WHAT'S ON - 02/2012

• A DANGEROUS METHOD

  David Cronenberg’s latest offers an engrossing dissection of the three-way relationship which changed the history of psychiatry. In the first decade of the 20th century the new discipline of the ‘talking cure’ was far from established, putting special onus on [...]

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• ARCHIVE AT LUNCHTIME: DOUBLE BILL

  Join us for FREE screenings of films from the IFI Irish Film Archive. Simply collect your tickets at IFI Box Office (see calendar for programme times).

  DEBUT Continuing our series of early works by established practitioners.

  PROGRAMME 1: JOE COMERFORDJoe Comerford is [...]

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• ARCHIVE AT LUNCHTIME: PROGRAMME 1

  Join us for FREE screenings of films from the IFI Irish Film Archive. Simply collect your tickets at IFI Box Office.

  DEBUT Continuing our series of early works by established practitioners.

  PROGRAMME 1: JOE COMERFORDJoe Comerford is a filmmaker and film artist [...]

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• ARCHIVE AT LUNCHTIME: PROGRAMME 2

  Join us for FREE screenings of films from the IFI Irish Film Archive. Simply collect your tickets at IFI Box Office.

  DEBUT Continuing our series of early works by established practitioners.

  PROGRAMME 2: PATRICK CAREYCinematographer and director Paddy Carey (1916 – 1994) [...]

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• CARNAGE

  Notwithstanding the shadow cast in recent times by his past private misdeeds, Roman Polanski remains at the top of his game as a filmmaker. Here his razor-sharp humour marks a blisteringly astute adaptation of Yasmina Reza’s multi-award-winning play God of Carnage

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• CASABLANCA

  “You must remember this . . .” Even so, why not refresh your memory with the IFI’s 70th anniversary screening of one of the highpoints of Hollywood’s Golden Age, a film that can justly be called the classics’ classic. See [...]

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• CORIOLANUS

  Ralph Fiennes puts Shakespeare’s saga of Roman conflict on celluloid for the first time in this striking modern-dress interpretation which brings alive one of the Bard’s lesser-known plays. Here the Roman republic is re-imagined in terms of the recent Balkan [...]

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• GALLIVANT

  Kötting’s first feature is a delightfully offbeat road movie in which he, his 85-year-old grandmother Gladys – opinionated, bursting with anecdotes and contradictory reminiscences – and his 8-year-old daughter Eden – who has learning difficulties and has to communicate by sign language – embark on a six [...]

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• HADEWIJCH

  For a filmmaker who has often explored mankind’s brute physicality, the spiritual theme of Bruno Dumont’s 2009 drama (titled after a 13th-century Christian mystic) seemingly marks a sea-change. Dumont’s faith in non-professional actors remains intact however, vindicated by the remarkable Julie Sokolowski as a wilfully pious [...]

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• HANNAH AND HER SISTERS

  This 1986-vintage modern classic brings together everything there is to love about Woody Allen, the cinema’s ultimate New Yorker. For a start, it’s set in the Big Apple – always prime Allen turf – and co-stars Woody himself on close [...]

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• HOUSE OF TOLERANCE

  As the 19th century elides into the 20th, a luxurious and traditional Paris bordello is the setting for director Bertrand Bonello’s trenchant exploration of the relationship between capital, labour and sex. Opting out of the privations of working-class toil, these [...]

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• IFI FAMILY: THE MUPPETS TAKE MANHATTAN

  With everyone’s favourite showmen – and one particular showwoman – making a huge cinema comeback this spring, it’s time to play something from their back catalogue. This 1984 film sees the group of artistes trying to get their show on [...]

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• IFI IRISH FILM ARCHIVE: MONTHLY MUST-SEE CINEMA

  February’s Must-See Cinema from the IFI Irish Film Archive is presented  in association with the Jameson Dublin International Film Festival.

  Out of the Past: Terence McDonald –a programme of films made by a pioneering Derry filmmaker.

  Terence McDonald (1926 – 2001) was a [...]

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• IRELAND ON SUNDAY: LORG NA GCOS

  Ireland on Sunday is our monthly showcase for new Irish Film.

  Lorg na gCos: Súil Siar ar Mise Éire explores Gael Linn’s seminal documentary film Mise Éire through the eyes of its director, George Morrison; key creative personnel behind the [...]

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• LAURA

  “I shall never forget the weekend Laura died . . .” With those haunting words begins one of the most remarkable confections of the Hollywood studio era. The firing of A-list auteur Rouben Mamoulian meant that producer Otto Preminger took [...]

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• L’ATALANTE

  The bitter Parisian winter of 1934 brought us this wonderful film, arguably the cinema’s most perfect realisation of romantic love, but it also took the life of Jean Vigo. The creator of L’Atalante succumbed to tuberculosis at 29 without ever [...]

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• MARGARET

  Shot in 2005 and entangled for the next six years in an epic editing-room imbroglio, writer-director Kenneth Lonergan’s follow-up to You Can Count on Me (2000) has finally received a small release and become a critical cause célèbre. A symphonic, [...]

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• MARTHA MARCY MAY MARLENE

  This supremely composed combination of slow-burn thriller and in-depth character study won Irish-American filmmaker Sean Durkin a Best Director prize last year at the Sundance Film Festival. The title suggests some female ensemble affair, yet actually represents the fractured personality [...]

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• RAMPART

  Woody Harrelson delivers a tour-de-force performance as the L.A.P.D.’s rottenest apple in this confrontational study of a moral monster. Gaunt, tightly-wound and always full-on, this self-styled soldier for justice wields his baton and pistol where he feels justice is too [...]

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• SHAME

  The reach-out-and-touch physicality that director Steve McQueen and actor Michael Fassbender brought to their Bobby Sands saga Hunger is, if anything, even more potent in this stunning follow-up, an excoriating dramatic portrait of a New York executive in thrall to sexual addiction. Fassbender’s character is an aloof charmer [...]

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• THE CRITICAL TAKE (FEBRUARY)

  The IFI’s free film club, The Critical Take, will see Roman Polanski’s Carnage (Feb 3rd – 23rd), Pawel Pawlikowski’s The Woman in the Fifth (from Feb 17th) and, re-released on its 70th anniversary, Casablanca (Feb 10th – 16th) [...]

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• THE DESCENDANTS

  Seven years after the Oscar-winning Sideways, Alexander Payne cements his status as the American screen’s ruling master of finding warmth and humour in serious dramatic situations. In stark terms, his latest is essentially about coming to terms with loss, thrusting [...]

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• THE LAST WALTZ

  Since he has given us expert documentaries on Bob Dylan, The Rolling Stones and George Harrison in recent years, it’s a pleasure to revisit Martin Scorsese’s pioneering musical portrait of The Band, filmed at their all-star final bow in 1976.

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• THE WOMAN IN THE FIFTH

  That’s the fifth arrondissement, of course, the Latin Quarter in Paris. This is home to the ever-seductive Kristin Scott Thomas, who’s soon looming large in the desires of visiting American novelist Ethan Hawke as director Pawel Pawlikowski’s mystery thriller unfolds.

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• THIS OUR STILL LIFE

  A new film by Kötting is cause for celebration and his deliciously eccentric latest is a lovely portrait of the artist’s daughter as a young woman living in their tumbledown Pyrenean farmhouse. Last seen in Gallivant (1996) as a plucky kid touring the coastline of Britain [...]

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• WAR HORSE

  The subject of war seems to bring the best from Steven Spielberg, as Schindler’s List, Saving Private Ryan and now this impressive venture set during 1914 –‘18 all underline. It’s based on the much-loved children’s novel by Michael Morpurgo, which recently became a phenomenon [...]

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• WILD STRAWBERRIES: GOSFORD PARK

  Wild Strawberries is our bimonthly film club for the over 55s.

  Anyone suffering Downton Abbey withdrawal symptoms can get their period drama fix from our special screening of one of the finest in the genre, 10 years since its release. [...]

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• YOUNG ADULT

  Director Jason Reitman and writer Diablo Cody, the duo behind Juno, return with another seriocomic saga about a strong-willed woman in small-town America, this time combining bitter humour with a newfound emotional maturity.

  At 37, Charlize Theron’s Mavis is churning [...]

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• ZELIG

  This intelligent and amusing fable about a 1930s ‘human chameleon’ named Leonard Zelig tends to get overlooked in Woody Allen’s copious filmography – presumably because it seems so untypical of its maker. True, Allen had already experimented with the by-now-commonplace [...]

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