s, a group of six young men left their homes in the West of Ireland, took the boat out of Dublin Bay and sailed across the sea to England in the hope of making their fortunes and returning home. Thirty years later only one, Jackie Flavin, makes it home - but does so in a coffin. Jackie's five friends reunite at his wake where they are forced face up to the reality of their alienation as long term emigrants who no longer have any real place to call home.
Directors Guild of America / Directors Guild of Ireland Award to Tom Collins.
Kings winner of Five Irish Film And Television Awards, including Special Irish Language Award.
Kings winner of Kodak Best Cinematography at Hamptons Film Festival.
Jim is a witty writer and brilliant comic book artist. He is the creator of Captain Penumbra, the superhero from the lunar realm where light and darkness merge. After a thousand letters Gwynne is finally going to meet him in person.
But leaving her home in Ireland Gwynne approaches Jim slowly, visually savouring the America that he has written about and asking complete strangers what image of Jim they form by reading the letters he has sent her. Gradually she circles closer to Jim's personal realm, meeting his family and visiting his childhood haunts.
When Gwynne reaches Arizona Jim's current whereabouts are finally revealed. Passing the gates of the State Penitentiary she is about to witness the disturbing reality of Jim's present existence. She finally encounters the convicted killer she has befriended awaiting his fate on Death Row, in the half light between life and death.
5 June, 1968: Robert Kennedy wins the California democratic primary and is set to challenge Nixon for the White House. Moments later, he is assassinated by 24-year-old Palestinian Sirhan Sirhan.
But even under hypnosis, Sirhan has never been able to remember the shooting and leading psychiatrists believe he was a 'Manchurian Candidate', hypnotically programmed to kill Kennedy.
Now, newly-discovered film and photographs appear to show three senior CIA operatives at the crime-scene, suggesting the CIA was behind the assassination.
A disturbing new investigative documentary based on O’ Sullivan’s reports for BBC Newsnight and The Guardian. Accompanying book to be published by a major US publisher on the 40th anniversary of the assassination in June, 2008.
Identical twins are separated at birth. One, Liam, becomes a successful though over-stretched property developer in the new godless, greedy Ireland; the other, a homeless bum in Leeds. They are the have and the have-not.
In a series of wickedly devious comic episodes, the have-not sets out to steal Liam’s life. He succeeds, but finds nothing but debt and grief. Liam, on the other hand, discovers he is less aggrieved than he thought he might be to find himself relieved of his burdens.
Zonad is a comedy about an escapee from a rehab facility who hides out in a village in rural Ireland and fools the locals by pretending to be a visitor from outer space.
Set in the heart of Ireland's bible belt, this gothic thriller tells the tale of one cleric's chilling determination to rid a rural town of its corruption and vice.
Preacher Gabriel (Matthew Macfadyen) returns home to Middletown and finds gambling, drinking and sinning at every turn. Determined to save the souls of his flock, Gabriel sets about imposing a new order.
However, his godly intentions mask a dark and malevolent heart with his damning sermons pitting neighbour against neighbour.
Gabriel's own brother, Jim (Daniel Mays) comes under attack from this moral crusade and is forced to fight back as his wife (Eva Birthistle), his marriage and his livelihood are all threatened.
Middletown presents a haunting story of good versus evil. Has the preacher come to save them all from eternal damnation or condemn the ones he loves to a life of hell?
Getaway driver Miles Foster, witnesses the murder of his friend by Astin Brody, a shady underworld boss. Miles is hidden on the Greek Island of Zanthi with a recently graduated female MI5 officer, Charlotte Green. They share similar upbringing, but the similarities end there. Shalom Godsall, Brody's disgruntled number two, has recommended two Irish assassins to take care of the job, much to their surprise. A father and son team, who have a terrible track record. Godsall, however, is working with American and British secret service to oust his rival and take the top job. Nothing is going to plan; the assassins have found their target and are getting close. Miles and Charlotte are not getting on at all and the special relationship between the British and American secret service is at breaking point.
Rehearsals is an impressionistic snapshot of Belfast as Northern Ireland feels its way towards the future. The film revolves around groups of musicians and artists rehearsing in their homes or pubs whilst voices and images of Belfast remind us of the stark and poignant realities of everyday life.
