March Active Retired Screening on 2nd Wednesday of Month

It's Oscar season and to celebrate Kerry Film Festival and Siamsa Tire have partnered to bring some fabulous films from the distant past and the not so distant past to a big screen in Tralee. The screenings will take place in Siamsa Tire and are for active-retired groups and all retired individuals.

"We screen films for active retired groups as part of the Kerry Film Festival," said Jason O' Mahony, Festival Director, "and, for almost a year now, we've screened films for them on a monthly basis in Siamsa Tire, which is a wonderful venue. The screenings generally take place on the first Wednesday of the month but we've had to push the March screening back a little bit."

"We're terribly sorry that we had to change from the first Wednesday of the month to the second but, I'm afraid, it's something that we simply couldn't avoid," added O' Mahony. "On the upside we do have a fantastic film in Elia Kazan's ON THE WATERFRONT, the film which won Brando his first Oscar. It won 8 Oscars all together so I think it's a brilliant film to screen so close to the Oscars, I'm really looking forward to seeing in on the big screen!"



The Kerry Film Festival Active Retired Screening will revert to its usual first Wednesday slot in April when John Huston's Classic KEY LARGO screens in Siamsa on April 6th. The 1948 film sees Bogart and Bacall threatened by a gangster and his henchmen in a hotel in the Florida Keys.

Then on the first Wednesday of May, May 4th, Robert Mitchum stars in THE NIGHT OF THE HUNTER, a noir classic about a religious fanatic that marries a gullible widow whose young children are reluctant to tell him where their real daddy hid $10,000 that he'd stolen in a robbery. It's such a wonderful film that, in 1992, it was deemed "culturally, historically, and aesthetically significant" by the United States Library of Congress and was selected for preservation in its National Film Registry.

All films cost just 2 euro to anyone over the age of 65 and Kerry Film Festival will serve teas and coffees before the film to all attendees. The active retired screenings are a nice social occasion, as well as giving attendees the opportunity to see some fantastic films on the big screen.

All films will screen in Siamsa Tire at 2:00 pm. For more information please call Kerry Film Festival on 066 712 9934.

Active Retired Screenings

ALL ABOUT EVE
February 2nd Wednesday
Dir: Joseph L Mankiewicz, USA, 1950, 138 min
Starring: Bette Davis, Anne Baxter, George Sanders, Gary Merrill, Celeste Holm

Bette Davis is superb as Margo Channing in this jet-black 1950's comedy which won 6 Oscar's including best picture, best director and best writing. ALL ABOUT EVE is invariably listed as one of the best movies ever made and stars the legendary Bette Davis in one of her most memorable roles. Margo Channing, elegant leading lady of the theatre, has just turned 40 and discovers Eve, a beautiful, star-struck young ingenue who yearns to be Margo's assistant, or her understudy, or perhaps more!

ON THE WATERFRONT
March 9th Wednesday
Dir: Elia Kazan, USA, 1954, 108 min
Starring: Marlon Brando, Karl Malden, Lee J. Cobb, Rod Steiger

Brando at his brilliant, moving, moody best as an ex-prize fighter turned longshoreman who must stand up to corrupt union officials and mob bosses if he is to have any future. Winner of 8 Oscars including best picture, best director and a best actor gong for Brando, ON THE WATERFRONT is quite simply one of the best movies ever made. You cannot miss this on the big screen!

KEY LARGO
April 6th Wednesday
Dir: John Huston, USA, 1948, 100 min
Starring: Humphrey Bogart, Edward G. Robinson, Lauren Bacall, Lionel Barrymore

Bogart and Bacall team up in John Houston's Oscar Winning classic from 1948. A gangster holes up in a hotel with his henchmen, holding Bogie at gunpoint. Brilliant film with a whole slew of stars at the very top of their careers!

THE NIGHT OF THE HUNTER
May 4th Wednesday
Dir: Charles Laughton, USA, 1955, 93 min
Starring: Robert Mitchum, Shelley Winters

Robert Mitchum stars in this film noir classic about a religious fanatic that marries a gullible widow whose young children are reluctant to tell him where their real daddy hid 10,000 dollars that he'd stolen in a robbery! Not only is it a brilliant film but, in 1992, it was deemed "culturally, historically, and aesthetically significant" by the United States Library of Congress and was selected for preservation in its National Film Registry. Now that's some compliment for a film!