Revisiting The Quiet Man: Ireland on Film
The Irish Film Institute and The Museum of Modern Art presents Revisiting The Quiet Man: Ireland on Film, running from 20th May – 3rd June, 2011 as part of Imagine Ireland: a year of Irish arts in America. The season, curated by Irish actor Gabriel Byrne, takes The Quiet Man (1952), John Ford’s portrayal of rural Ireland, as the starting point for an exploration of representations of Irish identity in cinema. Byrne has identified key themes in the film — an emigré’s sense of ‘home,’ politics, the role of women, religion, and Irish identity — and selected films from and about Ireland that further develop and amplify them.
The exhibition opens with The Quiet Man, Ford’s romantic and rollicking vision of a pastoral Ireland that tells the story of a returned ex-boxer trying to settle back into the land of his birth and marry the girl of his dreams. A discussion with Byrne and other special guests will follow the screening on May 20th. The festival also includes such highlights as Ken Loach’s class-conscious historical drama The Wind That Shakes the Barley (2006), winner of Cannes Film Festival’s Palme D’Or; John Ford’s The Informer (1935), winner of four Academy Awards; Jim Sheridan’s biographical film In the Name of the Father (1993) which will be introduced by Sheridan; Peter Mullan’s The Magdalene Sisters (2002), winner of Venice Film Festival’s Golden Lion Award; and Steve McQueen’s Irish political drama Hunger (2008) which will be introduced by the film’s screen writer Enda Walsh; and the recent urban drama Kisses (2008) presented by the film’s director Lance Daly.
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