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Tiger Tales of New Irish Cinema

By
Cahir O'Doherty,
IrishCentral.com Staff Writer

Published Tuesday, March 10, 2009, 4:12 PM
Updated Thursday, July 23, 2009, 6:10 PM

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AT the ninth annual Magners Irish Film Festival this week in Boston one rule seems to apply - each new Irish film must explore the complexities of modern Irish life.

In this ambition the organizers have succeeded admirably. Screenings of important new feature films like director John Boorman's controversial Celtic Tiger satire The Tiger's Tale will receive their first U.S. screenings at the festival. Starring Brendan Gleeson, Ciaran Hinds and Kim Cattrall of Sex and the City fame among others, Boorman's latest is a withering take on Ireland's new love affair with crass materialism that divided and even outraged Irish audiences in equal measure when it opened there this June.

Adding major film star wattage to this year's festival lineup is Irish American actor and recent Emmy Award nominee Aidan Quinn, who will receive the 2007 Excellence Award annually given to acknowledge the contributions of an individual talent to the Irish film and television industries.

In celebration of Quinn's achievements, the festival will screen his 2003 hit Song for a Raggy Boy, featuring one of the actor's most acclaimed film performances. The screening will be followed by a brief retrospective of Quinn's career before he takes to the stage to answer questions from the audience. Previous winners of the award have included Gleeson, Gabriel Byrne, Jim Sheridan and Fionnula Flanagan.

Founded in 1999 by Dubliner Peter Flynn and Jim Lane, the Magners Irish Film Festival has quickly become a hot ticket, with UCD Film Studies graduate Flynn acting as festival director.

Each year the festival has grown in size and this year it has become the largest event of its kind held in the U.S. Originally set up to celebrate and promote global Irish cinema, as it has grown it has expanded its reach to provide essential exhibition and distribution opportunities for Irish filmmakers.

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