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Article: Best Irish movies.(Features)
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- The Mail on Sunday (London, England)
- Article date:
- November 1, 2009
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Byline: Tim Fanning
1 The Commitments Before The Full Monty and Billy Elliot came Alan Parker's 1991 feelgood fish-out-of-water flick about a group of young Dubliners who decide to form a soul band. 'Say it once and say it loud: I'm black and I'm proud!'
2 My Left Foot Director Jim Sheridan and leading actors Daniel Day-Lewis and Brenda Fricker really put Irish filmmaking on the map in 1989 with this Oscar-winning biopic of Dublin's Christy Brown who, having been born with cerebral palsy, learned to write and paint using his left foot.
3 Garage Director Lenny Abrahamson and writer Mark O'Halloran were behind this low-budget gem from 2007, which ...