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THE stars of Hollywood will de- scend on Ennistymon this Wednes- day in the shape of new film by Clare based author and filmmaker Alan Cooke.
Home, which features appearances from Liam Neeson, Mike Myers, Su- san Sarandon, Rosie Perez, Alfred Molina, Frank McCourt and Malachy McCourt will receive it’s local debut at the Courthouse Gallery in En- nistymon tomorrow evening at 8pm.
Home in an autobiographic tale of Cooke’s own journey in New York and the general experience of mak- ing the Big Apple your home.
“I spent six years in New York be- fore moving back to Dublin. I spent a few months there and decided that I just didn’t want to be around there anymore. I’m writing a book about my time in New York so I wanted to find somewhere quiet to put my thoughts together while and that’s what brought me to Inagh,” said writer and author Alan Cooke.
“It was just after 9/11 so it was a fairly strange time to be moving to New York. I started writing a lot of pieces about the city which eventu- ally led on to the film. So now I have started going back to these original writings, expanding on them and putting the book together.
“It’s a documentary but its a mix- ture of different styles. A documen- tary is usually just a lot of talking heads but this is more like a poem or love letter to the city.
‘There are a lot of interesting visu- als about what I felt about New York and what the meaning of home is in New York.
‘Because so much happens in every moment in New York we were try- ing to capture that feeling visually, through the words and in the inter- views with regular New Yorkers and the starts who ended up being in the nubeee
Home received it’s Irish premier at the Eye Cinema in Galway last week
and this will be it’s first Clare show- ing. Following the show Alan will host a questions and answers session with interested audience members.
“It’s a study of how New York is in the 21 century but it’s also about how a person changes when they leave somewhere like Ireland and go to a big city like New York,’ he contin- ued.
To book tickets phone 065 7071630, email ennistymon@mail.com. Tick- ets cost ©7 and a trailer is viewable on www.homethemovie.com.