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When you think about it, there’ve been remarkably few films made about the Troubles: perhaps all concerned have too much to feel ashamed about.
There’s this problematic thing in movies. It’s called the IRA antihero. Blame James Mason. He started it in 1947, playing Johnny McQueen, a doomed smoothie and Irish nationalist on the run, in Carol Reed’s Odd Man Out. He was followed by Robert Mitchum’s republican beefcake in A Terrible Beauty (1960), Stephen Rea’s wan philosophising Provo in The Crying Game (1992), and all manner of Hollywood A-listers, from Brad Pitt (The Devil’s Own) to Richard Gere (The Jackal), who seemed to stare into the politics of terrorism and see only the archetypes of heroism.
Irish director Neil Jordan (The Crying Game, Interview With the Vampire, The End of the Affair) has always had a thing for offbeat dramas. So we should expect interesting things from his latest turn as director / screenwriter: The Good Thief. It opens April 16, but New York movie lovers can get an early peek
IFTA winner Stephen Rea - who was honoured for his work on BBC Western series The English - admitted to JOE that he is
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