Irish Film Institute -

WHAT'S ON - 17/03/2012

  • ARCHIVE AT LUNCHTIME DOUBLE BILL MARCH 2012: ORLA WALSH & KIERON J. WALSH

    Join us for free screenings from the IFI Irish Film Archive. Simply collect your tickets at the IFI Box Office. See calendar for details.

    DEBUT Continuing our series of early works by established practitioners.

    PROGRAMME 1: Writer/Director Orla Walsh is... Read More

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    BOOK NOW Times: 13.10

  • BABYFACE GOES TO HOLLYWOOD

    Here’s a welcome theatrical outing for this fascinating documentary, a well-spun yarn so unlikely that it just had to be true. Meet forgotten Irish boxing legend Jimmy McLarnin, aka ‘The Babyfaced Assassin’, a journeyman brawler originally from County Down who... Read More

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    BOOK NOW Times: 16.45

  • IN DARKNESS

    Celluloid depictions of the Holocaust have thus far tended to deal in moral absolutes, admittedly for understandable reasons. What’s refreshing, perhaps even provocative about Agnieszka Holland’s Oscar-nominated new film is that its chronicle of events in the Polish city of... Read More

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    BOOK NOW Times: 13.20|20.20

  • ONCE UPON A TIME IN ANATOLIA

    Turkish maestro Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s most ambitious film to date imbues its ostensibly straightforward police procedural story with emotional resonance and philosophical curiosity. With two confessed killers in tow, a volatile provincial police officer joins a sceptical doctor and a... Read More

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    BOOK NOW Times: 15.00|18.05

  • QUACKSER FORTUNE HAS A COUSIN IN THE BRONX

    March’s Must-See Cinema from the IFI Irish Film Archive is Quackser Fortune has a Cousin in the Bronx, presented in collaboration with the St. Patrick’s Day Festival. In one of the best-loved and most bizarre films in its collection, Gene... Read More

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    BOOK NOW Times: 16.20

  • STELLA DAYS

    Following the spiritual course that was 2010’s The Way, Martin Sheen revisits similar themes, albeit in a very different role, with this pastoral drama about a scholar priest struggling to maintain authority in small-town 1950s Ireland. Sheen plays forward-thinking Father... Read More

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    BOOK NOW Times: 18.45

  • THE OTHER SIDE OF SLEEP

    A withdrawn factory girl (Antonia Campbell-Hughes) who’s prone to bouts of sleepwalking awakens in a forest, lying beside the corpse of a young woman. She becomes obsessed with the girl’s murder – her mother had met a similar fate decades... Read More

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    BOOK NOW Times: 13.00|18.20|21.00

  • TRISHNA

    The ever-enterprising Michael Winterbottom tackles Thomas Hardy with a twist in this intriguing cross-cultural melodrama. Since the social strictures of Hardy’s time are no longer with us, and he already tackled a period adaptation in 1996’s Jude, Winterbottom moves his... Read More

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    BOOK NOW Times: 14.15|20.45


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