OPERATING out of LIT’s 330-seater Millennium Theatre, upgraded a again with a better sound system, Millennium Film Club will open a six-strong season on Tuesday 17 at 8pm. The (almost) weekly showtime continues into a strong closure on Tuesday December 5 with Irving Berlin’s delightful musical romance, ‘White Christmas’ – to help us glow in the dark.
Declan McLoughlin of Limerick Film Archive is co-founder with Gerry Meahgher, for whom prior bookings for the theatre obviated an opening before Tuesday’s ‘A Man Called Ove’. A Swedish comedy about a widower, it got the highest attendance rating when screened by ACCESS Cinema network – to which this club is party. ‘Ove’ is adapted from Fred Backman’s book and got Best Foreign Film at 2017 Oscars.
Declan puts the Millennium scene in context: “Remember that ACCESS is the governing body for all the cinema clubs in the country other than Irish Film Institute. Limerick’s UCH programme, Newcastle West and ourselves in Moylish are under it”.
“October 24 features ‘Passage’, a Canadian drama documentary of Sir John Franklin’s search for the North West Passage in the Arctic,” explains Declan. “Nobody had got through it yet and ‘Passage’ is a great film from 2008, a big cinema production.”
Stoke up Hallowe’en horror on Tuesday 31 with the classic ‘Eyes without a Face’. The George Franju was innovative in its time and went on to influence successive film makers in this polarising genre.
Enjoy a documentary crowd-puller for locals in the Mid West scheduled for November 7. Limerick Film Archive night is the platform for screenings and clips to compile ‘Autos & Aviation’, a joint venture between Limerick Classic Car Club and Limerick Film Archive. It’s hard to believe but Grand Prix races took place around the city back in 1935, ‘36 and ‘38 and will make exciting viewing.
Anticipate footage also of Shannon Airport and a look at the event of relevant plane crashes, most notably in 1948, ‘54, ‘56, ‘60 and 1961.
Francois Ozon, that great French director, surfaces for ‘Frantz’ on November 21: “This is a romantic story set in World War 1, a loose adaptation of the 1932 Ernst Lubitsch drama, ‘Broken Lullaby’. It’s shot in black and white for that period effect”.
The subtext is anti-war and dialogue is French and German.
Join the club at www.litmt.ie or pitch up per film at €8. Free parking and there’s a café/ wine service.
Enquiries to 085-7323 512.
