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- Neil Jordan. Writer: The Crying Game. Director Neil Jordan started out by writing short stories and in 1976 his story A Night in Tunisia won a Guardian Fiction prize leading to film director John Boorman to hire him to make a documentary about the making of his film Excalibur which in turn got Neil into making films.
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Neil Patrick Jordan (born 25 February 1950) is an Irish film director, screenwriter, novelist and short-story writer. He first achieved recognition for his short story collection, Night in Tunisia, which won the Guardian Fiction Prize in 1979.
Oct 10, 2024 · At the beginning of the 21st century, Jordan remade Jean-Pierre Melville’s heist film Bob le flambeur (1956) as The Good Thief (2002) and directed Breakfast on Pluto (2005), another adaptation of a McCabe novel, about a transgender woman (Cillian Murphy) who leaves her small Irish town for London.
Feb 26, 2016 · His film career started in the 1980s, when he was recruited by director John Boorman during his filming of Excalibur in Ireland. His first film, Angel, starred Stephen Rea, who’s been somewhat of...
Mar 13, 2017 · Neil Jordan: "I was homeless. The first thing that hits you is the shame". Writer and director Neil Jordan was shunned by the Irish literary community for making films, but he's still proud of tackling terrorism, race, gender, and identity in The Crying Game. Jane Graham. 13 Mar 2017.
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Sep 18, 2017 · The Crying Game is one of the most memorable independent films of the 1990s. Much is justifiably made of its audacious twist, but there’s far more to Neil Jordan’s politically charged thriller. It’s one of very few films to tackle the Troubles from the point of view of an IRA volunteer.
Director Neil Jordan started out by writing short stories and in 1976 his story A Night in Tunisia won a Guardian Fiction prize leading to film director John Boorman to hire him to make a documentary about the making of his film Excalibur which in turn got Neil into making films.
Director Neil Jordan started out by writing short stories and in 1976 his story A Night in Tunisia won a Guardian Fiction prize leading to film director John Boorman to hire him to make a documentary about the making of his film Excalibur which in turn got Neil into making films.
