Happy Birthday Oscar Wilde
Directed by Bill Hughes
Flann O’brien: The Lives Of Brian
Directed by Maurice Sweeney
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Happy Birthday Oscar Wilde
Directed by Bill Hughes.
With Bono, Martin Sheen, Liam Neeson, Gabriel Byrne.
Ireland, 2005, digital video, color, 30 min.
In celebration of the life and works of the great Oscar Wilde, this ebullient documentary presents 150 of the writer’s best quotes delivered by 150 of today’s leading stage, screen and music artists, including Bono, Martin Sheen, Joan Rivers, Liam Neeson and Gabriel Byrne.
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Flann O’brien: The Lives Of Brian
Directed by Maurice Sweeney.
With Brendan Gleeson, Tom Hickey, Dermot O’Hara.
Ireland, 2006, digital video, color, 53 min.
Documentary maker Maurice Sweeney takes an engaging and critical look at the life and works of one of Ireland’s most celebrated and offbeat writers, Flann O’Brien, a.k.a Myles na gGopaleen. Narrated by this year’s Excellence Award honoree Brendan Gleeson, The Lives of Brian weaves fact and fantasy to create a memorable portrait of the unique talent that brought us such brilliant and surreal masterpieces as The Third Policeman, At Swim Two Birds and The Poor Mouth.