Colm Tóibín
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The Capote Tapes (2021)
Newly discovered interviews with friends of Truman Capote made by Paris Review co-founder George Plimpton invigorate this fascinating documentary on...
Jack B. Yeats: The Man Who Painted Ireland (2021)
A revelatory, biographical outline of the life and times of Ireland's greatest painter, Jack B. Yeats
Anjelica Huston on James Joyce: A Shout in the Street (2017)
An account of the life and work of Irish writer James Joyce (1882-1941) narrated by US actress Anjelica Huston.
Pale Sister (2021)
Written by Colm Toibin, Pale Sister is a powerful retelling of the classic tale of Antigone. Lisa Dwan stars in a tour-de-force performance directed...
The Blackwater Lightship (2004)
A man in the final stages of AIDS is cared for by his sister and mother and grandmother.
Brooklyn (2015)
In 1950s Ireland and New York, young Eilis Lacey has to choose between two men and two countries.
Jack B. Yeats: The Man Who Painted Ireland (2021)
A revelatory, biographical outline of the life and times of Ireland's greatest painter, Jack B. Yeats
Return to Montauk (2017)
During a book tour in the United States, Max meets and falls in love with a young woman. Many years later, Max returns to the United States, hoping...
Untameable (2023)
Exploring the Nobel Prize winning 'bog poems' of Seamus Heaney and the wild Irish bog landscape. Written by novelist Colm Tóibín, the...