Les Contes d’Hoffmann @ The Eye

Thu, Nov 10, 2016

A LAVISH production of Offenbach's masterpiece, Les Contes d'Hoffmann/The Tales of Hoffman, will be screened live from The Royal Opera House, London, to The Eye Cinema, Wellpark, next week.

Two films this Sunday from Galway Film Society

Thu, Nov 03, 2016

PEDRO ALMODÓVAR'S latest film, the critically acclaimed Julieta, and the award winning French film, The Measure Of A Man, will both be screened in the Town Hall Theatre this Sunday.

The strange the terrifying world of Hieronymus Bosch

Thu, Nov 03, 2016

CREATOR OF some of the most bizarre and terrifying images ever put to canvas, Hieronymus Bosch stands as one of the most singular of all European artists, whose work profoundly influenced surrealism and continues to fascinate today.

Lenny Abrahamson to give public interview at GMIT

Thu, Oct 27, 2016

LENNY ABRAHAMSON, the Irish film maker, best known for Adam & Paul, Garage, and Room, for which he received an Oscar nomination, is coming to Galway next month to give a public interview about his work.

Noel Fielding stars in TULCA film

Thu, Oct 27, 2016

THE MIGHTY BOOSH'S Noel Fielding stars in AAAAAAAAH!, the eccentric British comedy-horror film where the actors speak entirely in grunts and gibberish, which will be shown as part of the TULCA Festival of Visual Arts.

Kenneth Branagh - live at The Eye

Thu, Oct 27, 2016

FOR ONE night only, the Branagh Theatre Company’s acclaimed production of John Osborne's The Entertainer, will be screened live via satellite to The Eye Cinema, Wellpark.

Junior Galway Film Fleadh launches 2016 programme

Wed, Oct 26, 2016

HUNT FOR The Wilderpeople, the New Zealand adventure comedy-drama, starring Sam Neill and Julian Dennison, as a father figure and son who become caught in a manhunt, will be screened at the 22nd Junior Galway Film Fleadh.

The Bolshoi Ballet - Live at The Eye

Thu, Oct 13, 2016

THE GOLDEN Age, a satire of Europe during the Roaring Twenties, will mark the first in a new season of live broadcasts from The Bolshoi Ballet in Moscow to The Eye Cinema in Wellpark.

Love and independence in Paris

Thu, Oct 13, 2016

FEMINISM, LESBIANISM, independence, and the challenges of love, family, and duty will be explored in French film Summertime which the Galway Film Society wil screen in the Town Hall Theatre this Sunday at 8pm.

Young Galwegians' stories sought for Junior Film Fleadh storytelling competition

Tue, Oct 11, 2016

YOUNG GALWEGIANS who are passionate about films and writing, and who have an idea for a story, are being asked to submit that story idea for this year's Junior Galway Film Fleadh Storytelling Competition.

Tristan und Isolde opens new Met Opera season @ The Eye

Thu, Oct 06, 2016

WAGNER'S TRISTAN und Isolde in a new production by Mariusz Trelinski, with Sir Simon Rattle conducting, opens the new season of operas broadcast live via satellite from New York's Metropolitan Opera to The Eye Cinema.

See new Irish film VIVA @ Town Hall

Thu, Sep 29, 2016

VIVA, A Spanish-language, Irish made, film, set in Cuba, directed by Paddy Breathnach and written by Mark O'Halloran, is this weekend's screening from the Galway Film Society.

Musicals and opera at The Eye

Thu, Sep 22, 2016

BRECHT AND Weill’s raucous musical The Threepenny Opera and Bellini’s classical bel canto opera Norma are both being staged in London and both will be broadcast live to The Eye Cinema, Wellpark.

Ireland's only adventure film festival comes to Galway

Tue, Sep 20, 2016

LEO HOULDING, whose audacious ascents on epic mountain faces, documented in award winning films like The Asgard Project, The Wildest Dream, and The Last Great Climb, is coming to Galway for the Why Not? Adventure Film Festival.

Viva Almodóvar, viva Ireland, viva film

Thu, Sep 15, 2016

PEDRO ALMODÓVAR's new film, Julieta; the new Irish film, VIVA, from director Paddy Breathnach; a feast of award winning French films; and movies about dogs needing a new home, kidnappings, women struggling for freedom; and a journey through the Colombian Amazon - this is what is in store from the Galway Film Society.

Galway filmmaker wins Irish Screen America’s Rising Star Award

Mon, Sep 12, 2016

GALWAY FILMMAKER Linda Bhreathnach has won the Irish Screen America’s Rising Star Award for a short filmmaker for her film Adulting which premiered at the Galway Film Fleadh during the summer.

French film to open new GFS season

Thu, Sep 08, 2016

FLORENCE FOSTER Jenkins was an amateur singer from the 1910s to the 1940s, who believed she was a magnificent soprano. In fact she could hardly sing at all. Still, she became a cult favourite in New York and Cole Porter was a loyal fan.

See Mise Éire in Clifden

Thu, Sep 01, 2016

THE SOUNDTRACK to Mise Éire, Sean Ó Riada's great orchestral achievement, marrying classical and traditional Irish forms, is, especially its main theme, one of the most stirring and powerful works of Irish music, so powerful it is better known than the film.

The Deep Blue Sea - theatre at The Eye

Wed, Aug 31, 2016

WHEN HESTER Collyer is found by her neighbours in the aftermath of a failed suicide attempt, the story of her tempestuous affair with a former RAF pilot and breakdown of her marriage to a High Court judge emerges.

Can you capture Galway in a one minute film?

Tue, Aug 30, 2016

THE DEADLINE for submissions to Galway's upcoming The One Minute Film Festival has been extended to Monday September 12 at 12 noon. Entries need only be 60 seconds long, and is open to amateurs using an iPad or camera phone, not just professionals with a 35mm camera.

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