well then take note of some of these upcoming screenings of some contemporary and classic films which are playing locally thanks to the quality programming of the Maynooth Film For All Film Club and The Riverbank Theatre in Newbridge.

First up is the Maynooth Film For All Film Club's screening of Blake Edwards excellent and revered 1961 classic "Breakfast at Tiffany's". Audrey Hepburn stars in the career defining role as Holly Golightly and George Peppard as Paul Varjak, the failing writer who falls for his idiosyncratic yet irrestistible neighbour. Despite a dubious and stereotyped performance by Mickey Rooney as Holly and Paul's uptight Asian neighbour, the film is a masterful romance with classic scenes now engrained in our memories forever, lasting images such as the final scenes of the lovebirds realising their feelings for another in the rain-soaked streets to the plaintive strains of Johnny Mercer's and Henry Mancini's iconic song "Moon River".

The Riverbank Theatre in Newbridge will be screening an altogether more provocative piece of filmaking the following week, the Polish feature "Katyn". The film is a WWII story based on the mass execution in 1940 of many thousands of Polish citizens, including military officers, police and intellectuals among others under Stalin's orders in the woodlands near Smolensk, Russia.
The film was directed by Andrzej Wadja and has achieved critical praise from noted film critics such as Roger Ebert and was also nominated at The 81st Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film in 2008. For those who missed it on the big screen on it's itinial release, here is your chance to see this riveting and devastating war film as it was meant to seen.

Breakfast at Tiffany's will be shown in the JHL2 Lecture Hall in Maynooth NUI on Wednesday February 3rd at 7.45pm and will be introduced by Dr. Denis Condon NUIM.

Katyn will be screened at The Riverbank Theatre Newbridge on Monday February 8th at 8pm