WHAT'S ON - 27/07/2012

• ARCHIVE AT LUNCHTIME: PROGRAMME 1 (JULY 2012)

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

  DOWN ON THE FARM 

  PROGRAMME 1: IRISH CHILDREN: RURAL [...]

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  Times: 13.10

  

• DETACHMENT

  The latest provocation from maverick photographer, musician and filmmaker Tony Kaye, Detachment is an incendiary American high-school drama that makes Kaye’s earlier American History X seem almost light-hearted by comparison.

  In his best performance since his Oscar-winning turn in Polanski’s [...]

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  Times: 15.00|19.00

  

• IN YOUR HANDS

  It’s a tribute to Kristin Scott Thomas that instead of plying her trade in middle-of-the-road British prestige dramas, she’s continued to gravitate towards rather edgier French fare, this probing character study being a case in point. When we first meet [...]

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  Times: 17.00|21.00

  

• RED DESERT

  To mark the centenary of the birth of Italian maestro Michelangelo Antonioni, his 1964 landmark film Red Desert is being re-released in a beautifully restored version that does justice to its revolutionary use of colour.

  Following Antonioni’s early 1960s trilogy [...]

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  Times: 13.50|18.30

  

• SEARCHING FOR SUGAR MAN

  Right then, music lovers, you know your Dylan, your Nick Drake and all the titans of the singer-songwriter era. Now prepare to be blown away by Rodriguez, a staggeringly talented performer from Detroit who recorded two of the greatest ’70s [...]

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  Times: 13.00|17.00|21.00

  

• SILENCE

  Prolific Cork-based documentarian Pat Collins possesses a restless curiosity, coupled with a poetic eye for the small moments – something that informs this feature debut, of sorts. We say ‘of sorts’ because Silence boldly defies categorisation at every turn. The [...]

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  Times: 15.00|19.00

  

• SOMETHING FROM NOTHING: THE ART OF RAP

  The legendary Ice-T makes his directorial debut with this study of rap, the genre that made him a star, using a series of conversations with 47 of its greatest practitioners to explore its evolution. The film is less interested in [...]

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  Times: 16.10|20.50

  

• WILD STRAWBERRIES: THE LADY

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

  The June visit to Ireland of Burma’s pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi offers an ideal opportunity for this recent biopic, which had a limited cinema run. Released in [...]

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  Times: 11.00

  

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