The Picture Show presenter Philip Molloy will be live in studio this evening on The Right Hook, looking ahead to this week's new releases and next month's film festival.
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Julie Andrews is coming to Dublin for a special 50th anniversary performance of The Sound of Music at this year’s Jameson International Dublin Film Festival (JDIFF).
Festival 2015, running from 19th to 29th March, will conclude with a public interview with Dame Andrews at the Bórd Gais Energy Theatre and a gala showing of the movie at the Savoy Cinema at 7.30pm. The actress and singer, who turns 80 this year, will be presented with a Volta Award to mark her contribution to cinema in a career that goes back to the early 60s.
Andrews won the lead role in The Sound Of Music when director Robert Wise was shown advance footage of her performance in her first film Mary Poppins, for which she would win an Oscar in 1964. Her role as a novice named Maria who becomes a nanny to a group of singing children remained at the top of the US box office for 30 weeks on its initial release and the soundtrack album sold 20 million copies.
This year’s JDIFF has what is probably its biggest line-up of celebrity guests so far: three actor-turned-directors will be attending – Kenneth Branagh (who will also receive a Volta), Alan Rickman and Russell Crowe will be here to launch their movies A Little Chaos and The Water Diviner. In all, more than 60 Irish and international guests will attend. Ryan O’ Neal will be here to mark the 40th anniversary of Stanley Kubrick’s Barry Lyndon in which O’Neal stars, French star Vincent Perez, Danny Huston, Kim Cattrall and Irish actors Jack Reynor, Robbie Sheehan and Orla Brady.
The programme for the festival was launched this evening, promising a wide and diverse range of movies over the 11 days. JDIFF will bring new films from auteurs François Ozon (The New Girlfriend), Olivier Assayas (Cloud of Sils Maria), Roy Andersson (A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence), and Wim Wenders (The Salt of the Earth). Other high-lights will be Italian comedy I Can Quit Whenever I Want, the beautiful German film Phoenix starring Nina Hoss, the Sundance Audience Award-winning Difret and Scandanivan films which include Blind (Norway), The Salvation (Denmark), The Quiet Roar (Sweden), Silent Heart (Denmark), Something Must Break (Sweden).
Exciting home-grown talent will be showcased in the line up of Irish features, which will encompass directors Gerard Barrett’s Glassland, Brian O’Malley’s Let Us Prey, Pat Murphy’s Tana Bana, Ivan Kavanagh’s The Canal, Conor McMahon’s From The Dark, and Vivienne DeCourcy’s Dare to be Wild.
Actor Robbie Sheehan will be attending the Festival for a screening of his new film The Road Within and he will participate in the Actors in Conversation event, part of this year’s Screen Test programme.
