HOLLYWOOD SCREEN legend, Maureen O'Hara is to attend this year's Corona Cork Film Festival for the world premiere of a documentary about John Ford and the making of The Quiet Manin which she starred alongside John Wayne.
Cork Film Festival director Mick Hannigan said the festival was looking forward to welcoming O'Hara to the gala screening of Dreaming the Quiet Man. The actor had earlier this year celebrated her 90th birthday in Glengarriff where she has had a home for almost 40 years.
"It's not often that a documentary occupies a gala screening slot in our programme but in the case of Dreaming The Quiet Manwhich we are showing in the Cork Opera House on Friday, November 12th, we believe the decision is justified," said Mr Hannigan.
The documentary by Sé Merry Doyle, in addition to featuring an interview with O'Hara, also includes contributions from Peter Bogdanovich and Martin Scorsese who reveals how a flashback fight scene in The Quiet Maninfluenced Raging Bull.
The festival also includes an intimate portrait of Lismore-born travel writer Dervla Murphy, which examines her youth and the various relationships that influenced and inspired both her love of journeying and of books.
The festival will open on November 7th, with Mark Romanak's adaption of Kazuo Ishiguro's acclaimed Booker shortlisted novel Never Let Me Gostarring Keira Knightley, Carey Mulligan and Andrew Garfield.
The film, which is set in a boarding school in the 1990s, relies on a conceit that medical science took a different twist in the 1950s and explores the relationships between the three main characters as they realise the desperate destiny that awaits them.
The festival closes on November 14th with this year's Golden Lion Winner at the Venice Film Festival, Sofia Coppola's Somewhere, starring Stephen Dorff as a bad boy actor stumbling through a life of excess in Los Angeles.
