The National Concert Hall presents 60th Anniversary Screening of Alfred Hitchcock’s Chilling Classic, The Birds

The National Concert Hall presents 60th Anniversary Screening of Alfred Hitchcock’s Chilling Classic, The Birds, with Captivating New Live Score this November

Media Release Thursday 10th August 10am 
 
60th Anniversary Screening of Alfred Hitchcock’s The Birds with New Live Score 

Tuesday 7th November 2023 8pm  

National Concert Hall  

Tickets €27 (10% Discount for Friends of NCH and Groups of 10 or more)  

Tickets On Sale: Friday 11th August 10am  

Box Office Tel: 01 4170000 www.nch.ie 

The National Concert Hall is delighted to announce a special 60th anniversary screening of Alfred Hitchcock’s immortal thriller The Birds with a new live score written and performed live by Matthew Nolan in collaboration with Seán Mac Erlaine, Sharon Phelan and Eivind Aarset this November. 

Frequently lauded as one of Hitchcock’s finest films, The Birds chronicles a terrifying avian assault on the residents of the town - a mysterious spate of violence that no one can explain. The magnum opus marks Tippi Hedren’s compelling screen debut and is frequently cited in top film lists due to its mesmeric direction and bewitching cinematography which provide its uniquely eerie and claustrophobic atmosphere. 

For this 60th anniversary screening, Matthew Nolan in collaboration with Seán Mac Erlaine, Sharon Phelan and Eivind Aarset will provide a suitably ominous and haunting score. This is the same team that brought Dracula with live score to the National Concert Hall in 2016 – to rave reviews. Matthew Nolan’s other live film score projects include Metropolis (presented at the NCH in 2014), The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, The Night of the Living Dead (commissioned by NCH in 2018) and The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. Matthew’s new score for Solaris (co-written with Stephen Shannon) premiered at the New York Film Festival in 2002 and he has also presented works at Film at Lincoln Centre (New York), National Gallery of Art (Washington DC) and at The Brooklyn Academy of Music.  

The Birds is generally regarded as the last great Hitchcock movie (it was shot in 1963, when the director's reputation was at its peak). It might also stand as the essential Hitchcock movie, the purest and most confident, a brilliant distillation of the themes that fuelled the director over the course of his career. Here, Hitchcock juggles shrill B-movie histrionics with chill arthouse gloss. The formal precision of his camerawork, the deft economy of Evan Hunter's dialogue and a sense of location is so sharp and assured that it feels that you’ve been there. 

This is an evening not to be missed. 

Tickets €27 

On Sale Friday 11th August 10am   

10% Discount for Friends of NCH   

10% Discount for Groups of 10 or more     

www.nch.ie    

Box Office Tel: 01 4170000  

ENDS            

Media Queries: Sinead Doyle, Marketing & PR Manager or Roisin Dwyer, PR & Publications Executive, National Concert Hall, Earlsfort Terrace, Dublin 2.
(S. Doyle Tel: 087 1775334 / R. Dwyer 085 7129628)