TV: Getting a glimpse of blue heaven
Slightly soft-focus and uncritical Blues Sisters may have been, but it was also uplifting and well-made, with its share of ingenious and memorable shots
One bleary weekend morning 19 years ago, in a small room somewhere in Temple Bar, I sat with a dozen or so GAA journalists watching a pre-release screening of A Year ’til Sunday, a film about Galway’s long and ultimately triumphant 1998 All-Ireland football championship campaign.
The director, a tall and imposing man named Pat Comer, was in the room with us. Comer wasn’t just a film-maker. He also happened to be Galway’s ...