Lighthouse cinema reopening in May

dog-man-star

This cinema has been in development for some time but the Light house cinema in Smithfield is nearly ready to open!

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http://www.movies.ie/html/article.aspx?articleid=1935

Running Bing

dog-man-star wrote: »

This cinema has been in development for some time but the Light house cinema in Smithfield is nearly ready to open!

more here -->
http://www.movies.ie/html/article.aspx?articleid=1935

Great news, nice to have a bit of variety and its got double the screens the IFI has.

Hopefully it will concentrate a bit more on classic cinema and interesting festivals and retrospectives(the IFI horrorthon needs a good kick up the arse and maybe this could do it?) as this is something the IFC doesnt do enough of.

wetdog

Awesome. I was just thinking yesterday that I wish there was another arthouse in Dublin.

Nolanger

Old enough to remember when it opened in the late '80s. Can't remember the main movie but the one upstairs was a French one called 4 Adventures of Reinette and Mirabelle. Best movie I saw there was Drowning By Numbers.

Mully

I only just got to it as it was closing ... Saw Johnny Depp in Ed Wood at it, amoungst some foriegn language films.

God be the days when you had to go to an Arthouse cinema to see Johnny in a film ...

LHCinema

Afternoon Folks!

Delighted to read about your interest in Light House Cinema re-opening. I'm helping Light House Cinema answer posts about the cinema and letting people, especially people like you who have expressed an interest in the cinema, know about what's going on. Firstly online booking will open on May 1st 2008 at www.lighthousecinema.ie and as you have read the official opening will be on May 9th 2008.

Light House will continue to place a real emphasis on films which engage with cultural diversity and focus on personal expression as they did previously. All the films will be certified and membership won't be required. Their first 3 films are Honeydripper directed by John Sayles, XXY directed by Lucia Puenzo and Caramel directed by Nadine Labanki is slated to be shown shortly. More info about all 3 at www.lighthousecinema.ie

In the meantime if you use Facebook please consider joining the Light House Cinema Facebook Fan Page at:
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Dublin-Ireland/Light-House-Cinema-Smithfield/9939876138

Or if you prefer MySpace you can "friend" Light House Cinema at:
http://www.myspace.com/lighthousecinema

Becoming a fan or adding us as friends on Facebook or MySpace will make it easy for you to keep up to date on upcoming films, events and special offers. If you like going to the cinema you will love the Light House Cinema: a state of the art cinema experience, kicked off or followed up with a GOOD cup of coffee or whatever you're having yourself. Tapas-style nibbles will be on offer too.

Or if you are just feeling nosey and would like to see how the work on the new cinemas is going we have uploaded photographs to Flickr at:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/lighthousecinema/

If you wish to contact me you can do it here or lighthousecinema@gmail.com - you can use that address to IM me on Googletalk as well.

Enjoy and hopefully see you soon!
LHC

Mully

Bump.

Opens tomorrow.

BlitzKrieg

hmm might go see honeydripper tomorrow night to see whats it like

fantastic that I have now 2 cinemas within walking distance of my apartment

spurious

Went to the Lighthouse today to see the Mike Leigh film.
Pretty nice set-up, though I can see someone taking a tumble on those stairs and I'd allow a good while for a pre-film coffee.

Unisex toilets!!!

BlitzKrieg

Heh, monkeyfudge had pretty much the same things to say

I feel its biggest problem is that there is alot of empty space.

If it is in the same market as the IFI they can really fill it up with a bar and a shop, there is seriously far too many big gaps.

otherwise i think its quiet nice.

johnny_ultimate

Must pop down during the week - didn't get a chance to see Happy Go Lucky before it finished in the IFI so gives me a good film to go down for a test run.

afatbollix

these ***** have been keeping me awake for the past 6 months with there building yet us poeple they kept awake every morning arent good enough for the opening night!!!!!

Brimmy

Any chance of a job?

I'll have to swing by though soon, nice to see the IFI have a bit of competition.

monkeyfudge

spurious wrote: »

Went to the Lighthouse today to see the Mike Leigh film.
Pretty nice set-up, though I can see someone taking a tumble on those stairs and I'd allow a good while for a pre-film coffee.

Unisex toilets!!!

Unisex toilets? I'm pretty sure the one I was in had a picture of a little man on the door.

Almost tripped on those steps twice today... it's very hard to see where one step ends and the other begins if you're not concentrating on looking at the floor.

spurious

monkeyfudge wrote: »

Unisex toilets? I'm pretty sure the one I was in had a picture of a little man on the door.

Maybe it's just the one on the way in. The one I visited had a man coming out of it as I was going in. Shock? I almost got pregnant - the nuns warned us about how these things happen...

monkeyfudge wrote: »

Almost tripped on those steps twice today... it's very hard to see where one step ends and the other begins if you're not concentrating on looking at the floor.

The steps are going to be a problem. They also require a longer pace than normal which is not so bad coming up, but difficult enough going down.

Overall though, I liked the place and wish them the best of luck.