Irish Film Institute -

WHAT'S ON - 17/02/2013

  • FOR ELLEN

    Korean-born, American-raised indie filmmaker So Yong Kim has steadily been building a growing critical reputation for her naturalistic, pared-down yet subtly emotive approach to storytelling last seen in Treeless Mountain, an affecting study of a fraught Korean childhood. This wintry road... Read More

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    BOOK NOW Times: 16.30|18.30|20.20

  • HITCHCOCK

    This affectionate, if somewhat speculative biographical drama suggests it wasn’t always easy being ‘The Master of Suspense’. Anthony Hopkins gets the voice just right, captures corpulent Hitchcock’s oddly dainty physicality, and delivers a touching portrait of a man whose cinematic... Read More

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    BOOK NOW Times: 14.00|18.30|20.40

  • NO

    Chilean director Pablo Larraín hits the target with this sharp-witted, hugely entertaining recreation of the 1988 referendum when General Pinochet announced a free vote on his continuation in power, so confident of victory that he allowed his opponents a brief... Read More

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    BOOK NOW Times: 20:40

  • SIDE BY SIDE

    With so many movies being shot on digital these days, is it the end for film cameras? And if so, wherefore the future of the medium? Hosted and co-produced by Keanu Reeves, this smartly-assembled doc consults the absolute best in... Read More

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    BOOK NOW Times: 13.50|18.10

  • THE LAST PROJECTIONIST

    Showing to coincide with Side By Side, the documentary The Last Projectionist examines the effects of the advent of digital cinema on exhibition. Centred on the Electric in Brighton, the U.K.’s oldest working cinema, it’s the story of a century... Read More

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    BOOK NOW Times: 16.20

  • THE TROUBLE WITH HARRY

    Here, the BFI’s label, ‘Dead Funny’, fits perfectly: this is a comedy about a corpse found in the autumnal countryside, and the responses of the locals who encounter it. After the money earned for them by his recent films, Paramount... Read More

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    BOOK NOW Times: 14.10

  • TO CATCH A THIEF

    France was always important to Hitchcock. He loved the food and the wines; French critics and filmmakers (Chabrol, Rohmer, Truffaut) took the lead in celebrating his work; and he used France repeatedly for subject-matter and locations, from his silent apprenticeship... Read More

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    BOOK NOW Times: 16.20

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