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WHAT'S ON - 08/2014

  • A NIGHT AT THE CINEMA 1914

    This film closes on Thursday August, 7th.

    IFI CLASSIC

    EXCLUSIVELY AT THE IFI

    This glorious miscellany of comedies, adventure films, travelogues and newsreels recreates a typical night out at the British cinema in 1914. Cinema a century ago was a... Read More

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  • ARCHIVE AT LUNCHTIME: DOUBLE BILL (PROGS 1 & 2 – AUG 2014) FREE EVENT

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

    We continue our investigation of the Radharc Collection of over 400 films made by a group of pioneering clerics between 1962 and 1996. The team... Read More

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  • ARCHIVE AT LUNCHTIME: DOUBLE BILL (PROGS 3 & 4 – AUG 2014) FREE EVENT

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

    We continue our investigation of the Radharc Collection of over 400 films made by a group of pioneering clerics between 1962 and 1996. The team... Read More

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  • ARCHIVE AT LUNCHTIME: PROG 1 (FREE EVENT- AUG 2014)

    Join us for FREE lunchtime screenings of films from the IFI Irish Film Archive. Simply collect your tickets at the IFI Box Office. 

    We continue our investigation of the Radharc Collection of over 400 films made by a group of... Read More

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  • ARCHIVE AT LUNCHTIME: PROG 2 (FREE EVENT – AUG 2014)

    Join us for FREE lunchtime screenings of films from the IFI Irish Film Archive. Simply collect your tickets at the IFI Box Office. 

    We continue our investigation of the Radharc Collection of over 400 films made by a group of... Read More

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  • ARCHIVE AT LUNCHTIME: PROG 3 (FREE EVENT – AUG 2014)

    Join us for FREE lunchtime screenings of films from the IFI Irish Film Archive. Simply collect your tickets at the IFI Box Office. 

    We continue our investigation of the Radharc Collection of over 400 films made by a group of... Read More

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  • ARCHIVE AT LUNCHTIME: PROG 4 (FREE EVENT – AUG 2014)

    Join us for Free lunchtime screenings of films from the IFI Irish Film Archive. Simply collect your tickets at the IFI Box Office. 

    We continue our investigation of the Radharc Collection of over 400 films made by a group of... Read More

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  • 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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  • CRUISING

    New York police suspect a serial killer when male body parts start appearing in the Hudson River. Believing it may be connected to the city’s gay S&M scene, Officer Steve Burns (Al Pacino) is sent deep undercover to investigate. Clearly... Read More

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  • FEAST YOUR EYES: THE SCENT OF GREEN PAPAYA

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

    THE FILM

    Shot entirely on a sound stage in France but set in Saigon in the decades before the outbreak of the Vietnam War, The Scent of... Read More

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  • 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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  • FROM THE VAULTS: IFI & SAMUEL BECKETT SUMMER SCHOOL SHORTS PROGRAMME

    This screening will be introduced by Jonathan Heron, University of Warwick.

    The IFI and the Samuel Beckett Summer School (August 10th – 16th) present a programme of short films from the IFI Irish Film Archive.

    Eh Joe (1966):

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  • GOD HELP THE GIRL

    This film closes on Thursday, August 28th.

    Eve (Emily Browning) is a troubled young woman with a vivid imagination. She meets James (Olly Alexander), a sensitive musician, and the pair bond over the notion of forming a band together. Joined by the... Read More

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  • GOD HELP THE GIRL (PREVIEW + SATELLITE PERFORMANCE)

    We’re delighted to host a preview of this film on Saturday, August 16th followed by a satellite stream of Belle & Sebastian performing at the Corn Exchange, Edinburgh. 

    Eve (Emily Browning) is a troubled young woman with a vivid imagination.... Read More

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  • GOD’S POCKET

    This film closes on Thursday, August 28th.

    Mickey Scarpato is just getting by in God’s Pocket, a low rent Philadelphia neighbourhood whose inhabitants don’t care much for outsiders. A gambler and a thief, Mickey is devoted to his wife Jeanie,... Read More

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  • HEAVEN’S GATE

    One of cinema’s most notoriously troubled productions and financial disasters, Michael Cimino’s Heaven’s Gate as good as ended his career, as well as bringing down the venerable United Artists studio (for an entertaining and frank account of the full story,... Read More

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  • HIDE YOUR SMILING FACES

    This film closes on Thursday August, 7th.

    Eric and Tommy are brothers, New Jersey teenagers spending their time sparring, playing and messing about around their home. They are too young to be confronted with death, yet when Tommy’s friend dies... Read More

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  • IFI & EXPERIMENTAL FILM CLUB: LOOP STRUCTURES

    A chapter title in Chris Meigh-Andrews’ book on the history of video art, ‘Loop Structures’ is made up of a selection of films which use repetition and looping as a central device. Curated by Alice Butler, this programme explores how... Read More

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  • IFI FAMILY: MOOMIN & MIDSUMMER MADNESS

    Based on the fourth book in the much loved Moomins series by Tove Jannson, this brand new film is for old and new fans of the carefree and adventure-loving family. 

    For anyone out there who doesn’t know, a Moomin is... Read More

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  • IRELAND ON SUNDAY: POISON PEN

    The directors will participate in a Q&A and Eoin Colfer and the film’s cast and crew will be in attendance. Poison Pen is a production of the Filmbase/Staffordshire University MSc Digital Feature Film Production Course.

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  • JOE

    After flirting with the mainstream in a number of stoner comedies, David Gordon Green returns here to the more personal feel of his earlier films (George Washington, All the Real Girls). Making a parallel return to form is Nicolas Cage... Read More

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  • L’ECLISSE

    This film screened in August 2014 and is no longer screening. 

    Considered the last part of a loose trilogy on alienation, malaise, and ennui in contemporary Italy, preceded by L’Avventura (1960) and La Notte (1961), L’Eclisse begins with Vittoria (Monica... Read More

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  • LILTING

    This Film closes on Thursday, August 14th. 

    The death of Kai (Andrew Leung) leaves his timid boyfriend Richard (Ben Whishaw) and his obstinate Chinese-Cambodian mother Junn (Cheng Pei-Pei) shaken with grief. Kai had not had the opportunity to come out... Read More

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  • MARGARET

    While Kenneth Lonergan struggled with Margaret’s final cut, multiple lawsuits further delayed completion, until the film was finally given a very low-key release six years after filming. This sprawling story of teenage angst, featuring a tour-de-force performance from Anna Paquin... Read More

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  • MOEBIUS

    EXCLUSIVELY AT IFI

    When Mother (Lee Eun-woo) discovers that Father (Jo Jae-hyeon) is having an affair (the Other Woman is also played by Lee), she is enraged with jealousy and attacks him with a kitchen knife, intending to castrate him.... Read More

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  • MOOD INDIGO

    This film closes on Thursday, August 14th.

    An adaptation of the 1947 novel Froth on the Daydream written by the remarkable polymath Boris Vian, Michel Gondry’s Mood Indigo is a characteristically tender story of devotion and despair.

    Meeting at a... Read More

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  • MYSTERY ROAD

    Jay Swan (Aaron Pedersen) is an indigenous cop who has recently returned to his outback home town to take up a detective posting with the local police. His first case is the murder of a teenage girl, whose ravaged body... Read More

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  • NIGHT MOVES

    Three committed environmentalists are drawn together, driven by the notion of making a big statement to get their views heard in a society that has ostracised them. Josh (Jesse Eisenberg) is a brooding organic farmer who has connected with Dena... Read More

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  • OBVIOUS CHILD

    This film closes on Thursday, September 18th.

    Understandably distressed when she gets ‘dumped up with’ and then fired in quick succession, comedian Donna Stern (Parks and Recreation’s hilarious Jenny Slate) divulges all in a fairly solemn stand-up routine and then... Read More

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  • SECONDS

    Seconds was greeted with such hostility at the Cannes Film Festival that director John Frankenheimer refused to leave nearby Monte Carlo to attend the post-screening press conference. Arthur Hamilton (John Randolph) is experiencing a mid-life crisis, unfulfilled by career and... Read More

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  • SILKEN SKIN

    Following the success of his early films, Les Quatre cents coups and Jules et Jim, Silken Skin (La Peau douce), Truffaut’s fourth feature, saw him return to the Cannes Film Festival for the first time since winning the Best Director... Read More

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  • THE CABINET OF DR. CALIGARI

    IFI CLASSIC

    Widely considered to be the first true horror film ever made, the innovative Cabinet of Dr. Caligari was hugely influential on the German expressionist movement of the 1920s. It tells in flashback of the visit to a carnival... Read More

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  • THE CRITICAL TAKE (FREE FILM CLUB – AUG 2014)

    Join our panel for The Critical Take on August 25th (18.30) to discuss the reissue of director Michael Cimino’s formidable The Deer Hunter, Hitchcock’s 1955 classic To Catch a Thief  starring Cary Grant and Grace Kelly, and the powerful new... Read More

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  • THE LONELY WIFE

    This film closes on Thursday, August 28th.

    IFI Classic

    Racing from window to window in her vast, ornate mansion, Charulata spies hungrily on the outside world through opera glasses. Her wealthy husband, the high-minded editor of a political journal, is... Read More

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  • THE MAGNIFICENT AMBERSONS

    Throughout Orson Welles’ career, he faced any number of problems with his films, from production difficulties to studio interference to critical mauling. Following the battles with William Randolph Hearst over Citizen Kane now found himself in conflict with RKO over... Read More

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  • THE ROVER

    This film closes on Thursday, August 28th.

    Following his award-winning debut feature, Animal Kingdom, director David Michôd returns with this warped, daring and vividly realised thriller. It is set 10 years on from a severe economic collapse from which the western... Read More

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  • TO CATCH A THIEF

    IFI CLASSIC

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    To Catch a Thief finds the great Alfred Hitchcock in frothy form, showcasing stunning locations and alluring stars in this undeniably entertaining comedy-romance. Cary Grant is retired jewel thief John Robie, formerly known as ‘The... Read More

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  • TWO DAYS, ONE NIGHT

    This film closes on Thursday, September 18th.

    After suffering a breakdown that has seen her take time off from her job, Sandra has returned to work at a solar panel plant. Yet her employers have realised that they can be... Read More

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  • WAKOLDA

    In Patagonia, 1960, an Argentinean family travel to a glorious setting by Lake Nahuel Huapi at the foot of the Andes. Pregnant mother Eva (Natalia Oreiro) was brought up in the region, and is returning with husband Enzo (Diego Peretti)... Read More

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  • WE CAN’T GO HOME AGAIN

    After the end of his Hollywood career with 55 Days in Peking (1963), Nicholas Ray taught film at SUNY Binghamton between 1971 and 1973, where he collaborated with his students on the fascinating We Can’t Go Home Again, an experimental... Read More

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  • WE GOTTA GET OUT OF THIS PLACE

    It’s the end of summer, and teenagers Bobby (Jeremy Allen White) and Sue (Mackenzie Davis) are making plans for college, desperate to escape a dead-end existence in their cotton-mill town, the Texan backwater where they have grown up. Yet bullish... Read More

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  • WELCOME TO NEW YORK

    This film closes on Thursday, August 28th.

    George Devereaux is a powerful man with a voracious sexual appetite. In a New York hotel room, he indulges in a night of intense carnality. Blondes leave and brunettes arrive, bodies are smeared... Read More

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  • WILD STRAWBERRIES: THE GREAT BEAUTY

    Tickets on sale now.

    Wild Strawberries is our bimonthly film club for over 55s.

    Rome has provided the backdrop for some of the greatest Italian films. In this enthralling drama, it is a city of beauty, wealth and excess in... Read More

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