JUNE 2019 APOLLO 11 THE IRISH FILM INSTITUTE

The Irish Film Institute is Ireland’s EXHIBIT national cultural institution for film. It aims to exhibit the finest in independent, Irish and international cinema, preserve PRESERVE Ireland’s moving image heritage at the IFI Irish Film Archive, and encourage EDUCATE engagement with film through its various educational programmes.

IFI SUMMER TERRACE BITES MYSTERY MATINEE

The summer is here, making it the perfect time to visit our Join us for Dublin’s best kept secret! This month’s fantastic outdoor terrace. Open every Thursday to Saturday screening, for which tickets cost just €5.20, will take place from 16.00, we are delighted to offer a special summer at 13.00 on Sunday 23rd. The film chosen could be anything tapas menu featuring tasty flatbreads, chicken wings, from throughout the history of cinema, or even a preview grilled halloumi and sweet potato fries, all served alongside of a hotly-anticipated release. With the Mystery Matinee, Franciscan Well beers and Ha’penny Gin. See www.ifi.ie for you should always expect the unexpected! A full list more details. Proudly presented in association with GCN. of previous screenings is available from www.ifi.ie/mystery-matinee-archive.

IFI IRISH FILM TAPAS, PROSECCO ARCHIVE TOURS AND CAVA EVENING

Treat the film obsessive in your life to a behind-the-scenes Join us at the IFI Café Bar for a very special tasting evening look at the IFI Irish Film Archive. This tour gives a unique on Thursday 20th at 19.30. Sample a fine selection of insight into the collections held in the Archive and talks prosecco and rosé, served with delicious tapas including through how we safeguard our collections that date back as smoked salmon, fried shrimp, and parmesan and pecorino far as 1897. Attendees are also invited to lunch at the IFI Café cheeses. Spaces are strictly limited so book to avoid Bar. Tours will take place in June on Fridays 7th and 21st. disappointment. Tickets costing €30 per person are now See www.ifi.ie/archivetours for further details. available from www.ifi.ie.

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This June, we are excited to launch a fundraising campaign to help us realise our plans to refurbish and upgrade the facilities at the IFI. JUNE

AT THE IFI Halston Big changes are coming to the IFI – but we need your help! We also have a fantastic collection of new releases and This summer, the home of film in Ireland will receive a classics lined up. The opening film of the Dublin International brand new look in our main cinema spaces with premium Film Festival, John Butler’s touching drama Papi Chulo seats, more leg room, new carpets, acoustic panelling, and starring Matt Bomer, comes to the IFI from Friday 7th and urgently-needed repairs to our roof. As a registered charity is sure to be a hit. For admirers of Oscar-winning director and not-for-profit, we have much of the funding in place but Asif Kapadia’s documentaries Amy and Senna, his latest is we need your help to complete the works. You can support sure to add to his legion of fans; the film explores the world us in a number of ways by: of iconic football sport superstar, the ‘hand of God’ himself, Diego Maradona, and is constructed from over 500 hours of • Making a donation online, in our donations box never-seen-before footage. Getting a big screen re-release or at IFI Box Office this month is the classic 1949 Ealing Studios comedy Kind • Naming a seat in our new-look cinema Hearts and Coronets from director Robert Hamer starring the magnificent Alec Guinness. • Becoming an IFI Member for €35/€20 per annum • Upgrade to become an IFI Friend (from €10 a month) Make sure that you don’t miss the Loopline Collection that • Putting your name on our walkway with our was released on the IFI Player in April. This is a fascinating other IFI Luminaries collection of documentary footage from one of Ireland’s most prolific filmmakers, Sé Merry Doyle. The collection is • Asking your company to name a corporate seat now available on the IFI Player and suite of apps, and access • Encouraging your company to become an is completely free of charge as part of our commitment to IFI Corporate Member sharing the national film and moving image collection (which we preserve at IFI) with the world. This project was made Information on all of the above is available at ifi.ie in possible through the support of the BAI Archiving Scheme the ‘Join & Support’ section, or you can talk to any of and the Ireland Funds. our staff. We hope we can count on your support to help realise our plans. And to top it all off, keep an eye out for the IFI Café Bar’s new summer menu and a special drinks and food offering This month sees a return of Dark Skies, our annual on our terrace which is guaranteed to tickle your taste buds season which explores film and science and the thematic in fine weather! convergence of the two. This year we will examine artificial intelligence in this special edition entitled Man Vs Machine. Ross Keane Titles will include Michael Crichton’s Westworld, Bryan Director Forbes’s The Stepford Wives, and a special presentation of Terminator 2: Judgment Day on 70mm, a format whose projection is unique to the IFI.

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GLORIA BELL OPENS FRI 7TH DATE SCREENING TIME HALSTON OPENS FRI 7TH 6TH IFI & THE SCHOOL OF CREATIVE ARTS AT TCD: EARTH 18.30 KIND HEARTS AND CORONETS OPENS FRI 7TH THUR SAVING PRIVATE RYAN 19.30 PAPI CHULO OPENS FRI 7TH 7TH PAPI CHULO + Q&A 18.30 FRI BALLOON OPENS FRI 14TH 8TH DARK SKIES: WESTWORLD 15.30 DIEGO MARADONA OPENS FRI 14TH SAT WE THE ANIMALS OPENS FRI 14TH 9TH DARK SKIES: THE STEPFORD WIVES 15.30 FIVE SEASONS: SUN 11TH IFI FILM CLUB: KIND HEARTS AND CORONETS 18.10 THE GARDENS OF PIET OUDOLF OPENS FRI 21ST TUES APOLLO 11 OPENS FRI 28TH 13TH STAN BRAKHAGE: A CELEBRATION 19.00 IN FABRIC OPENS FRI 28TH THUR SUPPORT THE GIRLS OPENS FRI 28TH 15TH DARK SKIES: TERMINATOR 2: JUDGMENT DAY 20.20 SAT (70MM) 16TH IRISH FOCUS FOR BLOOMSDAY: 16.00 SUN HORRIBLE CREATURE + Q&A DARK SKIES: DEMON SEED 18.20 19TH IFI & AEMI: PRISMATIC MUSIC: FILMS BY 18.30 WED JOSEPH BERNARD AND GERMAINE DULAC 20TH DARK SKIES: HI, A.I. 18.30 THUR TAPAS, PROSECCO AND CAVA EVENING 19.30 22ND DARK SKIES: TETSUO II: BODY HAMMER 18.30 SAT 23RD MYSTERY MATINEE 13.00 Films not classified by IFCO, including festival, one-off, and special SUN DARK SKIES: STAR TREK: FIRST CONTACT 15.30 screenings, are exhibited under Club rules and are restricted to persons 18 years and over. If you are not an IFI member, a daily membership (€1.50) is 25TH THE BIGGER PICTURE: PARIS, TEXAS 20.00 required for unclassified films, and this will be added to your transaction. TUES

† The exclusivity of films is correct at the time of print. All films exclusive 26TH WILD STRAWBERRIES: GLORIA BELL 11.00 to the IFI are kindly supported by the Arts Council. WED FROM THE VAULTS: HOME IS THE HERO 18.30 FEAST YOUR EYES: FIVE SEASONS: 18.45 THE GARDENS OF PIET OUDOLF linkedin.com/company/irishfilminstitute 28TH WILD STRAWBERRIES: GLORIA BELL 11.00 FRI @IrishFilmInstitute @IFI_Dub 29TH DARK SKIES: THE MATRIX 20.20 SAT @IrishFilmInstitute 30TH IFI FAMILY: RACE FOR YOUR LIFE, CHARLIE BROWN 11.00 SUN DARK SKIES: A.I. ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE 15.00 For bookings and film information, please see our website, www.ifi.ie, or contact the IFI Box Office on 01-6793477 (open 12.30 to 21.00 daily).

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The F-rating is a classification reserved for any film which is directed and/or written by a woman.

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GLORIA BELL RELEASE NEW

OPENS FRI 7TH Gloria Bell (), a fifty- and newly pregnant Veronica (Alanna something divorcée, is struggling Ubach), who has fallen for a Swedish FILM INFO: against loneliness and invisibility; she big wave surfer. An opportunity for 102 mins, USA-Chile, 2018, Digital spends too many evenings dancing happiness appears in the form of Notes by David O’Mahony her blues away to disco anthems at newly-divorced Arnold (John Turturro), singles clubs, searching a charming yet similarly lonesome for a meaningful connection. paintball enthusiast who sweeps her Accommodating to a fault, Gloria off her feet. In remaking his Spanish- considers the needs of others before language film from 2013, Lelio has her own, yet she is becoming less subtly recalibrated the character essential to her two grown children, of Gloria for Julianne Moore, who Peter (), a young father brings her customary humanity and with relationship problems of his own, intelligence to the role. HALSTON IFI DOC IFI

OPENS FRI 7TH The life of legendary fashion designer artistic legacy and the pressures Roy Halston Frowick, the man who of dealing with an expanding empire. FILM INFO: belatedly put American couture on the At his zenith, Halston led a famously 105 mins, USA, 2019, Digital map in the 1970s, is vividly brought fast-paced social life, and the Notes by David O’Mahony to life by Frédéric Tcheng (Dior and I), documentary is replete with who weaves choice archival footage contributions from old friends including with interviews with Halston’s family, Liza Minnelli and Joel Schumacher, friends and collaborators, telling his though the juicy gossip is at all times compelling story with great care, insight underpinned by the impressive scope and attention to detail. The viewer is of Tcheng’s research and his genuine taken behind the headlines and into appreciation of Halston’s brilliance as the thrilling struggle between Halston’s a designer.

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OPENS FRI 7TH Although they represented just a comedy, poor-born Louis D’Ascoyne fraction of its output, Ealing Studios Mazzini (a wonderfully haughty FILM INFO: is indelibly associated with a small Dennis Price) decides to murder the 106 mins, UK, 1949, Digital, number of comedies it produced in eight D’Ascoynes (all played by the Black and White the space of roughly a decade, such chameleonic Alec Guinness) standing Notes by Kevin Coyne as The Lavender Hill Mob (1951, between him and the dukedom he featuring one of Audrey Hepburn’s feels is rightfully his, denied to him first appearances), The Man In The because his mother married for love White Suit (1951), and, of course, The rather than social standing. The film Ladykillers (1955). Along with this last, remains an unalloyed pleasure, with its IFI FILM CLUB Join members of the IFI team Kind Hearts and Coronets represents sparkling and sophisticated dialogue for an informal discussion arguably the jewel in Ealing’s crown. brilliantly performed. following the 18.10 screening In this deliciously black and subversive on Tuesday 11th. PAPI CHULO NEW RELEASE NEW RELEASE

OPENS FRI 7TH In Los Angeles, the perfect world of despite wildly different life experience, gay TV weatherman Sean (Matt Bomer) age, language and cultural differences, a FILM INFO: is shaken with the end of a significant delicate friendship begins to form. 98 mins, Ireland-USA, relationship and a very public 2018, Digital on-air meltdown. Set against a brightly-hued Californian Notes by Sunniva O’Flynn backdrop filled with tasteful interiors Forced to take time off, he fills his and handsome cast, the film is a empty days and his empty house with pleasure to behold. Writer/director some hired help in the shape of straight, John Butler touches deftly on serious Q&A middle-aged family man Ernesto matters – ethnicity, migrant labour, class, The 18.30 screening on Friday (Alejandro Patiño). Sean gamely tries loneliness and mental health – in an 7th will be followed by a Q&A to befriend the taciturn Ernesto as he uplifting comedy that is a paean to the with director John Butler. goes about his tasks and gradually, joy and value of male friendship.

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OPENS FRI 14TH At the height of the Cold War in 1979, alert the Stasi to their efforts. The two bricklayer Günter Wetzel (David Kross) exhausted families must now start (BALLON) and his electrician friend Peter Strelzyk afresh and make a second balloon from (Friedrich Mücke) can no longer bear scratch under immense time pressure, FILM INFO: the oppressive regime of East Germany waiting anxiously for the right weather 125 mins, Germany, 2018, Digital, Subtitled and long to escape to the freedoms of conditions as the Stasi investigation Notes by David O’Mahony the west. Working together with their closes in around them. families, they embark upon a covert plan to build a homemade hot air balloon and fly undetected overnight across the border. Their first attempt is a failure, and the remains of the crash site near the German border DIEGO MARADONA DOC IFI

OPENS FRI 14TH Having never won a major tournament, film from Asif Kapadia, the Oscar- ailing football giant SSC Napoli had winning director of Amy and Senna, FILM INFO: criminally underachieved. In July 1984, and is constructed from over 500 hours 130 mins, UK, 2019, Digital Diego Maradona arrived in Naples for a of never-before-seen footage from world-record fee and for seven years all Maradona’s personal archive, used hell broke loose. Blessed on the field but with the legend’s full support. cursed off it, the charismatic Argentine quickly led Naples to their first-ever title. In a dysfunctional city where the devil needed bodyguards, Maradona became bigger than God himself. This wild and unforgettable story of God-given talent, glory, despair and betrayal is the third

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OPENS FRI 14TH Jeremiah Zagar’s debut feature, an from their children, neither the violence adaptation of Justin Torres’s semi- he inflicts on her in the bad times, nor EXCLUSIVELY AT IFI† autobigraphical novel, is a vivid the honeymoon of intimacy that follows recreation of childhood as seen through their inevitable rapprochements. As his FILM INFO: the eyes of Jonah (Evan Rosado), who brothers approach their teenage years 94 mins, USA, 2018, Digital Notes by Kevin Coyne celebrates his tenth birthday in the and assume a minatory swagger, Jonah course of the film. Inseparable from his feels isolated, a condition exacerbated two elder brothers, Joel and Manny, the by his nascent sexuality. Filled with bond between the three has been forged moments of startling creativity, this is by the rollercoaster nature of their a lyrical study of how one’s present is parents’ relationship. Ma (Sheila Vand) shaped by one’s past. and Paps (Raúl Castillo) hide none of this FIVE SEASONS: THE GARDENS OF PIET OUDOLF IFI DOC

OPENS FRI 21ST Taking place over five seasons, Thomas he has designed throughout Europe Piper’s documentary about Dutch and beyond, including the Lurie Garden EXCLUSIVELY AT IFI† garden designer Piet Oudolf brings us in Chicago and the High Line in New into the mind and creative process of York. Immersed in these gardens, the FILM INFO: this influential figure as he explores film moves gently through changes in 75 mins, USA, 2018, Digital Notes by Saidhbh Ní Dhúlaing some of his most well regarded public the weather and the seasons, as Oudolf work, his own gardens in Hummelo, and shares his views on planting, beauty a new garden he is currently installing and life. in south-west England. A leader of the FEAST YOUR EYES Enjoy a specially created New Perennial Movement, Oudolf’s main course in the IFI Café Bar naturalistic planting style, featuring following the 18.45 screening swathes of perennials and grasses, is on Wednesday 26th. instantly recognisable in the gardens

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OPENS FRI 28TH In the 50 years since Neil Armstrong it originally shot on superior definition took one small step, the story of the stock, it includes Armstrong, Buzz FILM INFO: moon landing has been the subject Aldrin, and Michael Collins undergoing 93 mins, USA, 2019, Digital of any number of documentaries final preparations before entering the Notes by Kevin Coyne and features. However, despite our shuttle, interacting as they travel to the familiarity with the events around this moon, and Armstrong stepping on to the heroic mission, Todd Douglas Miller’s moon’s surface as filmed from inside film is a welcome addition to the canon, the landing module, soundtracked by filled as it is with previously unseen exchanges between Mission Control footage culled from an uncatalogued and the astronauts in this remarkable store of some 11,000 hours of material. historical document. The footage is absolutely astonishing; restored to pristine quality, and much of

IN FABRIC RELEASE NEW

OPENS FRI 28TH A haunted dress wreaks havoc on a beautifully, but elegance, she succession of unfortunate owners soon discovers, comes at a price. FILM INFO: in Peter Strickland’s highly stylised In Fabric, although every bit as 118 mins, UK, 2018, Digital homage to Italian giallo cinema, the intoxicating and disorientating as Notes by David O’Mahony director’s singular fetish for all things earlier films Berberian Sound Studio and analogue being evident in every The Duke of Burgundy, is nevertheless aspect of the production. We begin in Strickland’s most unabashed genre 1980s London where Sheila (Marianne effort, an archly humorous work, rich in Jean-Baptiste), a lonely single mother high camp, blood-letting and boasting working as a bank teller, is looking for delightfully ripe performances from a an outfit for a blind date. Lured to the gallery of grotesque characters. diabolical Dentley & Soper’s department store, she finds a red dress that fits

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OPENS FRI 28TH Lisa (the excellent Regina Hall) manages employer, and arranging a fundraising Double Whammies, a Hooters-style, carwash for an employee in need of a FILM INFO: sports-themed café-bar. While neither lawyer, all while navigating the difficulties 87 mins, USA, 2018, Digital she nor her more revealingly-dressed of her own personal life. Director Andrew Notes by Kevin Coyne colleagues are under any illusions about Bujalski, as with previous films Computer the nature of their venue, there is a Chess (2013) and Results (2015), shows fierce and reciprocal loyalty between both a fascination and genuine knack for workmates. Over the course of one workplace dynamics and drama, creating particularly hectic day, Lisa is forced an elegantly structured, character-driven, to deal with any number of workplace and warmly humorous slice-of-life tale, problems, including the training of new told with genuine empathy. staff, an attempted burglary that may have been an inside job, a disgruntled THERE’S NO PLACE LIKE HOME… This summer, ours will receive a new look with the PLEASE SUPPORT US BY: refurbishment of Cinemas 1 and 2, and repairs to • Making a donation online, by text, at our our roof. We have much of the funding in place but donations box or box office we need your help to complete the works. This will ensure our other revenues can continue to support • Naming a seat in our new-look cinema our mission to exhibit, educate and preserve film • Becoming a Member for €35/€20 per annum for everyone. • Upgrading to become a Friend (from €10 a month) Talk to our box office staff or contact our fundraising • Placing yours or your company's name on our team [email protected]. See more details on walkway with our other Luminaries all the above at ifi.ie/donate. • Ask your company to name a corporate seat We look forward to welcoming you to a new look IFI • Encourage your company to become a this autumn. Thank you! corporate member

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DARK SKIES: HORRIBLE CREATURE ARCHIVE AD ASTRA SUN 16TH (16.00) Join us for free daily films from the IFI Irish Film Archive. Simply collect tickets at IFI Box Office In 1915, James Joyce and Nora Barnacle – please see www.ifi.ie for more information. travelled with their young children Giorgio and Lucia to Switzerland to escape the turmoil of World War I. Lucia later trained as a dancer and PROGRAMME ONE performed throughout Europe. Her career ended THEM IN THE THING when, in the early 1930s, she was forced into Ufologist Desmond Leslie made this delightful psychiatric care and underwent treatment at science fiction film with his children on the grounds various hospitals across Europe. of Castle Leslie in 1954. A flying saucer arrives filled with spacemen who attempt to infiltrate Horrible Creature is the second in a proposed the castle but are confronted by a gang of trilogy of films directed by Áine Stapleton children. The cast includes well-known television (dance and film artist) and is filmed at locations astronomer and UFO sceptic, Sir Patrick Moore. in Switzerland where Lucia spent time. The first, FILM INFO: 25 mins, Ireland, 1954, Digital Medicated Milk, challenged the accepted biography of Lucia’s life and considered the complexity PROGRAMME TWO of mental instability. Here, Lucia’s own writing, THE ENEMY interpreted by a cast of international dance artists, conjures her world between 1915 and 1950. With scenes of space missions, astronauts The film fearlessly explores her difficult and dramatic war footage, this public health film family life, her unproven illness, and her demonstrates the need for boys and girls to be undoubted talent. ever-vigilant in the battle to prevent germs entering their bodies. Directed by Theo Hogers for the The screening will be followed by Department of Health. a Q&A with director Áine Stapleton, FILM INFO: 18 mins, Ireland, 1976, Digital hosted by Dr. Aoife McGrath (QUB).

Notes by Sunniva O’Flynn DIRECTOR: Áine Stapleton FILM INFO: 60 mins, Ireland, 2019, Digital

Notes by Sunniva O’Flynn

DARK SKIES: MAN VS MACHINE Find full details of our Dark Skies: Man Vs Machine season on pages 12–15.

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The rapid development and integration of As we await our fate, Dark Skies, the IFI’s annual automation, information and biotechnologies offers science fiction film festival, explores how the seemingly limitless opportunities in all aspects of genre has responded to our ambiguous relationship our public and private lives, but at what cost? The to the machines we have created, from Donald unchecked progress of machines with artificial Cammell’s bizarre and unsettling Demon Seed, which intelligence capabilities has the potential to become foreshadows the current merging of information and a pressing concern for future generations, though biotechnologies, to James Cameron’s Terminator 2: cyborg armies will probably remain the preserve of Judgment Day, which feeds anxieties surrounding speculative science fiction. Greater social inequality A.I.'s role in a nuclear war into a pyrotechnic seems a more likely prospect as automation in the action spectacle. Elsewhere, Stanley Kubrick’s service and industrial sectors, driverless cars and icy intelligence is complemented by Steven medical diagnosis by algorithm could see millions Spielberg’s trademark sense of wonder in the out of work as human roles become redundant. visually resplendent A.I. Artificial Intelligence, and Perhaps we are facing the prospect of a two-tiered the sober documentary Hi, A.I. takes a look at some system where ‘upgraded humans’, those elite contemporary human-robot relationships. classes who can afford the latest age-defying enhancements, will have the advantage over the less Introduction and individual film notes by David fortunate. As a result, humanity may be required O'Mahony. A multi-film pass for the season, 4 films to re-evaluate its significance in relation for €37 excluding Terminator 2: Judgment Day, is to the machines. available directly from the IFI Box Office.

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story, Jurassic Park. Commonalities WESTWORLD can certainly be located in its scenario; set in the then-future year of 1983, the film focuses on Delos, a highly realistic adult amusement park, which offers three themed ‘worlds’: Roman, Medieval and Western. First-time visitor Peter SAT 8TH (15.30) Martin (Richard Benjamin) is persuaded by friend John Blane (James Brolin) to accompany him on a vacation to FILM INFO: Technology run amok is a recurrent 88 mins, USA, 1973, Blu-ray the latter facility. However, a series of theme in the novels of Michael Crichton, escalating technical malfunctions sees and indeed Westworld, which was his them pursued remorselessly by the directorial debut and was based on Gunslinger (Yul Brynner), an implacable his original screenplay, can be viewed killer android. as a trial run for the writer’s later, all- conquering adventure park catastrophe

who indulge the needs of their THE STEPFORD husbands with a servility bordering WIVES on the masochistic. Bobbie (Paula Prentiss), a fellow newcomer, shares Joanna’s unease, and together they attempt to uncover the mystery surrounding the wives of Stepford. SUN 9TH (15.30) Based on Ira Levin’s acclaimed novel, with a screenplay by William Goldman, the film sparked controversy from FILM INFO: Joanna (Katherine Ross) and her 115 mins, USA, 1975, 35mm feminist groups at the time of release husband Walter (Peter Masterson) but can now be viewed as an important have relocated from New York City to entry in the 1970s cycle of paranoid the idyllic suburb of Stepford. Joanna Efforts to trace the copyright conspiracy thrillers. holder of this film proved is bemused by the obedient behaviour unsuccessful. Anyone with of the town wives, immaculately pertinent information is presented and housework-obsessed, invited to contact the IFI.

action cinema. Phenomenally successful TERMINATOR 2: – and expensive, it was the first film to JUDGMENT DAY cost over $100 million – T2 broke new ground in what computer-generated imagery could achieve. Playing with our expectations, Cameron reverses the roles of the time-travelling cyborgs, and SAT 15TH (20.20) it is Schwarzenegger who safeguards Sarah Connor (Linda Hamilton) and her son John (Edward Furlong) against the FILM INFO: In following up his 1984 classic 137 mins, USA, 1991, 70mm seemingly indestructible, liquid metal The Terminator, James Cameron T-1000 (memorably portrayed by a took a similar approach to Aliens, menacing Robert Patrick) that will stop his maximalist sequel to Ridley Scott’s at nothing in its mission to eradicate the Presented in association with original, which was to turn all the future leader of the resistance. dials up to eleven. The result was a masterpiece of breathlessly kinetic

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however, has ambitions greater than DEMON those of its puny human taskmasters, SEED and proceeds to imprison Alex’s wife Susan (Julie Christie) in their high-tech computer-controlled home, enacting a bizarre and horrifying experiment to conceive for itself a child. One of the SUN 16TH (18.20) earliest science fiction films to feature an artificial intelligence in a malevolent capacity, Donald Cammell’s Demon FILM INFO: Scientist Alex (Fritz Weaver) is 94 mins, USA, 1977, 35mm Seed, while thankfully not strictly supervising the construction of a prescient, serves as an alarming super-computer, Proteus IV, which metaphor for our current relationship has been given access to the entire to a technology that might ultimately repository of human learning. No wish to be, as Proteus IV demands, ‘let slouch, it posits a cure for leukaemia out of its box’. Please note this film will on its first day of operation. Proteus IV screen with German subtitles.

In California, Chuck, a lonely middle- HI, A.I. aged bachelor, goes on a road trip with Harmony, his new robot companion. In Tokyo, Grandma Sakurai is introduced to Pepper, a gift from her son to keep her company, but the robot finds little of interest in the old lady’s conversation. THUR 20TH (18.30) While Harmony and Chuck are searching for love, and Pepper and Grandma are killing time, pressing FILM INFO: Humanoid robots with artificial 90 mins, Germany, 2018, questions arise: how will robots and Blu-ray, Subtitled intelligence capabilities are becoming artificial intelligence change our lives? ubiquitous; they work on reception What will be lost and gained? Will robots desks, in shopping malls and ultimately be our servants, companions restaurants, and we are allowing this or a new ruling class? new species access to our private lives.

pipe ribs. The slender plot, such as it TETSUO II: is, is a transparent excuse for director BODY HAMMER Tsukamoto to revisit the premise of Tetsuo: The Iron Man, his black and white cult classic from 1989, but this time with a bigger budget, better special effects and colour photography. Essentially a SAT 22ND (18.30) remake of the earlier film, Body Hammer fuses its heavy-metal, cyber-surrealist aesthetic with body-horror imagery FILM INFO: Tomoo (Tomorô Taguchi), a straight- 83 mins, Japan, 1992, redolent of David Cronenberg at his Digital, Subtitled laced Japanese salaryman, goes ballistic most visually inventive. The grungy, – literally – when his son is kidnapped fetid atmosphere, retina-searing visuals by skinhead cyborgs, his impotent and strong fetishist, sadomasochistic rage and despair causing his body to undercurrents make for a nightmarish metamorphose into a machine-human yet intoxicating head-trip. hybrid with gun turret arms and exhaust

14 to the year 2063 to safeguard mankind’s STAR TREK: first warp speed flight, a technological FIRST CONTACT leap forward with unforeseen consequences involving the nefarious Borg, and a possible future outcome where the all-consuming biomechanical race have taken possession of Earth. SUN 23RD (15.30) Directed by Jonathan Frakes, who plays second-in-command William Riker, the premise builds on an early FILM INFO: First Contact, the second cinematic 111 mins, USA, 1996, 35mm TV episode where Picard was captured outing for the Next Generation crew, and assimilated by the Borg, the trauma proved to be one of the most effective in of that event resonating in Patrick the entire series, and remains a beloved Stewart’s nuanced performance. fan favourite. In a teasingly complex, yet deftly-handled scenario, the crew of the Enterprise must travel back in time

Liberated from this prison, Neo joins THE MATRIX a band of freedom fighters, led by the mystical Morpheus (Laurence Fishburne), and begins to realise the unique role he must play in the coming revolution. An extraordinary blend of dynamically choreographed SAT 29TH (20.20) action set-pieces, cutting-edge special effects and surprisingly effective philosophical ruminations, The Matrix FILM INFO: Sensing something is wrong with the 136 mins, USA, 1999, Digital set an impressively high standard for nature of reality, computer programmer future sci-fi action cinema. Neo (Keanu Reeves) uncovers the Presented in association with terrifying truth that the world as we This screening will be introduced by perceive it is a simulation created Dr. Harvey O’Brien of the UCD School by machines to keep us docile as of English, Drama, and Film. they harvest our bodies for energy.

1999. While not entirely seamless, A.I. ARTIFICIAL the result is a fascinating and often INTELLIGENCE brilliant amalgamation of two distinct sensibilities. Set in the late 22nd century, with coastal cities submerged on account of global warming and rising sea levels, the story, which SUN 30TH (15.00) echoes Pinocchio, concerns David (Haley Joel Osment), a mechanical boy programmed to feel love. Abandoned by FILM INFO: Having been unable to satisfactorily 146 mins, USA, 2001, Digital his adoptive human family, and spurned realise his vision for Brian Aldiss’s 1969 by society, David, accompanied by his short story, Supertoys Last All Summer faithful mecha teddy bear, and sex Long, Stanley Kubrick gifted the project worker robot Gigolo Joe (Jude Law), to Steven Spielberg, who eventually yearns to somehow become a real boy. made it following Kubrick’s death in

15 his daughter Josie (Joan O’Hara) FROM THE and his assertive son Willie (US actor VAULTS Arthur Kennedy). HOME IS Adapted from Walter Macken’s THE HERO stage play, this early Ardmore Studio production provides a fine vehicle for the cast of Abbey Theatre actors, in WED 26TH (18.30) particular for Macken himself in the powerfully muscular lead. Director DIRECTOR: When Paddo O’Reilly (Walter Macken) Fielder Cook sustains a melancholic Fielder Cook is released from prison after a five- mood throughout, alternating studio FILM INFO: year sentence for killing the father sequences with unusual Dublin shooting 82 mins, Ireland, 1959, of his son’s girlfriend, he attempts to locations – Drumcondra, Phibsboro and Digital, Black and White the Grand Canal. Notes by Sunniva O’Flynn re-establish his role as head of the household and runs into conflict with his wife Daylia (Eileen Crowe),

then a succession of friends, among IFI FAMILY them Peppermint Patty, Woodstock and RACE FOR Frieda. Offering humour along with social commentary, Schulz’s strip continued YOUR LIFE, until his death in 2000, with the film CHARLIE BROWN adaptations winning over new audiences. In this instalment, the gang gets packed off to summer camp where they take on SUN 30TH (11.00) some wild rapids and a bunch of cheating bullies in a fiercesome rafting race. Lots DIRECTORS: The much-loved cartoon Peanuts was of laughs and friendship, reminding us Bill Melendez, Phil Roman originally brought to life back in the why Peanuts remains the most popular FILM INFO: 1950s for a weekly newspaper comic comic strip ever. 76 mins, USA, 1977, Digital strip by its creator Charles M Schulz. Notes by Alicia McGivern Starting out with a small boy, Charlie Tickets: €5.00 per person, €15.00 AGE RECOMMENDATION: 5+ Brown, the cast expanded to include family ticket (2 adults + 2 children, everyone’s favourite dog, Snoopy, and 1 adult + 3 children).

Julianne Moore shines as Gloria, long WILD divorced in LA but still hopeful for love STRAWBERRIES which she seeks out in dance clubs. As with his other films, the director’s GLORIA BELL approach to themes of gender, love, ageing and sensuality remain true and convincing in this funny, highly WED 26TH & appealing drama. FRI 28TH (11.00) Wild Strawberries is our film club for over DIRECTOR: One of Chile’s foremost filmmakers, 55s. Tickets: €4.45 including regular tea/ Lelio (Oscar winner for A Fantastic coffee before the event. If you happen to FILM INFO: Woman) completes his second English look younger, please don’t take offence if 102 mins, USA-Chile, 2018, Digital we ask your age. Notes by Alicia McGivern language film with a remake of his own original Spanish language film, Gloria.

16 designer Oudolf brings us into the mind FEAST and creative process of this influential YOUR EYES figure as he explores some of his most well regarded public work, his own FIVE SEASONS: gardens in Hummelo, and a new garden GARDENS OF he is currently installing in Southwest PIET OUDOLF England. Immersed in these gardens, the film moves gently through changes WED 26TH (18.45) in the weather and the seasons, as Oudolf shares his views on planting, DIRECTOR: June’s pairing of a new release and beauty and life. Thomas Piper a specially created IFI Café Bar main FILM INFO: course will be Thomas Piper’s Five Tickets €21, free list suspended. 75 mins, USA, 2017, Digital Seasons: Gardens of Piet Oudolf. Taking place over five seasons, Piper’s documentary about Dutch garden

Wexford’s Curracloe Beach, Captain SAVING Miller (Tom Hanks) assembles the PRIVATE remnants of his company to locate one RYAN Private James Ryan and send him home. After the carnage of the landings, Ryan is the last survivor of four brothers, and military brass see public relations THUR 6TH (19.30) potential in his compassionate return to his grieving parents. The film presents DIRECTOR: Marking the 75th anniversary of the warfare utterly without glamour, Steven Spielberg D-Day landings at Normandy, Steven dispelling any romantic illusions FILM INFO: Spielberg’s epic recounting of the audiences may have about the nature 169 mins, USA, 1998, Digital invasion returns to cinemas for a special of D-Day, and instead immersing them Notes by Kevin Coyne event screening. Following a long and in a world of tired soldiers just trying terrifyingly visceral opening sequence to survive. of soldiers landing in France, filmed on

planet and appropriate its resources. IFI & THE SCHOOL Geyrhalter travels to Germany, Italy, OF CREATIVE Hungary, Spain, Canada and the United States to see the damage ARTS AT TCD inflicted on landscapes by large-scale PRESENT engineering and mining projects. The EARTH film shows the abstract choreography of the mechanical processes in action THURS 6TH (18.30) alongside testimonies from the workers and technicians involved. (ERDE) Several billion tons of earth are moved by humans every year, using spades, The screening will be introduced by DIRECTOR: Professor Pat Brereton, School of Nikolaus Geyrhalter excavators, drills or dynamite. In Earth, director Nikolaus Geyrhalter Communications, DCU, and is presented FILM INFO: in association with the Art in the 115 mins, Austria, 2019, observes people in mines, quarries and Digital, Subtitled at large construction sites, engaged Anthropocene Conference at Trinity in a constant quest to subjugate the College Dublin.

17 (the late, great Harry Dean Stanton) THE BIGGER emerging from the desert. Retrieved PICTURE by his brother (Dean Stockwell), he is reunited with the son he had abandoned PARIS, TEXAS four years earlier. He takes the boy in search of his mother, Travis’s estranged wife Jane (Nastassja Kinski). As the film progresses, playwright Sam Shepard’s TUES 25TH (20.00) script carefully and beautifully reveals the sadness motivating Travis, and DIRECTOR: Beginning his career as part of the the details of how this family fell apart Wim Wenders New German Cinema movement of so completely, all to the strains of Ry FILM INFO: the 1970s, director Wim Wenders had Cooder’s much-loved score. 145 mins, West Germany- a certain fascination with America, France-UK-USA, 1984, Digital The screening will be introduced by actor Notes by Kevin Coyne something given full expression in the Palme d’Or-winning Paris, Texas. and director Hugh O’Conor. The film begins with Travis Henderson

autobiographical films, Freudian trance STAN BRAKHAGE: films, birth films, abstract films, and A CELEBRATION hand-painted films, ranging in duration from 9 seconds to over 4 hours. In this illustrated talk, Suranjan Ganguly, Director of the Brakhage Centre and professor of Cinema Studies at the

THURS 13TH (19.00) Mothlight University of Colorado at Boulder, will provide an introductory overview, EVENT INFO: Stan Brakhage (1933-2003) is widely focusing on some of the key issues in 90 mins, 1955-2003, Blu-ray regarded as one of the most innovative Brakhage’s body of work. filmmakers in the history of experimental The programme will feature nine cinema, who changed the way we see films including Dog Star Man, Part 2 and think about film. Brakhage made (1961-1964) and Mothlight (1963). nearly 400 films in his 52-year-long For full details see www.ifi.ie. career which include psychodramas,

French filmmaker and key figure in the IFI & AEMI historical avant-garde. A proponent of PRISMATIC MUSIC: ‘pure cinema’, Dulac’s silent 16mm and 35mm films proposed an affinity with FILMS BY JOSEPH dance that anticipated the work of Maya BERNARD AND Deren. Together Bernard and Dulac’s GERMAINE DULAC complex rhythms and shifting textures represent luminous highlights in the WED 19TH (18.30) development of a non-narrative cinema.

FILM INFO: American experimental filmmaker aemi is a creative platform for the support & 60 mins, 1928-1983, Digital Joseph Bernard created over 100 silent, exhibition of artist and experimental moving super-8mm films during the 1970s and image practice. For full details of the The event will feature a recorded programme see www.ifi.ie and www.aemi.ie. introduction from Joseph 1980s. Bernard foregrounds a tactile Bernard and will be followed by and sensory approach creating intricate a Q&A with Dean Kavanagh, who works that exude a dizzying musicality. co-curated the event with aemi. Germaine Dulac (1882-1942) was a

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