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Events: Breakfast at Tiffany’s @ The Sugar Club

  By Sinead Keogh | February 1, 2012 - 9:00 am | Events, Movies & TV
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People don’t belong to people. You musn’t give your heart to a wild thing. The more you do, the stronger they get, until they’re strong enough to run into the woods or fly into a tree. And then to a higher tree and then to the sky. Thursday! It can’t be! It’s too gruesome! I’ll never get used to anything. Anybody that does, they might as well be dead. The blues are because you’re getting fat and maybe it’s been raining too long, you’re just sad that’s all. The mean reds are horrible. Suddenly you’re afraid and you don’t know what you’re afraid of. Do you ever get that feeling? Holly Golightly understands life in a way other film characters only dream about. She’s infuriating and fabulous, vulnerable and fierce…and terribly, terribly well-dressed. Immortalised on the big screen by the inimitable Audrey Hepburn, Truman Capote’s fabulous turn at writing a … There’s more →

Event of the Week: May 30th - June 5th

  By Sinead Keogh | May 30, 2011 - 9:22 am | Events, Movies & TV, Vintage
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This time around we’ve picked Film Fatale’s screening of Casablanca at The Sugar Club on Saturday June 4th. They tell us the film “will be followed by a Moroccan-themed 1940s after-party with “As Time Goes By’ on the piano and DJs, the Andrews Sisters’ Brothers, playing music from the era. The audience is invited to help set the scene by dressing in their vintage finest, playing homage to 1940s Hollywood or going all out with a military or Moroccan theme.” If you haven’t seen it before, then the back-of-the-DVD style synopsis goes a little something like this: “Ilsa (Ingrid Bergman) must find safe transport out of WWII Morocco for herself and her resistance leader husband Victor Laszlo (Paul Henreid). With the Nazis hot on their trail, her only hope is old love, Rick Blaine (Humphrey Bogart), an American expatriate and war profiteer who runs Rick’s Cafe.” Doors are at 8pm, the … There’s more →