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SHAKESPEARE & COMPANY
Dr. Sam Slote, Joycean Scholar and Associate Professor of English in Trinity College, Dublin, will explore James Joyce’s relationship with the work of William Shakespeare in an introduction to the Archive at Lunchtime Double Bill at 13.00 on June 25th.
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This month we celebrate Bloomsday and the quatercentenary of Shakespeare’s death.
PROGRAMME 1: SHAKESPEARE
Amharc Éireann Newsreel: Abbey players at RSC.
FILM INFO: 3 mins, B&W, 1964, Digital.
Hamlet at Elsinore: The Gate Theatre takes
Hamlet to Denmark.
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PROGRAMME 2: JOYCE
Amharc Éireann: Opening of the Joyce Tower with Sylvia Beach of Shakespeare and Company, publisher of Ulysses.
FILM INFO: 2 mins, B&W, 1962, Digital.
Ulys: Tim Booth’s animated, potted... Read More
This film was released 17th June 2016, and is no longer screening.
Where 16-year-old George (Marilyn Lima) is outgoing and sexually aware, her best friend Laetitia (Daisy Broom) is shy and virginal. Both are interested in class lothario Alex (Finnegan... Read More
★★★★ The Irish Times
Not unlike his other work in which dream and spirit worlds often interact with a recognisable reality, Palme-d’Or-winning filmmaker Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s Cemetery of Splendour... Read More
This film screened 8th June 2016.
Chimes at Midnight was originally a disastrously unsuccessful stage production, the Dublin performance of which marked Orson Welles’ last appearance as an actor in the theatre. The film presents an abridged compilation of both... Read More
This film was released 10th June 2016, and is no longer screening.
★★★★★ – The Guardian
The year is 1909; gravely ill German scientist Theodore Koch-Grunberg ventures deep into the Amazon in search of the sacred yakruna plant he believes... Read More
This film screened 21st June 2016.
An anthology of fables drawn from a 17th century book of Neapolitan folk tales compiled by the poet Giambattista Basile, Matteo Garrone’s Tale of Tales is a baroque fantasy of three mythical lands and... Read More
PANEL DISCUSSION: Join us after the 18.00 screening on June 14 for a panel discussion chaired by broadcaster/journalist, Norah Casey, in conversation with journalists Razan Ibraheem and Ismail Einashe, and Calais activist Karen Moynihan, as part of the Migration Learning Lab... Read More
This film screened 15th June 2016.
Kenneth Branagh is contemporary cinema’s most noted interpreter of Shakespeare, having now brought five of his plays to the big screen.
His version of Hamlet represents perhaps his crowning achievement, the first unabridged film... Read More
This film screened 28th June 2016.
In the vein of Peter Horvath, Winston Smith, or William Burroughs, Lewis Klahr can be considered among the great cut-up/collage artists of his generation. His latest work, Sixty Six, which premiered at MoMA last... Read More
This film screened 18th June 2016.
The Irish Architecture Foundation and IFI present two walking tours, complemented by film and architectural analysis, exploring the impact of the 1916 Rising on the fabric of Dublin and the post conflict evolution of the... Read More
This film screened 1st June 2016.
The screening will be introduced by Prof. Kathleen James-Chakraborty, UCD School of Art History and Cultural Policy.
Following Rome, Open City (1945) and Paisan (1946), Roberto Rossellini turned to the ruined city of Berlin to... Read More
IFI Explorers is our discounted ticket offering for 15–18 year olds.
This month’s film selection on special offer for IFI Explorers is Race, based on the incredible true story of legendary athlete Jesse Owens.His... Read More
City boy Gustav is not too happy in the country until he meets Fergie, a living, thinking, feeling tractor, thanks to a magic spark plug that beats like a heart! Together with all their friends on the farm, including a... Read More
Artist and designer Sarah Bracken will introduce you to the wonderful world of fanzines in this unique and creative workshop. Young film fans will use different mediums such as drawing, collage and print to create their very own zine which... Read More
Get your Shakespeare on with writer and co-director of Big Smoke Writing Factory, Claire Hennessy. In this fun and practical workshop, participants will think about story, character and dialogue and develop a short script of their own, updating one of... Read More
Zig and Zag are the weird and wacky brothers from Planet Zog who can’t keep out of trouble. See RTÉjr’s favourite alien duo in several episodes on the big screen. Make your own Zig and Zag mask, and meet producer... Read More
FOYER FLIGHTS, IFI Foyer, 5.30 – 6.30 RTÉjr’s Clara Murray joins us for our free opening night flight-tastic activities! See a rare and beautiful Golden Eagle in Meeting House Square, help us create a giant bird in the IFI foyer... Read More
With a code, a map, and a grandfather’s tale, it’s up to courageous twelve-year-old Isabel and her companions to find the long-lost sword of D’Artagnan the musketeer. This modern-day mystery through the caves and castles of the Netherlands, follows the... Read More
2016 celebrates William Shakespeare, the famous writer of over 37 plays and 134 poems. To mark his 400th anniversary we are showing The Lion King, which was inspired by one of his best-known plays, Hamlet. Don’t miss this classic animation... Read More
Pari has promised her blind brother Chotu that she’ll help get his eyesight back before he is ten. She doesn’t know how, but she’s optimistic. One day she spots her favourite Bollywood star, Shah Rukh Khan, on an eye-donation poster.... Read More
Sing with the perfect piggies, learn how to decorate a cake or how to be the most well-mannered house guest, with this collection of short animated and liveaction films from around the world. Stories about cool cats, talking mushrooms,and bright... Read More
Visiting the underwater world, joining a sleepover, or going on a fantastical journey, are some of the ways we can explore our various surroundings. Let the stories of Nina, Jonas, Eleanor and others take you on a rollercoaster expedition with... Read More
Rico might not know his rights from his lefts, but he has a talent for noticing things, particularly with his new friend, the super-smart, crash-helmet-wearing Oskar. With the notorious kidnapper ‘Mr. 2000’ at large, can Rico and Oskar stop him?... Read More
This film screened 16th June 2016.
Director Padraig Trehy will participate in a post-screening Q&A.
A new exploration of the actual and much-fabled friendship between Joyce and Irish tenor, John McCormack. McCormack inspires the character of Shaun the Post in... Read More
Áine Stapleton and José Miguel Jiménez will participate in a post-screening Q&A.
Lucia Joyce was a talented dancer, writer and musician. She spent her life under the control of her father James, her family... Read More
This film was released 27th May 2016, and is no longer screening.
★★★★★ The Independent
★★★★★ The Guardian
An adaptation of Jane Austen’s Lady Susan, a posthumously published early epistolary novella, Love & Friendship sees Whit... Read More
This film was released 24th June 2016, and is no longer screening.
The new film from director Julio Medem (Lovers of the Arctic Circle, Sex and Lucia) is something of a departure for him; while his previous work contains an... Read More
This film screened 30th June 2016.
As the first film Roman Polanski directed following the horrific murder of Sharon Tate, his pregnant wife, at the hands of the Manson Family, it is not surprising that his treatment of Macbeth is... Read More
★★★★ Entertainment.ie
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Tony (Emmanuelle Bercot) is admitted to a rehabilitation centre following a serious skiing accident; bedridden and under constant supervision she reflects on her... Read More
This film was released 13th May 2016, and is no longer screening.
Five orphaned sisters are kept under strict lock and key in a remote Turkish town by their aunt and uncle until one... Read More
A key film in the New Queer Cinema movement of the early ‘90s, and a landmark of American independent filmmaking, My Own Private Idaho is in part based on Shakespeare’s Henry IV Parts 1 &... Read More
Join us on June 17th for a magical midsummer’s evening in Temple Bar’s Meeting House Square, with pre-screening entertainment, including pop-up Shakespearean performances and a succulent pig on a spit from The Hogfather, to... Read More
This film was released 3rd June 2016, and is no longer screening.
The legendary Jesse Owens, one of the all-time great athletes, famed for the still unequalled feat of setting three world records and tying another in 45 minutes at... Read More
Although Remainder is Omer Fast’s feature-length debut, as a renowned video artist who uses filmic devices such as looping and reconstruction to explore the politics of representation and... Read More
This film screened 25th June 2016.
Adapted for the screen over 50 times, whether serving as the inspiration for a film such as West Side Story (Jerome Robbins, Robert Wise, 1961), or in versions more faithful to the original text, Romeo... Read More
This film screened 22nd June 2016.
Sir Tom Stoppard has often exhibited a playful, subversive approach to the Bard; he co-wrote the Oscar-winning screenplay for Shakespeare in Love (John Madden, 1998), and has written for the stage Dogg’s Hamlet, Cahoot’s Macbeth,... Read More
This film screened 13th June 2016.
Our monthly strand in which a key film is presented in the context of a notional film canon.
Todd Haynes’ exquisite Carol may have encapsulated the torments, uncertainties and infatuations of a 1950s lesbian love... Read More
A prodigal son’s return leads to revelations of long-repressed family secrets in theatre director Simon Stone’s brooding debut feature, a re-working of Ibsen’s The... Read More
Our monthly indulgent Sunday afternoon of brunch and a classic.
The release this month of adult fantasy Tale of Tales provides the Hangover Lounge with a welcome opportunity to revisit Guillermo del Toro’s dark fairytale. Arguably the director’s best work to date,... Read More
Exclusively at the IFI.
A victim of factory downsizing, Thierry (Vincent Lindon) has been out of work for over a year; with special needs... Read More
This film screened 12th June 2016.
The setting is Padua in Italy in the late 1500s; the rich merchant Baptista Minola (Michael Hordern) is attempting to marry off his two daughters, but he will only part with his youngest, the... Read More
Derek Jarman’s interpretation of Shakespeare’s final play is an evocative depiction of colonialism, revenge, retribution and reconciliation. Prospero (Heathcote Williams), the former Duke of Milan, and his daughter Miranda (Toyah Willcox) were abandoned on... Read More
This film screened 3rd, 5th & 7th June 2016.
In 2014 Ken Loach announced his retirement after 50 years of filmmaking. The following year the Conservative Party came back into power, reason enough for him to come out of retirement... Read More
In his wryly titled new film, his first since 2009’s Capitalism: A Love Story, Michael Moore is in unusually mellow form, though as impassioned as ever, as he... Read More
Wild Strawberries is our bi-monthly film club for over 55s.
Based on US writer Cheryl Strayed’s memoir, this beautiful looking film follows Reese Witherspoon in the title role as the woman who embarks on a solo, three-month, 1,100-mile trek across... Read More
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JEAN EUSTACHE: THE VIRGIN OF PESSAC ‘79 18.30
MONSTER 15.35
PERFECT DAYS 13.00
ROBOT DREAMS 13.00, 18.15 (OC)
RYUICHI SAKAMOTO | OPUS 20.30
THE DELINQUENTS 12.45, 17.15
THE TASTE OF THINGS 20.20
THE ZONE OF INTEREST 16.15
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