"Hey, is that real? She couldn't be." So says Sean Thornton (John Wayne) in John Ford's The Quiet Man (1952). The "that," the "she" in question is Maureen O'Hara's red-headed, red-skirted Mary Kate Danaher. He catches sight of her in the long space of lighting a cigarette as she passes by shepherding a flock of sheep through the idyllic Irish countryside. Her vibrant redness appears with such Technicolor glory that we may feel the same––has there ever been a red so seemingly unreal against nature's sprawling green?"Red is more durable," the Rev. Cyril Playfair (Arthur Shields) comments on the door of Sean Thornton's refurbished cottage "White O'Morn," which he has painted green––emerald green, a shade "only an American would have thought of." That is the remark of the Reverend's wife, who admires it as looking the way Irish cottages should "and seldom do." Sean Thornton spent...
- 1/4/2021
- MUBI
In exciting news, Irish Film & TV (Iftv) Research Online, a Trinity College project, is making available nine dramatized films about the Irish, made in Ireland and America by Sidney Olcott and others during the period of 1910 to 1915. Canadian-born Alcott, who was of Irish heritage, moved to Ireland and made several films there. He even had plans for a permanent studio in Beaufort, County Kerry, but the First World War intervened. Iftv says that almost all the Irish-themed fiction films released in this period were produced by foreign filmmakers, but during 1916 to 1920 Irish filmmakers working mainly for the Film Company of Ireland also made innovative and challenging films. ----------------------- Read more: More movie news from IrishCentral Sean Quinn’s wife and children could face bankruptcy hearing to repay banks History of Ireland’s War of Independence changed by Kerry students ----------------------- Five of the nine films are concerned with aspects of...
- 1/18/2012
- IrishCentral
Award-winning duo to stage King Lear in 2012, as Mendes returns to British theatre – and Bond 23 takes a back seat
One of the most admired and bankable pairings in British theatre, actor Simon Russell Beale and director Sam Mendes, will return to the National Theatre in two years' time for a production of King Lear. It's their first work at the National since 1998, and Mendes's first entirely British production since he left the Donmar Warehouse, the tiny London theatre where he forged an international reputation, in 2002.
The two friends have worked together for almost 20 years, invariably winning awards and nominations for their productions. Their last Shakespearean partnership at the National was when Russell Beale played Iago in Mendes's Othello.
The show will certainly sell out the moment tickets are released, but the National has yet to ink a slot on the calender, given the hectic work schedules of both men.
One of the most admired and bankable pairings in British theatre, actor Simon Russell Beale and director Sam Mendes, will return to the National Theatre in two years' time for a production of King Lear. It's their first work at the National since 1998, and Mendes's first entirely British production since he left the Donmar Warehouse, the tiny London theatre where he forged an international reputation, in 2002.
The two friends have worked together for almost 20 years, invariably winning awards and nominations for their productions. Their last Shakespearean partnership at the National was when Russell Beale played Iago in Mendes's Othello.
The show will certainly sell out the moment tickets are released, but the National has yet to ink a slot on the calender, given the hectic work schedules of both men.
- 4/23/2010
- by Maev Kennedy
- The Guardian - Film News
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