Irish Film Institute -

WHAT'S ON - 20/03/2013

  • ARCHIVE AT LUNCHTIME: PROGRAMME 2 (MARCH 2013)

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

    EURO-PAEANS: CELEBRATING IRELAND AND EUROPE IN FILM

    In celebration of Ireland’s Presidency of the EU (January – June... Read More

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    BOOK NOW Times: 13.10

  • BEYOND THE HILLS

    Back in 2007, Cristian Mungiu’s 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days was among the first harbingers of the New Romanian Cinema, and he reaffirms his mastery with this new film pitting individual yearnings versus the monolithic values of an implacable institution.

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    BOOK NOW Times: 13.00|20.10

  • FEAST YOUR EYES: WITHNAIL AND I

    IFI Press Officer and Withnail and I fan Patrick Stewart will introduce the screening.

    Lighter fluid, an un-plucked roast chicken, fresh water fish caught by gun-shot and copious amounts of booze all feature in Bruce Robinson’s masterful Withnail and I to whet your... Read More

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    BOOK NOW Times: 18.30

  • FINGERS

    Remade in 2005 by Jacques Audiard as The Beat that My Heart Skipped, James Toback’s debut features an incredible performance from Harvey Keitel as a talented pianist with a sideline working as a debt collector for his loan shark father.... Read More

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    BOOK NOW Times: 18.10

  • REAR WINDOW

    The screening on March 23rd will be introduced by Dr. Harvey O’Brien, Lecturer in Film Studies at UCD.

    This retrospective culminates in five much-studied films by the mature Hitchcock that scarcely need introduction; less familiar is the name of his... Read More

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    BOOK NOW Times: 18.30

  • ROBOT & FRANK

    It’s such a treat to discover an unexpected little gem like this disarming take on the traditional odd-couple comedy. In the not-too-distant future, Frank Langella is a retired cat burglar living out his days in leafy upstate New York, but... Read More

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    BOOK NOW Times: 16.30

  • RUBY SPARKS

    Budding creative writers will love this latest film from the directors of Little Miss Sunshine in which a lonely, blocked novelist Calvin (Paul Dano) magics a gorgeous female character called Ruby into real life. As Calvin falls deeper in love... Read More

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    BOOK NOW Times: 10.30

  • STOKER

    After a string of hard-hitting, strikingly conceived films in his native Korea, including the legendary Oldboy, Park Chan-wook now makes his American debut with this skewed rites-of-passage story.

    Mia Wasikowska is the bookish, slightly withdrawn India Stoker, distraught at the recent loss of her beloved father, whose... Read More

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    BOOK NOW Times: 16.00|20.40

  • THE PAPERBOY

    After the success of Precious, director Lee Daniels might have been expected to capitalise on the acclaim by undertaking a similarly serious prestige project: instead, The Paperboy is a lurid slice of Southern Gothic noir with an enjoyable air of disreputability. Matthew McConaughey,... Read More

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    BOOK NOW Times: 13.50|16.00|20.50

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