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Following the excellent documentary on The Commitments which aired last week, viewers will be going Back To Barrytown this Sunday but this time, we re going to check in with the Curley family.
In the second of a three-part series for RTÉ One about the Barrytown trilogy, Colm Meaney journeys back to revisit The Snapper, a comedy that s still as popular and quotable as ever, almost 30 years after its release.
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God might have sent Joey The Lips Fagan on a f ing Suzuki, but it was Roddy Doyle and Alan Parker that brought magic to The Commitments.
30 years ago, a small Irish movie about a group of young Dubliners who form a band to play American soul music opened with little fanfare.
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Rock star Glen Hansard tells how making The Commitments movie was tainted by bust-up with late director Alan Parker
Updated: 16 May 2021, 12:32
ROCK star Glen Hansard has spoken of how the experience of making feel-good movie The Commitments was tainted for him because of a bust-up with late director Alan Parker.
The Frames singer has revealed how the six-time Oscar-winner took him aside, as they were wrapping on the 1991 movie, to tell him something awful.
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Original Commitments’ author Roddy Doyle
Glen said: “I was shocked . . Alan said to me, ‘There’s always one on every movie I do’, and he said a word, an awful word I won’t repeat, it was something very rude, and he said, ‘I didn’t think it would be you’.”