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	The DVD Journal \| Reviews : Man of Aran
		Man of Aran, although likewise poetically tilted and crafted with rigid deliberateness, was a victim of unlucky timing.
		Although Man of Aran was well received by the general public, Flaherty's documentarian colleagues and several influential critics turned cold shoulders to it.
		Man of Aran's melodramatized scenes of life lived literally on the edge can be viewed either as artifice for the sake of art, and therefore serving a deeper "truth," or else as — in the words of Graham Greene — "Mr.
	www.dvdjournal.com /reviews/m/manofaran.shtml (1538 words)

	Man of Aran (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Critic Pauline Kael hailed it as "the greatest film tribute to man's struggle against hostile nature," referring to conditions faced by bold residents of the Aran Islands, 30 miles offshore from Galway, Ireland, amidst the harshest seas of the Atlantic.
		Unfortunately for Flaherty, the daily life struggle of the Aran inhabitants was not raw enough, so he brought their lives about 90 years into the past, into the realm of harpoon shark fishing and suicidal egg hunting near towering cliffs.
		Man of Aran is one of the true greatest documentaries ever made.
	www.dome-hockey-tables.com /prod/B00008UALI/Man_of_Aran.html (658 words)

	DVD Talk > Reviews > Man of Aran
		Man of Aran is impressively rendered, and even if most of what is shown in terms of "narrative" was staged, it does not take away anything from the travails of its stalwart inhabitants.
		He travels back to Aran more than forty years after Flaherty's film (where it is still shown every summer) and speaks with many of the natives regarding their take on it (including Maggie), as well as the liberties than Flaherty had taken.
		Man of Aran also possesses a high degree of effective blarney — certainly compelling, but blarney nevertheless, even if it is a landmark of the genre.
	www.dvdtalk.com /reviews/read.php?ID=6481 (1440 words)

	Man of Aran Cottage History Page
		The story of the distinctive M-shaped Man of Aran cottages at Kilmurvey is closely bound up with the larger legend of the making of the famous film by the same name, Man of Aran, by American filmmaker Robert J. Flaherty.
		This would be the first of the two Man of Aran cottages as we know them today, the one closest to the sea.
		The Man o Aran cottages remained the property of the Flaherty family whose next destination was to be India.
	manofarancottage.com /history.html (1492 words)

	Man of Aran
		Robert Flaherty's stunning documentary film "Man of Aran" was first previewed in London in 1934.
		Many experts consider that "Man of Aran" includes some of the world's finest film footage.
		Showing daily in the Aran Centre (running time 75 minutes) a visit to the island is not complete without viewing this spectacular film.
	www.visitaranislands.com /man.html (69 words)

	Flaherty's Man of Aran
		The ‘Man of Aran’ known by the Islanders as simply ‘The Film’, was like films such as ‘The African Queen’ and Orson Welles’ ‘Othello’, capable of generating a huge stock of legends and myths about the making of the movie itself.
		This section of the film, and the incredible storm scenes at the end, were extremely dangerous, exposing the actors to the very real possibility of having their tiny boat smashed by a blow from the huge tail of the shark or of having the boat dashed on the rocks of the foaming shores.
		Mullen in his invaluable account of the making of the film (also titled ‘Man of Aran’) was more upbeat, finding the dangerous escapades a vindication of the people of the island and their heritage.......
	www.iol.ie /~galfilm/filmwest/19aran.htm (1291 words)

	DVD Savant Review: Man of Aran
		The Aran islands have their share of farmland, owned by a few rich landlords, and there were plenty of islanders making a living just as we are shown.
		One man says it's shameful that the filmmakers would entice the fishermen to go out in such dangerous seas, that it bordered on exploitation to make men risk their lives for a few dollars.
		As a poetic account of subsistence living in the 20th century, Man of Aran is a success, but it needs this follow up, with the 1976 islanders changing to electric power and living off tourism, to become a true documentary.
	www.dvdtalk.com /dvdsavant/s818aran.html (1162 words)

	notcoming.com \| Man of Aran
		To raise his potatoes, The Man of Aran and his family must make their own soil by breaking rocks, hauling seaweed from the ocean, and scouring crevices on the windswept island for the last traces of natural soil.
		Much of the film is composed with very low horizon lines that show the Man of Aran (as well as the Woman of Aran and the Child of Aran) silhouetted against and dwarfed by the threatening skies that fill almost the entire frame.
		Man of Aran definitely shows the influence of Soviet cinema and the John Grierson style of British poetic documentary, but the style and subject, fakery and all, is pure Flaherty.
	www.notcoming.com /reviews.php?id=145 (579 words)

	Man of Aran (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Man Of Aran is a documentary film on life on the Aran Islands by Robert J. Man Of Aran is a documentary film on life on the Aran Islands by Robert J. Flaherty (1934).
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		She had compunctions of conscience letting gripes because she had told, and had to confess to YOU!" He continued in a different tone: "Essie, I have missed your mother but it seems to me I never missed her as I do to-day.
	www.termsdefined.net /ma/man-of-aran.html (227 words)

	Man of Aran
		Flaherty ("Nanook of the North") was one of those men, considered the father of the documentary but was more appropriately the first cinema poet and one of the first independent filmmakers, scrounging from hand to mouth to wrest funding for his next film project.
		Flaherty spent two years with the poverty stricken Aran Islanders, off the coast of west Ireland, an unforgiving landscape of jutting rocky crags slammed mercilessly by an angry ocean.
		Casting Aran islanders in an idealized nuclear family, Flaherty depicts the harsh conditions of life (searching for scraps of soil amid the rocks to grow potatoes, shark fishing in dangerous ocean currents) and glories in the triumph of man against an unfeeling nature.
	www.mediascreen.com /m/manofaran.htm (250 words)

	Man Of Aran Cottages, Aran Islands Co. Galway B&B and Restaurant, eat and stay in Aran Islands Co. Galway Ireland
		Man Of Aran Cottages, Aran Islands Co. Galway B&B and Restaurant, eat and stay in Aran Islands Co. Galway Ireland
		Man Of Aran Cottages - Aran Islands, County Galway
		Despite its fame - this is where the film Man of Aran was made - Joe and Maura Wolfe make visiting their home a genuine and personal experience.
	www.ireland-guide.com /establishment/man_of_aran_cottages.3503.html (238 words)

	MAN OF ARAN
		It was a glorious summer day in 1915 when clusters of elderberry blossoms dangled like woolly tassels from the shrubbery lining the estuary of the great Chicago River as it deposited it's muddy torrent to sully the crystal-clear waters of the great Lake Michigan in the United States of America.
		But Aran folk were no strangers to such tragedies and learned to accept them as a 'way of life'.
		He selected a barber's saloon on the promenade close to the confluence of the lake and the majestic river that had come in from the country many miles away.
	www.arainnmhor.com /people/articles/manofaran.htm (1170 words)

	Man Of Aran on Almondnet (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Aran Islands Three small islands of western Ireland at the entrance to Galway Bay.
		To adequately discuss Man of Aran requires some prior work of definition since, although it is often cited...
		Bronze of Tiger King, "Man of Aran", commissioned by Robert Flaherty in 1933 when King was in London.
	www.tailormadegolf.co.uk /golf/man_of_aran.html (504 words)

	screenonline: Man of Aran (1934)
		Cast: Colman King (a man of Aran); Maggie Dirrane (his wife); Michael Dillane (their son); Pat Mullen (member of shark hunting crew); Patch Ruadh (member of shark hunting crew)
		That is, he wanted to record the conflict of man and nature using real subjects, or the "raw materials" as his focus.
		This lack of funds meant the film was shot as a silent and the sound track was laid on afterwards.
	www.screenonline.org.uk /film/id/480287 (308 words)

	Man of Aran (Criterion) Movie: Man of Aran (Criterion) DVD is available from Bestprices.com
		Man of Aran (Criterion) Movie: Man of Aran (Criterion) DVD is available from Bestprices.com
		This ethnographic film is an anthropological study of the Aran Islands and its native inhabitants.
		On the west coast of Ireland, the indigenous people battle mother nature simply to secure a modest living for themselves and their families.
	www.bestprices.com /cgi-bin/vlink/037429163924IE (159 words)

	RTE News - Man escorted from Aran Islands cliff top
		A man who had been refusing to leave a Stone Age fort on the Aran Islands has been escorted from the cliff top scene by gardaí and has been taken to the mainland.
		The man spent five hours on the ramparts of a pre-historic fort and at one point began throwing stones from the fort at anybody approaching him.
		Gardaí say the man was not arrested but was taken to Galway for medical treatment.
	www.rte.ie /news/2005/0411/aranislands.html (111 words)

	Man of Aran : The Irish in Film
		This docu-drama shows vivid scenes of the Aran Islands documenting the soil making and shark fishing techniques of the islanders.
		For example a man is shown repairing his coracle (oilcloth-hulled boot).
		In these features, that clearly augment the understanding of the film, you see the greener, quieter side or Aran.
	www.irishfilm.net /blurbs/MOA.html (152 words)

	FTX-471 Pat Mullen presents MAN OF ARAN (Site not responding. Last check: )
		THE ARAN ISLANDS: Inishmore, Inisheer and Inishmaan, are in Galway Bay, on the west coast, facing the mountains of Connemara, Inishmaan, the smaller middle island was the setting for Synge's "Riders of the Sea".
		Inishmore, the largest, being 9 miles long, was used by Robert Flaherty for his early documentary cinema film, "Man of Aran", made in 1932.
		Frequently they were holed by the rocks and a man had to stuff his coat in the hole.
	www.folktrax.freeserve.co.uk /menus/cassprogs/471aran.htm (705 words)

	Man of Aran (1934)
		Robert Flaherty's first sound film is a brilliant dramatised documentary - although not recognised as such by all contemporary writers - about the Herculean struggles of a community living on the remote island of Aran off the Irish coast.
		The island is so barren that the soil has to be collected from rock crevices and mixed with seaweed before crops can be grown.
		A thrilling battle between the island fishermen and a huge basking shark essential for the supply of oil in winter is the showpiece of a superbly photographed film
	www.britmovie.co.uk /genres/documentary/filmography/009.html (107 words)

	Man Of Aran (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Flaherty, an American, was already famous for his film 'Nanook of the North' when he came to the
		Aran Islands in 1931 to make a film on the life of the Aran Islanders.
		Colman "Tiger" King, a local fisherman, was eventually presuaded to play the leading part.
	www.bellgallery.com /man_of_aran.htm (122 words)

	Galway and the Cinema
		In 1932 and 1933, only a few years after the introduction of synchronised sound in motion pictures, Robert J. Flaherty travelled to the Aran Islands to make the then monumental Man of Aran; a 75 minute fl and white spectacle that depicted the ongoing struggles of an island family against the sea.
		Perhaps the most famous movie to originate in the Galway area is the 1952 John Ford classic The Quiet Man. The film, which starred John Wayne and Maureen O'Hara, was nominated for 7 Academy Awards, 4 of which it won, including the Best Director nod for Ford.
		Reefer was shot in its entirety in Galway Bay, Connemara and the Aran Islands.
	www.galway1.ie /faq/cinema.htm (787 words)

	screenonline: Man of Aran (1934) (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Cast: Colman King (a man of Aran); Maggie Dirrane (his wife); Michael Dillane (their son); Pat Mullen (member of shark hunting crew); Patch Ruadh (member of shark hunting crew)
		That is, he wanted to record the conflict of man and nature using real subjects, or the "raw materials" as his focus.
		This lack of funds meant the film was shot as a silent and the sound track was laid on afterwards.
	www.bfiscreenonline.com /film/id/480287/index.html (308 words)

	Images - Robert Flaherty: Man of Aran and Louisiana Story
		Robert Flaherty: Man of Aran and Louisiana Story
		Although Robert Flaherty is generally considered the father of documentary filmmaking, it would be unwise and misleading to consider him a traditional documentarian by any stretch of the imagination.
		Understanding that it is virtually impossible for the camera not to interfere with the subject's reality, that "objectivity" is merely a quixotic dream for the director, Flaherty eschewed any attempt of capturing moments of strict naturalism.
	www.imagesjournal.com /2003/reviews/flaherty (83 words)

	Man of Aran Cottage - Aran Islands - Man of Aran Cottage Reviews - TripAdvisor
		It was a beautiful, sunny day and we walked up to a charming cottage with a thatched roof and a beautiful garden under the front windows.
		we had hear of The Man of Aran cottage from a friend from the Inernet.
		We were fortunate to spend 3 or 4 nights there and enjoyed the hospitality of the owners and the location of the cottage.
	www.tripadvisor.com /Hotel_Review-g551520-d521368-Reviews-Man_of_Aran_Cottage-Aran_Islands_County_Galway.html (862 words)

	Man of Aran - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Man of Aran - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
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		This encyclopedia, history, geography and biography article about Man of Aran contains research on
	www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/Man_of_Aran (74 words)

	Amazon.com: Man of Aran: DVD: Colman 'Tiger' King,Maggie Dirrane,Michael Dirrane,Pat Mullin,Patch 'Red Beard' ...
		While it stretches the definition of documentary, Robert Flaherty's Man of Aran remains a triumph of poetic imagery, and one of the greatest nonfiction films ever made.
		Critic Pauline Kael hailed it as "the greatest film tribute to man's struggle against hostile nature," referring to conditions faced by bold residents of the Aran Islands, 30 miles offshore from Galway, Ireland, amidst the harshest seas of the Atlantic.
		Robert J. Flaherty’s award-winning Man of Aran uses stunning location photography and brilliant montage editing to build a forceful drama of life on the Aran Islands.
	www.amazon.com /gp/product/B00008UALI/qid=1150501861/sr=1-1/ref=pd_bbs_1/103-8830176-3077421?%5Fencoding=UTF8&s=dvd&v=glance&n=130 (449 words)

	Man Of Aran Fudge, Station House, Ballivor, Co. Meath, Ireland
		Man Of Aran Fudge, Station House, Ballivor, Co. Meath, Ireland
		Originally from the island of Inishere, Tomás Póil is the man behind Man of Aran fudge.
		On that special corporate or personal occasion, give them a Man of Aran Gift Box containing a variety of four different fudge flavours.
	www.manofaranfudge.ie (192 words)

	MTV.com - Movies - Man of Aran
		In all four of his major features, including Louisiana Story, Flaherty explored the relationship of man to his natural environment.
		This film was shot between 1931 and 1933 on the Aran Islands, west of Ireland's Galway Bay.
		Flaherty's screen "family" was actually composed of three unrelated islanders chosen for their photogenic appeal: Colman "Tiger" King is the title character, a no-nonsense fisherman, Maggie Dirrane plays his wife, and Michael Dillane his young son.
	www.mtv.com /movies/movie/21946/plot.jhtml (221 words)

	AV #7321 - 16mm - Man of Aran (Site not responding. Last check: )
		AV #7321 - 16mm - Man of Aran
		Robert Flaherty ’s acclaimed film documents the arduous life of the people inhabiting the Aran Islands off the west coast of Ireland.
		This tribute to man’s struggle against hostile nature intensifies narrative by emphasizing specific reconstru cted aspects of the island culture.
	www.sfsu.edu /~avitv/avcatalog/7321.htm (68 words)

	Man of Aran Cottage Bed and Breakfast - County Galway - Man of Aran Cottage Bed and Breakfast Reviews - TripAdvisor
		Man of Aran Cottage Bed and Breakfast - County Galway - Man of Aran Cottage Bed and Breakfast Reviews - TripAdvisor
		Man of Aran Cottage Bed and Breakfast County Galway
		Visited the Island of Inishmore, the largest of the Aran Islands, during the second week of May, 2005....
	tripadvisor.com /Hotel_Review-g186607-d521368-Reviews-Man_of_Aran_Co... (354 words)

	Man of Aran - B&W - DVD
		In all four of his major features, including Louisiana Story, Flaherty explored the relationship of man to his natural environment.
		This film was shot between 1931 and 1933 on the Aran Islands, west of Ireland's Galway Bay.
		Flaherty's screen "family" was actually composed of three unrelated islanders chosen for their photogenic appeal: Colman "Tiger" King is the title character, a no-nonsense fisherman, Maggie Dirrane plays his wife, and Michael Dillane his young son.
	www.bestbuy.com /site/olspage.jsp?type=product&id=23114 (275 words)

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