Upcoming Events

Dublin | Arts and Media

no events match your query!

New Events

Dublin

no events posted in last week

Blog Feeds

Public Inquiry
Interested in maladministration. Estd. 2005

offsite link RTEs Sarah McInerney ? Fianna Fail?supporter? Anthony

offsite link Joe Duffy is dishonest and untrustworthy Anthony

offsite link Robert Watt complaint: Time for decision by SIPO Anthony

offsite link RTE in breach of its own editorial principles Anthony

offsite link Waiting for SIPO Anthony

Public Inquiry >>

Human Rights in Ireland
Promoting Human Rights in Ireland

Human Rights in Ireland >>

Lockdown Skeptics

The Daily Sceptic

offsite link Yvette Cooper Axed as Home Secretary in Panicking Starmer?s Cabinet Bloodbath Fri Sep 05, 2025 17:33 | Will Jones
Yvette Cooper has been axed as Home Secretary in a shock Cabinet bloodbath triggered by Angela Rayner's resignation that's an apparent admission from Keir Starmer that his borders policy is failing.
The post Yvette Cooper Axed as Home Secretary in Panicking Starmer’s Cabinet Bloodbath appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Stop Panicking About Anxiety, Teenagers Will Grow Up Fri Sep 05, 2025 15:15 | Joanna Gray
A third of 16-17 year-old girls have anxiety, over 50% of teenagers have tried alcohol and 42% spend more than six hours a day on their phone. Cue moral panic. Chill, says Joanna Gray. Like us, they will grow up.
The post Stop Panicking About Anxiety, Teenagers Will Grow Up appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link BREAKING: Rayner Resigns Fri Sep 05, 2025 12:06 | Will Jones
Angela Rayner?has dramatically quit the Cabinet today after an ethics report into her property dealings.
The post BREAKING: Rayner Resigns appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Nigel Farage Welcomes Nadine Dorries ? The Tory Minister Responsible for the Online Safety Act Fri Sep 05, 2025 11:41 | Will Jones
Nigel Farage welcomed Nadine Dorries to Reform last night ? despite Dorries being the Tory culture minister responsible for the Orwellian Online Safety Act that Farage has savaged and pledged to replace.
The post Nigel Farage Welcomes Nadine Dorries ? The Tory Minister Responsible for the Online Safety Act appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Can We Trust Kemi? Fri Sep 05, 2025 09:00 | Paul Homewood
Can we trust Kemi to dump Net Zero and fire up the North Sea drills? With a highly organised opposition among her own MPs, lavishly funded by the Green Blob, Paul Homewood is doubtful.
The post Can We Trust Kemi? appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

Lockdown Skeptics >>

Voltaire Network
Voltaire, international edition

offsite link Will intergovernmental institutions withstand the end of the "American Empire"?,... Sat Apr 05, 2025 07:15 | en

offsite link Voltaire, International Newsletter N?127 Sat Apr 05, 2025 06:38 | en

offsite link Disintegration of Western democracy begins in France Sat Apr 05, 2025 06:00 | en

offsite link Voltaire, International Newsletter N?126 Fri Mar 28, 2025 11:39 | en

offsite link The International Conference on Combating Anti-Semitism by Amichai Chikli and Na... Fri Mar 28, 2025 11:31 | en

Voltaire Network >>

Dublin - Event Notice
Thursday January 01 1970

Screening Of 'Head On' (1998)

category dublin | arts and media | event notice author Tuesday January 03, 2017 23:51author by Dublin Film Qlub Report this post to the editors

Season 7 of the Dublin Film Qlub, 'ADAPTATIONS’, continues with...


HEAD ON
=adaptation of the novel 'Loaded', by Christos Tsiolkas, of 1995=
(Dir. Ana Kokinnos, 1998)
English
Cast: Alex Dimitriades, Paul Capsis

………………………………………………………

Saturday 21 Jan 2017
2:30 pm.
(doors open at 2pm)
The New Theatre
Temple Bar
Dublin 2
Day Membership: €8
(free tea, coffee, and biscuits)


..............

“The club is now crammed tight with people, mostly men. The music is a savage ceremony, men walking around each other, making eye contact, flirting, but flirting in a detached cynical manner, to avoid the humiliation of rejection.”

Christos Tsiolkas, 'Loaded' (1995)

………………………………………………………

The novel 'Loaded' is told from Ari’s point of view – one ordinary, epic, catastrophic day in the life of a nineteen year old party-loving boy in Melbourne, Australia. His identity as a Greek-Australian gay man (and his refusal of that identity) is colored by his distorted ideas of what a ‘real Greek man’ is –strong, masculine, straight-acting, never off guard, never poisoned by feelings. The book is set within the impoverished Greek diaspora in Melbourne (a faithful portrait of an unseen city, much like the monstrous portrait of Dorian Gray in the attic in Wilde’s story). The film holds on to that crucial context, but it eliminates Ari’s constant rewind-and-play in the cassette of his memory, and with it the accounts of sexual abuse, casual alcoholism, and relentless bullying in the family background of Ari and his best friend. In this way, Head On becomes a more universal snapshot of disaffected youth.

The book keeps referring to Ari gulfing down food, drink, LSD, snorting or injecting whatever comes his way, jumping on cars and bikes, scuttling and zig-zagging through everything to fill his empty days with ‘more’ --random inverted commas for dialogue, and slapdash headings, masterfully reflect this rush in Christos Tsiolkas’ writing. But film has a unique ability to show time in motion, and Ana Kokinnos’ brilliant adaptation is a racing pulsing sleek bullet of a film that sweeps you away with Ari. Some scenes (the Greek party, the alleyway encounter) are astonishingly faithful to the text, and others (notably the key sex-scene with George, which eliminates his racism) simplify the novel to shift the focus from race to racing, from adoptive culture to addiction. In its relentless fast-forward motion, the film comes into its own by identifying something in Ari that the novel itself is only half-aware of. This is a man paralysed by fear, who thinks trust is a weakness he can not afford and love is a luxury that he can never deserve.

…………………

© Dublin Film Qlub 2017
You are welcome to quote this material, but we request that you give the source

Related Link: http://www.filmqlub.com
© 2001-2025 Independent Media Centre Ireland. Unless otherwise stated by the author, all content is free for non-commercial reuse, reprint, and rebroadcast, on the net and elsewhere. Opinions are those of the contributors and are not necessarily endorsed by Independent Media Centre Ireland. Disclaimer | Privacy