KEEPING quality, affordable and social cinema west of the city, Millennium Film Club lights up the big screen again on Tuesday February 27, 8pm. Moylish’s Millennium Theatre is the site of interest, allowing club goers free parking and a café hatch for drinks as well as the best indie, art house and world releases.
The men behind this Club are Limerick Film Archive’s Declan McLaughlin and LIT’s own Dr Gerry Meagher, led by ACCESS Cinema releases and partnerships with Limerick Classic and Vintage Car Club and Alliance Francaise Limerick.
Spring 2018 has a strong start with the biop of Van Gogh, ‘Loving Vincent’ and its beautiful handpainted frames filling the silver screen on February 27. Apparently the scenes were shot live as is usual, before a team of gifted artists recreated it in brushstrokes so the film appears as a suite of exquisite impressionist canvases by Van Gogh himself. “Told through multiple perspectives and cast with Saoirse Ronan and Chris O’Dowd [with Douglas Booth as the artist], ‘Loving Vincent’ lives up to its name and offers an affectionate tribute to one of history’s great artists”.
Tuesday March 6 at 8pm, coinciding with International Women’s Day, is ‘Beyond the Steppes’. This is a grim and beautiful tale of maternal love and survival:
A young Polish mother (Agnieska Grochowska) and her baby son are forced from their home by Russian soldiers in WW2 when her husband (Borys Szyc) leaves to fight on the war front.
Thereafter she works under surveillance in a perishing labour camp while her son faces death through chronic illness.
You can email enquiries or for a programme to filmclub@eircom.net. Tickets at €8/ €6 on the door and in advance on www.litmt.ie
