Irish Film Institute -John McGahern: A Private World

WHAT'S ON - 22/07/2014

  • ARCHIVE AT LUNCHTIME: PROGRAMME 1 (JULY 2014 – FREE EVENT)

    Join us for FREE lunchtime screenings of films from the IFI Irish Film Archive.

    This month’s series, which looks at the changing role of women in Irish society, provides a rich factual counterpoint to the feature films in our Beyond... Read More

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    Times: 13.00

  • BOYHOOD

    This film closes on Thursday, August 28th.

    Boyhood follows Texas native Mason (Ellar Coltrane) from the age of seven, as he goes from being a carefree kid, through awkward adolescence to the start of his adult life. Over time, he learns to... Read More

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    BOOK NOW Times: 13.00|16.15|19.30

  • FEAST YOUR EYES: ALICE DOESN’T LIVE HERE ANYMORE

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

    Leaving town with her precocious 11-year-old son Tommy after her husband dies suddenly in a road accident, Alice (Ellen Burstyn) hopes to trade in her old domestic... Read More

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    BOOK NOW Times: 18.15

  • FINDING VIVIAN MAIER

    This film closes on Thursday, August 14th.

    Vivian Maier was born in New York in 1926, and spent most of her youth in France. She returned to America to work as a nanny, and took photographs. Over the next five... Read More

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    BOOK NOW Times: 16.20

  • GRAND CENTRAL

    This film closes on Thursday, July 24th.

    An unskilled labourer desperate for cash, Gary Manda (Tahar Rahim, unforgettable in 2009’s A Prophet) signs up for perilous maintenance work at a nuclear power plant at the beginning of this slow-burning drama.... Read More

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    BOOK NOW Times: 14.00|16.10|20.45

  • SOME LIKE IT HOT

    IFI CLASSIC

    EXCLUSIVELY AT IFI

    Billy Wilder’s cross-dressing caper had a troubled gestation. Marilyn Monroe was reportedly pregnant during filming, and, too distracted to remember her lines, she was indulged with cue cards and multiple retakes. She got little sympathy... Read More

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    BOOK NOW Times: 18.15

  • SUPERMENSCH: THE LEGEND OF SHEP GORDON

    EXCLUSIVELY AT THE IFI

    In the late 1960s, Shep Gordon chanced on a career in show business after walking out on his job as a parole officer and checking into a hotel that was home to Jimi Hendrix and Janis... Read More

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    BOOK NOW Times: 14.30|20.40

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