FILMS

Films Showing January-March 2012 

Nenagh Film Club Presents

(Dir: James Marsh, UK/USA, 2011, 93mins)

From the Oscar-winning team behind Man On Wire comes the story of Nim, the chimpanzee who in the 1970s became the focus of a landmark experiment, which aimed to show that an ape could learn to communicate with language if raised and nurtured like a human child. Following Nim's extraordinary journey through human society, and the enduring impact he makes on the people he meets along the way, the film is an unflinching and unsentimental biography of an animal we tried to make human. What we learn about his true nature - and indeed our own - is comic, revealing and profoundly unsettling.

Date: Thursday, 18 January
Time: 8:00pm
Admission: €7

Nenagh Film Club Presents

(Dir: Ian Palmer/Ireland/96 mins/2011)

James Quinn McDonagh and Paddy ‘The Lurcher’ Joyce are names that demand attention: men related by blood but separated by a feud that dates back generations. As the heads of rival families, they train to represent their feuding Irish travelling clans, in their long-standing history of violent bare-knuckle boxing. With ‘Knuckle’, filmmaker Ian Palmer presents a hard-edged portrait of Irish Traveller male culture and explores the bond of loyalty and the pressures to fight for the honor of your family name.

Date: Thursday, 2 February
Time: 8:00pm
Admission: €7

Nenagh Film Club Presents

(Dir: Lars Von Trier/Denmark/136mins/2011)

A meditation on the end of the world which stars Kirsten Dunst as an emotionally troubled newly-wed named Justine, whose sister Claire (Charlotte Gainsbourg) throws her a lavish wedding party. While her lack of emotional stability begins to take a toll on Justine's new marriage as well as the party -- and old wounds are exposed -- Claire's wealthy husband John (Kiefer Sutherland) also knows a great deal about a planet that is on a possible collision course with Earth, further muddying the waters. John Hurt and Charlotte Rampling co-star.

Date: Thursday, 16 February
Time: 8:00pm
Admission: €7

Nenagh Film Club Presents

(Dir: Asif Kapadia/UK/2010/106 mins)

This documentary follows the monumental life and tragic death of Brazilian motor-racing Champion, Ayrton Senna. Spanning the decade from his arrival in Formula One in the mid 80's, the film charts Senna's struggles both on track against his nemesis, French World Champion Alain Prost, and off it, against the politics, which infest the sport. Sublime, spiritual yet, on occasion, ruthless - Senna conquered and transcended Formula One to become a global superstar. Privately, he was humble, almost shy, and fiercely patriotic, donating millions to his native Brazil and contemplating a life beyond motor racing.
Yet he was struck down in his prime on the blackest weekend in the history of the sport, watched live on television by 300 million.

Date: Thursday, 1 March
Time: 8:00pm
Admission: €7

Nenagh Film Club Presents

(Dir: Terence Malick/USA/2011/138 mins)

An impressionistic story of a Texas family in the 1950’s; the film follows the life journey of the eldest son, Jack, through the innocence of childhood to his disillusioned adult years as he tries to reconcile a complicated relationship with his father (Brad Pitt). Jack (played as an adult by Sean Penn) finds himself a lost soul in the modern world, seeking answers to the origins and meaning of life while questioning the existence of faith. . An extraordinary and challenging film from ‘Days Of Heaven’ director Terence Malick.
8 p.m., Thursday, March 15th

Date: Thursday, 15 March
Time: 8:00pm
Admission: €7

Nenagh Film Week takes place each Spring. The Festival includes as part of its programme, films made by local film-makers and also archive documentary footage of Nenagh and environs. If you are making films yourself or perhaps have some old footage of events, matches or local people on video or film, that you think might be of interest, please contact the manager at Nenagh Arts Centre, Town Hall, Banba Square, Nenagh, Co. Tipperary. Phone: 067 34900 or email: manager@nenagharts.com

Click on the image for a look at the 2010 programme.

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