Classic Film Screening
Join us at Naas Library & Cultural Centre as we celebrate the history of cinema with a season of monthly film screenings. This programme is curated by our own (also author/film historian) Wayne Byrne in honour of our premises’ past as the Naas Town Hall Cinema, with a series of films programmed from the era in which the building operated as a popular picture house from 1902 to 1940. One Friday per month we will screen feature films released across those four decades, from silent epics to early talkies, from musicals to comedies, crime to horror, adventures to westerns.
Screening on Friday 23rd May at 2.30pm is Orson Welles’s immortal directorial debut which has for many decades been considered the greatest film ever made. Welles’s prodigious film from 1941 changed the way Hollywood films would be made forever more. Welles not only directs but stars as the titular newspaper tycoon who utters a mysterious word – “Rosebud” – on his deathbed, which leads to a journalist tracing the man’s storied life in business and politics to uncover the meaning of Charles Foster Kane’s ultimate utterance. Controversial and brilliant, a dazzling display of film art and complex storytelling technique, Welles’ masterpiece deserves its position as one of the Cinema’s highest achievements.
So, come along and celebrate the history of Cinema and the legacy of the Town Hall with this exciting retrospective programme, a rare opportunity to see these films on the big screen.
Join us for tea and coffee before the feature presentation!