Cinema review: Gold

Films Reviews Tue, Oct 14, 2014

IFTA AWARD winning director Niall Heery’s latest film Gold is a wonderfully well worked comedy-drama set in rural Ireland.

Films from opposite ends of the Mediterranean

Thu, Oct 09, 2014

MOHAMAD MALAS’S first film in almost a decade and a French film about an actor coming out of retirement will be screened in Galway this weekend.

Macbeth - opera at The Eye

Thu, Oct 09, 2014

GIUSEPPI VERDI’S operatic version of Shakespeare’s dark drama of murder, violence, and lust for power, Macbeth, will be screened at The Eye.

Win tickets to Love, Rosie special screening

Tue, Oct 07, 2014

LOVE, ROSIE, the film version of Cecelia Ahern’s novel, Where Rainbows End, will have a special preview screening at The Eye Cinema on Tuesday October 14 at 7pm.

Cinema review: Gone Girl

Films Reviews Mon, Oct 06, 2014

GILLIAN FLYNN’S 2012 best-seller Gone Girl was just waiting to be made into a movie. It is so well constructed with twists and revelations coming fast and frequent you could smell the popcorn popping with each chapter. The concern for book readers was, who is going to make a story of two unsympathetic, spoiled, and frankly unlikable, millennials into a mainstream Hollywood movie without losing its dark originality?

Films From The Southern Mediterranean

Thu, Oct 02, 2014

FROM ISRAEL to Morocco, Galway audiences will get a chance to experience life through the lens of Southern Mediterranean film-makers this weekend.

New season of world cinema for Indreabhán

Thu, Oct 02, 2014

SWEDISH FILM We Are The Best kickstarts Club Scannán Sailearna’s world cinema screenings in Seanscoil Sailearna, Indreabhán.

Stephen Fry live @ The Eye

Thu, Sep 25, 2014

BRITISH NATIONAL treasure, actor, writer, comedian, raconteur, and polymath Stephen Fry will be ‘live on screen’ at The Eye Cinema.

Little Cinema Festival on this weekend

Thu, Sep 25, 2014

THE SHORT film will be celebrated in Galway at a new festival which takes place this weekend - the first Little Cinema Festival.

GFS to screen Iranian film The Past

Thu, Sep 25, 2014

IRANIAN DIRECTOR, Asghar Farhadi, follows the Oscar-winning drama A Separation with another study of modern family life in The Past.

Schumann and Brahms - live on screen

Thu, Sep 25, 2014

THE MUSIC of Robert Schumann and Johannes Brahms will be heard in The Eye Cinema, Wellpark, tomorrow at 6.30pm. The music will be performed by The Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Sir Simon Rattle, and broadcast via satellite to Galway. For more information and booking see www.eyecinema.ie or call 091 - 780078.

A bizarre (French) love triangle

Thu, Sep 18, 2014

CHINESE PUZZLE, the French film starring Audrey Tautou, is the opening film of the Galway Film Society’s autumn/winter season.

Emmy winning director to give actors workshop

Thu, Sep 18, 2014

EMMY AWARD winning director, Dearbhla Walsh, and leading casting director, Maureen Hughes are coming to Galway in October to tutor auditioning workshops.

An Taibhdhearc to screen classic Famine TV series

Thu, Sep 18, 2014

TALES FROM The Poorhouse, the acclaimed 1990s Irish-langauge TV series, which starred Brendan Gleeson, Mick Lally, and Ruth McCabe is being screened in An Taibhdhearc.

Life and how it is lived - on screen

Thu, Sep 11, 2014

DANGEROUS JOURNEYS, complicated love lives, actors dragged out of retirement, and finding a supernanny for a naughty little boy - it is all happening on screen for the Galway Film Society’s autumn/winter season.

Nick Cave live satellite event @ The Eye

Thu, Sep 11, 2014

20,000 DAYS On Earth is neither a music documentary nor a concert film, it is something in-between and something other, and at its center is the towering figure of left-field rock - Nick Cave.

New short film festival takes place this month

Thu, Sep 11, 2014

THE LITTLE Cinema Club is to hold its first festival, screening an array of short films between September 26 and 28 in the Nuns Island Theatre.

Are you a teen with an idea for a film script?

Wed, Sep 10, 2014

GALWAY TEENS keen on film and writing, who have a story to share, and who think they can pitch it to a room full of people, are being sought by the Junior Galway Film Fleadh.

An Bronntanas director and cast Q&A in Clifden

Tue, Sep 09, 2014

AN BRONNTANAS, the Celtic-Noir thriller shot in Connemara, and which was premiered at this year’s Galway Film Fleadh, is to receive a special screening and limited run in Clifden.

Galway film chosen for San Francisco film festival

Mon, Sep 08, 2014

DON'T YOU Know Who I Am?, the short film written by Galwegian Olaf Tyaransen, and which was shot in Galway city, will be screened at the prestigious San Francisco Irish Film Festival.

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