Connemara students to feature in new experimental film-festival

Mon, Feb 16, 2015

A FILM by transition year students from Scoil Chuimsitheach Chiaráin in An Cheathrú Rua, is to be screened alongside work by such visionary directors as Werner Herzog and the late Derek Jarman at Wild-Screen.

Bondage? S&M? It has to be Fifty Shades of Grey

Thu, Feb 12, 2015

THE CONTROVERSIAL, best-selling erotic novel Fifty Shades of Grey finally hits cinema screens and will be shown in The Eye Cinema on Friday February 13.

I’m a boy but my mom won’t admit it

Thu, Feb 12, 2015

IS HE masculine? Is he feminine? Is he straight or is he gay? He’s not sure, and it’s hard when his mother wants to treat her growing boy as a little girl.

American Sniper to kick-start subtitled screenings at IMC

Tue, Feb 10, 2015

AMERICAN SNIPER, the new film starring Bradley Cooper and directed by Clint Eastwood, will be screened with subtitles this Thursday at 6.30pm in the IMC Galway.

Charlie’s Country - a look at Aboriginal life

Thu, Feb 05, 2015

THE HARSH lives and prejudices faced by Australian Aboriginies is captured in Charlie’s Country, to be screened by the Galway Film Society in the Town Hall Theatre on Sunday [February 8] at 8pm.

When the Nazis occupied France

Thu, Jan 29, 2015

FROM 1940 to 1944 France was occupied by Nazi Germany, and this tragic period is the setting for Franco-German film Diplomacy which screens in Galway this weekend.

Cinema review: The Gambler

Films Reviews Mon, Jan 26, 2015

AN UNNECESSARY and boring remake halts what has been a sensational month of film in which each passing week has produced, if not a great movie, at least one worth going to see.

Subtitle - a feast of European cinema

Thu, Jan 22, 2015

BOX OFFICE smashes from Russia, Germany, France, Italy, Finland, Denmark, and Sweden will be screened in a feast of continental cinema at the Town Hall Theatre from January 30 to February 31.

Italian film for the Town Hall

Thu, Jan 22, 2015

A FILM which begins at the end, Human Capital, to be screened in Galway this weekend, approaches a tragic death from three very different perspectives.

Cinema review: Whiplash

Films Reviews Mon, Jan 19, 2015

A CLAUSTROPHOBIC, unrelenting, tense, but maybe slightly unrealistic take on a tired formula, Whiplash is still gaining Oscar buzz week on week.

The world is on screen

Thu, Jan 15, 2015

FAMILY DRAMAS, WWII, gender identity, comic adventures, and examinations of Australian and Russian society will be played out on-screen as part of the Galway Film Society’s winter/spring season of films at the Town Hall Theatre.

Akumakon 2015 - Galway’s celebration of Japan and manga

Tue, Jan 13, 2015

YUTAKA YAMAMOTO, the Japanese animator and director who created a cartoon series set in Galway, will discuss how and why the city was such an inspiration to him, when he attends this year’s Akumakon festival.

Cinema review: Foxcatcher

Films Reviews Mon, Jan 12, 2015

ANOTHER HOTLY tipped awards favourite is released this week as we enter the best time of year for going to the cinema. With its central themes of sports, fraternal relationships, and patriotism, Foxcatcher has all the makings of an Oscar winner.

Palm D’Or winning Turkish film to be screened next week

Thu, Jan 08, 2015

WINTER SLEEP, the Turkish film The Guardian described as a “compelling drama” and a “powerful meditation on guilt”, will be shown in Galway this weekend.

Who’s that girl?

Thu, Jan 08, 2015

IT IS one of the most famous works in Western art and the most widely known work of 17th century Dutch painter Jan Vermeer. It is Girl With A Pearl Earring.

The Nutcracker @ The Eye Cinema

Thu, Dec 18, 2014

THE NUTCRACKER, one of ballet’s greatest and best loved works, will be performed in Moscow by Russia’s Bolshoi Ballet, but Galway audiences can see it as well.

Cinema review: The Hobbit - The Battle of the Five Armies

Films Reviews Mon, Dec 15, 2014

AFTER 13 years, six films, and 1,031 minutes finally we have come to the end of Peter Jackson’s incredible Middle Earth saga. Even if you are not a fan of the movies you must respect how Jackson has handled the immense project.

The Little Cinema’s 12 Days of Christmas

Thu, Dec 11, 2014

THE LITTLE CINEMA is hosting a series of events entitled 12 Days Of Christmas, which involves film screenings, music and comedy, a Galway twist on Celebrity Mastermind, and a games night.

Olaf Tyaransen film to be shown on RTÉ 2

Thu, Dec 11, 2014

DON’T YOU Know Who I Am? the acclaimed rock‘n’roll short film written and produced by award-winning Galway author Olaf Tyaransen, will be screened on RTÉ 2.

A comedy opera by Wagner

Thu, Dec 11, 2014

DIE MEISTERSINGER von Nürnberg, a comedy-opera by Richard Wagner is being staged at New York’s Metropolitan Opera and will be broadcast live to The Eye, Wellpark.

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