See You at the Pictures, Mon 1st April 2013. 9.30 pm

Lapin

Part of Ireland at the Movies season on RTÉ.

See You at the Pictures is a brand new feature length documentary which looks at movie-going in Ireland throughout the decades. Exploiting a treasure chest of hitherto undocumented or privately documented stories and adventures that have been stored inside heads or scribbled in yellowing notebooks and diaries across the country, the film examines specific periods of Irish history as related, through the prism of cinema, by ordinary and less ordinary people who lived and are living through them. Their testimony guides us through the years, providing insight, historical knowledge, funny anecdotes, local colour, and other comic or perhaps even tragic stories. Out of this emerges a truly nationally-shared experience of cinema-going as important to our common heritage as any of the other components of our culture.



Looks interesting.

I'm hoping its not going to be another RTÉ jaunt down memory lane with contributions from the usual B list 'stars'.

Nobody overdoes nostalgia like RTÉ.

Lapin

Lapin wrote: »

Nobody overdoes nostalgia like RTÉ.

2 minutes in and we meet a gentleman telling us he used to work 5 and a half days a week for 10 shillings which he handed over to his mother, who gave him sixpence out of it for himself.

Why RTÉ, why ?:(

Skid X

They could easily have cut 20 minutes out of that and made it tighter.

A few interesting interviews, but a lot of near-identical contributions which became very repetitive.

spockety

No coverage of the modern day multiplex which was a bit disappointing. Entertaining all the same.