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Irish Folk Furniture recently scooped the Best Animation Award at the Sundance Film Festival. This warm and witty film from rural Tipperary follows the restoration of traditional Irish furniture with a stop-motion twist. In this month’s Afternoon Talk (free but... Read More
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EURO-PAEANS: CELEBRATING IRELAND AND EUROPE IN FILM
In celebration of Ireland’s Presidency of the EU (January – June... Read More
A deserved winner of the Berlinale Silver Bear by one of Germany’s finest contemporary directors, this tense drama recalls the political and human dramas of 1980s’ divided Germany. Nina Hoss is the doctor, Barbara, transferred from a top job in... Read More
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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Their place in Italian cinema was established by 1977’s classic Padre Padrone, and Paolo and Vittorio Taviani (now both in their 80s) return to the international limelight with this Berlin prize-winner, an astute portrait of a Shakespeare production in Rome’s high-security Rebibbia prison.
(11.30 – 17.30)
To tie in with the release of Sam Raimi’s Oz The Great and the Powerful, and in conjunction with the Irish School of Animation, we have a day of discussion and masterclass, with special guest Troy Saliba (Anastasia,... Read More
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
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
For Hitchcock, this was a low-key project undertaken simply to keep going while he ‘recharged his batteries’ in preparation for something more ambitious – in the event, Rear Window.
Dial M was a long-running stage success, adapted with minimal change by its... Read More
This screening will feature live musical accompaniment by pianist Morgan Cooke.
The official BFI label here is ‘Writers’, since the film adapts a recent play by Noël Coward, but it could equally be ‘The Watchful Eye’: the camera’s gaze gives... Read More
In addition to this final part of our retrospective, there will be a screening of Elstree Calling, a musical film revue, some of whose sketches were directed by Hitchcock, on March 30th at 14.20.
This event is part of The Genius... Read More
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
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
Francophonie brings together 220 million French speakers as well as the 890 million people from the 75 member states of the Organisation Internationale de la Francophonie (OIF).
To mark this annual celebration of the French language, the IFI is delighted... Read More
The Dublin and Leinster heats of Ireland’s Young Filmmaker Awards at the Fresh Film Festival will take place at the IFI. If you have entered or would just like an opportunity to see some of the fantastic films being made... Read More
PREVIEW
“I Warned You Not To Go Out Tonight”
Starring Elijah Wood as the owner of a mannequin shop who develops a dangerous obsession with a young artist, Maniac is a smart re-make of the 1980 classic horror slasher film.
IFI Horrorthon... Read More
Heidi, a radio DJ, is sent a box containing a record, a “gift from the Lords.” The sounds within the grooves trigger flashbacks of her town’s violent past. Is Heidi going mad, or are the Lords back to take... Read More
As a gesture of thanks for the compassionate care and kindness shown by the staff of Our Lady’s Hospice in Harold’s Cross to our late colleague Pete Walsh, we are delighted to hold this fundraising screening of John Ford’s classic... Read More
We are delighted to welcome Terri Hooley to the IFI for a Q&A with Paul Byrne following the 20.40 screening on Saturday, April 13th as part of Spotlight: New Irish Film at the IFI.
Beset by sectarian conflict, Belfast in the late... Read More
After the screening, there will be a short Q&A between the artist and the exhibition’s curator Isobel Harbison.
The IFI and Experimental Film Club with Temple Bar Gallery + Studios present a programme of films by visual artist Ed Atkins... Read More
For St. Patrick’s Festival, we are showing the Oscar-nominated film The Secret of Kells from Kilkenny’s Cartoon Saloon. With beautiful and intricate hand-drawn animation, it tells the story of young monk Brendan who is learning how to illuminate manuscripts. His... Read More
The prolific François Ozon follows his social satire Potiche with a new confection which is even more fun while delivering thoughtful substance to match. Fabrice Luchini shines once more as an old-fashioned French tutor in a trendy high school, who... Read More
After a paragliding accident, Philippe, a rich aristocrat, hires Driss, a young guy from the projects as his care-giver. Two worlds collide and give birth to a crazy, comical and strong friendship which makes them untouchable.
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Ireland on Sunday is our monthly showcase for new Irish film.
The director, Dundalk-born Niall McCann, will participate in a post-screening Q&A.
Niall McCann’s energetic first feature Art Will Save the World celebrates singer-songwriter, novelist and artist, Luke Haines.
This adventure story about smugglers in darkest Cornwall was Hitchcock’s final film before leaving for Hollywood, and the first of two in succession adapted from Daphne du Maurier’s novels. It was evidently a half-hearted project taken on to fill the... Read More
Continuing screenings of our 2012 French Film Project title, this film was a deserving winner of the Grand Prix at Cannes Film Festival 2011. From the Dardenne brothers, it is a portrait of life in their Belgian home town of... Read More
It’s taken Australian writer-director Cate Shortland eight years to follow her brilliant debut Somersault, but the unexpected German-language result only underlines her status as a talent of rare sensitivity and ambition. Set during the final days of WWII, this adaptation... Read More
Having worked in cinema programming for some 40 years, and retaining an enviable memory of each film he’d seen, it was sometimes the case that Pete would lavish praise on a film that would, to the intrigued listener’s frustration, prove... Read More
Marnie has always been controversial, seen by some critics as crude, by others as profound. The recent TV movie The Girl stirs things up further through its sensationalised account of Hitchcock’s relationship with its star: he forces his attentions on Hedren rather as... Read More
Oscar-winning documentarian Alex Gibney (Taxi to the Dark Side) begins his film with the case of Milwaukee priest Father Lawrence Murphy, who for decades abused students in the school for the deaf in which he worked, and builds to an... Read More
Prompted by the release of new feature drama Good Vibrations we are delighted to present two films from master documentarian John T. Davis which document the actual men, music and mayhem of Ulster punk in the late 1970s.
Shellshock Rock... Read More
South Korean filmmaker Joon-ho Bong’s admiration for Hitchcock is hugely evident in this gruesome murder mystery that touches on Oedipal themes. The murder of a young girl in a small town spurs a mother to go to extraordinary lengths in... Read More
Alan Bennett’s People is this month’s presentation in National Theatre Live, a series of live performances from the National Theatre London, broadcast onto cinema screens around the world.
The celebrated writer of such acclaimed works for both stage and screen... Read More
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
The second recent adaptation of a Michael Morpurgo novel, this is a companion piece to the Steven Spielberg directed War Horse. Set during World War I, it centres on two brothers, Tommo and Charlie Peaceful, and a local girl Molly.... Read More
On March 24th, Psycho will be introduced by leading Hitchcock expert Prof. Charles Barr
“I came out of the theatre in a complete daze and could barely speak.” (Robin Wood) “People leave the cinema chuckling incredulously, groggy, exhilarated but hysterical.”... Read More
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
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
This screening will be introduced by Dr. Dervila Layden, UCD Film Studies.
Du Maurier hated Jamaica Inn but loved Rebecca – hardly surprising, since Rebecca is far more faithful to her book. It was producer David O. Selznick who insisted on this faithfulness; Hitchcock resented his... Read More
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
Rope will be introduced by Jamie Young as part of the SET Launch – a new quarterly zine concerning the relationship between cinema and its architecture.
Hitchcock followed a post-war trend in forming, like Ford and Capra, his own company,... Read More
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
Donald Taylor Black, Brian Maguire and Roddy Doyle will participate in a post-screening Q&A with broadcaster, Vincent Woods.
Donald Taylor Black’s new Irish-Film-Board-funded documentary, examines the current financial crisis through responses of a number of artists who are using it... Read More
Born in the very year, 1899, in which The Interpretation of Dreams was published, Hitchcock demonstrated a life-long fascination with Freudian ideas – about dreams, Freudian slips, civilisation and its discontents, Oedipus, the whole package of ‘popular Freudianism’. Spellbound is, along with Marnie,... Read More
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
Hitchcock’s fourth American film has much in common with Rebecca: based on an English novel, set in England, and shot in Hollywood, with silly-ass specialist Nigel Bruce again prominent among a mainly Anglo-Hollywood cast. Joan Fontaine again plays the naive and... Read More
The screening on March 24th will be introduced by Dr. Dervila Layden, UCD Film Studies.
After the triumph of Psycho, Hitchcock’s films became more widely spaced (six in 16 years), and he had more of a struggle to set them up within... Read More
This month our Critical Take panellists, Tony Tracy, Lecturer in Film at The Huston School of Film and Digital Media, NUI Galway; filmmaker and producer Rachel Lysaght; and Thomas McGraw Lewis, researcher, educator and filmmaker, will strike up debate on three... Read More
Stannard resumes his regular screen credit for scenario, adapting the long-running stage comedy by Eden Phillpotts; as with Easy Virtue, he skilfully streamlines the plot, inserting an initial backstory that... Read More
Longtime IFI members will have seen this film appear in the programme several times and in numerous contexts over the years. If it were possible to say that any one film was Pete’s favourite, this would have to be one... Read More
This inspiring documentary, directed and photographed by Steve James (Hoop Dreams), follows a year in the working lives of three inner city Chicago ‘Violence Interrupters’ or outreach workers who intervene in disputes. Working for the Chicago Project for Violence Prevention,... Read More
This screening will feature live musical accompaniment by pianist Saramai Leech.
Like The Ring (screening on March 3rd), this is a rigorous triangle drama: one woman, two men. She too is played by a great silent star: Annie Ondra, soon to... Read More
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
After a five-year apprenticeship, Hitchcock here gets his first chance to direct, and signs himself in with amazing confidence: first literally, with a handwritten director credit, and then thematically,... Read More
Hitchcock’s sixth film, his first after moving from Michael Balcon’s Gainsborough to British International, contains the one solo credit of his career for an original script (though it is on record that the faithful Eliot Stannard moved studios with him... Read More
The great Hungarian filmmaker Béla Tarr’s dauntingly rigorous work, with its minimalist settings and incredibly elaborate long takes, is not to everyone’s taste. Yet he is a true visionary and one of the great stylists of post-war European art cinema.
As he approaches his 70th birthday, Terrence Malick has picked up the pace, taking only a year or so since the Cannes-winning The Tree of Life to deliver his latest achingly beautiful drama of the body and the spirit. The... Read More
A classic example of, in French terms, the film maudit, the honourable failure. A commercial and critical flop for Transatlantic on release, it was ranked high by the French critics of the late 1950s within their pioneering list of Best... Read More
Get inspiration for an SESE or Visual Arts class project on the marine environment from our double screening.
Watch The Undersea World of Jacques Cousteau, make a model of an undersea world or sea creature back at school and then... Read More
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
Entire seasons and retrospectives for the IFI were discussed just to give Pete the opportunity to screen the criminally overlooked Walk Hard, his favourite laugh-out-loud comedy of recent years, and a good example of his eclectic taste. It’s a smart... Read More
Wild Strawberries is our bimonthly film club for the over 55s.
This is the multi-award-winning directorial feature from Ben Affleck who brings an assured confidence to the role of Mendez, CIA expert on ‘exfil’ – getting Americans out of enemy... Read More
We continue our tour of this tender story of 11-year-old Kattaka, who lives in Berlin with her father and pregnant mother. A keen speed swimmer, Kattaka is friends with neighbours, Knäcke and an older woman, Lena. One day, Kattaka learns... Read More
Pedro Almodóvar has commented that Hitchcock’s work is “visually the richest in the history of cinema”. One might also observe that his own work is far from being short in visual riches. Indeed Spain’s most prominent filmmaker has offered us... Read More
ALL YOU NEED IS DEATH 13:30, 18:30 (Q&A)
BALTIMORE 16:00
IO CAPITANO 20:30
JEANNE DU BARRY 15:50, 20:45
ON THE WATERFRONT 70TH ANNIVERSARY 13:40
PERFECT DAYS 13:00, 18:00
THE TEACHERS’ LOUNGE 15:40, 20:55
THE ZONE OF INTEREST 18:10
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