The Perfect Moment

On Saturday, 24th March @ 3.00 & 5.00 & 7.00pm

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The end of one adventure. The dawn of a new dimension. The latest NUIT DE LA GLISSE recaps on 10 years of amazing adventures from the four corners of the globe in search of the perfect moment in 3D.

This year Nuit de la Glisse is exploring a new dimension, depth.  Three-dimensional space has finally arrived to enhance the adventure, taking our audience deeper into the action and allowing them to share the riders’ sensations.

Over the last two years, the Nuit de la Glisse team has endeavoured to incorporate 3D technology into their extreme film shoots.  This has required developing a whole new camera and acquiring new techniques for Thierry Donard and his team of cameramen, editors and producers.

Faced with a European winter with scarcely any snow, the team had to gamble, setting off in search of the white gold in one of the most isolated places on the planet: the far west of Greenland.  “Faces of over 2500ft vertical drop, glaciers as far as the eye can see, surrounded by awe-inspiring mountains, an environment spared of any human presence, volatile weather conditions, that’s where we found the focus of our search,” recounts Thierry Donard.

Isolated for several days while navigating through the icebergs, the shoot encapsulated the daily challenges of trying to blend ultra-modern cinematographic techniques with hazardous conditions.  The trailer, presented to the Congrès des Exploitants du Cinéma at the Festival de Cannes was met with admiration from 3D cinema professionals.

Alongside this shoot, Nuit de la Glisse 2011 will showcase many other 3D sequences such as downhill mountain biking from the Lapierre Team in Chamonix, street skateboarding in Annecy from Joris Brichet, wingsuiting and speed riding through the Mont Blanc massif from the best that this world has to offer and big wave surfing from Garrett McNamara eyeing up the biggest wave ever surfed in Portugal.

To mark this 3D technological revolution and to transport the audience from the past into the future, this latest edition will recap on the most amazing moments of the last ten years.  The first 30 minutes of the film are a dedication to 20 hours of archives that celebrates the best of the Nuit de la Glisse action before diving into a new era of extreme sports.

From now on, the audience will reside at the heart of the action, sharing the sensations felt by the best extreme sports athletes in the world through 3D technology.

La Bohéme

13/03/2012

Commedia lirica in four acts. Libretto by Giuseppe Giacosa and Luigi Illica based on Scènes de la vie de bohème by Henry Murger (1845-1848). Music by Giacomo Puccini. First performed on 1 February 1896 at the Teatro Regio in Turin. First performed at the Gran Teatre del Liceu on 10 April 1898. From the mid-19th century onwards — against the background of industrialization, the supremacy of bourgeois values, and an intellectual climate dominated by secular materialistic and scientific positivism — art became realistic, seeking to show things as they really were — almost photographically —, rather than making them more amiable or more beautiful. An opera such as La Bohème, which talks of the fragile nature of happiness in a world of poverty, cold and disease, is an obvious example of this trend. In La Bohème, however, the aesthetic of Verism — the Italian equivalent of the French Naturalism of Émile Zola — becomes more sentimental and the brutality of social reality is depicted less crudely than elsewhere. Four young artists live out their everyday lives amid dreams and disappointments, waiting for the event that is to win them renown, but poverty and misfortune deprive the leading characters — Mimì and Rodolfo — of the joy of mutual love. The text and music relate all this with a pleasant melodramatic tenderness with which it is easy to identify.

Satchurated: Live in Montreal – A Filmed Concert Performance by world renowed guitarist Joe Satriani

On 6^th March @ 9.30 for one night only

in Movies @ Gorey

Joe Satriani, one of the most respected and innovative guitarists in the world today, will release his live-concert film, Satchurated: Live in Montreal.

Satchurated was filmed live during Satriani’s “The Wormhole Tour”, supporting his studio album Black Swans and Wormhole Wizards at the Metropolis in Montreal, Canada. The concert was filmed by GRAMMY and EMMY award-winning concert filmmakers Pierre and Francois Lamoureux.

Over the last two decades, Satriani has traveled the world, playing to sold-out crowds as both a headliner and as founder of the all-star “G3” guitar extravaganza. His studio and live recordings have sold more than 10 Million copies worldwide to date and of his many solo albums, two have gone platinum and four others went gold, with 15 Grammy nominations between them. His side project, Chickenfoot, featuring former Van Halen front man Sammy Hagar, former bassist Michael Anthony, and Red Hot Chili Peppers’ drummer Chad Smith saw their debut album certified gold and have just released their second studio album. Satriani also appears in the Academy Award-nominated film Moneyball starring Brad Pitt, recreating a National Anthem performance he gave at the 2002 Opening Day of Major League Baseball’s Oakland A’s. In late 2010, music sensation Nicki Minaj sampled the classic Satriani song, “Always With Me Always With You” in her song, “Right Through Me” from her multi-platinum debut album and in March 2012, Satriani will revive his “G3” Tour ‘down-under’ when he is joined by fellow legendary guitarists Steve Vai & Steve Lukather for a Spring tour of Australia & New Zealand.

02/03/2012

Highly acclaimed directors Moshe Leiser and Patrice Caurier, with their regular design team Christian Fenouillat, Agostino Cavalca and Christophe Forey, bring their beautiful staging of Madama Butterfly back to The Royal Opera. The story of a Japanese geisha’s love for an American naval officer moved Puccini to compose music of rare and sensual beauty, and also of heartrending power, as the heroine’s tragedy moves towards its devastating conclusion. Andris Nelsons conducts this ravishing score, which features such wonderfully lyrical passages as Cio-Cio-San’s first entrance, her seduction by Pinkerton, the famous ‘Humming Chorus’ and of course Cio-Cio-San’s aria ‘Un bel dì vedremo’. Liping Zhang will sing the role of the ill-fated Cio-Cio-San (Butterfly). James Valenti makes an especially dashing Pinkerton – the character whose thoughtless toying with love is the catalyst for this tragic tale. The second Puccini opera performed this summer, Madama Butterfly offers the drama musical richness and sheer pleasure of great performance that makes The Royal Opera world class.

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Berlin Philharmonic

04/03/2012

Live at your cinema, the world’s leading orchestra, the Berliner Philharmoniker, in fabulous surround sound and high definition, conducted by the greatly sought after Christian Thielemann. His interpretations of late romantic music in particular have brought him international recognition. Here he conducts the Berliner Philharmoniker’s solo oboist, Albrecht Mayer, as he performs Richard Strauss’s Oboe Concerto and Anton Bruckner’s richly atmospheric Symphony No. 4 “Romantic”. The live broadcast from Berlin includes interviews and background footage, giving cinema audiences a ‘better than the best seat’ experience.

The Comedy of Errors

01/03/2012

 in earth, in heaven, or in hell? Sleeping or waking? mad or well advised? Known unto these, and to myself disguised! Two sets of twins separated at birth collide in the same city without meeting for one crazy day, as multiple mistaken identities lead to confusion on a grand scale. And for no one more so than Antipholus of Syracuse and his servant Dromio who, in search of their brothers, arrive in a land entirely foreign to their distant home. A buzzing metropolis, to the outsiders it appears a place of wonderment and terror, where baffling gifts and unexplained hostilities abound. Do you know me, sir? Am I Dromio? Am I your man? Am I myself? Consistently recognised by strangers, the visitors question their very selves as the turmoil escalates. Meanwhile, Aegeon, father to the Antipholus twins, has been captured searching for his sons and, as an illegal immigrant, is sentenced to death at sunset. Shakespeare’s furiously paced comedy will be staged in a contemporary world into which walk three prohibited foreigners who see everything for the first time. Lenny Henry plays Antipholus of Syracuse.

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Jekyll and Hyde

JEKYLL and HYDE: THE MUSICAL brings new life to the classic story of the epic battle between good and evil, as imagined by acclaimed composer Frank Wildhorn and writer/lyricist Leslie Bricusse, with David Hasselhoff (Knight Rider, Baywatch) making his Broadway debut in the dual title role. From producer Cameron Mackintosh.

I, Superbiker

The showdown

On Tuesday, 21/02/2012 @ 19.15

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The 2011 British superbike season saw the most dramatic finale in its history, with the new electrifying showdown format, only 6 riders can compete for the title. Reigning champion, Japanese rider Ryuichi Kiyonari, beset with personal problems attempts to defend his crown. The bad boy Australian Josh Brookes was runner up in 2010 and is determined to battle his way to the top, no matter what. Ex BSB champ, Shane ‘Shakey’ Byrne, is the fans favourite and all round good guy, looking to regain the crown for pride’s sake. Michael Laverty, the Irish Flyer wants to put his stamp on the title for his country, whilst for the first time in the UK, ex Moto GP star John Hopper Hopkins, back to racing after overcoming his personal demons and substance abuse problems. Hopkins is the first American with a realistic chance of winning the title, and added to the mix, British hero Tommy Hill who spectacularly lost the title last year by one small error, is absolutely determined to prove himself the British Superbike champion. ONLY ONE CAN BE WINNER. With the live Q&A hosted by ex-champ and TV commentator James Whitham, featuring Stuart Higgs British Superbikes series director, showdown riders Shane Byrne, Michael Laverty and reigning British Champion Tommy Hill alongside film director, Mark Sloper

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Ghost Rider

Spirit of Vengeance 

From Friday 17/02/2012

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Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

from Friday

17/02/2012

In a vase in a closet, a couple of years after his father died in 9/11, nine-year-old Oskar discovers a key…
The key belonged to his father, he’s sure of that. But which of New York’s 162 million locks does it open?
So begins a quest that takes Oskar – inventor, letter-writer and amateur detective – across New York’s five boroughs and into the jumbled lives of friends, relatives and complete strangers. He gets heavy boots, he gives himself little bruises and he inches ever nearer to the heart of a family mystery that stretches back fifty years. But will it take him any closer to, or even further from, his lost father?