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Director
Jim Sheridan
Credits
Producer: Noel Pearson. Writers: Jim Sheridan, Christy Brown, Shane Connaughton
Principal Cast
Daniel Day-Lewis, Brenda Fricker, Fiona Shaw, Hugh O'Conor
Category
FeatureClassic
His first film as director, My Left Foot launched Jim Sheridan’s international career and launched Irish cinema onto the world stage with My Left Foot earning Academy Award victories for Daniel Day-Lewis as Christy Brown and Brenda Fricker as Mrs Brown. The film also featured a remarkable performance by Hugh O’Conor as young Christie. It was an extraordinary achievement for a small production drawn from the autobiographical writings of a young inner-city Dubliner, Christy Brown, who had battled against cerebral palsy to become an accomplished artist. Sheridan is happy to admit that, with only a six-week course in filmmaking to his name, he learnt on the job. The apprentice became master very quickly.
Notes by Ruth Barton.
103 minutes, Ireland/UK, 1989, Colour
28 YEARS LATER 13:00, 15:35, 20:45
ARCHIVE AT LUNCHTIME: MASS APPEAL (PROGRAMME ONE) 12:50
CAL 13:40
HIDDEN (CACHÉ) 18:10 (French Film Club)
IRISH FOCUS: MAKING DUST 18.30
THE BALLAD OF WALLIS ISLAND 16:00, 20:40
THE PHOENICIAN SCHEME 16:10, 20:30
TORNADO 13:50
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