Seomra Cinema on this thursday in Seomra Spraoi, with food served beforehand from 7pm Suggested donation: screening €2.50; Stew/curry €4; cake €1 Harold and Maude (1971) 8pm, 3rd April 91 min Young, rich, and obsessed with death, Harold finds himself changed forever when he meets lively septuagenarian Maude at a funeral. Its not quite a romance, not quite a buddy picture. It is, however, one of the 70s quirkiest comedies, and its bleak morbidity is uncommonly matched by its over-the-top hilarity. - Filmcritic imdb/title/tt0067185 and the rest of the April / May 14 programme: Fantastic Planet (1973) La planète sauvage 8pm, 17th April 72 min Slaves and masters dominate the narrative of the faraway world of Ygam. Set around the lifespan of Ter, a minute human shaped Om slave, and pet, of the giant blue alien Draags. Instead of using the traditional method of drawing on acetate, the ingenious producers have sketched on cut-out and hinged paper. This comparative stiffness of movement, instead of the usual animated flash, gives a dignity and eerie depth to an adaptation by directors Rene Laloux and Roland Topor of Stefan Wuls novel, Ome En Serie. The story itself is a sci-fi honey, with tiny earthlings from a destroyed planet dominated as pets or outcasts by huge, robot-like rulers. This is somber, dead-earnest stuff. And when a Lilliputian revolution explodes, brilliantly evoked, the planet Ygam rocks. - New York Times imdb/title/tt0070544 A Town Called Panic (2009) Panique au village 9.20pm, 17th April 75 min Animated plastic toys like Cowboy, Indian and Horse have problems, too. Cowboy and Indians plan to surprise Horse with a homemade birthday gift backfires when they destroy his house instead. Surreal adventures take over as the trio travel to the center of the earth, trek across frozen tundra and discover a parallel underwater universe where pointy-headed (and dishonest!) creatures live. One of the years originals - frantic, unpredictable and very, very funny. Remove brain. See loud. - Empire imdb/title/tt1433540 Bread and Roses (2000) 8pm, 1st May 110 min Two Latina sisters work as cleaners in a downtown office building, and fight for the right to unionize. Theres every reason to watch Bread and Roses for what Loach really does best: He involves us directly in the desperate lives of his characters, who are forced to live without security and who have to compromise to make ends meet. And, above all, who feel as real as moviemaking allows. - Washington Post imdb/title/tt0212826 The Fall (2006) 8pm, 15th May 117 min In a hospital on the outskirts of 1920s Los Angeles, an injured stuntman begins to tell a fellow patient, a little girl with a broken arm, a fantastic story of five mythical heroes. Thanks to his fractured state of mind and her vivid imagination, the line between fiction and reality blurs as the tale advances. The Fall is often an affectionate caricature itself, but one of astonishing beauty, featuring two heartfelt performances from Untaru and the tender, often mordantly funny Pace. Theyre perfect foils for Tarsems gorgeous tone poem to cinema as a medium of magic and miracles, stories and lies. - Washington Post imdb/title/tt0460791 Mean Girls (2004) 8pm, 29th May 97 min Cady Heron is a hit with The Plastics, the A-list girl clique at her new school, until she makes the mistake of falling for Aaron Samuels, the ex-boyfriend of alpha Plastic Regina George. Mean Girls dissects high school society with a lot of observant detail, which seems surprisingly well-informed. The screenplay by Saturday Night Lives Tina Fey is both a comic and a sociological achievement. - Chicago Sun-Times imdb/title/tt0377092
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