|
|
|
|
Cloughjordan Cineclub will be screening "The Philadelphia Story" as part of the Bealtaine Festival on Wednesday May 24th 2006.
We hope to welcome many members of the Cloughjordan, Borrisokane, Lorrha, Kilcommon, Terryglass and Adcroney Active Retirement Associations to our cinema and enjoy the classic film "The Philadelphia Story"
This part of a programme of events being organised nationwide. Screenings will take place around the country - including the Irish Film Institute - in May 2006 organised by access CINEMA.
All of the events for Bealtaine will be featured in the Bealtaine festival programme, which will be available in libraries and arts centres around the country from the middle of April.
More information shortly
|
THE PHILADELPHIA STORY
Director: George Cukor / USA / 1940 / 112 minutes / Black & White / Certificate : tbc
Cast : Katherine Hepburn, Cary Grant, James Stewart, Ruth Hussey
Director George Cukor and screenwriter Donald Ogden Stewart’s evergreen version of Philip Barry’s romantic farce, centering on a socialite wedding threatened by scandal, is a delight from start to finish, with everyone involved working on peak form. Hepburn’s the ice maiden, recently divorced from irresponsible millionaire Grant and just about to marry a truly dull but supposedly more considerate type. Enter Grant, importune and distinctly sceptical. Also enter Stewart and Hussey, snoopers from Spy magazine to cover the society event of the year and throw another spanner in the works. Superbly directed by George Cukor, the film is a marvel of timing and understated performances effortlessly transcending its stage origins without ever feeling the need to ‘open out’ in any way. The wit still sparkles; the ambivalent attitude towards the rich and idle is still resonant; and the moments between Stewart and Hepburn, drunk and flirty on the moonlit terrace, tingle with a real, if rarely explicit eroticism.
Geoff Andrew, TIME OUT Film Guide, Fourteenth Edition 2006
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Age & Opportunity promotes the participation of older people in the arts throughout the year and coordinates Bealtaine - a month-long national festival celebrating creativity in older age in May. The festival promotes meaningful participation in all areas of the arts by older people as well as offering a focus for celebrating the contributions of older artists. The Arts Council helps to fund Bealtaine.
Events are organised independently by arts institutions, arts officers, libraries, active retirement groups, health boards and other organisations. Age & Opportunity takes the co-ordinating role, encouraging participation, producing a bulletin designed to encourage people to take part, co-ordinating a press campaign to promote the festival and providing support to Bealtaine organisers. This year, we welcome on board Dominic Campbell as Artistic Director and co-ordinator of Bealtaine.
Bealtaine covers all art forms including theatre, literature, dance, film, storytelling, music, painting, sculpture and critical events. In Bealtaine 2005 there were 800 events in the national programme covering 25 counties. Bealtaine is growing each year in quantity, quality and variety: the diversity of art forms, the range of settings and the number of different ways in which older people are participating have all increased.
|
|
|
|
|
|
