Dalkey Book Festival Cinema

5 June 2011 @ 12:36 am |
Filed under: Events & News


€5 or €8 double-bill

Friday 17th June
■18:30 | Da by Hugh Leonard
Starring Martin Sheen

A New York playwright is summoned to Ireland to bury his Da. While at his boyhood home, he encounters his father’s spirit and relives memories both pleasant and not.

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■21:00 | The Butcher Boy by Pat McCabe
Director Neil Jordan, starring Stephen Rea

Young Francie has a lot to worry about, what with his alcoholic father and mentally unstable mother, and his unceasing battle against his arch-enemies, the Nugents. Not to mention Our Lady and the aliens…
Q&A with Stephen Rea

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Saturday 18th June
■18:30 | Tara Road by Maeve Binchy
Starring Andie MacDowell and Stephen Rea

Two women- one American, one Irish swap houses and alter the course of their lives.

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■21:00 | A Film With Me In It by Mark Doherty
Starring Dylan Moran

An actor down on his luck ends up with a large number of dead bodies on his hands. Together with his friend they hatch a hilarious plan of treating their predicament like a film scenario and try to rewrite the day.

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Sunday 19th June
■18:30 | The Eclipse written and directed by Conor McPherson
Starring Aidan Quinn

In an Irish seaside town, a widower meets a visiting horror novelist and starts to see ghosts all around him.
Q&A Conor McPherson

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■21:00 | Brothers directed by Jim Sheridan
Starring Jake Gyllenhaal, Natalie Portman & Tobey Maguire

A young man comforts his older brother’s wife and children after he goes missing in Afghanistan.
Q&A Jim Sheridan in conversation with Dave Fanning

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