Bizarre love triangle

Thu, Feb 11, 2016

THE FRENCH are masters when it comes to the bizarre love triangle, they are of course the inventors of the concept of the menage à trois, and a complicated love trio is at the heart of All About Them.

Award winning Nordic film @ The Eye

Thu, Feb 04, 2016

TWO BROTHERS have lived side by side for 40 years, tending their sheep farms, but in all that time they have refused to speak to each other, communicating only via written messages delivered by a pet dog.

The other bomb plot to kill Hitler

Thu, Feb 04, 2016

THE JULY 1944 bomb plot to kill Hitler is widely known, but there was an earlier attempt on the Führer's life, a story explored in the film 13 Minutes, from Downfall director Oliver Hirschbiegel.

Cinema review: Spotlight

Films Reviews Mon, Feb 01, 2016

THE SURPRISE of the year so far is Spotlight. Much like Room it is an uncomfortable topic that will be avoided by people but you should not avoid it (or Room for that matter). The film concentrates on the investigation run by the Boston Globe in 1999/2000, on the systematic abuse and ensuing cover-up by the Catholic church throughout the last century.

A US film that criticises capitalism

Thu, Jan 28, 2016

CAPITALISM SEEMS not so much a preferred approach to economics in the USA, more a religion, a sacred, unquestionable practice. All the more interesting then that it is American which has produced a film like 99 Homes.

Cinema review: The Big Short

Films Reviews Mon, Jan 25, 2016

TRYING TO get your head around the subprime mortgage bubble can be hard. I was under the impression virtually no one came away making any money and it was an all around disaster. The anger comes at the greed and the negligence of the big banks but it's hard to accuse organisation's which acted maliciously.

SUBTITLE European Film Festival returns to Galway

Thu, Jan 21, 2016

MODERN FRENCH cinema classic A Prophet, hit Danish rom-com Love Is All You Need, and the new Russian film Single, can all be seen at SUBTITLE, the annual European weekend film festival at the Town Hall Theatre, from Friday January 29 to Sunday 31.

See Oscar winning film Tangerines

Thu, Jan 21, 2016

TANGERINES, a film set during the brutal 1992 Georgian-Abkhazian conflict, will be screened by the Galway Film Society in the Town Hall Theatre this Sunday at 8pm.

Bolshoi’s Taming of the Shrew @ The Eye

Thu, Jan 21, 2016

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE'S comedy The Taming of the Shrew is being given a fresh interpretation by French choreographer Jean-Christophe Maillot and the Bolshoi Ballet, as Galway will see this week.

Cinema review: Creed

Films Reviews Mon, Jan 18, 2016

THE IDEA of a return to the Rocky saga for a seventh film after the disaster of Rocky V and the awkward embarrassment of Rocky VI is a surprise. The franchise is a bit antiqued, especially with how cheesy it became in later installments. But this is the first Rocky movie not written by Sylvester Stallone and that is a very good thing.

Bizet's The Pearl Fishers at The Eye

Thu, Jan 14, 2016

GEORGES BIZET'S Les Pecheurs de Perles - aka The Pearl Fishers - featuring one of opera's best known and loved duets, 'Au Fond Du Temple Saint', will be performed in New York's Metropolitan Opera.

French film to open GFS season

Thu, Jan 14, 2016

IN THE Courtyard, starring French cinema icon Catherine Deneuve, opens the Galway Film Society's winter/spring 2016 season, in the Town Hall Theatre this Sunday at 8pm.

New season of world cinema in Indreabhán

Thu, Jan 14, 2016

INDREABHÁN FILM Club's new season of world cinema in Seanscoil Sailearna, starts this Thursday evening at 8.15 with the French thriller, The Connection.

Galway Film Society's winter/spring 2016 season

Thu, Jan 07, 2016

GRUMPY OLD men, bizarre love triangles, singers with stage fright, and American anti-capitalism will be the stuff of the cinema screen at The Galway Film Society's winter/spring 2016 season runs at the Town Hall Theatre from January 17 to March 20.

Amy director to speak in Galway

Thu, Jan 07, 2016

ASIF KAPADIA, the director of Amy, the critically and commercially successful documentary on the life of singer Amy Winehouse, will attend Talking Documentary, the Galway Film Centre’s annual Film and TV seminar.

Christmas In Connecticut

Thu, Dec 10, 2015

THE GALWAY Film Society's annual Christmas film screening family event will see a screening of the Christmas In Connecticut in the Town Hall Theatre this Sunday at 3pm.

Eye to screen major Goya documentary

Thu, Nov 26, 2015

THE SPANISH artist Francisco Goya created some of the most memorable and in his Disasters Of War and Dark Paintings series, some of the most disturbing, images in western art.

French Film Festival at Town Hall Theatre

Thu, Nov 19, 2015

IN THE week following the horrific attacks in Paris, a timely reminder of the resilience of French culture, and the joy it brings to world, comes to Galway through next weekend's French Film Festival.

Alban Berg’s opera Lulu at The Eye

Thu, Nov 19, 2015

LULU, ONE of opera's greatest and most dangerous femme fatales, will take audiences on a wild journey of love, obsession, and death when the eponymous opera by Alban Berg is screened in Galway.

An old samurai gets a second chance

Thu, Nov 12, 2015

JAPANESE FILM Uzumasa Limelight, is based around the experiences of the talented extras who featured in chanbara, the Japanese sword-fighting films and TV dramas.

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