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Check this new documentary about the 2009 Tour. Looks amazing. It was screened in Thursday in Dundrum.
I missed it but emailed the distrubutor yesterday to ask about a wider Irish release:
Screening went well. still ahve to see the numbers but we asume well.
there has been a lot of people asking about an broader irish show. if we go for round two, i will make sure that this is brought up.
Just a note to let you know that due to a big reaction to last Firday’s column below and a few questions about where to see the film, I emailed the head of acquisitions at RTE. They came back with good news:
We have just agreed a deal to buy the Jim Stynes documentary and hope to show it within the next couple of months.
Also could’ve headlined with:
1. What are you gonna do today, Napoleon?
2. You wanna play me?
3. Hey, Napoleon. What did you do last summer again?
4. Heck yes I did!
Whipped from this week’s Guardian gallery. Take a bow, son.
There’s a nice feature in tomorrow’s Irish Examiner about British Pathé – the company which was a staple for cinemagoers up to the 1970s.
“As a news review of national and international events, Pathé was the CNN or Sky News of its day, plucking stories from around the world for its bi-weekly newsreels played daily during the film intermissions which were a feature of every cinema visit of the time.” as the piece explains.
Now Pathé have uploaded more than 3,500 hours of filmed history – check out www.britishpathe.com – and there’s some gems there, from a sporting perspective.
After a cursory search, I’ve already watched Jack Doyle wrestle an Estonian in London, entitled Gorgeous Gael scores – without the lace. You can too:
As well as the 1941 All-Ireland hurling final
And Ireland play the All Blacks in Lansdowne Rd in 1935
Check out the trailer for ’15 Minutes That Shook The World’ about Rafa’s half-time team-talk in Istanbul. I like Neil Fitzmaurice from Peep Show and Phoenix Nights though.
Check out Donncha O’Callaghan and Jerry Flannery in the trailer for ‘Munster Cuts’ to be relased soon apparently. De Villiers must be wondering what he signed up for.
Writer and director John Hughes died of a heart attack in New York yesterday. If you were to pick your favourite sports moment from one of his many films – movies that defined the 80s and 90s – you’d have quite a job.
Scenes that stand out are the opening gymnastics footage in Weird Science, Chevy Chases’s Clark W Griswold racing Christie Brinkley in his Wagon Queen Family Truckster or the final shot from The Breakfast Club on the 50-yard line of the school’s football pitch.
For me though, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off was the peak of Hollywood’s output and the classic summer scenes in Chicago’s Wrigley Field were some of the film’s most fun.
Pep Guardiola had a friend in Catalonian TV produce this video which he played to his Barcelona charges before they went onto the pich in Rome where they beat Manchester United in the Champions League Final.
It splices footage of Gladiator and Barca’s season highlights. Kind of like the Match of the Day outro sequence if Ridley Scott directed it.
Spike Lee, seen here sharing a joke with Larry David at the Western Conference Finals in LA last week, was inspired to make a documentary about Kobe Bryant after seeing Zidane: A 21st Century Portrait. Read the rest of this entry »
Three surfers in Ireland have made a film which doesn’t involve raashers.
This extraordinary video may look like it was shot in Hawaii or Australia, but here’s the shock. It was taken off the coast of Ireland in hard winter, filmed by three young men bent on a mission to find the perfect wave.
More here
Ken Loach’s Looking for Eric is out this month. The plot, as far as I know, revolves around a football-mad postman who receives life coaching from Eric Cantona.