Irish Film Institute -NATIONAL THEATRE LIVE: KING LEAR

WHAT'S ON - 03/2014

  • 20 FEET FROM STARDOM

    Tickets are on sale now. This film closes on Thursday, April 10th.

    Award-winning filmmaker Morgan Neville has made a career of celebrating key figures in American music, his exceptional filmography featuring portraits of George Jones, Brian Wilson, Hank Williams and... Read More

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  • AFTERNOON TALK: THE ROLLING STONES ON SCREEN 1963-2012

    During their illustrious half-century career, The Rolling Stones have appeared countless times on film and television, dabbled with feature films and been the subject of numerous ground-breaking documentary films by some of the world’s great filmmakers. Adrian Wootton, CEO of... Read More

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  • ARCHIVE AT LUNCHTIME: DOUBLE BILL (FREE EVENT, MARCH 2014)

    Join us for FREE lunchtime screenings of films from the IFI Irish Film Archive. Simply collect your tickets at the IFI Box Office. This month’s programme visits St. Patrick’s Days of yesteryear.

    PROGRAMME 1:

    EIRE LEAVES THE EMPIRE

    British newsreel of... Read More

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  • ARCHIVE AT LUNCHTIME: PROGRAMME 1 (FREE EVENT, MARCH 2014)

    Join us for FREE lunchtime screenings of films from the IFI Irish Film Archive. Simply collect your tickets at the IFI Box Office. This month’s programme visits St. Patrick’s Days of yesteryear.

    PROGRAMME 1:

    EIRE LEAVES THE EMPIRE

    British newsreel of... Read More

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  • ARCHIVE AT LUNCHTIME: PROGRAMME 2 (FREE EVENT, MARCH 2014)

    Join us for FREE lunchtime screenings of films from the IFI Irish Film Archive. Simply collect your tickets at the IFI Box Office. This month’s programme visits St. Patrick’s Days of yesteryear. 

    PROGRAMME 2:

    SHAMROCK TIME IN IRELAND

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  • BREADCRUMB TRAIL

    We are delighted to be joined by the film’s director Lance Bangs who will take part in a Q&A following the screening.

    The reputation of Louisville, Kentucky band Slint continues to grow almost a quarter of a century after the... Read More

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  • BROKEN SONG

    GI, Costello and Willa Lee are street poets, hip-hop artists, rappers and song-writers from Dublin’sNorthside. Through their words and music they have found a way of expressing themselves and inspiring others to achieve the same. Claire Dix’s documentary, shot elegantly... Read More

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  • DON’T LOOK BACK

    This screening will be introduced by journalist and broadcaster Dave Fanning.

    Arguably the most influential of all rock ‘n’ roll documentaries, D.A. Pennebaker’s film follows Bob Dylan’s 1965 solo tour of England, two months before he plugged in his guitar... Read More

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  • EXPRESSO BONGO

    Cliff Richard has been a byword for safe, unthreatening, Christian pop for generations now, so much so that it’s hard to believe he ever did anything remotely edgy. Yet Expresso Bongo captures a young rock ‘n’ roller at a time... Read More

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  • FEAST YOUR EYES: TAMPOPO

    Our monthly gastronomic feature followed by a meal in the IFI Café Bar.

    Nobuko Miyamoto’s eponymous Tampopo is a sweet-natured widow and chef at her own roadside restaurant. When cowboy trucker and gastronome Goro (Tsutomo Yamazaki) stops at the... Read More

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  • FRANCO-IRISH LITERARY EVENT: ALL THAT GLITTERS (FREE EVENT)

    The film will be introduced by Philippe Milloux, Director of the Alliance Française.

    To mark the occasion of the 15th Franco-Irish Literary Festival (April 4th – 6th), the IFI, in partnership with the Alliance Française and the French Embassy, is... Read More

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  • FREE TALK: ARTISTS MOVING IMAGE: ACCESS, ARCHIVES AND DISTRIBUTION

    Join us for Artists Moving Image: Access, Archives and Distribution, a discussion about the promotion, presentation and preservation of the moving image work of artists. Chaired by Dr. Maeve Connolly (lecturer, IADT), the panel will include Benjamin Cook (LUX Artists... Read More

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  • FRESH FILM FESTIVAL HEATS 2014

    Ireland’s Young Filmmaker Award: Dublin & Leinster Heats

    The Dublin heats of Ireland’s Young Filmmaker Awards for the Fresh Film Festival will take place at the IFI. If you have entered or would just like an opportunity to see some... Read More

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  • FUNNY FACE

    IFI CLASSIC

    EXCLUSIVELY AT THE IFI

    This film closes on Thursday, March 6th.

    Taking little more than its title and a handful of songs from the original 1927 Broadway production, Stanley Donen’s Funny Face stars Audrey Hepburn in her first... Read More

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  • GEARRSCANNÁIN 2014

    Fáilte roimh Seachtain na Gaeilge 2014. Join us for a selection of Gearrscannáin, including Asal, Sylvia and El Toro.

    AiseolasI gcomhpháirt le PDST Gaeilge, ba mhaith linn aiseolas a fháil ar do thaithí ar theagasc agus ar fhoghlaim le Gearrscannáin... Read More

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  • HER

    This film closes on Thursday, March 6th.

    Spike Jonze’s existential take on relationships is perhaps one of the most oddly romantic films ever made. Theodore (Joaquin Phoenix) spends his days at work writing love letters on behalf of others while... Read More

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  • HOW I LIVE NOW

    Meg Rosoff’s novel is effectively adapted by Kevin MacDonald (Touching the Void, Marley). Daisy (Saoirse Ronan) is a fed-up teen from New York who joins her cousins Piper, Edmond, Isaac and Osbert in the English countryside. World War Three is... Read More

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  • I’M NOT SCARED

    10-year-old Michele fills long summer days riding his bike and running through wheat fields in rural southern Italy. However his playful days are interrupted with the discovery of a hole in one of the fields, revealing a young boy of... Read More

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  • IFI & EXPERIMENTAL FILM CLUB: THE TRAIN, THE CINEMA

    The train has always been the most natural of subjects for the cinema. For many the train is the cinema, two machines entwined, uncannily combining both motion and stillness. This Experimental Film Club programme will examine cinema’s obsession with the... Read More

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  • IFI FAMILY/FROM THE VAULTS: FINIAN’S RAINBOW

    This month, to celebrate St. Patrick’s weekend, we combine two IFI strands, IFI Family and From the Vaults (our monthly screening from the IFI Irish Film Archive), to present Finian’s Rainbow

    Based on the 1947 Broadway hit, the musical combines... Read More

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  • INTOUCHABLES

    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: TASTING MENU

    The film will be introduced by producer Aoife O’Sullivan.

    Ireland on Sunday is our monthly showcase for new Irish film. 

    Set on the closing night of one of the world’s top restaurants in an idyllic Spanish sea-side location Tasting Menu... Read More

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  • JEZEBEL (EVENING COURSE: HEROIC GESTURES)

    At a time when the lack of lead roles for women is regularly lamented, it’s worth looking back at Studio Era films featuring legendary female stars in complex characterisations. Bette Davis won an Oscar for her performance here as the... Read More

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  • JUBILEE

    Please note this screening will be on March 18th at 18.30, not March 17th as stated in the printed programme. Apologies for any inconvenience.

    This screening will be introduced by Michael Hayden, IFI Head of Programming.

    Derek Jarman was 36... Read More

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  • Junior Cycle Short Course in Film: Super 8

    Inspire your Junior Cycle filmmaking group with this sci-fi thriller. During the summer of 1979, a group of friends witness a train crash while making a super 8 film, and have their suspicions that it is not an accident. Shortly... Read More

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  • MUPPETS MOST WANTED

    This exclusive preview is in collaboration with the Industry Trust for IP Awareness in Ireland (Lovemovies.ie).Disney’s Muppets Most Wanted takes the entire Muppets gang on a global tour, selling out grand theatres in some of Europe’s most exciting destinations, including... Read More

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  • NYMPH()MANIAC VOL. I

    Tickets now on sale

    Joe (Charlotte Gainsbourg) is lying bloodied and beaten in an alley. Her body is discovered by Seligman (Stellan Skarsgård), a literate, learned bachelor living a monkish existence. Seligman takes the woman in and tends to her... Read More

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  • NYMPH()MANIAC VOL. II

    This film closes on Monday, March 10th. Tickets now on sale.

    Joe (Charlotte Gainsbourg) is lying bloodied and beaten in an alley. Her body is discovered by Seligman (Stellan Skarsgård), a literate, learned bachelor living a monkish existence. Seligman takes... Read More

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  • ONLY LOVERS LEFT ALIVE

    This film closes on Thursday, March 13th. Tickets now on sale.

    Adam (Tom Hiddleston) is an underground musician living in self-imposed exile in desolate Detroit, making music that he doesn’t want anyone to hear while surrounding himself with vintage guitars,... Read More

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  • PLOT FOR PEACE

    SHOWING EXCLUSIVELY AT THE IFI 

    Closing this Thursday, March 20th. Tickets now on sale

    Jean-Yves Ollivier has the distinction of being bestowed honours by both the last stalwart of apartheid, P.W. Botha, and the first President of the new South... Read More

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  • PLOT FOR PEACE PREVIEW + GUEST Q&A

    SHOWING EXCLUSIVELY AT THE IFI 

    We are delighted to welcome Jean-Yves Ollivier to a preview screening of this film on March 13th.

    Jean-Yves Ollivier has the distinction of being bestowed honours by both the last stalwart of apartheid, P.W. Botha,... Read More

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  • ROME, OPEN CITY

    EXCLUSIVELY AT THE IFI

    Closing this Thursday, March 20th. Tickets now on sale

    Newly restored, Roberto Rosselini’s stunning anti-war statement is available to be seen in cinemas once again. Described by Martin Scorsese as “the most precious moment of film... Read More

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  • SEACHTAIN NA GAEILGE: KINGS

    The IFI Irish Film Archive is proud to preserve material made with the support of the BAI Sound and Vision Scheme. Together we celebrate Seachtain na Gaeilge with a presentation of Kings, the story of a group of friends who... Read More

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  • SPECIAL PREVIEW: MEMPHIS

    The IFI is delighted to present the Irish premiere of Memphis, which recently had its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival.

    Willis Earl Beal is an artist, poet and musician making mesmerising, genre hopping albums which heavily reference the... Read More

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  • SPECIAL PREVIEW: THE PUNK SINGER

    That girl thinks she’s the queen of the neighborhood. I got news for you! She is! The archive footage presented here bears witness to the amazing performer and true original Kathleen Hanna is; she wrote the manifesto for the Riot... Read More

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  • SPECIAL PREVIEW: WE ARE THE BEST!

    Thirteen-year-old best friends Bobo and Klara are not afraid to be different. Challenged by peers who view their rough hair-cuts, androgynous appearance and love of punk music with disdain, the girls are undeterred and start their own band, despite their... Read More

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  • STARRED UP

    Tickets now on sale.

    Young offender Eric (Jack O’Connell) is transferred to the adult prison in which his father Neville (Ben Mendelsohn) is also held. Eric is unpredictable, prone to outbursts of extreme violence at the slightest provocation which make... Read More

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  • STORIES ON SCREEN + WORKSHOP

    To celebrate World Book Day and in collaboration with Children’s Books Ireland we have put together a wonderful selection of short films for our younger viewers. Characters in this varied programme include a determined bird, a clever beaver, Ireland’s favourite... Read More

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  • STRANGER BY THE LAKE

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    During one summer, Franck frequents a secluded lakeside beach, a gay cruising haunt surrounded by woodlands into which the men go to have sex. Franck is horny and sexually adventurous, yet he strikes up a friendship... Read More

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  • SYMPATHY FOR THE DEVIL

    We are pleased to welcome Adrian Wootton, CEO of Film London and the British Film Commission, to introduce this film. Adrian will also be presenting this month’s Afternoon Talk on The Rolling Stones earlier on, at 4pm, on March 4th.

    When... Read More

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  • THE CRITICAL TAKE (FREE FILM CLUB MARCH 2014)

    Join in the debate in our FREE film club, The Critical Take, when our panel (chaired by IFI Director Ross Keane with panellists Margaret Kelleher and Tom Creed) will be discussing Lars Von Trier’s provocative Nymph()maniac Vols I & II,... Read More

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  • THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL

    Tickets are on sale now. This film closes on Thursday, April 17th.

    A tale from a revered novel that does not exist, inspired by the works of Austrian writer Stefan Zweig, an account of events from the point of view... Read More

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  • THE HARDER THEY COME

    Ivan is an innocent country boy who travels to Kingston in the hope of finding fame and fortune, only to be ripped off and churned out in the big city, drifting into poverty and crime before plotting a bitter, violent... Read More

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  • THE PAST

    Tickets are on sale now. This film closes on Thursday, April 10th.

    After four years away, Ahmed returns to Paris from his home in Iran to finalise a divorce from his French wife Marie. He is troubled to find her... Read More

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  • THE ROCKET

    SHOWING EXCLUSIVELY AT THE IFI

    Closing this Thursday, March 20th. Tickets now on sale

    Ahlo is a young boy growing up in Laos, blamed for damning his family with bad luck when a series of events sees them forced from... Read More

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  • THE STAG

    This film closes on Thursday, March 13th. Tickets now on sale.

    Stressed to breaking point by his upcoming wedding, determinedly anti-macho groom Fionnan (Hugh O’Conor) is taken on an unexpected and unwanted stag weekend by best man Davin (Andrew Scott).... Read More

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  • THE UNKNOWN KNOWN

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    “There are known knowns; there are things we know that we know. There are known unknowns; that is to say, there are things that we now know we don’t know. But there are also unknown unknowns... Read More

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  • THIS IS ELVIS

    The screening will be introduced by Bob Stanley, writer and a member of the pop group Saint Etienne, whose recently published book, Yeah Yeah Yeah: The Story of Modern Pop is essential reading. The book is available from the IFI... Read More

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  • THIS IS ENGLAND (EVENING COURSE: HEROIC GESTURES)

    This explosive feature proposes a new form of heroism by means of victimhood and alienation through its 13-year-old lead (the brilliant Thomas Turgoose) and the gang of skinheads that take him under their wing. Although set in the early 1980s,... Read More

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  • UNDER THE SKIN

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    An alien has landed in Glasgow. Taking the form of a woman, she drives around the city in a white van, luring lonely or lecherous men to a grim fate.

    Jonathan Glazer followed his acclaimed debut... Read More

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  • WAKE IN FRIGHT

    IFI CLASSIC

    SHOWING EXCLUSIVELY AT THE IFI

    This film closes on Thursday, March 13th. Tickets now on sale.

    What Nick Cave calls “the best and most terrifying film about Australia in existence” languished in obscurity following its premiere at the... Read More

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  • WEIL ICH SCHÖNER BIN

    Continuing our tour of this popular title which deals with the familiar theme of illegal immigration. Columbian teen Charo has grown up in Berlin. Despite the family’s risk of deportation, Charo feels entirely at home in the city and aims... Read More

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  • WILD STRAWBERRIES: BEHIND THE CANDELABRA

    Wild Strawberries is our bi-monthly film club for over 55s.

    This sequin-filled account of piano maestro Liberace’s secret love affair with Scott Thorson is revelatory – not only for the relationship itself, but also for the superb performances of Michael... Read More

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  • YVES SAINT LAURENT

    Tickets now on sale.

    One of the key figures in fashion and haute couture, Yves Saint Laurent was just 21 when he was given the job of the head designer of the House of Christian Dior, a much coveted position... Read More

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