My Journal of the 2022 Galway Film Fleadh…
Galway, Ireland, July 5 through 10Jumping the queue (festival film seen and critiqued prior to the festival)
Eat the Peach (coinciding with world premiere of The Artist and the Wall of Death)
Into the West (30-year anniversary screening followed by crew/cast reunion)
Michael Collins (commemorative screening on centenary of Collins’s death)
Sunset Boulevard (coinciding with Irish premiere of Boulevard! A Hollywood Story)
Wednesday 6 July
Ardenza (Irish premiere)
Loving Highsmith (Irish premiere)
Thursday 7 July
Boulevard! A Hollywood Story (Irish premiere)
Clara Sola (Irish premiere)
Friday 8 July
The Storms of Jeremy Thomas
Saturday 9 July
Atomic Hope (Irish premiere, Best Documentary)
Only in Theaters (Irish premiere)
Sunday 10 July
North Circular
Make-up (seen and critiqued after the festival)
Joyride (World Premiere)
Nothing Compares (Irish premiere, Best Irish Feature Documentary)
Related Commentary
12 July 2022: The effort I saved by not running so much from one cinema to another was instead spent climbing up and down the stairs at Galway’s picture palace [Docs down by the docks]
Links to official film festival sites