Ireland. Eire. Part III. Фомина И.В. - 13 стр.

       Over the years, some major international films have been made in Ireland;
two such titles shot in Ireland during the last twenty years were Ryan’s Daugh-
ter and The Lion in Winter. These international films often had little or no Irish
casting or script content. Some were produced at the film studios in Bray,
County Wicklow, active from the mid-1960-s until their closure in 1980. The
studios recently opened again under the management of Mary Tyler Moore Pro-
ductions, Hollywood. The production of TV series is increasingly important in
Ireland.
       During the last forty years, some outstanding Irish films have been made,
with content largely Irish, such as Mise Eire (1959) and An Tine Bheo (1968),
both edited and directed by George Morrison, using films included Eat the
Peach and Cal. However, Government support for the film industry has been
very spasmodic over the years, and with the closure of the Irish Film Board,
Irish-made films are once more into a lean period.
       Ireland remains one of the new western countries without a national film
archive. Already, much material has been lost. However, the opening of the ex-
tensive new premises of the Irish Film Institute, when they are eventually com-
pleted, should provide much more space for both archives and projection facili-
ties. Many suburban and provincial cinemas have closed down in all parts of Ire-
land; nevertheless, cinema-going remains a popular pastime, particularly with
younger people, in urban areas, and new cinema construction, neglected since
the 1950s, is starting again. Among the planned new developments is a multi-
screen cinema in Tallaght, Dublin, part of a huge new leisure complex.
       Films have been made in and about Ireland since the Lumiére Brothers
filmed in Sackville (now O’Connell) Street in 1897. In 1910 the American, Sid-
ney Olcott, filmed The Lad from Old Ireland in New York and Kerry, the first
film ever made on two continents. Ireland has since played host to many interna-
tional directors – Alfred Hitchcock, John Ford, Francis Ford Coppola, John
Huston and Stephen Spielberg.
       Throughout the last century Irish film makers were prolific in their pro-
duction of amateur films, newsreels, documentaries and informational films. It
was not until the 1970s however that a new wave of indigenously produced fic-
tion films began to provide a striking alternative to foreign produced representa-
tions of Ireland. Irish film makers Bob Quinn, Joe Comerford, Cathal Black, Pat
Murphy and Thaddeus O’Sullivan produced work that dealt with previously un-
explored issues of culture, class, gender and nationality. Their work and that of
subsequent producers, directors and screen writers is facilitated by the Irish Film
Board who find production and distribution of feature films, shorts, animated
films and Irish language productions.
       Irish films have enjoyed international acclaim such as Michael Collins
(Neil Jordan 1996), I Went Down (Paddy Breathnach 1997), The General (John
Boorman 1998), Nora (Pat Murphy 2000), About Adam (Gerry Stembridge

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