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'Nobody wanted to make The Crying Game… and the trans community gave out to me' — Neil Jordan on his Oscar-winning movie
23 Sep 2025 10:25 GMT
… weekend. Neil Jordan, Oscar-winning writer and director of The Crying Game, The … any film defined Jordan’s career, it was The Crying Game ( … Best Original Screenplay. “The Crying Game was a big bloody … many endings to The Crying Game.”
Asked what lessons he …
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PT Film Fest delivers to wide audience while also celebrating achievement
24 Sep 2025 15:33 GMT
… Boorman, Stephen Frears, Neil Jordan and Bertrand Blier hold … recovered footage allows documentary director Thomas Winston to share … systemically disadvantaged.
As the film’s opening sequence illustrates, … Damian.” While director Lisa Klein’s film is set in …
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Reason behind Brad Pitt's unexpected career move - 'He wanted to challenge himself'
26 Sep 2025 16:15 GMT
… he appeared in the 1991 movie Thelma & Louise. …
Lucky for Brad, however, director Neil Jordan was set on casting him … film to make. He explained, "Pitt actually hated making the movie … quot;The ultimate vampire movie. Top 10 movie of all time.…
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Brad Pitt 'hated' making beloved movie - and it's not Fight Club
21 Sep 2025 14:25 GMT
… Moneyball, but there was one film he hated making. While … directed movie A River Runs Through It (1992) - that film … Daniel Day Lewis."
Nevertheless, director Neil Jordan was set on giving the … to Brad. Robb recalled the director saying at the time, …
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On This Gay Day | 'The Crying Game' premiered in 1992
01 Sep 2025 18:56 GMT
Neil Jordan’s film The Crying Game had its premiere at The Venice Film … critically acclaimed. Esteemed film critic Roger Ebert … problematic, and the film enforces, rather than … film was not successful in the United Kingdom, something director Neil Jordan …
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‘If the devil did exist, he’d be just such a gentleman’: Neil Jordan remembers Terence Stamp
20 Aug 2025 06:48 GMT
We were making The Company of Wolves. And we had a problem. With Angela Carter, I had written a scene where the devil drives a cream-coloured Rolls-Royce through an imaginary forest, chauffeured by the young dreamer Rosaleen, played by Sarah Patterson.
My …
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Free gigs, film, art, storytelling and late-night parties at Leitrim Culture Night
06 Sep 2025 10:40 GMT
… a stage for music, art, film and performance — with free … screening of Bernie Masterson’s film The Call of the … Glens Centre and Adaptation Film Festival present Neil Jordan’s The Miracle … celebrated for works from The Crying Game to Michael Collins.
Future …
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Why Everyone Was Wrong About David Mamet and Neil Jordan’s ‘We’re No Angels’
31 Jul 2025 19:37 GMT
… its 1989 Christmas movie (and final film of the decade), … Oink Oink,” Mamet blamed director Neil Jordan for ruining his script; … label Cinématographe. Watching the film removed from its time — … thoughtful analyses of the film) and illuminating special features …
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The Crying Game
28 Jul 2025 18:21 GMT
… on Channel 4
Mona Lisa director Neil Jordan's beautifully crafted, sensual … Richardson as his accomplices.
The film has a big secret that …
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Farewell to Terence Stamp, Who Had One of Film's Greatest Second Acts
20 Aug 2025 01:10 GMT
… neo-noir film The Limey, which repurposed footage from director Ken … career.) The same year that film was released, Stamp demonstrated … Actor prize at the Cannes Film Festival. (A recent episode … cameo as the Devil in director Neil Jordan’s 1984 The Company …