Talking Heads: Stop Making Sense

Thu, Oct 08, 2015

TALKING HEADS: Stop Making Sense, Jonathan Demme's classic in-concert film, capturing the power of te pioneering alternative-rock quartet, and featuring David Byrne in an oversized suit leading idyosyncratic dance routines, is to get a special screening.

The Bolshoi’s Giselle - live at The Eye Cinema

Thu, Oct 08, 2015

THE BOLSHOI Ballet's production of the classic ballet Giselle, directed by Yuri Grigorovich and featuring music by Adolphe Adam, will be broadcast live in HD from Moscow to The Eye Cinema, Wellpark, this Sunday at 4pm.

See Italian film The Wonders

Thu, Oct 08, 2015

THE WONDERS, the Italian film which won the 2014 Grand Jury Prize at the Cannes film festival, will be screened by the Galway Film Society this Sunday at 8pm in the Town Hall Theatre.

Bofin man fights for his rights

Thu, Oct 08, 2015

A TURNING Tide In The Life of Man, a documentary about fisherman John O'Brien, who takes a legal action to Europe to protect his right to fish the waters around his island home of Inisboffin will be screened this week.

Why Not? Adventure Film Festival

Wed, Oct 07, 2015

THE FOURTH annual Why Not? Adventure Film Festival, a day of screenings of documentaries on mountain climbing, trekking in wild and remote corners of the globe, human endurance, extreme sports, and the human thirst for adventure, returns to Galway this weekend.

The Callback Queen

Thu, Oct 01, 2015

GEORGE RR Martin, the creator of the phenomenon that is Game of Thrones, has called described new Irish film The Callback Queen, as a "romantic comedy about moviemakers and aspiring actors that pokes fun at the whole casting carousel...very enjoyable with lots of laughs."

A mystery woman in post-war Berlin

Thu, Oct 01, 2015

A WOMAN who has survived the concentration camps returns to Berlin after the end of WWII. Surgeons have managed to reconstruct her damaged face, but she now looks entirely different.

Verdi’s Il Trovatore at The Eye

Thu, Oct 01, 2015

IL TROVATORE, Verdi’s popular Spanish opera, will open New York's Metropolitan Opera House 2015/2016 season and it will also be screened live, via satellite, to The Eye Cinema, Wellpark, this Saturday.

Roger Waters The Wall @ IMC Cinema

Thu, Sep 24, 2015

ROGER WATERS The Wall unfolds on many levels – an immersive concert experience of the classic Pink Floyd album, a road movie of Waters' reckoning with the past, and a stirring anti-war film.

Spanish thriller to open Indreabhán film season

Thu, Sep 24, 2015

AS SPAIN transitions from dictatorship to democracy, two detectives investigate the disappearance of two sisters in a town still very much pro-Franco and not that bothered by the vanishing of girls, who, supposedly, had 'reputations'.

The perfect family falls apart

Thu, Sep 24, 2015

SCANDINAVIA HAS been home to some of the finest TV drama of recent years, and it also has a long history of quality film-making, and the Galway Film Society will screen a recent example in the Town Hall Theatre this weekend.

New film featuring Galwegians who are Older Than Ireland

Wed, Sep 23, 2015

FIVE GALWAY women, all aged more than 100, are interviewed and profiled in the award winning Older Than Ireland, which won the Best Feature Documentary award at this summer's Galway Film Fleadh, and goes on general release in cinemas on Friday.

Arcade Fire: The Reflektor Tapes @ The Eye

Mon, Sep 21, 2015

ARCADE FIRE: The Reflektor Tapes, the feature documentary on the making of Arcade Fire's No 1 album and its accompanying world tour, will be screened in The Eye Cinema Galway this Thursday [September 24] at 9pm.

A world of stories on the cinema screen

Thu, Sep 17, 2015

THE ARAB revolt against the Ottoman Empire, the facility reconstructed woman gets one up on her former husband; model families in crisis; and Spanish detectives coming up against a town where dictator Franco is still very much a hero - there is a world of stories to delve into at the Galway Film Society autumn/winter season.

The Rocky Horror Show - from the West End to the Eye

Thu, Sep 17, 2015

The Rocky Horror Show - from the West End to the Eye

Cinema review:- Legend

Films Reviews Mon, Sep 14, 2015

THE LATEST movie about the Kray twins, Legend, has been much hyped in the last few months, but it is all a bit of a let-down, concentrating only on a four year period and omitting the brothers rise to power in the east end of London.

Gemma Bovery to open new GFS season

Thu, Sep 10, 2015

GEMMA BOVERY, the French film starring English actress Gemma Arterton, opens the Galway Film Society's Winter Season 2015, when it is screened in the Town Hall Theatre on Sunday September 20 at 8pm.

Cinema review: Me and Earl and the Dying Girl

Films Reviews Tue, Sep 08, 2015

DARKLY FUNNY and surprisingly profound, Alfonso Gomez-Rejon’s second feature is a real gem. If nothing else, it at least had my favourite film title of the year. It is a fresh take on this new wave of young adult weepies - The Fault In Our Stars, Now Is Good, and The Perks Of Being A Wallflower. Flms in this subgenre have been more hit than miss but are we getting to a saturation point of watching beautiful young people die?

Olaf Tyaransen film to be screened at Electric Picnic

Thu, Sep 03, 2015

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 at Electric Picnic this Saturday.

Cinema review: Straight Outta Compton

Films Reviews Mon, Aug 31, 2015

STRAIGHT OUTTA Compton is the story of the rise, and then fall, of rap’s first super group, N.W.A, the group that introduced gangster rap to the mainstream in the late 1980s. The film has been the surprise hit of the summer in the US and looks like it will be a huge success here too.

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