The Field by John B. Keane
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- "Bull" McCabe (Richard Harris) has spent three decades tending a rented field on the bluffs by the sea in Ireland. When the wealthy widow who owns the plot decides to sell it, she holds an open auction upon intimidation from Tadgh (Sean Bean) Bull McCabes son. All do not go according to plan when a wealthy american (Tom Berenger) appears at the auction and outbids the The Bull, and all hell breaks loose.
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a rare film that stays with you. I used to clean Richard Harris's dressing room each morning when he did the Pirandello play Henry the Fourth at The Wyndam's Theatre in London , in 1990 ish. He had a little iron pot which I had to clean ,he made porridge in it and was writing and recording a lot of his own poetry. On stage he was as magic as he was on film ,maybe even better , I found him mesmerising and I still have a great picture of him sitting on a throne , as a ruined old King.
I was brought up in an isolated farming community and these characters still exist. Rarer now but not gone.
Thank you for sharing your story! I always loved Richard Harris and his acting. Still miss him. I think "The Field" was one of his best pieces of acting.
@martinturner2309 I loved your story. Thank you for sharing it! This is indeed a wonderful film. It's very reminiscent of a David Lean production, and he was definately the best director up until his time. Arguably, he might still be. This has many similarities with Ryan's Daughter, which I think was his last. The villagers, and especially the village idiot, played here by John Hurt, are much like the ones in Ryan's Daughter. John Mills played the "idiot" in RD, in an amazing performance.
I'm a Canadian named Mulvaney who is 1/2 English, 1/4 Scottish, and 1/4 Irish, but I feel 1/2 Canadian with a touch of English, and 1/2 Irish. When I watch anything made in Ireland, or by Irish people, I feel a strong identification and love, even though I never met my Irish grandfather. Maybe because my dad talk about him, and my last name. I know the name is from the north west, but I don't know the county's name. When dad was a child, Grandpa
All the best to you, my friend! ✌🏼 🇨🇦❤🇮🇪
@martinturner2309 I was 14 years old when I met Richard Harris on the film set of Cromwell in Shepperton studios, & watched him for a day acting that role of Cromwell, it was a memory I will never forget, to actually walk through the old streets & places built for that film. Yes he was magic as you say & a gentleman too, will never be a great actor such as he was.
You are lucky!
@@cattymajiv "A Passage to India" was Lean's last movie. Just think the movies he could have made in the 70's, but because of Pauline Kael's roasting of Ryan's Daughter he stop making movies for 12 years.
Dont care what anyone says I firmly believe this is one of the greatest movies ever made. Might be biased because I'm irish born and bred but yeah it's one of the greatest. Also filmed in galway and claire which is also beautiful. And kerry where I'm from.
Totally agree 👍🏾
What anyone would have against a movie like this?
I'm from Romania,and believe me,we have the same sensibilities regarding this movie.
I grew up in the city,but my week-ends and vacations were spent,every minute,in the nearby countryside,where my grandparents lived. Worked in the field,especially vineyards. MY great-grandfather was a man kinda like the Bull, tough,stoic and respected(feared)-lived well into his late 90's !
Awesome movie, probably best role of Harris,it's the role that suits him the most, that's for sure.
Shakespeare in the fields of Ireland,that's what this is...
Slainte!
Definitely the best Irish movie of all time.
Agree.
Totally agree,
Richard Harris should have got an Oscar for his performance in this film. Incredible. Bull McCabe is a character that NEVER leaves you. Completely unforgettable. I remember Richard Harris giving an interview about it in which he described it as his 'King Lear'. And how very fitting that is.
Richard Harris is a legend. Great cast of actors, and scenery. Brilliant film.
Ray Mc Nally , was meant to play at Bull Mc Cabe , sadly Ray died . Ray had a great presence on screen ' My Left Foot , Fourth Protacall '.
Harris was a great actor , so were all the others in the cast .
A sad story of the times , that were in it 😢
Feel like they were going for something Synge-esque, but it doesn't quite come off. I suppose it makes a change to have Sean Bean playing a gormless Irishman instead of a gormless Yorkshireman.
John Hurt looked old even back then.
I think he was born old.
Well acted by Richard Harris playing the Apostle John in the Book of Revelation on TH-cam
Not many people know, that there was "famine" and starvation and endemic malnutrition in the West in 1927/28
The Cosgrave Govt tried to cover it up.
Someone below argued that the "famine was in 1850" years before. And the famine was not a theme in this film.
Thats within Bulls lifetime, and 1927 was definitely within Tadhgs lifetime.
" Tadgh will have to emigrate. Tadgh will have to emigrate ".
That was simply because they couldnt feed two children.
I came upon this film by accident and my goodness, aren’t I glad I watched it! A powerful, dark story of pain and suffering in the aftermath of the potato famine. Not one character comes out of it looking good and yet, at times I felt sympathy for each and every one. A fabulous cast and Richard Harris, as ever, is superb.
another one to watch is "The Butcher Boy"
Jackie. The play is set around the 1930s. So, long after the famine. In What was then the Irish Free State. I am Irish btw.
@@doloresaquines1529 thanks Dolores, I know, but my impression was that the Irish American was hated because his ancestors had emigrated to the States to escape the famine, leaving behind the likes of Bull’s family. Just my interpretation but brilliant movie anyway!
Looks even darker George but I’ll give it a go, thanks! @@georgebarnes8163
@@jackiea8394 Absolutely a great movie. Beautiful área too.We were driving through just as they were dismantling the various sets and locations. I dont think Irish Americans were or are hated. Many did leave for USA after the famine, many died en route. That was after 1845. The Field is set in 1930s. It was a difficult time for many. Rural Ireland. Many would never have been to the capital Dublín. Or to Any other city either. An enclosed suffocating and inward looking society.
Studied this film in school for the leaving cert. Can't stop watching it
I left school without the leaving cert but that's irrelevant, great movie, richard harris is outstanding
Did it go into the background of The Tain and Cu Chullainn ?
Astounding this film received so many bad reviews, I just don't understand it. The entire cast is excellent and the locations are nothing but amazing, what a beautiful country Ireland is. I enjoyed it so much that I watched all over again.🙂
There’s simply no accounting for bad taste my friend. This film is magic
Harris’ monologue with the priest is the stuff of legends.
We too had famine in Ukraine, and as Irish people we love our black land. This movie touched me to the core...
Only Richard Harris could have brought this to life....great actor !
John Hurt, too, mind
John. This is a stage play. Many great actors have played the Bull.
@@doloresaquines1529 Dolores...Yes ..but Harris, had the screen presentation to bring it to life,...and John Hurt was superb.
@@johnlavery6116 Absolutely. Harris is the best Bull McCabe. He brings the menace and latent violence of the psychopathic character out very well.
I@@doloresaquines1529 I doebt many played the role better than Harris and the chemistry between him and John Hurt was superb
What an outstanding film, God bless you John B Keane for writing such a masterpiece..
This is brilliant , John B Keane wrote so many great plays and struggled in the start with a ban on some of them
Yes. Laetitia.His plays are amazing. He knew What he was writing about.
@@timcotter8879 Yes Tim. Like many other writers, such as John McGahern. Banned and had to publish abroad, and leave the country too. The suffocating Church-led censorship then.
Saw this movie long time back. Has stayed with me ever since.
An epic film with a performance of Biblical proportions earning Harris his second Oscar nomination which he certainly should have won
BEST MOVIE I HAVE EVER SEEN!!! ill watch it over and over again and still love it as the first time. Harris is fantastic!
Well may the preacher tell of the evil silence . The church has lived with silence for centuries. God bless the children😢
If ever there was a story that captures the essence of Ireland and it's people, it's this.
All jokes aside your so right .. when the catlick church hoarded all the spuds twas a hard life
Wouldn’t go that far. It isn’t flattering . It’s one side (land hunger) and a period of the past and only one part .
Utter wafflers to suggest so a thing. Clearly, you haven’t a clue
@@gavintuesday4959 well they certainly ate more than they grew and i wouldnt say its that much a period of the past either considering some people cant afford to eat and keep a roof over their heads today . Then again that depends who you are some people wouldn't have a clue about that sort of thing.
It makes the Irish look like they're a nation of whimsical idiots. Not a good look.
No, it captures Irish American memories of the 1850s
The greatest irish film of all time
John Hurt brilliant as usual...
Always excellent
John B. Keane, who wrote The Field. A stronger plot and characterisation make The Field (1965) one of Keane’s best plays. This play was subsequently adapted for screen by Noel Pearson and Jim Sheridan in 1996.
Big Maggie (1969) dealt with a familiar Irish phenomenon, that of the domineering mother, and provided material for an actress to play a strong formidable central character on stage. Moll (1971) is another woman’s play, the main character being a canny and domineering housekeeper of the local parish priest. Next came The Crazy Wall (1974), The Buds of Ballybunion (1976), and The Chastitute (1979)
.In 1967, the Letters of a Successful T.D., Keane began a series of epistolary novellas. The other titles include Letters of an Irish Parish Priest, Letters of a Love-Hungry Farmer, Letters of a Country Postman, Letters of a Matchmaker and Letters of an Irish Minister of State. In his mid-fifties, Keane wrote a series of best-selling works, including The Contractors (1993), The Bodhrán Makers (1986), and Durango (1987), which was filmed by Hallmark Hall of Fame in 1999.
Richard Harris a master of his work
Great actor. Along with many others. Hurt, Bean, Berenger, McGinley to name a few
I saw this film years ago and never forgot it. Thank you for the chance to see it again 😊
What a wonderful story. So much foreshadowing from beginning to end. I've always believed that we belong to the earth and not the other way around.
I'm Irish born in athlone Co,Westmeath now live in Boston but this movie is truly amazing and a very beautiful country and very under appreciated movie..this is real this my beautiful Ireland
Iv droned over the field that was used in the film
@@Discover-Ireland good on ya
One of the best movies I have ever watched. This is my second time and I realized how much I missed the first time. Cannot understand why the reviews online are so lame... Love every minute of John Hurt on it (Harris, of course, has his place in film history recognized) but I always thought John Hurt has never given the position he deserved.
I usually love the writing of the late great film critic Roger Ebert, but "The Field" completely went over his head, much less the fact that it is a masterpiece. I suspect this is because, like the tinkers, the yank & the priest, he had completely lost touch with the land & was unable to identify with the Bull McCabe & see that, from his viewpoint, everything he did was justified & morally right.
@@leomulhare1565 maybe if his son hadn't terrorised the widow things may have been different ,
@@smallfeet4581 The widow---Sting's ex wife Francis Tomelty.
@@willyboyw.5771 yes , I saw her name and knew I knew it , took me a moment or two to think who it was , I wouldn't have recognised her in the film though , not on a small laptop screen with my eyes , cheers 👍
@@smallfeet4581 Well then we wouldn't have had a play would we! lol. And it is a work of fiction, written by the playwright John B. Keane, even if loosely based on a certain other event.
richard harris so powerful personality actor. i truly enjoyed this movie.thank you
The late John Hurt was brilliant playing the bird
This is a BRILLIANT Film it's The First Time I Ever Seen Sean Bean,,, AN HE Went On To Be A Big Movie Star as,,Well,,,,,Great Actor,,,
I met John B Kean a few times in his pub in Listowel many years ago !
Richard Harris! Absolutely one of the very best. Masterpiece
Richard Harris is the best.
Fantastic cast - fantastic performance by all.👏🏻
My favourite film of all time. The Field says more about Ireland than any other film.
I was working Directly Enquiries in the 80s.Through the night. A voice came on at about 3am.I knew it was Richard Harris.I was gonna take a chance. I said " The field " ,silence.Then he spoke with utter shock.We had a wonderful conversation. That night my sats probably soared.I didn't care.☘
Thank-you for uploading this lovely old film.
☘️ Important story! ☘️
A fantastic film that I somehow caught but if I remember rightly seemed to slide by the world unnoticed. One of those rare ensemble film creations that works on so many levels and I can only count about 20 of those! Richard Harris's performance! Back to the old country but hell he gives it some 😲
I love the field if like to drop some knowledge on film like this remarkable one, I'm all ears❤
As an Irish American,this movie is heartbreaking.This movie is like the Irish civil and nobody wins
You've gotta understand , Ireland's hopeless. That's why our ancestors left.
@@redtobertshateshandles You're a funny little tiny worm😆😆😆😆😆😆😆
To quote another great Irish movie
"It's not an American story, it's an Irish story"
Anything is Brenda Fricker in, is top quality for me
Dang it now I got to go add this film to my list of One Of The Best Films That I've EVER Watched . That's my review . 👍👍👍
Fantastic acting by Richard Harris in this period film.
Shirley. It isn't a period film. This is an adaptation of a play by John B. Keane. The Field. Not very long ago.
AMAZING MOVIE - STRONG STORYLINE - HISTORICALLY BASED and THE TRUEST ACTING - YOU LOSE YOURSELF IN THIS MOVIE - IT TRANSPORTS YOU TO THE TIMES AND FEELING OF THE PERIOD AND INTO THE SOULS OF THE ACTORS
Shoutout to John B. Keane - still legend! R.I.P. Sir - thank you.
Yes, Dave. Let us not forget that this is a film adaption of John B. Keane's play The Field. It was first performed in 1965 at the Olympia Theatre (Dublin) with Ray McAnally playing the lead. The film does take some liberties with the original play. For example, it isn't an American who buys the field, but an English man.
Powerful film superb acting harris should have got the oscar
John Hurt eating that sandwich like a bunny rabbit is hilarious
The joke is that they didn't give him tea to wash it down with
Love from Pakistan for all the team.
I am short of words to praise.😢
Saw this when it first aired . Never forgot it . Astonishing. Thank You so much for uploading
A profound tragedy. They don't come like this very often.
Pretty well said they don't come like this very often, but wen they do arrive they last generations if I may be so bold as to say so🇮🇪🍀
Am Irish from both Parents and my Grandfather Hillis was born and raised in And nears Belfast, Ireland 🇮🇪 Erin Go Bragh🙏🏼🇮🇪🍀☘️
yes it is a great film and great actors can’t beat this film or the actors. I remember watching it years ago I am from Scotland and love the Irish 😊
.............. and we love you right back !!! ( I'm Irish-American )
He has learnt the lesson of the land! his heads caved in! 🤣🤣🤣 brilliant acting by Harris and also great casting of Tom berenger as the yank.
I recall watching this in the mid 90s. and realising what a masterpiece it was. Now can see again - and Yep....I was right
A simply, well written, and understandable movie with intensity.
“Ye get what ye reaps”!
A good story well told and well acted.
Robin. The film is based on a stage play, written by John B. Keane. A famous playwright.
I viewed the movie, "The Field", approximately 25 years ago. Beautiful cinematography, esp. the mountains in one of the scenes. The police Sgt., at @49:27, real name is Malachy McCourt. His oldest brother wrote a "best-selling" novel which became a movie entitled: "Angela's Ashes". The novelist name is Frank McCourt. The book is a "great" read!! Rest-in-Peace Frank McCourt!!!
I digress-- I think that Tom Berenger should have won the Oscar for Best Actor for the gritty, brutal movie, "Platoon" released in 1986. His portrayal as a sadistic. psychotic soldier during the Vietnam War (circa '66-'67) was haunting!!
Angela's ashes was a good film , sad too , but a good ending if I remember with the eclipse
"Angela's Ashes" was a marvellous book!
Malachi McCourt is not dead.
@@Fred-vy1hm According to the end of the film credits, Malachy's name ends with the letter "y" NOT "i"
I tried to get my dad to read Angela's Ashes, but he refused
His folks emigrated to America, he was born soon after, early 1920s,dirt poor on welfare, everything he did, he did himself,running companies, owning businesses ,so his reasoning was
"Why would I want to read that, I already lived that life once "
I watch this film about once a year as a treat, its one of the best . Beautiful filming and superb acting a snapshot of what Ireland used to be like. I was on that very bridge some years ago where John Hurt was riding away as fast as he could and in that part of Ireland which has a beauty but terrible history from the great famine .
Terrible history even before the famine, surely? Think Oliver Cromwell - and even the Romans.
@@jamesrouillardjas1671 James. The Romans never came here to Ireland. Julius Caesar gave it the name Hibernia and decided not to visit after peering through the cold mist beyond which it lay!
I was born and bred in Newcastle England, but this film is up there with one flew over the cuckoos nest, brilliant
Had no clue what this film was about. The best film I have seen in a very long time.
Angelo. Written by playwright John B. Keane. For stage. Many great actors have played the Bull
An auspicious film to show up in the algorithm with a message suited for this Day of Atonement (Yom Kippur) September 25, 2023.
John Hurt is just on fire in this movie.. absolute legend
Ever thankful for the sharing
Dang! This movie’s got a lot of good actors in it. 🎥🤩✨✨✨
Wow wow. So many layers of human experience-- emotions, desire, the ties that bind past-present-future in one vast stream. So much.
What an utterly amazing performance by Richard Harris, may he rest in peace.
Only wish I could see in the dark better. Just a bit of lighting would have been nice. A good movie about my distant ancestors...
1990 - Great Cast incl. John Hurt for one of the Talents. Seen before. Just love these Irish Films. Thanks for this Fine Movie.
A beautiful movie why all the negativey, I'm Irish through my great grandfather and proud to be,
of Irish descent is not the same as actually being Irish.
I'm English but my grandmother was Irish. I don't claim to be Irish. I love being English.
@@duibhiruimaolmmhauid9039 You are correct.
@@doloresaquines1529 your not Irish either with that Surname
I love the juxta position on love, the dads obsesive,destructive, love of the land, need to pass on the family line,ultimately destroying all he held sacred and the kid wanting to find love in a womans arms,away from the constant pressure, not a film i would normally watch but glad i did jonh hurt is a amaing actor, a really strong cast overall,well worth a watch,,thanks for sharing,,love and contentment Bobble & Mr Tao,xx
a tragically sad, powerful movie. absolutely brilliant.
Thought this was called The Land and been looking for it because it's one of the greatest movies with THE BEST performances of any movie‼️👏🏼👏🏽👏
JUST FINISHED WATCHING IT AND CAN'T WAIT TO WATCH IT AGAIN !!!
Know so many Irish families and neighbors falling out over land ...the hate is carried on through to the next generations to this day.
Bet you didn’t know that the indigenous Irish were shipped to the colonies... The original Irish are in Jamaica, Barbados America and Australia. We were Jacobites loyal to king James a black man... 😊
@@penelopepitstop7748Not this Irish woman. My family were never shipped anywhere.
My Irish came to Canada via the port of New York in Early 1800s. My great granfather was born in ontario in 1823. He had my great gt grandma when he was 60. They were happy indeed - So very happy - to leave all the strife and crazy neighbours with their religious and political-economic conflicts behind. Sounds like nothing much has changed but it’s verbal now. Why the English have to hang on to a part of Ireland is beyond me! Haven’t they suffered enough. From Robert the Bruce’s butchery to Cromwell’s butchery and the early 1900s children being stuffed in ships for America (which meant Canada and the USA in those days) . I guess though the irish burchered a bunch of English in mid 1600s. And then remembering that Irish citizens were being indentured in 1600s along with Scottish POWs (another one of my ancestors - a Scot was marched in 1600s from Scotland to England and shipped to New England as an indentured servant as well). Irish indentured servants in Canada Aus and New Zealand weren’t so worried about the English - did their time, got their land and got on with farming it. The Irish republican army tried to stir things up in Canada and tried raiding us in 1860s but got no where. Fenian Raids. My Irish Gt Grpa in his diary mentioned the raid in passing as though “they” were a different race! Their aim was to rake over Canada and exchange us for a free Ireland. Too many happy Irish people here (like my ancestors). for starters..
@@susanjohnson1105 They are still killing each other here over land (usually inheritance). A Notorious case quite recently. People become quite unhinged over the smallest thing relating to land.
Here in America I know a family. Nine brothers and sisters. This happening right now. The mother died three years ago. Two brothers had taken over the farm, had been farming it with their father for the past....20 to 30 years. One brother, You didn't see him a lot, unless it was hunting season. The whole time she's sick, He's over all the time. But he's not visiting. He's surveying. He's going to sell it off to one of the big farmers, the big desk farmers. Probably fetch a million. Got all his brothers and sisters stirred up, the house was supposed to one particular girl. One of the older brothers, the one with the illegitimate son he never took care of, the one with the record. Well he's the one who got the house. The long lean brother who is out surveying, He's trying to sell it all off except for a few roadside areas that he'll get, needless to say, he's going to try to take the Lions share. Two brothers that farm, who onestly I don't like much either, but they're stealing from their family. Well they built a bunch of grain bins, the other siblings know they built them. But they're claiming their father built them, Even though there seems to be some evidence of proving they didn't exist in their father's lifetime (about 10 years ago). Simply so they can have money from the sale of them. And some of them think their brothers are cheating them, and some of them think their sisters are cheating them. And here is this one lone brother, playing them all against each other. And every day he's in church, every morning. Made a donation recently I heard, about 300 bucks. Nothing. Something in high school kid could have done. But man did he stand up and wave. Just enough for them to get new candles. This is happening in America is the point. Has been for a long time. Everything we do abroad. We do worse at home. It's kind of a sad, strange justice and at all. His daughter is basically brain dead, She was drinking and did something stupid. He wasn't a very good father. The story he tells is different, a tragic accident unavoidable. But everybody knows what really happened, She was drunk and did something really stupid. He's a bad father, I know that kids do stupid stuff anyway when they get in their early 20s. But all of her stuff always damn from him not giving a s***. Cuz he doesn't. He cares about how he's seen. He cares about himself. He expects his children to be worthy of him. And none of them can be because he's not really much of anything. Guy doesn't have a college diploma, doesn't really have much success at all. Oh he's upper middle class, He has a business. Mostly by cheating people. He has a reputation for that. I think maybe the big takeaway for me and all this is. Don't have too many children, the oldest ones won't love the youngest ones cuz they won't know them. There won't be enough to leave them all. They fight over it. And even if there was one of them might turn out like this brother. And there's not enough land in America for him.
It took me a while to get into this movie but am so glad I hung on, Such a powerful movie in so many ways, I actually wondered if the American was his nephew, Very dark and so sad. Thank you for uploading
No. Jenny. The American was not his nephew. In the original play, written by John B. Keane, It isn't an American, but an English man.
@@doloresaquines1529 That makes so much more sense. No American would be fighting for 3 acres of land, or even 20.
@@kristinebailey6554 No sane Irish person either. But then, the Bull McCabe wasn't sane. L.
@@doloresaquines1529the foreigner speaks again, leave the dissection of this movie to an Irish person
I had seen this play performed a couple of times in the past on film but never so intense and soul stirring as this one has been for me.
Richard Harris and Sean Bean's performances are still haunting me hours later.
I found the play very difficult to concentrate on.
Especially after seeing the film.
JB. Keane was there on set.
He had a minor part as the matchmaker when Bull is trying to find Tadgh a wife.
Theres a Huuuuge number of themes in that film that go "deep. very deep. deeper than you think".
Everything from Cu Chullainn , Nationalism , Patriarchal V Matriarchal, paganism , and pre-christian "geassa" or taboos which gaelic kings (like a Bull) were subjected to. And of course Famine.
The scene where the priest calls the Yank "Peter" is actually a mistake. He was meant to be nameless and only described as the Yank in the credits.
He was meant to be nameless, because Cu Cullainn killed his own son on the shore because he refused to reveal his name.
The Bull even calls him Shamie (his dead son) as he goes mad, like King Lear during the storm
@@olliephelan Yes, in the film it is a Yank. But in the play it is actually an English man. The film is amazing, but like any adaptation for screen it does expand a loton the stage play.
Meantime I bet you will be interested in this:In 1887
Roasting a Man Alive: The Case of Mary Rielly, Criminal Lunatic
@@doloresaquines1529
I can only really find articles on gender related to a murder case.
I've been looking for this movie for so long! One of Richard Harris's most powerful performances. I can understand the plight of generational tenant farmers, which the characters are. McCabe thinks he's the only one who should be able to buy the land, but she had the right to sell it as she saw fit. Tradition or law?
An absolutely fantastic ensemble performance, it is a one of a kind film and I adore it.
Wow......hard to put into words all the sadness, sorrow and sins......excellent movie
Great movie
Acting script direction cinematography all top notch well done all involved...
This move captivated me more then any nettflix or hbo movie i have seen all year... now i am 40 years old and i see a couple of movies every night(have done for almost all my life) good actors dont really exist anymore like the old man in this movie
Pan. Richard Harris died in 2002. He would have been 60 years old when he played this part.
@1:25:42 that's my great-grandfather's stare, right there. He lost his son when the quarry collapsed on him. My great-grandfather spent the rest of his days working to feed and raise his son's children. They are now grandparents themselves. My great-grandfather looked exactly like that, in complexion, face structure and demeanor and that stare especially. He was Greek and had to leave his remote island home to survive 2 world wars and the Balkan wars and starvation in Athens. His son in law, my grandfafher, was a Yank from NY (born and raised on the same remote Greek Island though). He emigrated to NY at the age of 14 to work and save his own father's large family. He came back after WWII to save his father in law and my grandmother, who loved him dearly. The only name he called my grandmother, was "my love" (Agape mou). And when she ever despaired, because of similar social situations in every small village community on an remote island, he would tell her: "To THEO kaneis adynato, Kelliope?" = "You make a God weak, Kelliope?" That's the only time he didn't call her "my love", but by the ancient muse's name she was baptized with. I LOVED THIS MOVIE. MASTERPIECE. We are truly standing on the shoulders of giants, all of us. I ABSOLUTELY LOVE IRELAND AND THE IRISH, BTW. ITS ALWAYS ABOUT THE LAND AND THE GENERATIONS ON IT. LONG LIVE THE IRISH.
What a brilliant film..its a much watch..
This is a brilliant, horrific film. The cast is uniformly superb. I’ve seen it often - each time with a deeper understanding and wrenching pain. At times the cinematography creates what seems a tableau worthy of Rembrandt. But the roaring against cosmic justice is older, far older. So Bull McCabe ends in destroying all - and to what avail? Ancient, ancient fury, rage and slaughter….
Yes, James. It is a great film, no doubt about that. The camera has captured the atmosphere exactly. Of course, the playwright, John B. Keane wrote many great plays.
one of the best films l have ever seen
Oh Dear.
That was brutal
Consequences of sin are unparalled in this masterpiece film production
Never realized Brendan Gleeson was in this film and what a film it always was...
He's been in movies for years, lots of small parts, but always good
The banshees of innisherin could almost be a sequel
A great film that you must watch. Simply brill and not to be missed. Defines the madness of men.
Two late great actors in Richard Harris and John Hurt.
John Hurt shows us that there are no small parts, only small actors.
I saw this film first time ⌚ brilliant nowadays they cannot make films like this Richard Harris my favourite actor God bless him may he Rest in peace ✌Gone but not Forgotten
God Bless Ireland & the Irish. 💚🤍❤☘😇
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This story was so disturbing, I have never forgotten it, and I forget films all the time.
Tax. The play is based on real events. Excellent Cast and performance. And land is also a dark protagonist of this play.
The story is yet to be told.......The amount of sons and daughters that left Ireland throughout the years. It has come back in drips and drabs, Angelas Ashes for example. The Irish government relied on people leaving. All us Irish patriots, go to England, Australia, America, South Africa....
Aye, its greatest export was its people.
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@BradBrassman Dev , wanted the people to leave, and send home some money 😢
The scene in the movie with the shot taken from behind the priest looking upon Richard Harris sitting alone in the pew would certainly have captured the imagination of Gustave Dore or Albrecht Durer. I'd rather not try and search for my own appropriate words of acclaimation on this Jim Sheridan film but rather let a former Master do it for me.
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What though the field be lost?
All is not lost, the unconquerable Will,
A study revenge, immortal hate,
And courage never to submit or yield:
And what is else not to be overcome?
That glory never shall his wrath or might
Extort from me. To bow and sue for grace
With suppliant knee, and deify his power
Who from the terror of this Arm so late
Doubted his Empire, that were low indeed,
That were an ignominy and shame beneath
This downfall...
John Milton's, Paradise Lost
What a movie,phew 😢. It brings tear in my eyes. Richard Harris was phenomenal,it looks like he was the charector.
Gosh! I saw this movie ages ago....and it is still compelling
Great movie, even for those not of Irish heritage. The story could be of many other peoples/heritages. People who loved or love their land for better or for worse. 😊😪 People under oppression by other people (who also loved or greedily desired more land) and the effect it had on those just trying to take care of what they have... I could go on.. No person or heritage is all good or all bad. Power sometimes (or usually) corrupts?
What a sad tale masterfully told through art. Everything the British touch turns to misery and Ireland was no exception.
Always loved Harrison Ford's work.
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Absolutely wonderful🎉❤
Melancholy and dark. Great acting.
Great playwright, John B. Keane!!
God bless Ireland Mr Sharpe! 💪🇬🇧⚔️
Harris should had an Oscar for this performance☘️❤️☘️
Two great actors in Harris and Hurt but lets not forget a young Sean Bean. His dialogue was minimal but his acting still great.
Adding to his screen death tally.
Harris ❤made block busters in a legendary career, but this combination with director Sheridan and stellar cast is my easily top in my humble opinion as a movie watcher❤
Tis a mortal sin to put concrete over grass n clover ☘️
Great movie, you're right, nobody wins...