Home | Movies By Year | Movies from 1994


Words Upon the Window Pane

Buy Words Upon the Window Pane now from Amazon

First, read the Wikipedia article. Then, scroll down to see what other TopShelfReviews readers thought about the movie. And once you've experienced the movie, tell everyone what you thought about it.

Wikipedia article




'Words Upon the Window Pane' is a 1994 Irish drama film directed by Mary McGuckian and starring Geraldine Chaplin, Ian Richardson, and Jim Sheridan. McGuckian directorial debut, it is based on William Butler Yeats' one-act play of the same name. Pat O'Connor was billed to direct the project but he personally offered McGuckian, who was writing the screenplay at the time, the opportunity to also direct.'I'VE NEVER HAD A PROPER JOB'. The Sunday Independent. October 16, 2005 The film received its US premiere on 10 June 1994 at the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts as part of the largest retrospective of Irish film ever shown outside Ireland.Mulkerns, Helena. 'Irish Film Festival kicks off in New York'. The Irish Times. 11 June 1994 In September that year, the film was screened at the 51st Venice International Film Festival.Rooney, David. 'Venice fest adviser blasts Llosa inclusion'. Daily Variety. 23 August 1994

Premise



In 1928 Dublin, during sances concerning Jonathan Swift, the spirits of his former lovers, Stella and Vanessa, emerge to resume their ancient quarrel.

Cast



*Geraldine Chaplin as Miss McKenna

*Ian Richardson as Dr. Trench

*Jim Sheridan as Jonathan Swift/Dean Swift

*Geraldine James as Mrs. Henderson

*Orla Brady as Vanessa.

*John Lynch as John Corbet

*Gerard McSorley as Abraham Johnson

*Donal Donnelly as Cornelius Patterson

*Gemma Craven as Mrs. Mallet

*Brid Brennan as Stella

*Hugh O'Conor as Cabin boy

References




Buy Words Upon the Window Pane now from Amazon

<-- Return to movies from 1994



This work is released under CC-BY-SA. Some or all of this content attributed to http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1098677010.