Top 10 Micksploitation Flicks

[Heikki Raudaskoski]

I'd add Carol Reed's "Odd Man Out" (1947).

Set in Northern Ireland, with James Mason as an IRA man
"l(h)oo-ssing(?) hiss *khrip*" (GR 592), sure - yet
adapting his unique intonation to Anglo-Irish.


Heikki

On Tue, 17 Mar 2009, Dave Monroe wrote:

> I THINK this is self-explanatory.  In chronological order:
>
> The Quiet Man (Ford, 1952)
> Darby O'Gill and The Little People (Stevenson, 1959)
> Film (Beckett, 1965)
> The Dead (Huston, 1987)
> My Left Foot (Sheridan, 1989)
> Miller's Crossing (Coen, 1990)
> The General (Boorman, 1998)
> Bloody Sunday (Greengrass, 2002)
>
> ... plus two ties:
>
> Ulysses (Strick, 1967) and/or Bloom (Walsh, 2003)
> Leprechaun in the Hood (Spera, 2000) and/or Leprechaun: Back 2 tha
> Hood (Ayromlooi, 2003)
>
> Director/year of release in parentheses.  And see as well ...
>
> http://www.irishfilm.net/
>
> http://www.ubu.com/film/beckett_film.html
>