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WHAT'S ON - 06/03/2012

  • CARANCHO

    Ricardo Darín, star of the twisty Oscar-winner The Secret in their Eyes, is surely one of the great leading men in world cinema. Specialising in protagonists who’re masculine yet vulnerable, cynical yet somehow redeemable, he has the right stuff to... Read More

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    BOOK NOW Times: 16.20|20.50

  • Catfish

    Filmmakers Ariel Schulman and Henry Joost sense a story unfolding as they begin to fi lm the life of Ariel’s brother, Nev, a photographer and avid social networker. Th eir project begins when Nev receives a mysterious package from an eight-year-old girl called Abbey.... Read More

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  • DRAWING PICTURES: A SHORT COURSE ON THE HISTORY OF ANIMATION

    Our evening course in March 2012 is Drawing Pictures: A Short Course on the History of Animation. This course traces a brief history of international animation, leading to an Irish animation event in April.

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    BOOK NOW Times: 18.30

  • KHODORKOVSKY

    It’s like a story from Tolstoy except it’s happening for real in today’s Russia. How did an oil magnate, who was once the world’s richest man under 40, end up as his country’s most famous prisoner? Cyril Tuschi’s engrossing documentary... Read More

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    BOOK NOW Times: 14.00|18.40

  • 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,... Read More

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    BOOK NOW Times: 13.30|20.10

  • MICHAEL

    In a country scarred by the Natascha Kampusch and Josef Fritzl cases, it was always likely an Austrian filmmaker would investigate the troubling issue of domestic imprisonment. This striking first feature by Markus Schleinzer thankfully avoids the obvious pitfalls involved:... Read More

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    BOOK NOW Times: 16.10|21.00

  • Panique au Village

    We continue our tour of this surreal and wacky animated film that follows three plastic toys, Cowboy, Indian and Horse, who all share a house in a rural town where nothing is ever quite normal. Cowboy and Indian’s plan to... Read More

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  • PINOCCHIO

    Essential to any study of animation is the work of Walt Disney Studios. Following their huge success with Snow White, the studio applied their hand-drawn techniques to make this feature adaptation of an original story concerning Gepetto and his long-nosed... Read More

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    BOOK NOW Times: 18.30

  • 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... Read More

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    BOOK NOW Times: 13.10|15.30|17.50


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