Scannán | Film

BALLINA ARTS CENTRE

Barrett St, Ballina, Co. Mayo.

T: 096 73593

E: info@ballinaartscentre.com

W: www.ballinaartscentre.com

Ballina Film Club presents… David Lynch

April-May 2014

Ballina Film Club this year celebrates the twisted genius of David Lynch. Since the late 1970s Lynch has emerged as a singular talent in American cinema, with his trademark aesthetic and surreal vision marking such films as Eraserhead, Blue Velvet and Mulholland Drive.

Throughout April and May, we will screen a selection of the greatest works of this true cinematic artist.

Blue Velvet (Dir: David Lynch/USA/1986/120 mins)

Tuesday 6^th May, 8pm

Shy, small-town adolescent, Jeffrey discovers a severed human ear in an overgrown backlot. His decision to investigate leads him to observe, and finally participate in, an extremely violent sadomasochistic relationship between gangster Frank Booth and his moll, Dorothy.  Starring Dennis Hopper Isabella Rossellini, Kyle Maclachlan. Adm: €5

Wild at Heart (Dir: David Lynch/USA       /1990/125 mins)

Tuesday 13^th May, 8pm

Lula’s psychopathic mother goes crazy at the thought of Lula being with Sailor, who just got free from jail. Ignoring Sailor’s probation, they set out for California. However her mother hires a killer to hunt down Sailor.

Starring: Nicolas Cage, Laura Dern, Willem Dafoe Adm: €5

Mulholland Drive (Dir: David Lynch /USA/2001/146 mins)

Tuesday 20^th May, 8pm

A woman is abandoned on Mulholland Drive, following a car accident, suffering from amnesia.  She makes her way to an apartment where she meets an aspiring actress who helps put the pieces of her life and the mystery of it all back together.  Elsewhere, other stories and characters weave into this ensemble piece, including a director with mobster problems and a man whose dreams come true.  The cast includes Robert Forster, Naomi Watts and Adam Kesher. Adm: €5

The Straight Story (Dir: David Lynch / USA / 1999 / 111 mins)

Tuesday 27^th May, 8pm

Cult director David Lynch brings us this gentle film about an older man who sets off on a journey across the USA on his lawn mower to visit his estranged brother. Richard Farnsworth stars in this true story of one man’s determination to be reunited with his family and discovers the warmth of strangers along the way. Also stars Sissy Spacek and Harry Dean Stanton. Adm: €5

Bealtaine Film Screenings

High Society,

Friday 9^th May, 2pm

Grace Kelly plays Tracy Lord, a holier-than-thou ice goddess who, having been through one marriage to likeable musician CK Dexter Haven (Bing Crosby), is about to enter another with a rather stuffy, boring social climber. Dexter and Mike Connor (Frank Sinatra), a reporter covering the nuptials, help Tracy find her human side and realize whom she really should marry.  High Society from 1956 is a musical remake of The Philadelphia Story and features classic songs by Cole Porter and a great appearance by Louis Armstrong and his band.

Adm: €5              

The Straight Story,

Friday 9^th May, 2pm

Cult director David Lynch brings us this gentle film about an older man who sets off on a journey across the USA on his lawn mower to visit his estranged brother. Richard Farnsworth stars in this true story of one man’s determination to be reunited with his family and discovers the warmth of strangers along the way. Also stars Sissy Spacek and Harry Dean Stanton.

Adm: €5              

Quartet

Friday 23^rd May, 2pm

Lifelong friends Wilf (Billy Connolly) and Reggie (Tom Courtney), together with former colleague Cissy, (Pauline Collins), are residents of Beecham House, a home for retired opera singers.  Each year on Giuseppe Verdi’s birthday, the residents unite to give a concert to raise funds for their home.  But when Jean Horton (Maggie Smith), a former grande dame of the opera fallen on hard times, (also Reggie’s ex-wife and the fourth and most celebrated member of their former quartet), moves into the home; to everyone’s surprise, the plans for this year’s concert start to unravel.  As old grudges threaten to undermine past glories and theatrical temperaments play havoc with the rehearsal schedule, it becomes apparent that having four of the finest singers in English operatic history under one roof offers no guarantee that the show will go on.

Adm: €5

ÁRAS INIS GLUAIRE

Áisleann Bhéal an Mhuirthead, Belmullet, Mayo

T: 097 81079

• Blue Jasmin 22^nd May
• 12 Years A Slave  5^th June
• Philomena  19^th June

LINENHALL ARTS CENTRE

Linenhall St, Castlebar, Mayo.

T: 094 9023733

E: linenhall@anu.ie

W: www.thelinenhall.com

Tuesday 6^th May @ 8.00pm

Gloria

Chile  2012  110mins  Spanish with English subtitles          

Gloria is a vivacious, free-spirited divorcee who gets on with her grown up children, is fairly happy in her work, and contents herself with the one-night stands that she finds in the singles bars of Santiago. Defiant in her fragile happiness, she meets and in due course falls for quietly-spoken ‘silver fox’ Rodolfo, a fellow divorcee who clearly adores her, but who comes with baggage and family ties of his own. Is this true love, and if so, can it endure, or will the past get in the way? Underpinned by a superb central performance by Paulina García as Gloria, director Sebastián Lelio examines the trajectories of older age set in the milieu of the contemporary middle-class of Chile’s Pinochet generation.

Adm. 5 euro

Tuesday 13^th May @ 3.00pm

BEALTAINE: FREE FILM MATINEE | High Society

USA  1956   107 minutes  Certificate: G
Grace Kelly plays Tracy Lord, a wilful, beautiful but ever so stuck-up ice goddess who, having been through one marriage to likeable musician CK Dexter Haven (Bing Crosby), is about to enter another with stuffy but dependable George (John Lund). Her plans for a sensational socialite wedding are, however, dashed by a series of troublesome events. Dexter and Mike Connor (Frank Sinatra), a reporter covering the nuptials, help Tracy find her human side and realise whom she really should marry! This delightful, high gloss musical remake of The Philadelphia Story gets it gloriously right, featuring the classic Cole Porter songs High Society, Well Did You Evah and Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?, as well as a cameo appearance by Louis Armstrong and his band. A pure Hollywood classic, directed by Charles Walters. Sit back and enjoy!

Adm. FREE

Tuesday 20^th May @ 8.00pm

Philomena

UK  2013  97mins  English language

Based on the real-life story of Philomena Lee, out-of-work journalist Martin Sixsmith meets up by chance with a woman who 50 years earlier was sent to a convent after she became pregnant and subsequently forced give up her baby son, a child that was sold into adoption by the Catholic Church. Armed only with the most meagre information, Philomena and the journalist travel to the United States in an attempt to find her long-lost son. Directed by veteran director Stephen Frears, the film finds two main actors in superb form: Judi Dench as the mild-mannered but indomitable mother and comedian and actor Steve Coogan as hard-nosed ex-BBC journalist Martin Sixsmith – an unlikely but ultimately triumphant odd couple in a film that elegantly balances humour with quiet anger and humanity.

Adm. 5 euro