Classic film tonight

Akira

(On wednesday week another animated classic - Linelaker's "this waking life")

Notable themes of the film include youth culture, delinquency, social unrest and future uncertainty weighed against the historical spectre of nuclear destruction and Japan's post-war economic revival.

Akira (アキラ, Akira?) is a 1988 Japanese animated film co-written and directed by Katsuhiro Otomo based on his manga of the same name. The movie led the way for the growing popularity of anime in the West, with Akira considered a forerunner of the second wave of anime fandom that began in the early 1990s. One of the reasons for the movie's success was the highly advanced quality of its animation. At the time, most anime was notorious for cutting production corners with limited motion, such as having only the characters' mouths move while their faces remained static. Akira broke from this trend with meticulously detailed scenes, exactingly lip-synched dialogue — a first for an anime production (voices were recorded before the animation was completed, rather than the opposite) — and super-fluid motion as realized in the film's more than 160,000 animation cels.[1] It is regarded by critics as one of the greatest animated films ever made.[2]

While most of the character designs and basic settings were directly adapted from the original 2,182 page manga epic, the restructured plot of the movie differs considerably from the print version, pruning much of the last half of the book.

Notable themes of the film include youth culture, delinquency, social unrest and future uncertainty weighed against the historical spectre of nuclear destruction and Japan's post-war economic revival. This pervasive atmosphere of impending doom is set to fuse in the feature's tag line, "Neo-Tokyo is about to E•X•P•L•O•D•E."

Suggested Donation: Waged/Unwaged 2.50 /2.00

Directions:

Coming from Capel St bridge, turn left at the Boar's Head off Capel Street, large grey-blue building on your right, old Melody Maker building. It is across the road from the "Capel Building" and Rhodes restaurant. It is on the Luas track.

This will be the second film screening in the new Seomra Spraoi (Dublin Social Centre) location. The aspiration is that there will be a D.I.Y weekly screening in Sproai Spraoi.

Sunday, July 08, 2007

Porco Dio seomra spraoi fundraiser - Thursday July 12th

Our good friends Porco Dio are organising a seomra spraoi fundraiser gig on Thursday, July 12th in the Lower Deck, Portobello, Dublin 8.



Porco Dio Present
Fundraiser for the new Seomra Spraoi

Frigits hideaway house punks http://www.myspace.com/frigits
Another Day in Hell hardcore for the hard core
Illuminatus mournful metal http://www.myspace.com/illuminatusonline
Groundburst ambient rock http://www.myspace.com/groundburst

The Lower Deck, Portobello
Thursday 12 July
€5 before 9pm / €6 after

http://seomraspraoi.blogspot.com
http://www.myspace.com/seomraspraoi

http://www.myspace.com/porcodiodublin

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Film screening every Wednesday

Film screening at Seomra Spraoi, every Wednesday evening at 7.30pm.



Different types of films each week, all ideas welcome. If you've a film you'd like to show drop in and bring it along. Would be really great if people could get involved to help with organising each week. We have a really large screen, a good projector and a perfect big room.


Donation at the door, no one turned away for lack of funds.


7.30pm, all welcome.
Address 4 Marys Abbey, Dublin 1 (first and second floor)

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Thursday, July 05, 2007

Party this Friday

There will be a party at Seomra Spraoi this Friday, July 6th.

Music, dancing and fun.

Put it in your diary now and more details to follow.

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Monday, July 02, 2007

Tabless Quizz

First event at our new location



A tabless quiz will take place in our new HUGE premises.
All sorts of questions, great fun and a chance to explore the new gaff.
€3 per person or €2 if in fancy dress. All welcome.

Address: 4 Mary's Abbey, Dublin 1 (First and second floor)

Directions: coming from Capel St bridge, turn left at the Boar's Head off Capel St, large grey-blue building on your right, old Music Maker building. It is across the road from the "Capel Building" and Rhodes restaurant.
It is on the Luas track.

Related Link: http://www.myspace.com/seomraspraoi
www.seomraspraoi.blogspot.com

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