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This film screened Friday 7th August 2015.
We are delighted to welcome director Gary Lennon, producer Bob Jacksonand Niki MacCarthy (Aidan’s daughter) who will attend the opening night screening on August 7th at 18.30.
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This film was released on Friday 3rd July 2015 and is no longer screening.
★★★★★ The Guardian ★★★★★ The Times
★★★★The Irish Times ★★★★ Irish Independent
The indisputable singing and song writing talent the Amy Winehouse possessed seemed to be countered by her... Read More
Join us for free lunchtime screenings of films from the IFI Irish Film Archive. Simply collect your tickets at the IFI Box Office. Please see www.ifi.ie for dates and times.
PROGRAMME 1 SURPRISING IRELAND A tour around Ireland in the... Read More
PROGRAMME 2 PROSPECTS OF IRELAND
“Ireland is on the way... Read More
This film screened on Wednesday 12th August 2015.
Selected by Maeve Connolly and Alice Butler in connection with this month’s season on protest cinema (see page 13), the IFI presents Rehana Zaman’s Some Women, Other Women and all the Bittermen... Read More
This film screened on Saturday 29th August 2015.
In the Mali capital of Bamako, an outdoor trial is taking place in a dusty courtyard. Major financial institutions, the World Bank and the IMF, stand accused by local citizens eloquently protesting... Read More
This film screened on Thursday 13th August 2015.
With a cast comprised of non-professionals – excluding actor Jean Martin who plays suave but deadly Col. Mathieu – and featuring thousands of extras, Gillo Pontecorvo’s large-scale masterpiece recreates episodes from the... Read More
This film was released on Friday 24th July 2015 and is no longer screening.
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★★★★★ Entertainment.ie ★★★★★ The Irish Times
In 1968, the American news channel ABC was trailing behind its competitors at the bottom of the TV... Read More
This film was released on Friday 31st July 2015 and is no longer screening.
Ben (Jeremy Irvine) is an impoverished hunting guide, hiring himself out to gunmen seeking excitement in the Mojave Desert, a territory he knows well. Having grown... Read More
This film screened on Sunday 9th August 2015.
An ingenious, playful and funny adaptation of Hrabal’s masterful book, Menzel’s Oscar-winning Closely Observed Trains is a landmark film of the Czech New Wave, a cinematic movement that, as Andrew Pulver described,... Read More
This film screened on Tuesday 11th August 2015.
Eschewing regard for linear narrative or conventional structure, Daisies was one of the most radical and original films to emerge from the Czech New Wave and is widely recognised as a key... Read More
This film screened on Tuesday 25th August 2015.
This screening will be introduced by Daniel Fitzpatrick.
Spike Lee’s portrayal of racial tensions that escalate one summer’s day in Brooklyn was made after the Howard Beach race clash and the death... Read More
★★★★★ The Guardian ★★★★ The Irish Times
Paul (Félix de Givry) is drawn into the world of dance music through illicit raves in Paris during the early 1990s.... Read More
This event took place on Tuesday 18th August 2015.
Feast Your Eyes is our monthly gastronomic feature that pairs a great film with a specially created menu.
Join us on Tuesday, August 18th (18.30) for one of Al Pacino’s most... Read More
This film screened on Wednesday 19th August 2015.
In connection with this month’s season on protest cinema (see page 13), From the Vaults presents two works by internationally renowned Irish filmmaker Vivienne Dick whose work is often associated with the... Read More
This film was released on Friday 21st August 2015 and is no longer screening.
Martin Joubert (Fabrice Luchini) is a baker in a small village in rural France, a fanciful, romantic soul who has recently escaped Paris with his long-suffering... Read More
This film was released on Friday 7th August 2015 and is no longer screening.
Hard to be a God is an adaptation of the science-fiction novel by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky, whose work has formed the basis of, amongst others,... Read More
This film screened on Tuesday 18th August 2015.
Inspired by Godard and Jean Vigo, Lindsay Anderson’s Palme d’Or-winning, anti-establishment story of disaffected youth in revolt at a timeworn, unscrupulous British public school is innovative both in form and content. Shifting... Read More
This film screened on Sunday 30th August 2015.
Tying in with our Cinema of Protest season, this gorgeous New Zealand film is about a young Maori girl Pai who has to fight for what she believes is her right –... Read More
This film screened on Sunday 23rd August 2015.
Ireland on Sunday is our monthly showcase for new Irish film.
Tadhg O’Sullivan, in conversation with Michael Ryan, will present a selection of his new and older short works that echo the... Read More
This film was released on Friday 28th August 2015 and is no longer screening.
Preceded by L’Avventura (1960) and La Notte (1961), Michelangelo Antonioni’s L’Eclisse is considered the last part of a loose trilogy on alienation, malaise, and ennui in... Read More
This film screened on Sunday 16th August 2015.
Taking place largely within the confines of a Parisian apartment, Godard’s anti-narrative, Brechtian adaptation of Dostoyevsky’s The Possessed depicts a Maoist cell of five young revolutionaries, led by Guillaume and the more... Read More
Proclaimed as an ‘experiment in cinematic communication of real events’, Man with a Movie Camera was voted number one in Sight & Sound’s poll of the... Read More
In director David Gordon Green’s tender character study, aging locksmith A.J. Manglehorn (Al Pacino) leads a solitary existence in which his closest relationships are with his... Read More
This film screened on Thursday 20th August 2015.
With a title derived from Marshall McLuhan’s description of TV as a ‘cool’ medium, Wexler’s feature debut as a director, shot during the Democratic National Convention demonstrations in Chicago in 1968 is... Read More
Liv Ullmann, directing for the first time since 2000’s Faithless, transplants August Strindberg’s play from Sweden to Fermanagh, retaining the naturalistic approach of the original work... Read More
This film was released on Friday 14th August 2015 and is no longer screening.
Tracy is 18 years old, a freshman at New York’s Barnard College and is struggling to fit in. She has writing aspirations, but rejection from the... Read More
This film screened on Thursday 6th August 2015.
Set against the backdrop of protests opposing the Japanese invasion of Manchuria, and based on the Takigawa incident of 1933, No Regrets… opens in Kyoto just after young and capricious Yukie’s father... Read More
In 1980s New York, the 75th police precinct in Brooklyn was a dangerous place to be, the centre of the city’s crack epidemic and boasting one... Read More
Shot as a pseudo-documentary on one 16mm camera with a crew of eight, Peter Watkin’s still radical, still polemic Punishment Park imagines a 1970 where Nixon has responded to large-scale protests by... Read More
This event took place on Tuesday 21st July 2015.
The film was released on Friday 31st July 2015 and is no longer screening.
★★★★ The Irish Times ★★★★ The Guardian
When it was announced that the great guitarist Wilko Johnson was suffering from... Read More
One of the most influential groups in the history of hip hop, Niggaz With Attitude was also one of its most controversial. Formed around the core of Eazy-E, Ice Cube, and Dr. Dre, N.W.A. articulated the anger building in inner cities... Read More
This film screened on Tuesday 4th August 2015.
Droll and stark by turns, Eisenstein’s first feature inventively portrays a 1903 factory strike and its drastic repercussions in pre-revolutionary, Tsarist Russia. Made as a State Film in 1925, and as much... Read More
This film screened on Wednesday 26th August 2015.
(LA PASSION DE JEANNE D’ARC)
Tony Tracy, lecturer at the Huston School of Film and Digital Media, NUI Galway, will present Carl Theodor Dreyer’s The Passion of Joan of Arc, a truly... Read More
This film screened on Thursday 27th August 2015.
As a depiction of the restrictions on women’s rights in Iran, The Circle represents a bold, vital act of dissent. Made up of interlinked stories with no protagonist, the film opens at... Read More
This event took place on Monday 31st August 2015.
The Critical Take is a free event that takes place at the end of every month when a panel of three invited speakers initiate an open discussion about three films from... Read More
Right off the bat in The Diary of a Teenage Girl, we discover that 17-year-old Minnie, a fearless Bel Powley, has just had sex for the... Read More
This bold new documentary, an adaptation of a Kafka story, looks at the enclosure of Europe by a complex system of walls and... Read More
This month’s indulgent Sunday afternoon of brunch and a classic double bill sees a Brando and Kazan pairing back on the big screen. The perfect way to end the weekend.
Tennessee Williams wrote... Read More
★★★★ The Irish Times ★★★1/2 Movies.ie
At a time when a serial killer is taunting police by sending them body parts of victims to the police... Read More
This film was released on Friday 17th July 2015 and is no longer screening.
★★★★ Irish Independent ★★★★ The Irish Times ★★★★ The Guardian
Wim Wenders once again shows his mastery of the documentary format in The Salt of the Earth, which... Read More
A sinister paedophilia case raises issues for Inspector Nick Cafmeyer (Geert Van Rampelberg), who has been haunted by the disappearance of his younger brother since he... Read More
This ambitious first feature from Naji Abu Nowar is set in 1916, in the Hejaz Province of the Ottoman Empire, where radical change... Read More
This film screened on Wednesday 26th & Friday 28th August 2015.
Wild Strawberries is our bi-monthly film club for over 55s.
Tying in with this month’s season of Cinema of Protest films, this terrific drama from Steven Soderbergh stars Julia... Read More
SPECIAL GUEST We are delighted to welcome director Mark Noonan for a Q&A following the 18.30 screening on Friday, July 24th.
★★★★ Movies.ie ★★★★ Scannain.com
When 11-year-old... Read More
ALL YOU NEED IS DEATH 16:00, 20:55
BALTIMORE 18:30
IO CAPITANO 13:20
JEANNE DU BARRY 13:10, 18:10
PERFECT DAYS 13:30
THAT THEY MAY FACE THE RISING SUN 15:40, 20:45
THAT THEY MAY FACE THE RISING SUN Q&A (PREVIEW) 18.30
THE TEACHERS’ LOUNGE 20:40
THE ZONE OF INTEREST 16:10
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