Seasons & Special Events

May brings the annual Bealtaine Festival, a month-long celebration of renewal, creativity and growth in ageing. Coordinated by Age & Opportunity, Bealtaine 2013 is a packed programme of activities that includes film, theatre, dance, art, and music. 

May 2013 is also all about Gatsby, with the release of Baz Luhrmann’s much-anticipated adaptation of the classic American novel. For Bealtaine, we are showing the 1974 version, starring Robert Redford and Mia Farrow and, in response to the Festival theme “What kind of old do you want to be?”, we’d like to you to unleash your creative side for our Gatsby celebration by dressing in costume, or join the audience for the dance theatre performance of CoisCéim Broadreach.

Programme

• WILD STRAWBERRIES & BEALTAINE 2013: THE GREAT GATSBY
  • Friday 24th May 2013
    11.00
  • Wednesday 29th May 2013
    11.00
• WILD STRAWBERRIES & BEALTAINE 2013: DANCE ACROSS DUBLIN & SHORT FILM SCREENINGS
  • Friday 31st May 2013
    11.00

MAY 1ST - 30TH

If Neil Jordan didn’t exist, you’d be hard-pressed to invent him. There’s simply no precedent on these shores for a gifted young novelist turning to film, then carving out a decades-long career at home and in Hollywood, all the while keeping his creative integrity defiantly intact. Back in the ‘70s, the notion that someone from Ireland could pull off that sort of trick would have seemed an absurdity. Nowadays however, Jordan is pre-eminent though not alone among Irish film-makers of world stature, and continues to thrive in a native context where cinema is now central to the arts culture rather than a luxury product to be imported from elsewhere.

As a prelude to the release of Byzantium, his latest darkly captivating saga, here’s a splendid opportunity to survey a major filmography – to be challenged by Jordan’s consistently bracing insight into the best and worst of ourselves, to savour his bitter humour, admire his visionary craft, and thrill to some magnificent performances. Visit some old friends. Make some new ones. Reassess. And marvel.

Introduction and notes on individual films by Trevor Johnston. See our online exhibition of a sample of Neil Jordan's substantial document collections held by the IFI Irish Film Archive.

Neil Jordan will be interviewed by his friend and collaborator Pat McCabe in our FREE Afternoon Talk on Saturday, May 25th at 14.10.

As part of this season, we’re pleased to screen the first feature ever directed by Neil Jordan, The Making of Excalibur: Myth into Movie, which he filmed on the set of John Boorman’s 1981 epic , and which is now preserved in the IFI Irish Film Archive. May 25th (13.00). Tickets €5.

Byzantium opens May 31st.  

Programme

• ANGEL
  • Wednesday 1st May 2013
    18.30
• THE COMPANY OF WOLVES
  • Saturday 4th May 2013
    14.10
• MONA LISA
  • Sunday 5th May 2013
    14.10
• HIGH SPIRITS
  • Monday 6th May 2013
    18.30
• WE’RE NO ANGELS
  • Wednesday 8th May 2013
    18.30
• THE MIRACLE
  • Saturday 11th May 2013
    16.10
• THE CRYING GAME
  • Sunday 12th May 2013
    16.10
• INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE: THE VAMPIRE CHRONICLES
  • Monday 13th May 2013
    18.20
• MICHAEL COLLINS
  • Tuesday 14th May 2013
    18.20
• THE BUTCHER BOY
  • Wednesday 15th May 2013
    18.30
• IN DREAMS
  • Saturday 18th May 2013
    16.10
• THE END OF THE AFFAIR
  • Sunday 19th May 2013
    16.10
• THE GOOD THIEF
  • Tuesday 21st May 2013
    18.30
• AFTERNOON TALK: NEIL JORDAN PUBLIC INTERVIEW
  • Saturday 25th May 2013
    14.10
• BREAKFAST ON PLUTO
  • Saturday 25th May 2013
    16.10
• THE MAKING OF EXCALIBUR: MYTH INTO MOVIE
  • Saturday 25th May 2013
    13.00
• THE BRAVE ONE
  • Sunday 26th May 2013
    13.30
• ONDINE
  • Thursday 30th May 2013
    18.30