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The Claddagh Palace played host to the Galway Film Fleadh [1] from its inception in 1989, until 1995, when the fleadh relocated to the Town Hall Theatre. A short documentary entitled Palace of Dreams [ 2 ] was made in 1996, looking at the life and times of the cinema as seen and narrated by many of the people involved in its upkeep.
Irish Multiplex Cinemas (or the IMC Cinema Group) is a cinema chain in Ireland. It operates cinemas throughout the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland. It was part of the Ward Anderson company until 2013, when it was split between IMC and Omniplex Cinema Group. [1] The typical cinema owned by IMC has between five and ten screens.
Omniplex Cinemas is a cinema chain which started in the Republic of Ireland in 1991. Following this they expanded to Derry in Northern Ireland in 1993. In late 2023, it entered the markets in England and Scotland by acquiring the former Empire Cinemas after their bankruptcy.
Galway has four cinema complexes within or near the city centre: the 11-screen IMC cinema, the 9-screen EYE cinema, the 10-screen Omniplex in Salthill and the 3-screen arthouse cinema Pálás. [ 55 ] On 1 December 2014, Galway was granted designation as a Unesco "City of Film" .
The festival was founded in 1989, [3] as part of the Galway Arts Festival and was held at the Claddagh Palace until that venue closed in 1995. [4] The festival has become known as a venue for the premiere of domestic Irish films, but as an international festival, it also exhibits foreign film works.
The building was commissioned as the courthouse for the town of Galway (the county courthouse being located opposite, across courthouse square, and still being used as Galway city and county courthouse to this day). [2] It was designed by Alexander Hay in the neoclassical style, built in ashlar stone and was completed in 1825. The design ...
Ster Ilion in Ilion Athens 8 screens & 1 Summer (1 3D) Ster Macedonia in Thessaloniki 11 screens (2 3D) Ster Pantheon Plaza in Larissa 3 screens (1 3D) Ster Veso Mare in Patras 8 screens (2 3D) Ster Mega Place in Chania, Greece 3 screens (1 3D) Ster Cinemas also operated the following sites, until they were sold to Cineplexx International in ...
In 1906 Greek cinema was born when the Manakis brothers started recording in Macedonia, and the French filmmaker "Leons" produced the first "Newscast" from the midi-Olympic games of Athens (the unofficial Olympic games of 1906). The first cine-theater of Athens opened about a year later and other special 'projection rooms' begun their activity.