Mountmellick Community Arts Centre

27/05/2024

Showing on Wednesday 29th May 2024 at the Balcony Cinema at 8.00pm
Apollo 13
Astronauts Lovell, Haise and Swigert of the Apollo 13 moon mission find themselves stranded when their spacecraft gets damaged. Soon, NASA tries to bring them back before it is too late.
Trailer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KtEIMC58sZo

13/05/2024

Showing on Wednesday 15th May 2024 at the Balcony Cinema at 8.00pm
The holdovers
A curmudgeonly instructor at a New England prep school remains on campus during Christmas break to babysit a handful of students with nowhere to go. He soon forms an unlikely bond with a brainy but damaged troublemaker, and with the school's head cook, a woman who just lost a son in the Vietnam War.
Trailer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AhKLpJmHhIg

07/05/2024

Showing on Wednesday 8th May 2024 at the Balcony Cinema at 8.00pm.
Manon of the spring
Part 2 of Jean de Florette - English subtitles
Trailer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EfKFPktklmA

07/05/2024

This month of May, here are the Wednesday movies we will show at the Balcony Cinema
8th - Manon of the spring (Part 2 of Jean de Florette)
15th - The holdovers
22nd - Wicked little letters
29th - Apollo 13
Tickets €5 including a cuppa/biscuit and chat!!!
And a warm welcome.
We are looking forward seeing you.

29/04/2024

Showing on Wednesday 1st May 2024 at the Balcony Cinema at 8.00pm.
Great winner of Oscar 2024 featuring Cillian Murphy.
Oppenheimer
The story of American scientist J. Robert Oppenheimer and his role in the development of the atomic bomb.
Trailer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uYPbbksJxIg

15/04/2024

Don't forget this week...
All Ireland Confined Drama Finals 2024
The Festival will run from the 18th of April 2024 to the 26th of April with the final Awards Night on the 27th of April 2024.
https://mountmellickdramafestival.ie/festivalprogram2024

15/04/2024

Showing this Tuesday 16th April 2024 at 8.15pm
The song of Bernadette
A French peasant girl's visions of the Virgin Mary create controversy as pilgrims flock to her small town for healing.
Trailer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tdyLL5koRE

15/04/2024

Battle over Britain
Showing on Wednesday 17th April 2024 at the Balcony Cinema at 8.00pm.
During the height of the Battle of Britain, a flight of exhausted Spitfire pilots fight to the last man in defense of their country.
Trailer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Npa7gKTXALw

08/04/2024

Showing on Wednesday 10th April 2024 at the Balcony Cinema at 8.00pm.
One life
The true story of Sir Nicholas 'Nicky' Winton, a young London broker who, in the months leading up to World War II, rescued 669 predominantly Jewish children .
Trailer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ethollg-PI

02/04/2024

Exceptionally, we will be showing 2 movies next week.
One on Wednesday 3rd April and one on Friday 5th April 2024
Wednesday 3rd April at 8pm
The colour purple
A decades-spanning tale of love and resilience and of one woman's journey to independence.
Trailer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wPwzBUui1GA

Friday 5th April at 7.30pm
Wonka
Based on the extraordinary character at the center of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Roald Dahl’s most iconic children's book and one of the best-selling children's books of all time, "Wonka" tells the wondrous story of how the world's greatest inventor, magician and chocolate-maker became the beloved W***y Wonka we know today.
Trailer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7fnyPWhfcs

25/03/2024

Showing on Wednesday 27th March 2024 at the Balcony Cinema at 8.00pm.
Jean de Florette - (French movie with English subtitles)
City-dweller Jean de Florette (Gerard Depardieu) moves his family to the Provence countryside in the 1920s to forge a new life as a flower farmer. But his proud, cocky neighbouring rival Le Papet schemes with his simple-minded nephew Ugolin to acquire some nearby land ensuring the novice owner never discovers an all-important natural spring on the property.
Exploring the formidable rural landscape, Jean de Florette captures one family's noble struggle against the forces of nature and the treachery of man.
Trailer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dKNhkcx06pE

19/03/2024

Showing on Wednesday 20th March 2024 at the Balcony Cinema at 8.00pm.
Places in the heart
During the Great Depression of the 1930s, Edna, a young woman, is forced to take charge of her farm after the death of her husband and is helped by two men with opposite characteristics.
Trailer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PzCPWZbsN2E

12/03/2024

Showing on Wednesday 13th March 2024 at the Balcony Cinema at 8.00pm.
Scrapper
Trailer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=slyUJ1_eK4E

26/02/2024

Showing on Wednesday 29th February 2024 at the Balcony Cinema at 8.00pm.
Leap year
An American woman, Anna Brady decides to travel to Dublin, to propose to her boyfriend Jeremy on 29 February, a leap day. However, she faces several hindrances during the journey.
Trailer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HrlQBsd8LsE

19/02/2024

Showing on Wednesday 21st February 2024 at the Balcony Cinema at 8.00pm.
The eight mountains
An epic journey of friendship and self-discovery set in the breathtaking Italian Alps, The Eight Mountains follows over four decades the profound, complex relationship between Pietro and Bruno.
Trailer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ak4yBWxJDj8

14/02/2024

Showing on Wednesday 14th February 2024 at the Balcony Cinema at 8.00pm.
Past lives
Nora and Hae Sung, two deeply connected childhood friends, are wrest apart after Nora's family emigrates from South Korea. Decades later, they are reunited for one fateful week as they confront destiny, love and the choices that make a life.
Trailer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kA244xewjcI

29/01/2024

This Saturday 3rd February 2024 @ 2 pm.
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/born-to-be-wild-kids-show-mountmellick-community-arts-centre-tickets-776220946747?aff=oddtdtcreator

29/01/2024

Showing on Wednesday 31st January 2024 at the Balcony Cinema at 8.00pm.
BOOK CLUB: THE NEXT CHAPTER
The highly anticipated sequel follows our four best friends as they take their book club to Italy for the fun girls trip they never had. When things go off the rails and secrets are revealed, their relaxing vacation turns into a once-in-a-lifetime cross-country adventure.
Trailer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i9k213d5FU0

16/01/2024

Coming soon...

15/01/2024

Showing on Wednesday 17th January 2024 at the Balcony Cinema at 8.00pm.
The miracle club
There's just one dream for the women of Ballygar to taste freedom: to win a pilgrimage to the sacred French town of Lourdes. With a little benevolent interference from their local priest, a group of close friends get their ticket of a lifetime.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gp3ZFdklPCk

08/01/2024

Showing on Wednesday 10th January 2024 at the Balcony Cinema at 8.00pm.
The great escaper
In the summer of 2014, a World War II veteran sneaks out of his care home to attend the 70th anniversary commemoration of the D-Day landings in Normandy.
Trailer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JEvYEPNxHzo

18/12/2023

11/12/2023

Showing on Wednesday 13th December at the Balcony Cinema at 8.00pm.
Freedom writers
Erin Gruwell teaches a class of at-risk students who are divided by their race and harbour animosity against one another. Soon, she decides to unite them and pursue education beyond high school.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=miz1V13QWsU

20/11/2023

Showing on Wednesday 22nd November at the Balcony Cinema at 8.00pm.
The parent trap
Identical twins Hallie and Annie are separated after their parents' divorce. Years later, they discover each other at a summer camp and decide to switch places in an effort to reunite their parents.
Trailer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PMAhVpgzmRU

13/11/2023

This week - Saturday 18th November
From 8pm to 10pm

13/11/2023

Showing on Wednesday 15th November at the Balcony Cinema at 8.00pm.
The English patient
Trailer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xk_LRcOFT0c

09/11/2023

https://www.patrickobyrne.ie/
A foretaste of Patrick O'Byrne performance

Mise Eriú - Step back in time for an afternoon of beautiful, authentic, Irish songs dating from the 1500s to the 1850s, with one of Dublin's foremost folk singers in a cosy city centre pub just a few minutes walk from the rush of Temple Bar.