Irish Film Institute -

WHAT'S ON - 22/12/2012

  • ARCHIVE AT LUNCHTIME DECEMBER 2012: DOUBLE BILL

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

    This month we present a ‘Bleak Midwinter’ programme – a stark alternative to the usual Christmas fare.  

    PROGRAMME 1: BEFORE... Read More

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    BOOK NOW Times: 13.10

  • BOXING DAY

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    Fiercely independent British filmmaker Bernard Rose and his charismatic lead Danny Huston have formed quite a double-act, and this wintry parable marks the third time they’ve modernised stories by Leo Tolstoy. After their films Ivansxtc. and The... Read More

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    BOOK NOW Times: 16.30|20.40

  • CELESTE AND JESSE FOREVER

    Co-writer Rashida Jones (The Social Network) also plays Celeste in this gently bittersweet and amusing study of a modern unconventional relationship in which she and Jesse (Andy Samberg), friends since childhood, are coming to an amicable end to their marriage... Read More

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    BOOK NOW Times: 18.40

  • IFI FAMILY: WHEN SANTA FELL TO EARTH

    Get into the Christmas spirit with this brand new film based on the novel by popular children’s writer, Cornelia Funke (Inkheart, The Thief Lord). It’s two weeks before Christmas and Niklas Goodfellow, the last true Santa, is out on his... Read More

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    BOOK NOW Times: 14.00

  • LOVE CRIME

    Since playing pixie-ish Ludivine Sagnier against a domineering Charlotte Rampling worked well for François Ozon in Swimming Pool, veteran director Alain Corneau conjures up some of the same frissons by casting Gallic glamour girl Sagnier opposite Anglo ice-queen Kristin Scott... Read More

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    BOOK NOW Times: 16.10|20.50

  • SMASHED

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    An affecting drama about the pitfalls faced on the road from addiction to recovery, Smashed centres on Mary Elizabeth Winstead (Death Proof) as Kate, a smart and attractive schoolteacher happily married to Charlie (Aaron Paul, Breaking Bad),... Read More

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    BOOK NOW Times: 14.30|20.50

  • STAGE FRIGHT

    Hitchcock’s departure for Hollywood in 1939, seen at first as temporary, soon turned out to be permanent. Stage Fright is the only subsequent feature that he both set and shot in England, apart from Frenzy in 1972.

    Yet another ‘wrong... Read More

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    BOOK NOW Times: 16.30

  • THE POOL

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    This absorbing story of India’s social divide takes the opposite tonal approach to Slumdog Millionaire – quiet and observant where Danny Boyle’s film was all button-pushing brashness. Director Chris Smith comes from a documentary background (he made... Read More

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    BOOK NOW Times: 18.40

  • THE TOLSTOY TRILOGY: IVANSXTC.

    To mark the release of Boxing Day, December 21st – 27th, there will be screenings of the previous instalments of director Bernard Rose’s ‘Tolstoy Trilogy’.

    In the superb Ivansxtc., an adaptation of The Death of Ivan Ilyich, Ivan (Danny Huston)... Read More

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    BOOK NOW Times: 14.00


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