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Director
Jim Sheridan
Credits
Producers: Arthur Lappin, Jim Sheridan. Writers: Jim Sheridan, Terry George
Principal Cast
Daniel Day-Lewis, Emily Watson, Brian Cox, Gerard McSorely, Ian McElhinney
Category
Feature
An intense performance from Daniel Day-Lewis, here partnered with Emily Watson, returns Sheridan (and co-scriptwriter Terry George) to The Troubles in The Boxer. Unsettled by the more vicious attacks on In the Name of the Father, and the insistence of certain commentators on picking up on factual errors in the Guildford Four story, Sheridan decided to restrict himself to fictional material for his next work, which is set in Peace Process Belfast. This was to be his most generic film to date. Boxing dramas have long been a staple of Hollywood cinema and often, as here, a way of exploring the problems of occupying a masculine role in an emasculated society. Another new development was to place the love story at the centre of the narrative. Although one of Sheridan’s least seen Irish productions The Boxer still earned Sheridan and Day-Lewis Golden Globe nominations for Best Director and Actor respectively.
Notes by Ruth Barton.
113 minutes, Ireland/USA, 1997, Colour
ALL YOU NEED IS DEATH 16:00, 20:45
ARCHIVE AT LUNCHTIME: SPRING FORWARD (PROGRAMME 1) 13.20
BALTIMORE 13:30
DUNE: PART TWO (70MM) 19.40
FROM THE VAULTS: ABBAS KIAROSTAMI: THE ART OF LIVING 18.30
IO CAPITANO 15:50
JEANNE DU BARRY 14:30, 18:10
ON THE WATERFRONT 70TH ANNIVERSARY 13:40
PERFECT DAYS 20:30
THE TEACHERS’ LOUNGE 17:15
WILD STRAWBERRIES: THAT THEY MAY FACE THE RISING SUN 11.00 (OC)
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