Irish Film Institute -

WHAT'S ON - 24/07/2014

ARCHIVE AT LUNCHTIME: PROGRAMME 3 (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 the... Read More

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Times: 13.00
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: 14.25|20.30
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
OBVIOUS CHILD (PREVIEW & DUBLIN PREMIERE)

Understandably aggrieved when she gets ‘dumped up with’ and then fired in quick succession, comedian Donna (the hilarious Jenny Slate) divulges all in a fairly solemn stand-up routine and then ends up drinking, followed by sleeping with a chap she... Read More

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BOOK NOW Times: 18.30
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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: 16.20|20.45