to a single Dublin cinema – the International Film Theatre – giving it a seven-week run to packed audiences. At Cannes, it was chosen as one of eight films to be shown during critics' week at the 1968 Festival, but immediately after the screening Coutard's sometime collaborators François Truffaut and Jean-Luc Godard declared the Festival suspended in sympathy with the Paris students' strike, leading to a furious debate with Lennon and other filmmakers present. Despite this, screenings were organised for the same students, as well as striking workers besieged in the Renault plant. The de facto ban in Ireland remained in place for more than thirty years – barring sporadic private screenings in the 1990s – until the film was restored in 2004 by the Irish Film Board and Loopline Films. At the same time, a new documentary, The Making of Rocky Road, was made by Paul Duane, examining the history of Rocky Road, and including BBC footage of Coutard and Lennon shooting Rocky Road in 1967, and previously unseen film of the events in Cannes in 1968. Both films were released on DVD (Region 0 PAL) in 2005. External links Open democracy blog by director Peter Lennon References 1967 films Irish documentary films Documentary films about revolutions 1967 documentary films Films set in Dublin (city) 1960s English-language films