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WHAT'S ON - 01/2016

  • AEMI PROJECTIONS SELECTIONS FROM THE FIVE YEAR DIARY – FILMS BY ANNE CHARLOTTE ROBERTSON

    This film screened 20th January 2016.

    For its inaugural screening, aemi Projections presents the work of the exceptional, if little known, film artist Anne Charlotte Robertson in a programme curated and introduced by Benjamin Cook (Director of LUX), in association... Read More

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  • ARCHIVE AT LUNCHTIME DOUBLE BILL (FREE EVENT JAN 2016)

    DUBLIN IN THE RARE OUL’ TIMES

    Programme 1

    WITH WILL ROGERS IN DUBLIN Well-loved American comedian Will Rogers visiting Dublin in 1927. FILM INFO: 3 mins, 1927, Black and White, Silent

    DUBLIN OF THE WELCOMES An ad... Read More

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  • Archive at Lunchtime Prog 1 (FREE EVENT JAN 2016)

    DUBLIN IN THE RARE OUL’ TIMES

    Programme 1

    WITH WILL ROGERS IN DUBLIN Well-loved American comedian Will Rogers visiting Dublin in 1927. FILM INFO: 3 mins, 1927, Black and White, Silent

    DUBLIN OF THE WELCOMES An ad for... Read More

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  • Archive at Lunchtime Prog 2 (FREE EVENT JAN 2016)

    DUBLIN IN THE RARE OUL’ TIMES

    Programme 2 BRENDAN BEHAN’S DUBLIN Made some years after Behan’s death in 1964, with a script by Carolyn Swift inspired by Behan’s writing, the film introduces Dublin city and suburbs, Behan’s... Read More

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  • BOLSHOI BABYLON

    This film was released 8th January 2016, and is no longer screening.

    ★★★★ The Irish Times ★★★★ The Guardian

    Moscow’s Bolshoi company is justly revered as one the world’s greatest cultural institutions; founded in 1776, the Bolshoi is more than a... Read More

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  • CAROL

    This film was released on Friday 27th November 2015 and is no longer screening. 

    Taking the form of an extended flashback, Todd Haynes’ (Far from Heaven, I’m Not There) exquisite film depicts the burgeoning relationship formed by upper-middle-class socialite Carol... Read More

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  • FEAST YOUR EYES: THE DANISH GIRL

    This film screened 12 January.

    FEAST YOUR EYES

    Our Feast Your Eyes event – pairing a feature with a specially devised menu – will be The Danish Girl on Tuesday, January 12th at 18.30. Tickets €20. (Click here for the main The Danish... Read More

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  • FROM THE VAULTS: THE DEAD

    What better way to celebrate the Feast of the Epiphany than to immerse oneself in the household of the Misses Morkan as they prepare for their New Year’s gathering in John Huston’s pitch-perfect adaptation of James Joyce’s The Dead. Set... Read More

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  • GIRLHOOD

    Our French choice for this term is a potent coming-of-age story that focuses on a group of black girls living in the tower blocks of Paris. At the centre is Marieme, who has troubles at home, limited job prospects and... Read More

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  • I USED TO LIVE HERE Q&A

    We are delighted to welcome director Frank Berry and actors Jordanne Jones and Dafhyd Flynn to the screening.

    Developed and filmed with a cast of talented local amateurs in west Dublin, this award-winning debut follows Amy and introverted friend Dylan... Read More

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  • IFI & FIRST FORTNIGHT: GABRIEL

    This film screened 2nd January 2016.

    Rory Culkin stars in Gabriel, a heartfelt portrait of a vulnerable teenager at his psychological breaking point, struggling to keep it together in the wake of his father’s suicide. Convinced that reuniting with an... Read More

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  • IFI & FIRST FORTNIGHT: MEDICATED MILK

    Lucia Joyce was a talented dancer, writer and musician. She spent her life under the control of her father, Ulysses author James, mother Nora and multiple doctors.  Lucia was incarcerated by her brother Giorgio and forced to remain in psychiatric... Read More

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  • IFI & IMMA: L’AGE D’OR & UN CHANT D’AMOUR

    This film screened 23rd January 2016.

    WHAT WE CALL LOVE: FROM SURREALISM TO NOW

    PROGRAMME ONE: L’AGE D’OR & UN CHANT D’AMOUR

    In a series of thematically linked vignettes, a couple’s attempts at consummating their relationship are continually thwarted by the... Read More

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  • IFI & TRADFEST 2016: THE FARM BELOW THE MOUNTAIN

    This film screened 30th January 2016.

    A Ciné-Concert

    The film documents the honeymoon journey in the late 1950s of amateur filmmaker Ernest Tiernan and his young wife Kathleen (née Durkin) from Scotland to a small farm in Cornamuckla, Co. Leitrim,... Read More

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  • IFI FAMILY: BRAVE

    This film screened 31st January 2016.

    Princess Merida (Kelly Macdonald) of the Scottish Highlands is no ordinary princess. Tough and sparky, this redheaded girl sets out to become the kingdom’s best archer, and grows up believing she can be what... Read More

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  • IFI Spotlight 2016: Afternoon Session

    SCREENING: WHERE MY LADIES (14.00) A short about Irish women in film by students at Dundalk Institute of Technology (17 mins).

    SOAPBOX: PAT MURPHY (14.20 – 14.40) In a presentation by one of Ireland’s most respected and prolific female film... Read More

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  • IRISH FOCUS: SHEM THE PENMAN SINGS AGAIN

    This film screened 13th January 2016.

    Join us for our focus on new Irish film and filmmakers.

    On the occasion of the 75th anniversary of James Joyce’s death (on January 13th, 1941) we present this energetic new work exploring the actual and... Read More

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  • JOY

    This film was released 2nd January 2016, and is no longer screening.

    Following Silver Linings Playbook (2012) and American Hustle (2013), Joy represents the third collaboration between director David O. Russell and actors Jennifer Lawrence and Bradley Cooper. Taking us... Read More

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  • LAST HIJACK

    This film was released 8th January 2016, and is no longer screening.

    ★★★★ RTÉ TEN ★★★★ Entertainment.ie

    Mohamed is one of Somalia’s most experienced pirates, but though he might be feared on the high seas, at home he is just another middle-aged... Read More

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  • LE MÉPRIS

    This film was released 2nd January 2016, and is no longer screening.

    Jean-Luc Godard’s sixth feature,Le Mépris, or Contempt, sees him wrestling, not for the last time, with the dichotomy of art versus commerce, reflecting some of the circumstances of... Read More

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  • NATIONAL THEATRE LIVE: LES LIAISONS DANGEREUSES

    This film screened 28th January 2016.

    Josie Rourke’s revival of Chistopher Hampton’s classic adaptation of Les Liaisons Dangereuses Is this month’s presentation by National Theatre Live, a series of enthralling live performances from London’s most prestigious theatres, broadcast onto cinema... Read More

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  • NO HOME MOVIE

    This film was released 1st July 2016, and is no longer screening.

    ★★★★ – The Irish Times

    ★★★★★ – The Upcoming

    ★★★★ – The Guardian

     

    The final film Chantal Akerman made before her death last year, No Home Movie... Read More

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  • NT LIVE: HAMLET

    This film screened on Thursday 15th October 2015.

    English National Theatre Live Encore series presents an exciting interpretation of Shakespeare’s classic play. Benedict Cumberbatch takes on the title role with great energy in this compelling new production. As a country... Read More

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  • OUR BRAND IS CRISIS

    Adapted from Rachel Boynton’s 2005 documentary of the same name, Our Brand is Crisis follows a group of American political strategists battling to win the 2002 Bolivian presidential election. Sandra Bullock stars as ‘Calamity’ Jane Bodine, persuaded out of retirement... Read More

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  • ROCK ‘N’ ROLL CINEMA: SLEAFORD MODS: INVISIBLE BRITAIN

    This film screened 30th January 2016.

    Sleaford Mods: Invisible Britain shows the most exciting and uncompromising British band in years sticking two fingers up to the zeitgeist and articulating the rage and desperation of those without a voice in austerity... Read More

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  • ROOM

    ★★★★★ The Irish Times ★★★★★ Entertainment.ie

    Adapted by Emma Donoghue from her own novel, Room tells the story of Ma (Brie Larson) and her five-year-old son Jack (Jacob Tremblay), who are being held captive by a man known only as Old... Read More

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  • SELMA

    Set over the three month period of Martin Luther King Jr’s campaign to secure voting rights, this Oscar-winning film tells the story of the dangerous protest march from Selma to Montgomery. Violently opposed, the 54-mile peaceful march was witnessed worldwide.... Read More

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  • SON OF RAMBOW

    One of the ten prescribed films on the new Junior Certificate English course, this charming drama set in 1980s England follows schoolboys Will and Lee, who meet by chance in a school hallway. Lee asks Will to help him... Read More

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  • SPOTLIGHT

    This film was released 29th January 2016, and is no longer screening.

    ★★★★★ The Independent ★★★★★ Entertainment.ie ★★★★ The Irish Times ★★★★ The Guardian

    Michael Keaton, Rachel McAdams and Mark Ruffalo, amongst others, excel in this gripping slow-burn procedural which observes the... Read More

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  • THE HANGOVER LOUNGE: RESERVOIR DOGS

    This film screened 31st January 2016.

    This month’s Hangover Lounge – our monthly indulgent Sunday afternoon of brunch and a classic film – revisits Quentin Tarantino’s remarkable debut from 1992, a film with a justifiable claim to having altered the... Read More

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  • THE ASSASSIN

    ★★★★★ RTE.ie ★★★★★ The Telegraph ★★★★ The Irish Times

    A revered figure in world cinema, Taiwanese director Hou Hsiao-Hsien is acclaimed for his elliptical narratives and meticulously crafted aesthetic. In this, his first martial arts film, he blends his style with the... Read More

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  • THE DANISH GIRL

    This film was released 2nd January 2016, and is no longer screening.

    Oscar winner Eddie Redmayne (The Theory of Everything) stars as Einar Wegener, a Danish artist who was one of the first recipients of gender reassignment surgery in this... Read More

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  • THE HATEFUL EIGHT

    This film was released 8th January 2016, and is no longer screening.

    ★★★★★ The Guardian

    Quentin Tarantino’s latest foray into genre revisionism is another western, but, like Django Unchained (2012) before it, The Hateful Eight filters the tropes of the genre... Read More

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  • THE LIGHT BETWEEN OCEANS

    This film was released  11th November 2016, and is no longer screening.

    ★★★★ Independent

    ★★★★ The Guardian

    In the aftermath of World War I, former soldier Tom Sherbourne (Michael Fassbender) works as a lighthouse keeper, living alone on a small... Read More

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  • THE REVENANT

    This film was released 15th January 2016, and is no longer screening.

    ★★★★★ Irish Independent ★★★★★ The Irish Times ★★★★★ Entertainment.ie ★★★★★ RTÉ.ie

    A bracing, existential tale of survival and revenge set in the U.S. Midwest in the 1890s, Alejandro González Iñárritu’s The Revenant... Read More

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  • WILD STRAWBERRIES: THE LUNCHBOX

    This film screened 27th & 29th January 2016.

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

    The wonderful Indian actor Irrfan Khan (Life of Pi) is claims official Saajan, facing into retirement as a fairly grumpy older man.

    Across town,... Read More

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  • YOUTH

    This film was released 29th January 2016, and is no longer screening.

    Retired composer Fred Ballinger (Michael Caine) is in retreat from the world at a luxurious Swiss sanatorium, fending off requests to return to London for a Royal Command... Read More

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