First Seen in Dublin

Students studying abroad in Dublin this semester will be the first to see the newly restored Guests of the Nation on Sunday, September 11, before its New York premiere. Widely regarded as one of the most significant films of the Irish silent film canon, Denis Johnston s Guests of the Nation (1935), preserved and restored by the IFI Irish Film Archive and based on Frank O Connor s short story of friendship between British soldiers and their IRA captors, receives its North American premiere with a new orchestral score by composer Niall Byrne, performed by the RTÉ Concert Orchestra at Lincoln Centre on September 22.