SF/Arts Curator Insight

Oscar-winning short, “An Irish Goodbye, is a sweet, comic take on two brothers, one of whom is an adult with Down’s Syndrome (James Martin, a delight), who return home to their mother’s Northern Ireland farm after she dies. For a walk on the wild side, there’s “The Ghost of Richard Harris,” a portrait of the hard-drinking, hard-living, larger-than-life Irish theater and film actor and singer. A lion of a man prone to rage and excess--Richard Burton and Peter O’Toole were carousing buddies-he’s best known to younger audiences as Dumbledore in the first two Harry Potter movies. And to pay tribute to the passing of Sinead O’Connor—that splendid voice, her daring and irreverent spirit, the rough road she traveled—catch the reprise screening of the compassionate 2022 doc, “Nothing Compares.”6