THERE is one vacant slot in the Spring season of Millennium Film Club (MFC) operating out of Moylish. Thatโs the last day which is scheduled for Tuesday April 11 in the ten-strong programme: club founders Declan McLoughlin and Gerry Meagher will feature what members want to view, collecting votes over the next three months at weekly screenings.
This being the second only season for the club and its catchment,ย McLoughlin admits that โwe are starting from scratch as the venue, Millennium Theatre, is not known for cinema. We can offer free parking, thereโs a 302 bus to the door from town and the theatre attracts lots of private bookings from schools and around the countryโ.
Still, film first is the rule of this veteran of Limerick Film Archive. This yearโs love is a mix of music โ February 7โs โThe Beatles: 8 Days a Weekโ, February 28โs โStop Making Senseโ; comedy with โJulietaโ by Almovodor on February 2, โBlazing Saddlesโ on April 4 and of course, romance.
โFor Valentineโs night, Tuesday 14, we are doing a tie-in with Hook & Ladder on Sarsfield Street. Book directly with them 061-413778 for one of two sittings, dinner at 6pm and movie โCasablancaโ at 9pm for โฌ15 all in, or the 7.15pm dinner sitting and then the movie, for โฌ20.
โThe classics are going well for us. โGone with the Windโ on December 6 last year drew our biggest houseโ.
Documentaries are popular. For International Womenโs Day, he and Gerry have chosen โEagle Huntressโ on March 7 which charts the experience of a 13 year-old Mongolian girl who bucks the tradition of centuries to learn how to hunt eagles.
โTheirs is a very unusual culture, a mix of old and new traditions and this girl has broken the mouldโ.
Shorts made in Limerick and other places are in the mix each week at 8pm. Tickets โฌ8 nightly; โฌ6 concession and the club opens Tuesday February 7 at 7pm for a wine and canapรฉ shindig.
Book in advance at www.litmt.ie and enquiries to [email protected]