Irish Film Institute -

WHAT'S ON - 07/05/2012

  • ARCHIVE AT LUNCHTIME MAY 2012: PROGRAMME 1

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

    This month we present two sponsored films designed to entice British visitors to Ireland.

     

    PROGRAMME 1: COME ABOARD

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    BOOK NOW Times: 13.10

  • DAMSELS IN DISTRESS

    American cinema’s most urbane talent, writer-director Whit Stillman returns from a 13-year hiatus with this delightful fable of campus lives and loves. As new arrival Lily (Analeigh Tipton, from TV reality show America’s Next Top Model!) faces the challenge of... Read More

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    BOOK NOW Times: 16.30|20.50

  • GOODBYE FIRST LOVE

    Writer-director Mia Hansen-Løve confirms the promise of Father of My Children with this elegantly turned, thoroughly perceptive rites-of-passage story. When we first meet Camille (Lola Créton) she’s 15, waiting for her teenage lover Sullivan (Sebastian Urzendowsky), and convinced she’ll die... Read More

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    BOOK NOW Times: 14.00|20.50

  • HARA-KIRI: DEATH OF A SAMURAI (3D)

    Working in 3D but showing even greater classical restraint than he did in 13 Assassins, Takashi Miike has remade Masaki Kobayashi’s famous 1962 film by returning to its source (a story by Yasuhiko Takiguchi) and amplifying its clash between the... Read More

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    BOOK NOW Times: 13.00

  • LE QUAI DES BRUMES

    Marcel Carné’s newly restored 1938 classic of French ‘poetic realism’ gave Jean Gabin one of his most memorably iconic roles as an army deserter on the run. Holed up in a waterfront dive in foggy Le Havre, Jean hopes to... Read More

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    BOOK NOW Times: 19.00

  • MARLEY

    Just over three decades on from his untimely demise, the global popularity of reggae icon Bob Marley remains undimmed. While the rebel songs and dreadlocked image are part of our cultural consciousness however, the man’s life story is rather less... Read More

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    BOOK NOW Times: 16.15

  • MONSIEUR LAZHAR

    The film which swept Canada’s end-of-year Genie Awards is an affecting chronicle of loss and acceptance. Children and staff at a Montreal primary school are numbed by the suicide of a much-loved teacher, and her unlikely replacement is a kindly... Read More

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    BOOK NOW Times: 15.40|21.10

  • SHOAH (PART ONE)

    In collaboration with the French Embassy in Ireland and School of Philosophy in UCD, the IFI is delighted to present this rare screening of Shoah, Claude Lanzmann’s epic documentary on the Holocaust, with the director in attendance.

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    BOOK NOW Times: 18.00

  • THE MONK

    EXCLUSIVELY AT IFI

    A classic of Gothic literature, Matthew Gregory Lewis’ 1796 shocker The Monk was the first to depict a villainous priest as the central character. Although Luis Buñuel was stymied in his efforts to film it, he would... Read More

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    BOOK NOW Times: 14.20|18.40


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