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The Screen Cinema: Putting classics back on the big screen
Calling the Class of ’85! Calling any of you who ever wanted to take a day off with Ferris Bueller, break the rules with Bender or go to the Shermer high school prom with Andie and Duckie. The ultimate event in 80’s cinema nostalgia is coming your way.
The Screen is nearing the end of a phenomenally successful season of 80’s blockbusters but the best is yet to come! From August 6th - 12th they will be playing a week of John Hughes’ teen movies to honor his creative genius as well as his passing in the summer of last year.
John Hughes’ power as a writer/director lay in this ability to portray all manner of human struggles parceled in the fuchsia taffeta prom dress of a teen comedy! In The Breakfast Club he achieves the impossible, transforming the brain, the athlete, the basket case, the princess and the criminal into genuine and sympathetic characters. In Ferris Buller’s Day Off Hughes succeeded in simultaneously creating one of cinema’s most selfish, manipulative and spoilt characters as well as the most endearing. Pretty in Pink insightfully explores the power of attraction asserting that sometimes nice guys should finish last.
‘Many of us were heartbroken when John Hughes died so suddenly last year. Whether you saw his films in the cinema the first time ‘round when you were a teen of the 80’s or years later, people fell in love with his characters and his films because they connected with them. They saw the girl next door, the captain of the football team, the school nerd and the saw themselves. His films stand the test of time and we are so delighted to have the opportunity to be the first honor to him in Ireland’. Screen Cinema Programmer Anna Taylor
To get you in the mood before our screening of Ferris Bueller’s Day Off on Saturday August 7th Dublin’s original 80’s nightclub, the home of the slow set, Club Nassau’s campervan will be in outside the Screen playing your favourite 80’s tunes and giving away some freebies. To continue the 80s celebration there will be an 80’s school disco themed after party in Club Nassau, Nassau Street with free entry for everyone with a Ferris Bueller ticket stub.
So call your old school friends, backcomb that hair, root out your old leopard-print waistcoat and get ready to Twist and Shout!!
The Breakfast Club – August 6th, 9th and 11th
Ferris Bueller’s Day Off – August 7th
Pretty in Pink – August 8th, 10th and 12th
For further information please contact Anna at anna.taylor@screencinema.ie
