Evening screenings - Silent Cinema Galway
29th November, Saturday, 20:00 / Tickets:
A 1927 German silent film directed by Walter Ruttmann, one of the best examples of the city symphony film genre (beside such classic as Dziga Vertov`s Man with a Movie Camera). It portrays the life of a city, mainly through visual impressions in a semi-documentary style. It shows one day in Berlin, the rhytm of that time, starting the earliest morning and ends in the deepest night. What is critically interesting about this particular film shot in Berlin, Germany is the time when it was made: several years before any clear National Socialist influence, and well before Joseph Goebbels' Propaganda Ministry took over all German film production, which stalled creativity and forced many filmmakers to leave the country. Today it is often watched as a filmed time capsule, providing a historical filmed record of the city of Berlin in the mid 1920s. <br><br>Live piano accompaniment by our resident pianist, Mila Maia.<br><br>Doors and Wine Bar open from 7:30 PM<br><br>RATED: 12+ | TIME: 65 minutes<br><br>SELECT ONE OPTION:<br>1. One table for up to 3 people (€27 in total)<br>2. Single chair - no table (€10)
15th November, Saturday, 20:00 / Tickets:
On November 15th, we invite you to an evening of avant-garde cinema. We will be screening two experimental short films that were ahead of their time and had a great influence on subsequent generations of filmmakers and film lovers. <br><br>First, Lot in Sodom (USA, 1933), directed by James Sibley Watson and Melville Webber. It`s a sensual depiction of the Sodom and Gomorrah story filled with sinewy and semi-clad bodies, delirious bacchanales devoted to physical pleasure, and a searing, cataclysmic finale depicting the fall of a city devoted to sins of the flesh. <br><br>Second, The Seashell and the Clergyman (France, 1928), directed by a famous Germaine Dulac, from an original scenario by Antonin Artaud. It is one of most celebrated avant-garde movie of all time, by taking a surreal swipe at just about every element of the masculine-driven, religiously flawed environment of the world in the 1920s.<br><br>Live piano accompaniment by Mia Fitzgerald.<br><br>*****<br>IMDb RATING: 6.5 & 7/10<br>ROTTEN TOMATOES: 86 & 90%<br><br>Doors and Wine Bar open from 7:30 PM<br><br>RATED: 15+ | TIME: 70 minutes<br><br>SELECT ONE OPTION:<br>1. One table for up to 3 people (€27 in total)<br>2. Single chair - no table (€10)
8th November, Saturday, 20:00 / Tickets:
A hilarious French silent film from 1926, directed by René Clair, featuring Dolly Davis and Jean Boerlin. In a whimsical daydream, a timid clerk is guided by a fairy into an underground realm where individuals turn into animals and waxworks spring to life. Lucie, his office love interest, follows him, but a wicked fairy is determined to keep them apart.<br><br>René Clair gained recognition due to the avant-garde nature of his early films, particularly the well-known Entr'acte, which he collaborated on with artists like dadaist Francis Picabia and composer Eric Satie. By the conclusion of the silent film era, Clair was revered as one of the cinema's greats, alongside Griffith, Chaplin, Pabst, and Eisenstein.<br><br>Live piano accompaniment by our resident pianist, Mila Maia.<br><br>*****<br>IMDb RATING: 6.6/10<br>ROTTEN TOMATOES: 82%<br><br>Doors and Wine Bar open from 7:30 PM<br><br>RATED: PG | TIME: 65 minutes<br><br>SELECT ONE OPTION:<br>1. One table for up to 3 people (€27 in total)<br>2. Single chair - no table (€10)
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