Vincent Van Gogh on screen @ The Eye

Thu, Apr 09, 2015

TO MARK the 125th anniversary of Vincent Van Gogh’s death, Amsterdam’s Van Gogh Museum is hosting a major re-showing of the gallery’s collection of works by the much loved artist.

Japanese Film Festival - movies for the cherry blossom season

Tue, Apr 07, 2015

FROM ANIME to historical comedies, stories of financial corruption to all kinds of romance, the seventh annual Japanese Film Festival promises a programme of acclaimed new Japanese cinema from some of the country’s leading directors and actors.

IMC Galway to screen Cobain: Montage Of Heck

Thu, Apr 02, 2015

COBAIN: MONTAGE Of Heck, the new film on Nirvana’s Kurt Cobain, will be screened in the IMC Cinema, Headford Road on Friday April 10 at 8.30pm.

Cinema review: Cinderella

Films Reviews Mon, Mar 30, 2015

KENNETH BRANAGH’S career continues to mystify me. In the early 1990s he was the poster boy for the RADA’s new wave, his peers included Alan Rickman, Fiona Shaw, and Jonathan Pryce, but it was Branagh who catapulted to fame first through adapting, directing, and acting in big budget adaptations of Shakespeare.

Israeli film-maker to speak in Galway

Wed, Mar 25, 2015

ISRAELI FILM-MAKER and journalist Yotam Feldman will be in Galway next week for a screening of his award winning documentary, The Lab, which examines how the military occupation of Gaza and the West Bank has become a profitable asset for Israel.

Cinema review: Wild Card

Films Reviews Mon, Mar 23, 2015

TWO ACTION movies are released this weekend, and while The Gunman with Sean Penn seems to have the bigger advertising budget, Wild Card, with the always watchable Jason Statham, was the one that caught my eye.

Q&A with Christine Noble @ The Eye

Thu, Mar 19, 2015

CHRISTINA NOBEL and Ciarín Scott, director of the Irish documentary, In A House That Ceased To Be, will be in The Eye Cinema this Saturday

Christina and Ciarín, in conversation with Hotpress journalist Olaf Tyaransen, will discuss In A House That Ceased To Be, which will also be screened, and take part in a Q&A with the audience.

Spongebob as Gaeilge @ The Eye

Thu, Mar 19, 2015

THE SPONGEBOB Movie: Sponge Out of Water will be available to audiences as Gaeilge and in English when it hits The Eye Cinema screens on Friday March 27.

Town Hall to screen award winning films

Wed, Mar 11, 2015

THE OSCAR winning Whiplash, which saw JK Simmons take the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, is to be screened in the Town Hall Theatre.

Rossini opera @ The Eye

Wed, Mar 11, 2015

ROSSINI’S OPERA, La Donna Del Lago, will be broadcast live from the Metropolitan Opera, New York, to The Eye Cinema, Wellpark, this Saturday at 5pm.

Starring the bel canto superstars, American mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato and Peruvian tenor Juan Diego Flórez, Le Donna Del Lago is set in the Scottish Highlands and based on a novel by Sir Walter Scott. Elena (DiDonato) is pursued relentlessly by the king (Flórez), who travels in disguise, leading to much confusion and a dramatic love triangle. The period-costumes are by Paul Curran and the conductor is Michele Mariotti.

Behind The Beautiful Forevers

Wed, Mar 11, 2015

BEHIND THE Beautiful Forevers, based on the work of Pulitzer Prize-winner Katherine Boo, will be screened live via satellite to The Eye Cinema, Wellpark.

Starring Meera Syal, and directed by Rufus Norris, this production by the National Theatre London, is an adaptation of Boo’s book, which was written after she spent three years in Annawadi, a neighbourhood in Mumbai, India.

Cinema review: Kill the Messenger

Films Reviews Mon, Mar 09, 2015

KILL THE Messenger is the remarkable story of how a reporter from the tiny San Jose Mercury News managed to scoop The Washington Post and the New York Times to one the CIA’s biggest controversies of the 1990s.

A Russian family and a greedy mayor

Thu, Mar 05, 2015

A FATHER, his second wife, and his son live together, all harbouring resentment towards each other. Then there is the mayor, who is determined to take their land. This is Russian film Leviathan, which will be shown in the Town Hall Theatre by the Galway Film Society this Sunday at 8pm. Directed by Andrey Zvyaginstev, it won Best Screenplay at Cannes 2014.

No Country for Young Women

Wed, Mar 04, 2015

SINCE 1993, the Mexican border town of Juarez has been the location of the violent deaths of hundreds of women and girls, including numerous unsolved, under-reported, murders.

Cinema review: The Boy Next Door

Films Reviews Mon, Mar 02, 2015

SINCE DRIVE there has been a steady stream of solid, slightly camp, low budget commercial movies. They have not always found the right audience but from 2011’s Hobo With A Shotgun to last years incredible The Guest, there has been a steady flow of B-movie action and erotic thrillers.

Ghosts, love, and a French film

Thu, Feb 26, 2015

PAUL HAS an usual way of earning a living – he writes funeral orations, but his friend Victor is worried that he does not get out enough. Then Emma enters his life.

Cinema review: Cake

Films Reviews Mon, Feb 23, 2015

EVERY OSCAR season there are a few awkward films - often war movies or about mental or physical illness - that have clearly been produced and planned as a vehicle for an actor who feel s/he is due an award.

A girl caught in the middle of extremes

Thu, Feb 19, 2015

MARIA IS a 14-year-old caught between the extremes of a strict Catholic community and secular classmates who bully her for remaining religious.

Film on the trial of Adolf Eichmann

Thu, Feb 19, 2015

THE TRIAL of Adolf Eichmann, one of the major organisers of the Holocaust, is the subject of the film The Specialist, which will be screened in NUI Galway’s Huston School of Film & Digital Media on Monday February 23 at 6.30pm,

Special needs punk-rockers and fly-fish bait makers

Wed, Feb 18, 2015

A FINNISH punk band, whose members are special needs adults, and a woman who makes fly fishing bait, are the subjects of two documentaries to be screened in Athenry this weekend.

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