WHAT'S ON - 24/08/2012

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  A chain of life-changing decisions spans the world in screenwriter Peter Morgan’s modern-day re-imagining of Arthur Schnitzler’s La Ronde, allowing a stellar cast to strut their dramatic stuff en route. Fittingly, the journey starts in Vienna, where passing English businessman [...]

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  Times: 20.30

  

• ARCHIVE AT LUNCHTIME: PROGRAMME 2 (AUG 2012)

  Join us for FREE daily screenings of summer films from yesteryear drawn from the collections of the IFI Irish Film Archive.

  AMHARC ÉIREANN: EAGRÁN 16 & 23

  Includes the opening of a bubblegum factory in Kilcock and watersports around the country.

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  Times: 13.10

  

• F FOR FAKE

  (RE-RELEASE)

  For anyone growing up in the ‘70s, the abiding image of Orson Welles was not the cinematic deity behind Citizen Kane, but the ever-urbane raconteur on the TV chat-show circuit. The same decade however, also brought one of his [...]

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  Times: 18.40

  

• JO NESBØ’S JACKPOT

  EXCLUSIVELY AT THE IFI

  Based on a story by million-selling Scandinavian crime novelist Jo Nesbø, this fiendishly black comedy-thriller is, at the very least, an awful warning of what can happen when you strike it big on the football pools. [...]

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  Times: 16.00

  

• PETIT NICOLAS

  Based on the original comic book series by Asterix’ creator René Goscinny and illustrated by Jean-Jacques Sempé, this adaptation brings the much-loved, mischievous young Nicolas and his antics to the big screen for the first time.

  Told from his point-of-view [...]

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  Times: 14.00

  

• SHADOW DANCER

  An Oscar-winner for his documentary Man on Wire, British director James Marsh is building a strong reputation for dramas eschewing the obvious in terms of treatment and subject matter.

  Having broached the U.S. Bible Belt and a grim Yorkshire circa [...]

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  Times: 13.30|15.40|21.00

  

• TAKE THIS WALTZ

  The most enterprising young actress of her generation, Michelle Williams has shone in testing indie fare (Wendy & Lucy, Blue Valentine) and more mainstream offerings alike (My Week with Marilyn), but her work here as a restless wife inexorably drawn [...]

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  Times: 13.30|18.20

  

• THE DEEP BLUE SEA

  Set in post-Second World War London, Davies’ adaptation of Terence Rattigan’s play is a lyrical study of fidelity and loneliness, featuring an outstanding central performance from Rachel Weisz as Hester. Trapped in a passionless marriage to an older man she [...]

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  Times: 18.30

  

• THE IMPOSTER

  We’re living in a golden age for documentary film, yet the term somehow feels too limiting to describe this dazzling piece of storytelling, which chronicles bizarre real-life events to richly dramatic, fiercely thought-provoking effect.

  In 1994, the Barclay family of [...]

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  Times: 16.00|20.40

  

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