Irish Film Institute -

WHAT'S ON - 02/02/2013

  • ARCHIVE AT LUNCHTIME (PROGRAMMES 1 & 2) FEB 2013

    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 celebrate the work of Kieran Hickey and BAC Films. 

    PROGRAMME 1

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    BOOK NOW Times: 13.30

  • BULLHEAD

    Memorable as the conflicted bare-knuckle fighter in Jacques Audiard’s Rust and Bone, star-in-the-making Matthias Schoenaerts is arguably even more remarkable in this earlier offering from his native Belgium. In the West Flanders farming community, bristling machismo manifests itself in treating... Read More

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    BOOK NOW Times: 17:50|20:40

  • CHAMPAGNE

    ‘Frothy’ and ‘bubbly’ are the appropriate adjectives for this comedy, a vehicle for Betty Balfour, major British star of the late 1920s and a powerful icon of female energy and assertiveness. Here she plays an aviatrix who defies her wealthy... Read More

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    BOOK NOW Times: 13.30

  • DJANGO

    To celebrate Quentin Tarantino’s return to form with Django Unchained we offer two screenings to coincide with its release: Django and Blazing Saddles.

    One of the major inspirations for QT’s latest, Sergio Corbucci’s 1966 spaghetti Western Django tells of a coffin-dragging gunslinger seeking revenge on the bloodthirsty... Read More

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    BOOK NOW Times: 16.00

  • DJANGO UNCHAINED

    The slave plantation era of the pre-Civil War South gets an epic re-write in Tarantino’s talky, blood-splattered Spaghetti Western, which owes much to both Sergio Corbucci’s original Django (1969) and Richard Fleischer’s lurid melodrama Mandingo (1975).

    Part homage, part pastiche,... Read More

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    BOOK NOW Times: 16.20

  • I WISH

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    Casting two real-life siblings as brothers living with separated parents on the western Japanese island of Kyushu makes all the difference in director Hirokazu Kore-eda’s latest engrossing family drama. Although they necessarily spend time on the... Read More

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    BOOK NOW Times: 20.20

  • LGBT HISTORY MONTH: DID ANYONE NOTICE US?

    Gay Visibility in the Irish Media 1973 to 1993.

    On the occasion of LGBT History Month, the IFI is proud to present Edmund Lynch’s award-winning documentary Did Anyone Notice Us? as part of a programme of two screenings offering fascinating perspective on the... Read More

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    BOOK NOW Times: 12.00

  • MEN AT LUNCH

    The screening at 18.30 on February 1st will be in Irish (with English subtitles) and attended by the filmmakers, Sean and Eamon O’Cualain, who will take part in a Q&A hosted by Cilian Fennell of Stillwater Communications. The showing at 18.20... Read More

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    BOOK NOW Times: 19.30|21.00

  • THE SESSIONS

    In this witty and touching true-life story we meet the remarkable Mark O’Brien, who’s graduated from university, works as a journalist and writes poetry – notwithstanding the childhood polio which has left him paralysed from the neck down, and spending... Read More

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    BOOK NOW Times: 15.40

  • WINTER SOLDIER

    Following on from the previous weekend’s screenings of This Is Where We Take Our StandWinter Soldier consists of footage of testimony given by Vietnam veterans of the routine atrocities they observed and committed. 

    In 1971 Vietnam Veterans Against the War invited returning... Read More

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    BOOK NOW Times: 14.30

  • ZERO DARK THIRTY

    Director Kathryn Bigelow and writer Mark Boal, the team behind The Hurt Locker, expand their ambitions in this epic account of the hunt for Osama Bin Laden. Forget any notions of triumphalism now however, since the film offers a bracing... Read More

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    BOOK NOW Times: 13.00|17.50

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