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The Glen Miller Story (G)

Posted in Summer 2013 by Admin - Apr 20, 2013

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Rated: 113mins, G
Directed by: Anthony Mann
Starring: James Stewart, June Allyson&Harry Morgan

Showing: Sunday 19 May at 5.30pm
Venue: Garter Lane Arts Centre

As part of Bealtaine Festival 2013

The Glenn Miller Story traces Miller’s rise from pit-orchestra trombone player to leader of the most successful big band of his era. Watch out for Louis Armstrong leading a jam session on Basin Street Blues in a speakeasy in Harlem, and singer Frances Langford doing Chattanooga Choo-Choo in a well-boned strapless dress

Tickets €5/€3 concession. Free Admission for Senior Citizens only. Pre-booking Esssential at 051 855038 or online – no booking fee

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The Sapphires

Posted in Summer 2013 by Admin - Apr 20, 2013

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Rated: 103 mins, PG
Directed by: Wayne Blair
Starring: Chris O'Dowd, Deborah Mailman, Jessica Mauboy, Miranda Tapsell, Shari Sebbens

Showing: Sunday 19 May at 8pm
Venue: Garter Lane Arts Centre

As part of Bealtaine Festival 2013

What a delight The Sapphires is! Set at the height of the Vietnam War and the civil rights movement and brimming with Motown hits, this portrait of a late 1960s girl group – Australia’s answer to The Supremes – is a celebration of great music and triumph in the face of adversity.

The Sapphires are four young Aboriginal girls – Gail, Julie, Kay and Cynthia – who are discovered one night in a dusty outback tavern by lanky, often soused Irish-born talent scout Dave (Chris O’Dowd). With …

Pilgrim Hill

Posted in Summer 2013 by Admin - Apr 20, 2013

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Rated: 12A, 80mins
Directed by: Gerard Barrett
Starring: Corina Gough, Joe Mullins, Kevin McCormack, Muiris Crowley

Showing: Sunday 26 May at 8pm
Venue: Garter Lane Arts Centre

Pilgrim Hill tells the story of Jimmy Walshe, a middle-aged bachelor farmer living in rural Ireland. Regarded by his neighbours as a harmless misfit, Jimmy has spent all his adult life as the caretaker of the crumbling family farm on the outskirts of a small town. He is limited, non-educated, isolated, yet through relentless determination gets through each day as best he can by keeping a smile on his face. Jimmy also cares for his ill, bed-ridden father as well as dealing with the daily routine of running the farm. …

Barbara

Posted in Summer 2013 by Admin - Apr 19, 2013

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Rated: 105 mins, 12A
Art House, International Drama
Directed by: Christian Petzold
Starring: Nina Hoss, Rainer Bock, Ronald Zehrfeld

Showing: Sunday 28 April at 8pm
Venue: Garter Lane Arts Centre

Summer in the GDR in 1980. Barbara, a doctor, has submitted an application to emigrate to the West. She is punished by being posted away from the capital to a hospital in a small town. Jörg, her lover in the West, is busy planning her escape via the Baltic Sea. It’s a waiting game for Barbara. Her new flat, the neighbours, summer and the countryside no longer hold any charms for her. Although she is attentive to her young patients in the department for paediatric surgery under her new boss, …

Starbuck

Posted in Summer 2013 by Admin - Apr 19, 2013

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Rated: 109mins, CLUB
Art House, Comedy
Directed by: Ken Scott
Starring: Antoine Bertrand, David Michael, Julie le Breton, Patrick Huard, Patrick Martin

Showing: Sunday 26 May at 8pm
Venue: Garter Lane Arts Centre

A massive box office success in Québec, Ken Scott’s comedic Starbuck tracks a likeable middle-aged loser as he wrestles with regret and responsibility. Hapless deliveryman David Wozniak gets parking tickets at every single stop along his route, has thugs on his tail for massive overdue loans, and his girlfriend announced that she was pregnant just before dumping him. These, however, are the least of David’s concerns when he returns home to find a lawyer in his kitchen. The past is back to haunt him in the form of a class-action …

Just Pretended To Hear/Kikoeteru, furi wo sita dake (99 mins)

Posted in Japanese Film Festival 2013 by Admin - Apr 18, 2013

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Just Pretended To Hear/Kikoeteru, furi wo sita dake (99 mins)

Rated: CLUB
Directed by: Kaori Imaizumi
Starring: Aki Etchu, Hana Nonaka, Meru Gouda, Takayuki Sugiki, Yasumi Yashima

Showing: Wednesday 25 April at 8pm
Venue: Garter Lane Arts Centre

Sachi is an introverted little girl. Her mother dies unexpectedly and although she doesn’t shed a tear, her pain is nonetheless deep and keen. Helpless, Sachi’s father dons his starched shirt and perfect tie and tries his best pick up his work-a-day routine once more. Sachi’s only comfort is a necklace with a ring that belonged to her mother. This keepsake helps Sachi to believe that her mother is always near, protecting her. Bereft, lonely and consumed by grief, her father descends at home into a kind of dementia. And …

Rust and Bone

Posted in Summer 2013 by Admin - Apr 17, 2013

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Rated: 122mins, 15A
Drama
Directed by: Jacques Audiard
Starring: Armand Verdure, Marion Cotillard, Matthias Schoenaerts

Showing: Sunday 12 May at 8pm
Venue: Garter Lane Arts Centre

Ali suddenly finds himself in charge of Sam, his 5 years old son that he barely knows. Penniless and without friends, he leaves the north of France to seek shelter at his sister’s in Antibes. Even though she and her husband do not have much money, they make a room for them in their garage and take care of Sam. Ali finds work as a bouncer at a local nightclub. After diffusing a fight one evening, he meets Stephanie a beautiful, self-confident woman. He takes her home and leaves her his …

The Glen Miller Story (G)

The Sapphires

Pilgrim Hill

Barbara

Starbuck

Just Pretended To Hear/Kikoeteru, furi wo sita dake (99 mins)

Rust and Bone

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