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A SEASON O F CLASSICS
The Galway Film Society are giving a short Summer season, beginning next M o n d a y , w h e r e it is intended to give people a chance to see many of the famous Rims which have become great classics in this century. T h e schedule includes: M O N D A Y , 29th APRIL The Birth of a Nation D.W. Griffith, U.S.A., 1914, 135 mins. Silent. Birth of a Nation, by means of the now familiar device of the relationship between a Northern and Southern family, reviews the American Civii War, the despoiling of the South and the revival of the South's honour through the efforts of the Ku Klux klan. The viewpoint expressed in the film is quiet simply obnoxious, Ku Klux Klan. The viewpont expressed in the film is quiet simply obnoxious, arguing as it does the inferiority of black Americans, and inded its social implications raised a storm of protest at the time in the Northern citie of America giving rise to serious riots in Boston in particular. The raging controversy in fact awakened America to the social import of moving pictures. student suspects Cesere and Caligari. The latter take refuge on a lunatic asylum. Francis follows them to discover that Caligari is the director of the sylum . . . The first expressionist film and a landmark in the cinema's history. Nosferatu F. W . Murnau, Germany, 1922, 62 mins. Nosferatu is based on Bram Stoker's novel Draciua. Over the lanscape depicted by Mumau . . . the alleyways and twisted squares, the dark hills, thick forests and skies of jagged storm clouds there hovers the dangerous shadow of the supernatural "Like Rembrandt van Gogh, Grunewald and the Expressionist painters, Mumau uses the world of appearances in such a way as to suggest the presence of a 'beyonaand its intimate relationship with the here and now." This film, made at the end of Eisenstein's career, is his reconstruction of the story of Tsar Ivan I V . In it we see Einenstein's still restless experimentation with editing techniques again and again of images of breathtaking and unforgetable effect. The film is a towering landmark in the history of the cinema.
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THURSDAY 25th APRIL Access Community Television. 6.35 p.m. on RTE1. The final programme in the series brings together representatives of the fifteen communities who made access programmes to discuss the television experience. Presented by Cianna Cambell. The Lenny Henry Show. 8.30 p.m.on BBC1. A re run of the first series of Lenny's T V series, featuring another chance to see the Thickie Family. Ten ko. 9.35 p.m. on RTE2 A sudden deat h, a visit to Changi and a tea-dance at Raffles create problems. Return to Vietnam. 10.30 p.m. on UTV. A special dosumentary to mark the 10th anniversary of the ending of the Vietnam war. Newcaster Michael Nicholson and cameraman Alan Downes revisit the country they covered extensively during the US involvement. This film reflects a nation still facing conflict on its borders, and features war footage never shown before. Parents and Teenagers. 11.15 on UTV. New Series. A Life Of My Own', 'They say "It's your life" - and you feel like replying, "Let me get on with it then".' This is a teenager's view from the first in another series of eight programmes in which families talk freely and frankly about young people developing a life of their own, separate from their parents. The Friday Film. 7.30 on RTE2 'The Shootist'. A fitting and poignant finale to John Wayne's career in this his valedictory film about a legendary gunfighter who, knowinghe has cancer, wants to die in peace but cannot escape his reputation. Also starring: Lauren Bacall. "V. 9.30 on RTE1. The first episode in a major five-part series. Spaceships land in 51 cities throughout the world. The humanoid beings contact the United Nations to make their needs known vital chemicals that can be extracted from the cities' waste. But when the refineries begin to run, scientists disappear. Only a survivor of Europe's old concentration camps knows what is really happening. Only one person, a journalist on the run, knows u;hat the aliens really are. Starring Jane Badler, Michael Durrell, Faye Grant and Peter Nelson.
M O N D A Y , 6th M A Y The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari Rober Weine, Germany, 1919,58 mintues A fair visits a north German town and among its attractions are the somnambulist Cesere and his master Dr. Caligari. A t the same time a series of murders take place. Francis a
M O N D A Y , 27th M A Y Citizen Kane Orson W e l l e s , U . S . A . , 1941, 119 mins. A newspaper tycoon dies and a magazine reporter interviews his friends in an effort to discover the meaning of his last words. Technically, CITIZEN KANE is important for innovations in the use of camera ( deep focus photgraphy developed by Gregg Toland) sound (overlapping tracks) and lighting (its intensification or diminution to express a psychological state or indicate a M O N D A Y , 13th M A Y time sense). But what is of most significance about CITIZEN KENE Triumph of the Will L. Riefenstahl, Germany, is that it is simply of the very best and most enjoyable films 1936, 110 mins. Leni Riefenstahl's Triumph of ever completed. the Will is the official film record of the sixth Nazi Party T U E S D A Y , 4th JUNE Congress held at Nuremberg in Wild Strawberries 1934 at which Hitler reviewed the columns of his faithful I. Bergman, Sweden, 1957, followers (six days after he had 92 mins. wiped out his own left in the In WILD STRAWBERRIES, an old episode known as the Rohm man relives his past through a Putsch). It has been described series of actual events, as "a masterpiece of film memories and day-dreams over propaganda" and the "most a 24 hour period. It could be successfully, most purely described as a kind of propagandists film ever quintessence of the type of film referred to above, but it is, of made". course, very much more. It is the fully realised early M O N D A Y , 20th M A Y masterpiece of one of the great Ivan the Terrible masters of European cinema. S. Eisenstein, U . S . S R . , 1944-6, 186 mins.
Ballet Company's Welcome Visit
Top international Mm stars Omar SharitandJeanne Moreau come together on BBC1 in Vicious Circle, a classic play by Jean-Paul Sartre, on Sunday, 28th April. The play is about three people who lind themselves imprisoned in a mysterious room. It slowly becomes clear that Ines (Jeanne Moreau). Garcin (Omar Sharit) and Eslelle (Cherie Lunghi) are all dead as a result of crimes or cowardice and the room is a chamber in Hell. Their punishment is to torture each other Jorever
MONDAY 29th APRIL The Mountain Lark. 7.35 p.m. on RTE1. The first in a new series of programmes of traditional music, song and dance introduced by Seosaimhin Ni Bheaglaoich, with the Oranmore Ceilidhe Band, Matt Cunningham (whistle) and Celine Hession Dancers, Gerry Hanley (accordeon) and Marie and Veronica Murray (whistle and flute). YOU Are Free. 8 p.m. on RTE2 In this award-winning short documentary, the pain and sorrow of the Nazi concentration camps becomes a human reality for audiences today. The film focuses on interviews with five people who were present when the liberation took place. Each describes the thoughts and feeling that filled their minds during those days and for many years after. Horizon. 8.10 p.m. on BBC2 A Prize Discovery'. Cezar Milstein's nobel prize-winning discovery of how to grow human antibodies outside the body; make vaccines cheaper and safer and give a new impetus to cancer research. David Lean - A life in film. 8.25 p.m. on RTE2 This documentary special looks at the films of David Lean and follows him through the making of his latest films - his first for fourteen years - A Passage To India. TUESDAY 30th APRIL Tomorrow's World. 6.50 p.m. on RTE2 The latest news from the world of science and technology presented by Judith Hann, Kieran Prendiville, Peter McCann and Maggie Philbin. Bngitte Bar dot - My Own Story. 8 p.m. on RTE2 A three part series. 3: Living a Happy Life. In this final programme in the series, Bngitte, after her third divorce decides to call a hah and devote herself entirely to the protection of animals. The Irish R.M. II. 8 a.m. oa UTV. 'The Dispensary Doctor'. Episode Two: The excitement of the local r egat t a is intensified by old family rivalries and one of the races turns intoa battle. Stars Peter Bowles, Bryan Murray and Doran Godwin.
Members of Irish National Ballet in SCHUBERT IMPROMPTU, which they will present at the Taibhdhearc on Monday and Tuesday, April 29th and 30th.
RTE Show In Galway
TOP RTE deejay Jim O'Neill will present his popular 'Drivetime' programme on Radio Two from the Radio Studio, Galway, on While in Galway Jim Wednesday and Thursday O'Neill wifl make one bve of this week. The show will be on the appearance* as special air from the Galway guest DJ at T w i g g s '
Studios between 5.02 and 7.30pm each day and will nightclub on this
be produced by Pat Morley. Anyone wishing to have requests played on the shows should hand them in to the RTE Studios in St. Augustine Street, Galway -- requests should be in writing only.