THE FIELD Director: JIM SHERIDAN 107 minutes| Ireland-U.K.| 1990| Colour| Dolby Stereo SR| 35mm Book cinema tickets This screening will include a talk with guests Brenda Fricker and Luke Gibbons. Sheridan’s second film was an epic tale of land rights and murder. The Field had initially been adapted with Ray McAnally so wonderful as Mr Brown in My Left Foot in mind, but the actor’s unexpected death left the role open. In stepped Richard Harris as the Bull McCabe. The rest certainly was history, with Harris thundering through a film that saw John B. Keane’s original stage play transferred from the 1960s to the 1930s and the figure of the outsider/property speculator altered from a returning British-Irish immigrant to a Yank. With echoes of Yeats’ Cuchulain from On Baile’s Strand and, in his final madness, King Lear, the film re-imagined the Irish past as Oedipal tragedy. Critics and audiences alike were shocked, some horrified by Sheridan’s bleak view of the West, with its mean-spirited natives and murderous patriarchs. Certainly the bucolic days of The Quiet Man were over. Director: JIM SHERIDAN 107 minutes| Ireland-U.K.| 1990| Colour| Dolby Stereo SR| 35mm