Crossing Borders Finale
May 06, 2013 09:43
We had a great night celebrating the work of all the groups involved in Crossing Borders on Screen.
See the photos here on our site
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Crossing Borders on Screen - Finale
Apr 29, 2013 09:18
Looking forward to seeing the participants at the finale in Belcoo on Tuesday.
The films for all three groups will be screened in addition to a screening of the hit feature Good Vibrations.
Horrorween Adult Double Bill at Lough Key Forest Park. 29th October
Oct 23, 2012 03:52
HORRORWEEN arrives...
29th Oct 2012
at 8pm
Near Boyle
Co Roscommon
Irish Director Conor McMahon (Dead Meat)
will introduce a screening of his horror comedy STITCHES
followed by the creepy and bloody Irish premiere of
CASSADGA - it's Sixth Sense meets Silence of The Lambs.
With Director's Q and A.
Starring Ross Noble
Starring Ross Noble
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KqsObDUkMLM
Jaded Richard Grindle (Ross Noble) is the sleaziest clown working the children's party circuit in Ireland. Arriving late to one birthday, his timing is off, the bratty kids a nightmare and a prank goes horribly wrong - he falls on a kitchen knife and goes to that Big Top in the sky.
Years later the same nasty kids attend another more grown up bash.
Little do they know, thanks to a black magic clown cult, Stitches will be the uninvited guest of honour seeking revenge on those responsible
for his untimely death. Laughs and gore combine in this twisted tale of one very bad clown.
followed by the creepy and bloody Irish premiere of
CASSADGA - it's Sixth Sense meets Silence of The Lambs.
10pm CASSADAGA
Devastated by the death of her younger sister,
Lily Morel seeks solace at the spiritualist community of Cassadaga.
But instead of findingclosure, she contacts something else -- the vengeful ghost of a murdered young woman. With her life crumbling all around her, Lily races to unravel the mysterious circumstances surrounding the woman's death -- a task that will bring her face-to-face with a sadistic serial killer known only as "Geppetto"
Arrive at 7pm to the visitor centre for some Halloween punch & goodies before being guided to the Movie Theatre by candle light with our Resident Butler
(€8.00 per person per film or €10.00 for the Double Bill)
Adaptation 2012 John Huston
Oct 04, 2012 05:09
19th- 21st October Dromahair Co Leitrim
The 8th Cinema North West Adaptation Festival begins on 19th October in the splendid setting of Dromahair, County Leitrim. In previous years the festival has screened retrospectives of John Le Carre, Roddy Doyle, Edna O Brien, John McGahern, Eugene McCabe and William Trevor.
Adaptation shifts focus this year on to the art of the adaptation with our first writer/director: John Huston.
Cinema North West's Programme Director Colin McKeown said: "Huston became an Irish citizen, lived in Galway and made many films in the country; including the Ray Bradbury scripted Moby Dick. Ray died a few short months ago and thankfully we have an excuse to celebrate a novelist and screenwriter who could be the focus of his very own Adaptation festival.
Our main guest is John's eldest son and oft time collaborator: Tony Huston. Other members of the family have work commitments but might make virtual appearances nonetheless... Tony will be interviewed by Michael West, fresh from his successful run with Dubliners at the Dublin Theatre Festival."
Professor Douglas McFarland will open the festival with a presentation on John Huston. Douglas is editor of the forthcoming book John Huston's Adaptations. Douglas said: "John Huston is one of the most prominent directors in American cinema. Although many of his best-known films are adaptations from literature, from 19th-century classics such as Moby-Dick and The Red Badge of Courage to works like The Maltese Falcon and The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, there has not been a comprehensive collection of essays which address this central aspect of his work until now"
Colin MCkeown said: "Director John Irvin came to Adaptation 2011 to present the original Tinker Tailor TV series. John loved Dromahair so much he is coming back again. Luckily for us he is as full of knowledge and passion for John Huston as he is for Le Carre. He promises stories about John Huston during the war and the only film directed on horseback."
A new element to the festival is a rehearsed reading of an unproduced screenplay. This element is presented in association with BBC Radio 4. Jeremy Howe, Head of Drama for BBC Radio 4 will direct the reading. Jeremy Howe said: " We were incredibly impressed with both what Cinema North West are doing and in the festival. Hats off to you and Dromahair. What an extraordinary community!"
The full programme is available here
Adaptation is supported by The Arts Council of Ireland and in collaboration with the Irish Film Institute.
Adaptation Film Festival 2012 News Update
Sep 27, 2012 03:22
Adaptation Film Festival, the jewel in CNW's crown, returns to our heartland of Dromahair 19 -21 October.
This year's festival will be the centre piece of our 10 years on the road celebrations. The Leitrim Mobile Cinema has been up and down Leitrim for over a decade and it will be driving on for another 10 years!
Watch this space for more information on our plans to celebrate the big yellow truck, it's staff, and the communities it has served.
Adaptation shifts focus this year on to the art of the adaptation
with our first writer/director: John Huston.
"Huston not only had a commanding knowledge of serious literature but, even rarer in Hollywood, a respect, reverence for it. He didn’t consider movies a high art, like painting and writing, and respected the author, not the director, as the auteur. Thirty-four out of thirty-seven of his feature films were adaptations of novels, stories, or plays. He worked with many major writers: James Agee, Truman Capote, Arthur Miller, Jean-Paul Sartre, Tennessee Williams, and Christopher Isherwood. And he transformed into cinematic images the books of many important authors: Dashiell Hammett, B. Traven, Stephen Crane, Herman Melville, Carson McCullers, Rudyard Kipling, Flannery O’Connor, Malcolm Lowry, and James Joyce."
From Chapter 5 of John Huston: Courage and Art, by Jeffrey Meyers
Enough said really... well perhaps a little more...
Huston became an Irish citizen, lived in Galway and made many films in the country; including the Ray Bradbury scripted Moby Dick. Ray died a few short months ago and thankfully we have an excuse to celebrate a novelist and screenwriter who could be the focus of his very own Adaptation festival.
Our main guest is John's eldest son and oft time collaborator: Tony Huston.
The other members of the family have work commitments
but might make virtual appearances nonetheless...
Friday 19th October
18:00 FESTIVAL LAUNCH
The Woodview Bar
Nibbles and wine while we warm up for the main attractions.
18:45 Keynote Speech: John Huston's adaptations.
Professor Douglas McFarland will open the festival with a presentation on John Huston.
Douglas is editor of the forthcoming book John Huston's Adaptations.
“John Huston is one of the most prominent directors in American cinema. Although many of his best-known films are adaptations from literature, from 19th-century classics such as Moby-Dick and The Red Badge of Courage to works like The Maltese Falcon and The Treasure of the Sierra Madre,
there has not been a comprehensive collection of essays which address
this central aspect of his work until now”
20:00 The Dead
"His soul swooned slowly as he heard the snow falling faintly through the universe and faintly falling, like the descent of their last end, upon all the living and the dead."
21:30 Michael West and Tony Huston discuss adapting Joyce.
Playwright Michael West has just adapted Dubliners for the stage
Michael will interview Tony Huston who adapted the Joyce short story for his father's film.
22.30: Under The Volcano introduced by Professor Douglas McFarland
SAT 20th
11:30 Ray Bradbury and The Making of Moby Dick
1pm Lunch: Fish and Chips
14:30 Annie: a family sing-along with Annie the musical.
15:00 Ted's talk: 'An Irish Film Industry or a Film Industry in Ireland'
In 1967, the Minister for Industry and Commerce set up the Film Industry Committee under John Huston to investigate the problems associated with the establishment of an Irish film industry and to advise on their solution.
Ted Sheehy examines The Huston Report.
17:00 Mr North
Danny Huston's feature film debut based on the book by Thornton Wilder
adapted by John Huston and featuring Anjelica Huston.
19:00 Un-producued: Rehearsed Reading
Jeremy Howe, Head of Drama at BBC Radio 4 returns to the festival with a live reading from an unproduced screenplay adaptation by John Huston.
21:30 The Maltese Falcon
22:30 – very late Film Noir Night in Blue Devon
Bring your sharpest clothes, hats and dancing shoes for a night of 1940’s glamour and intrigue.
Sun 21st
11:00 Cinema North West’s Bible Class
Our guest preachers introduce Wise Blood
14:30 African Queen
Director John Irvin came to Adaptation 2011 to present the original Tinker Tailor TV series. John loved Dromahair so much he is coming back again. Luckily for us he is as full of knowledge and passion for John Huston as he is for Le Carre. We promise stories about John Huston including a film he directed from horseback.
18:30 The Man Who Would Be King
Fresh from teaching for 2 days about the art of adaptation for the screen Stephen Cleary will help bring the curtain down on the festival by introducing a rip snorting adventure yarn.
21:00 – Late Closing Party at Stanfords
Raise a toast to 'all the living and the dead' as we say goodbye
to John Huston in 2012 and prepare to welcome Harold Pinter in 2013.
Adaptation - a two day screenwriting workshop
presented by Stephen Cleary
18 and 19th October
Dromahair
150 euro including lunch
30 euro accommodation per night in a shared house
Some bursaries for course fees available
Book via info@cinemanorthwest.com
Stephen Cleary’s world renowned ADAPTATION workshop returns to Ireland. This two day workshop is aimed at filmmakers, producers and writers who are planning to adapt work for the screen.
The first day introduces you to a new way of marrying the specific technical demands the original material makes of the writer with a fast and practical way of getting to the thematic centre of the adapted screenplay you want to write.
The second day shows how to use key screenwriting techniques to ensure your adaptation is truly cinematic as it moves away from the source material to achieve its own integrity. This is followed by a step-by-step guide through an adaptation screenwriting process.
"Stephen Cleary’s adaptation workshop came along at the perfect moment. We had just optioned a book and the process of deciding which elements of the novel we wanted to adapt and how we would set about doing it became so much clearer. I can’t recommend it enough!”
Natasha Marsh, Producer, Academy Award Winner, WASP
Stephen Cleary is a story developer and feature film producer. He has developed over 60 produced features with directors including Ken Loach, Milcho Manchevski, Michael Caton-Jones, Michael Winterbottom, Beeban Kidron and Marc Evans. He was Head of Development at British Screen for four years. He produced New Years Day in 2001, (Panorama selection Sundance Film Festival, Winner Best British Film Raindance Film Festival) and co-produced Goodbye Charlie Bright in 2002. That same year he was also co-screenwriter of the feature, Alexandria.
Colin McKeown
Programme Director
Cancellation
Sep 20, 2012 11:13
Our trio of events on 20th, 21st and 22nd September in Dromahair are all cancelled. The Listening Room, Culture Night and our 10 Years On The Road Party will be rescheduled. This decision is as a mark of respect for Ciara Pugsley and her family. Cinema North West offer their sympathies at this time.
Sat 22nd September 10 Years on The Road with the Leitrim Cinemobile.
Sep 16, 2012 01:09
THE LISTENING ROOM, Mobile Cinema Radio Event Dromahair, 20th Sept.
Sep 12, 2012 01:56
THE LISTENING ROOM
8pm Thursday 20th Sept Mobile Cinema Dromahair.
WBEZ CHICAGO's Nick Van Der Kolk will be in Dromahair on 20th September
to turn the mobile cinema into a listening room.
From WBEZ Chicago, Nick van der Kolk’s L+R features in-depth, otherworldly-produced interviews with an eclectic range of subjects, from the seedy to the sublime. You’ve never heard anything like it before. Our sound designer is Brendan Baker.
L+R won the top prize at the 2011 Third Coast Festival Competition(often described as the “Sundance of public radio”), the first podcast to do so in the history of the competition.
CULTURE NIGHT 21st Sept 2012 Dromahair
Aug 29, 2012 02:43
Cinema North West Mobile Cinema - Dromahair
7.00pm ‘Leitrim On Screen’, in association with Irish Film Institute, rare archive material featuring Leitrim.
8.30pm ‘Your Screen’ - a compilation of movie magic selected by public vote and introduced by you - the audience.
All events are free.
We want to hear from our audience.
Nominate your favourite moment from cinema history and tell us why it means so much to you.
Email info@cinemanorthwest.com or post on http://www.facebook.com/CinemaNorthWest
We will happily accept regular post to
Cinema North West
Market St
Dromahair
County Leitrim.
Deadline is 14th September.
Thanks to all at Culture Night and Philip Delamere at LeitrimArts Office for their support.
BECKETT ON SCREEN ENNISKILLEN 23-27th AUGUST 2012
Aug 20, 2012 06:53
THURSDAY 23RD AUGUST
7pm Samuel Beckett’s FILM (1965)Starring Buster Keaton. Directed by Alan Schneider.
11am Beckett Directs Beckett:
Waiting for Godot (1988) (127mins)
Rare recording of “Waiting for Godot” with the
San Quentin Players. Directed by Samuel Beckett.
1.30 Samuel Beckett’s FILM (1965)
Starring Buster Keaton. Directed by Alan Schneider.
2pm The General – Buster Keaton
Festival Director Sean Doran selects:
4pm Beckett at The BBC:
Ghost Trio (1977) Billie Whitelaw (23mins)
...but the clouds... (1977) Billie Whitelaw (16mins)
7pm Samuel Beckett’s FILM (1965)
Starring Buster Keaton. Directed by Alan Schneider.
Pitch ‘N’ Putt With Beckett And Joyce (3mins)
Directed by Donald Clarke. (Warning Strong Language)
11am Beckett Directs Beckett:
Waiting for Godot (1988) (127mins)
Rare recording of “Waiting for Godot” with the
San Quentin Players. Directed by Samuel Beckett.
1.30 Samuel Beckett’s FILM (1965)
Starring Buster Keaton. Directed by Alan Schneider.
2pm The Cameraman – Buster Keaton
Festival Director Sean Doran selects:
4pm Beckett at The BBC:
Not I (1973) Billie Whitelaw (13mins)
Krapp’s Last Tape (1972) Patrick Magee (30mins)
7pm Samuel Beckett’s FILM (1965)
Starring Buster Keaton. Directed by Alan Schneider.
Pitch ‘N’ Putt With Beckett And Joyce (3mins)
Directed by Donald Clarke. (Warning Strong Language)
Cinema North West’s Mobile Cinema,
Festival Centre, Enniskillen Castle.