Irish Film Institute -

WHAT'S ON - 23/03/2013

  • ARCHIVE AT LUNCHTIME: DOUBLE BILL (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: 19.00

  • COMPLIANCE

    One of the year’s most compelling, disquieting, and polarising films, Compliance is a dark study of our natural tendency to obey authority, and the lengths to which the individual will go in order to please those in power.

    Stressed Sandra... Read More

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    BOOK NOW Times: 19.00|21.00

  • CUTTER’S WAY

    Perhaps the most shamefully neglected masterpiece of 1980s’ American cinema, this complex and compelling modern film noir actually improves on its source material, Newton Thornburg’s fine novel Cutter and Bone.

    Brilliantly directed by Czech émigré Ivan Passer, it remains tantalisingly... Read More

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    BOOK NOW Times: 16.40

  • POST TENEBRAS LUX

    This latest from the visionary Mexican filmmaker Carlos Reygadas divided the critics at Cannes but was still awarded the Best Director prize – a sure sign of a challenging and innovative work.

    After a mesmerising extended opening in which the... Read More

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    BOOK NOW Times: 14.20

  • REALITY

    Matteo Garrone’s follow-up to his organised crime epic Gomorrah tackles another defining current in Italian lives – the mesmerising fascination of their truly tacky variation on Big Brother.

    Naples’ mind-boggling contrasts of grinding poverty and fake opulence set the context... Read More

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    BOOK NOW Times: 16.10|21.00

  • 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: 14.00

  • 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: 18.40

  • VERTIGO (70mm)

    On March 23rd,Vertigo will be introduced by leading Hitchcock expert Prof. Charles Barr

    Vertigo famously overtook Citizen Kane at the head of the latest Top Ten poll of nearly a thousand critics across the globe. Made at the time when the old studio... Read More

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    BOOK NOW Times: 16.30

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