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The Screen Cinema- Putting classics back on the big screen

  By brogen | August 6, 2010 - 11:32 am | Movies & TV, The Culch
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The Screen Cinema is nearing the end of it’s fantastic season of 80s movies, and to round it all off, from August 6th - 12th, they are showing a week of movies celebrating the director synonymous with 80s teen angst – John Hughes. Hughes captured the teen and preteen market during his career as both a writer and director with a chain of 1980s teen movies. Hughes directed such classic teen movies as The Breakfast Club, Sixteen Candles and Ferris Bueller’s Day Off. These films defined the stifling high school experience and even now, almost 25 years after its release, The Breakfast Club is still appreciated by teenagers. Screen Cinema Programmer, Anna Taylor, is delighted to have the opportunity to be the first Irish cinema to honour Hughes and his cinematic legacy; ‘Many of us were heartbroken when John Hughes died so suddenly last year. Whether you saw his films … There’s more →

Screen Classics

  By Darren Byrne | August 27, 2009 - 11:39 am | Movies & TV, The Culch
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Okay, we’ve talked about it before - the classic movie season that Screen Cinema was running. I loved it. It’s been great to have the opportunity to see All About Eve and Casablanca on the big screen. I even got to watch Brief Encounter for the very first time. Well, now that the season is over they are already planning the next and they want your help. For being so lovely and greeting the screenings of classic films with such enthusiasm, they are opening the vote to you for future classic films. Just email [email protected] with your top three choices from the following list. My three will be The 39 Steps (apparently there’s a remake in the works), The Good, The Bad And The Ugly and The Great Escape. What about you? Drop a comment below with your list or with some suggestions that aren’t on this list. I’d love … There’s more →

All About Eve

  By Darren Byrne | August 24, 2009 - 12:18 am | Events, Movies & TV, The Culch
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Two years ago, I watched Whatever Happened to Baby Jane for the first time and I loved it. Bette Davis showed what a true movie great could do, twisting the character she portrayed in real life into a deranged and sad fading starlet on screen. Since seeing it I have many times returned to her back catalogue and last year I got hold of All About Eve, a tense tale about an up-and-coming ingénue who befriends Davis’s aging Broadway star and slowly climbs her way to the top. Tonight, Screen Cinema in Dolier Street continues it’s season of classic films with this 1950 gem. Feel free to join us at 8pm in the lobby before the film, which starts at 8.30pm. All About Eve will also play on Wednesday at 6.30pm. The young woman of the title, who ingratiates herself into the celebrity lives of Margo Channing (Bette Davis) and … There’s more →