Film List incl. FREE STREAMS on CINEGEEK.De Ireland 

 In Eat the peach the Japanese hastily close their high-tech factory and flee the green island. Ireland is a hopeless location for film productions as well, almost impossible without foreign money. Eat the peach cost 1.7 million Irish pounds and that was already too much. In Fish and chips, two "young entrepreneurs" try to clean their snack stall of old encrusted fat in order to lift it to a successful "startup". Irish comedies, which are never only funny, refuse to accept final solutions. Luck in the long run is boring, so the Frittenbude ends up in the sea at night and is dry again during the day. A dream set in the sand doesn't have to be permanently lost. The Irish film has even been described as "entertaining unemployment folklore" (taz of 17.10.96), which is a fitting description of the filmed Barrytown trilogy (The Commitments, Fish and chips, The snapper). Irony of fate that all three parts were not staged by Irish. John Huston's attempt to realize his last movie The dead as a purely Irish production had to be relocated to California. The debacle is typical and shows how dependent the Irish film is. The film industry of this country shaken by the civil war and recession has always been influenced from the outside, it never could assert itself between the USA and England. The political censorship of the British was followed by homemade Catholic self-censorship, only in the early 70s did it become more liberal. Jim Sheridan should have been showered with offers after his success My left foot, but he didn't get a job for three years. Only Neil Jordan managed to work continuously, but he was also able to finance Michael Collins only after his Hollywood success Interview with a vampire. Nevertheless, he, the Irish film, exists regardless of donors and directors: Hear my song, The snapper, Into the west, The playboys. Irish cinema is a cinema of authors, albeit in a completely different sense than that of the Nouvelle Vague. The poverty of production is countered by a wealth of good narrators. Irish cinema is a cinema of narrators, no other nation can match it.