Category Archives: Film

ROOM (the film)

Posted on January 9, 2016 by Lia Mills

I was lucky enough to get to a special preview of Room (the film) yesterday at the Lighthouse, courtesy of Element Pictures. The film is, quite simply, brilliant: beautiful, unsettling and moving.  During the Q & A afterwards it came up that … Continue reading →

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TIMBUKTU

Posted on September 22, 2015 by Lia Mills

Timbuktu is a desert city in Mali (West Africa). In its day it has been, variously: a city with an aura of mystery, a prosperous trading centre known for its book trade and learning and: dismissed in western stereotype as … Continue reading →

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2 Films about Palestine (Progressive Film Club)

Posted on March 12, 2015 by Lia Mills

(From the Progressive Film Club) Sat 14th March 2015 New Theatre, East Essex Street, Temple Bar Programme starts: 2.30pm 2.30pm: The Great Book Robbery (2012) Telling the story of the systematic looting in 1948 of 30,000 Palestinian books in a … Continue reading →

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Progressive Film Club: Free screening (May 23rd 2014)

Posted on May 14, 2014 by Lia Mills

The next screening from the Progressive Film Club is a feature, The Happy Lands, about a mining strike in Scotland in the 1920s. Friday 23rd May, 7.30 pm @ The Pearse Centre, 27 Pearse Street, Dublin 2 This screening is … Continue reading →

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Dublin’s Progressive Film Club

Posted on April 3, 2014 by Lia Mills

Dublin’s Progressive Film Club is hosting its first film festival 4th – 6th April. All screenings are at the Ireland Institute (also known as The Pearse Centre), 27 Pearse Street, Dublin 2 – close to the Trinity Capital Hotel. Admission is free and … Continue reading →

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Shun Li and the Poet

Posted on March 24, 2014 by Lia Mills

 Written and directed by Andrea Segre, this film is set in a small fishing town in the Venetian Lagoon. It tells the story of a Chinese woman (Tao Zhao) finding her way into Europe. Working off her debt to the … Continue reading →

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