Irish Film Institute -Tony

WHAT'S ON - 21/05/2012

ARCHIVE AT LUNCHTIME: COME ABOARD

Join us for FREE screenings from the IFI Irish Film Archive. Simply collect your tickets at the IFI Box Office.

This month we present two sponsored films designed to entice British visitors to Ireland.

PROGRAMME 1: COME ABOARD

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Times: 13.10
CAFÉ DE FLORE

Emotive material, full-on performances and jaw-dropping cinematic bravura lift this latest from French-Canadian maverick Jean-Marc Vallée (C.R.A.Z.Y.) to lofty heights of accomplishment. Is the love of our lives a once-only experience? That’s the question seemingly linking two disparate story threads. [...]

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Times: 13.30|18.20
CHARLIE CASANOVA

Terry McMahon’s debut feature is an excoriating portrait of an entitled sociopath who, after running over a working-class girl, decides to remove himself from the constraints imposed by society and leave all his major choices to a deck of cards, [...]

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Times: 16.10|21.00
THE LIFE AND DEATH OF COLONEL BLIMP

Now painstakingly restored to its full Technicolor glory, Powell and Pressburger’s masterpiece is, among other things, probably the greatest study of ‘Englishness’ in the history of cinema.

General Clive Wynne-Candy (Roger Livesey) is first found relaxing in faintly complacent and [...]

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Times: 13.10|18.05
THE RAID

Every once in a blue moon comes an action movie that reinvigorates the genre, raising the bar for the next generation of contenders: Welsh filmmaker Gareth Evans’ breathless and bloody contender, lensed in Jakarta, is that film, and one of [...]

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Times: 14.20|16.30|18.40|20.50
THE SOURCE

The term ‘Arab spring’ acquires a rather different resonance in this warm-hearted character comedy about the women of a rural North African village who are determined to bring running water to their community.

They’ve always had to trudge up the [...]

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Times: 15.30|20.20