Thaddeus O'Sullivan: The Early Films (1974-1985) - 2-DVD Set ( Flanagan / A Pint of Plain / The Woman Who Married Clark Gable / On a Paving Stone Mounted / Assembled Memories: Jack B. Yeats )

Thaddeus O'Sullivan: The Early Films (1974-1985) - 2-DVD Set (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: Flanagan / A Pint of Plain / The Woman Who Married Clark Gable / On a Paving Stone Mounted / Assembled Memories: Jack B. Yeats
Screened, competed or awarded at:
BAFTA Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital Stereo )

Product Origin/Format:
United Kingdom ( PAL/Region 0 )

Running Time:
206 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
2-DVD Set
Interactive Menu
Production Notes
Scene Access
Black & White
Booklet
Remastered

Movie filmed in 1974 - 1985 and produced in:
Ireland ( Great Britain, Ireland )
United Kingdom ( Great Britain, Ireland )

Directed By:
Thaddeus O'Sullivan
Derrick O'Connor

Written By:
Thaddeus O'Sullivan
Derrick O'Connor
Sean O'Faoláin
Andrew Pattman

Actors:
Annie Balfour
Pauline Byrne ..... Flanagan
Derrick O'Connor
James Overton
Sally Connell
Tony Haygarth
Richard Ireson
Tony Rohr
Toby Salaman
Jack Shepherd
Anthony Trent
Mike Waring
Bob Hoskins ..... George
Brenda Fricker ..... Mary
Peter Caffrey ..... Jimmy
Eamon A. Kelly ..... Priest
Maeve Germaine ..... Young Woman in Kiosk
Jill Doyle ..... Young Woman in Factory
Helen Roche ..... Waitress
Anto Nolan ..... Jimmy's Friend
Bobby Leppla ..... Man in Factory
Eugene Kavanagh ..... Barman
Paul McCarthy ..... Boy
Annie Balfour ..... American Woman
Paul Bennett
Gabriel Byrne
Peter Caffrey
May Cluskey
Paul Copley
Edward de Souza
Gerard Mannix Flynn
Eamon Kelly
Annabel Leventon
Mark Long
Miriam Margolyes
Christy Moore
Johnny Murphy
Billy Murray
J.M. O'Neill
Arthur O'Sullivan
Beth Porter
Stephen Rea
Maureen Toal
Frederick Treves
Olivia Walker
Bosco Hogan ..... Narrator
Sebastian Shaw ..... Voice of Jack B. Yeats

Synopsis:

The two-disc, digitally remastered DVD features five films that O'Sullivan made between 1974 and 1985 including the BAFTA nominated The Woman Who Married Clark Gable (1985) and a rarely shown film on Jack B. Yeats (1981), as well as authoritative versions of his RCA and BFI work from the 1970s. These early films launched a career which later included features December Bride, Ordinary Decent Criminal and Stella Days, and television work that includes Amber and the Emmy Award-winning Into the Storm/Churchill at War. Working regularly in Ireland and England he occupies a tantalising position between his native and adopted cultures, existing as he once termed it, 'in the crack between [British and Irish] cultures.' O'Sullivan established his career in London, so it was highly appropriate for the IFI who preserve the films in the IFI Irish Film Archive to team up with Lance Pettitt at the Centre for Irish Studies, St Mary's University in London, who carried out the research underpinning this new curation.

Dublin-born Thaddeus O'Sullivan is one of Ireland's most distinguished cinematographers and film directors. His award-winning feature films include Stella Days, The Heart of Me, Nothing Personal and December Bride. With this new DVD the IFI Irish Film Archive brings together five of his earliest films digitally re-mastered and made available for the first time since their original, limited release 30-40 years ago. The collection represents an important and vibrant period in the 1970s and '80s when key Irish filmmakers were working in formally experimental and critically questioning ways within what is now called the first wave of Irish cinema. This collection traces O'Sullivan's early endeavours as a student in London, at Ealing Art College and the Royal College of Art, where he made the experimental student works Flanagan (1974) and A Pint of Plain (1975) through to his first commercial cinema release, the BAFTA-nominated The Woman Who Married Clark Gable (1985) starring Brenda Fricker and Bob Hoskins. In the BFI-funded On a Paving Stone Mounted (1978) which features performances by Christy Moore, Stephen Rea, Gabriel Byrne and Miriam Margolyes and his cine-essay Assembled Memories (1981) about the life and work of painter Jack B Yeats, viewers can better appreciate how O'Sullivan experimented with film to explore memory, migration and creativity.
Flanagan (1974, 11min)
A Pint of Plain (1975, 40min)
The Woman Who Married Clark Gable (1985, 28min)
On a Paving Stone Mounted (1978, 92min)
Assembled Memories: Jack B. Yeats, 1871-1957 (1981, 35min)

This product was added to our catalog on Thursday 21 April, 2016.