WHAT'S ON - 27/02/2016

• A BIGGER SPLASH

  This film was released 12th February 2016, and is no longer screening.

  ★★★★ The Irish Times ★★★★★ The Upcoming

  Bowie-esque rock star Marianne Lane (Tilda Swinton) is vacationing with her documentary filmmaker boyfriend Paul (Matthias Schoenaerts) on the Italian island of... Read More

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  Times: 17.4

  

• ARCHIVE AT LUNCHTIME: DOUBLE BILL (FREE EVENT: FEB 2016)

  LOVE IS IN THE AIR

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

   PROGRAMME 1: JACK OF ALL MAIDS

  Well-loved American comedian Will Rogers visiting... Read More

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  Times: 13.10

  

• BONE TOMAHAWK

  This film was released 19th February 2016, and is no longer screening.

  ★★★★★ Entertainment.ie

  Another month, another revisionist western starring Kurt Russell; S. Craig Zahler’s striking debut feature is a confident twist on the classic frontier yarn. When cannibal savages... Read More

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  Times: 20.10

  

• KING JACK

  This film was released 26th February 2016, and is no longer screening.

  ★★★★★ The Irish Times

  EXCLUSIVELY AT IFI

  Fifteen-year-old Jack (Charlie Plummer) doesn’t have many friends, lives in a rough part of town and is also in the middle... Read More

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  Times: 13.40, 20.40

  

• RAMS

  This film was released 5th February 2016, and is no longer screening.

  Brothers Gummi (Sigurður Sigurjónsson) and Kiddi (Theodór Júlíusson) haven’t spoken in 40 years. Both men are sheep farmers in the starkly beautiful Icelandic countryside; neighbours in a small... Read More

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  Times: 16.20

  

• ROCK’N’ROLL CINEMA: LEE SCRATCH PERRY’S VISION OF PARADISE

  This film screened 27th February 2016.

  For 15 years, director Volker Schaner followed Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry, legendary godfather of reggae and dub, gaining unprecedented access and insight into the life and mind of one of music’s most eccentric figures. Following... Read More

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  Times: 20.30

  

• 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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  BOOK NOW Times: 13.30

  

• 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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  Times: 16.00

  

• THE PROPAGANDA GAME

  This film was released 26th February 2016, and is no longer screening.

  EXCLUSIVELY AT IFI

  Spanish director Álvaro Longoria is granted exclusive access to North Korea to film in any location he wants, provided it is on a controlled, government-sanctioned... Read More

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  Times: 14.25, 18.30

  

• THE TRUTH COMMISSIONER

  This film was released 26th February 2016, and is no longer screening.

  In this provocative political thriller which deals with the complexities of post-Troubles Northern Ireland, diplomat Henry Stanfield (Roger Allam) has been appointed by the PM to lead the... Read More

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  Times: 15.45, 18.45