Bernard McKenna

Bernard McKenna

Movies for Bernard McKenna...

After Effects: Memories of Pittsburgh Filmmaking
Title: After Effects: Memories of Pittsburgh Filmmaking
Character: Self
Released: October 25, 2005
Type: Movie
A documentary that looks back at the making of a "lost" movie made by an enterprising group of Pittsburgh filmmakers.
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Yellowbeard
Title: Yellowbeard
Character: Askey
Released: June 24, 1983
Type: Movie
For years Yellowbeard had looted the Spanish Main, making men eat their lips and swallow their hearts. Caught and convicted for tax evasion, he's sentenced to 20 years in St. Victim's Prison for the Extremely Naughty. In a scheme to confiscate his fabulous treasure, the Royal Navy allows him to escape and follows him, where saucy tarts, lisping demigods and some awful puns and punishments await.
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Group Madness
Title: Group Madness
Character: Self
Released: June 11, 1983
Type: Movie
A behind-the-scenes documentary of the making of 1983's Yellowbeard
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Life of Brian
Title: Life of Brian
Character: Parvus / Official Stoners Helper / Giggling Guard
Released: August 17, 1979
Type: Movie
Brian Cohen is an average young Jewish man, but through a series of ridiculous events, he gains a reputation as the Messiah. When he's not dodging his followers or being scolded by his shrill mother, the hapless Brian has to contend with the pompous Pontius Pilate and acronym-obsessed members of a separatist movement. Rife with Monty Python's signature absurdity, the tale finds Brian's life paralleling Biblical lore, albeit with many more laughs.
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Effects
Title: Effects
Character: Barney
Released: April 1, 1979
Type: Movie
Some crew members of a company shooting a horror film begin to suspect that the "killings" in the movie are real, and that they are actually making a "snuff" film.
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My Ain Folk
Title: My Ain Folk
Character: Tommy's father
Released: December 1, 1973
Type: Movie
When Jamie's maternal grandmother dies, he and his brother Tommy are separated - Tommy is taken off to a welfare home and Jamie goes to live with his other grandmother and uncle. His life is far from happy, filled with silence, rejection and bouts of violence.
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My Childhood
Title: My Childhood
Character: Tommy's father
Released: June 5, 1972
Type: Movie
The first part of Bill Douglas' influential trilogy harks back to his impoverished upbringing in early-'40s Scotland. Cinema was his only escape - he paid for it with the money he made from returning empty jam jars - and this escape is reflected most closely at this time of his life as an eight-year-old living on the breadline with his half-brother and sick grandmother in a poor mining village.
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Who Sold You This, Then?
Title: Who Sold You This, Then?
Released: January 1, 1972
Type: Movie
A BAFTA award nominated, light-hearted, documentary looking at the part the service engineer can play in making or destroying his company's reputation.