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Casablanca classic

  By Niamh | July 22, 2009 - 10:41 am | Movies & TV, The Culch
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Last night I had the great pleasure of seeing Casablanca on the big screen, in The Screen cinema on D’Olier Street. Set during World War II, it focuses on a man torn between, in the words of one character, love and virtue. He must choose between his love for a woman and helping her and her Resistance leader husband escape from the Vichy-controlled Moroccan city of Casablanca to continue his fight against the Nazis. The Hollywood glamour of the beautiful Ilsa Lund (Ingrid Bergman), the stunning clothes, the multi cultural setting in Casablanca where many people are waiting to escape to America via the one flight a day to Lisbon, the backdrop of World War II, the soft focus shots on the beautiful girl and her big, sad eyes, the stolen moments together, the heartbreak, the drama! Casablanca won three Academy Awards, including Best Picture despite the fact that it … There’s more →

Best marriage proposal ever?

  By Niamh | July 16, 2009 - 10:50 am | In The News, Random Whimsy, The Culch
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Probably not, but certainly one of the funnier ones. You really have got to give this guy major brownie points for the sheer effort he went to for the love of his life A romantic hires out a Bristol cinema to screen his spoof music video, featuring him mainly wearing pants, as part of an elaborate marriage proposal to his girlfriend. Pete Simson, 26, told girlfriend Hannah McDonagh, 25, that they were going to watch an arty French film at the Watershed cinema in Bristol for her birthday last Friday. Miss McDonagh was none the wiser as she sat alongside other cinema-goers, who were actually staff and customers roped in to the plan. But after the lights came down and the usual adverts came on Miss McDonagh could not believe what she was seeing when Mr Simson came on the big screen in his pants miming the words to Daniel … There’s more →