11 things about The Commitments that you might not have known
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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.
January 15, 2008
Right around Christmas about a month ago we ran the newly discovered international trailer for the upcoming heist movie
The Bank Job. It was poorly cut and really made the film look bad, which was disappointing because of how excited I was initially based on the photos. However, an official American trailer has hit and it makes the film really look as good as I originally imagined. I m in the mood for an awesome heist movie this year and when you throw Jason Statham into the mix, I m all for it. If you really weren t sold on the first trailer, then I really encourage you to give it a second chance and watch this trailer instead.
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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’.”
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