AUGUST 2018 COLD WAR THE IRISH FILM INSTITUTE
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IFI CAFÉ BAR BLACK 47 PREVIEWS
Make the IFI Café Bar your food destination this August! From director Lance Daly comes an epic tale of survival Throughout the month, Monday to Sunday, you can enjoy set during the Great Irish Famine, featuring an all-star cast a main course from our delicious new summer menu including Jim Broadbent, Hugo Weaving, Barry Keoghan, and entry to one of our regular screenings for just €18. Sarah Greene, Moe Dunford and James Frecheville. Tickets See www.ifi.ie/cafebar for full details, and reserve your for preview screenings on August 31st, September 1st and table on 01-6798712 or [email protected]. Terms and 2nd are now available from www.ifi.ie. The film opens at the conditions apply. IFI from Friday, September 7th.
IFI FILM CLUB MYSTERY MATINEE
Join us for an open discussion with the IFI team following This month’s secret screening, for which tickets cost just €5, the 18.10 screening on Tuesday 21st of Michael Curtiz’s classic will take place at 13.00 on Sunday 12th. Sometimes it will Mildred Pierce. When Mildred Pierce’s second husband is be a preview, but not always; sometimes, it will be a title one shot and killed, her first husband Bert confesses to the crime. might expect to see at the IFI, but not always. Join us for this Wishing to set the record straight, Mildred recounts her life month’s screening, and expect the unexpected! Previous story through an extended flashback sequence. Joan Crawford surprise screenings have included Greta Gerwig’s Lady Bird won her only Oscar for the title role in Curtiz’s perennially and Alexander Payne’s Citizen Ruth. enjoyable film noir-cum-melodrama.
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Welcome to the IFI August programme which is packed with the first of the year’s IFI Festivals and a major focus on Orson Welles. AUGUST
AT THE IFI Ghost Story Sicilian This year, the IFI Family Festival kick-starts our annual As the only cinema in Ireland with the capability to present festival season and runs from August 31st to September film on 70mm, our commitment to these screenings 2nd, right at the end of the school holidays, offering one continues this month with Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space last weekend of family fun as the new term starts. We have Odyssey. This is presented alongside some other wonderful another wonderful programme lined up for our younger classics that all need to be revisited on the big screen - film fans, with films from Germany, Brazil, Kenya, Iran and whether a repeat viewing or seen for the very first time. elsewhere, all told through animation and live action. This Classics this month include Joan Crawford’s Oscar-winning year we’re particularly delighted to have two Irish features performance in Michael Curtiz’s Mildred Pierce, and a second within the programme, Captain Morten and the Spider Queen from the acclaimed actress in a digitally restored reissue of and The Ash Lad: In the Hall of the Mountain King, offering our George Cukor’s The Women. young audiences the opportunity to see models from the film on display or chat with the visual effects teams. The IFI And if these fantastic titles aren’t reason to visit, until the Family Festival is a great opportunity to introduce young film end of August we’re offering a special meal deal with a enthusiasts to films from all around the world, most of which cinema ticket and a main course from our new summer would not be otherwise seen. Check out the full programme menu for the reduced price of just €18. online or in the separate flyer. So all of this, alongside all our regular monthly strands, and To coincide with the release of Mark Cousins’s new a unique selection of special events. We hope to see you documentary The Eyes of Orson Welles on Friday 17th, we are throughout the month of August! delighted to present his work in a broader context through a season looking at work that inspired him, work inspired by Ross Keane him, alongside his own classics. The season includes films Director by Eisenstein (Battleship Potemkin), Chaplin (City Lights) and Ford (Stagecoach), with some of Welles’s most famous work including screenings of Touch of Evil and, of course, Citizen Kane. For the documentary release, director Mark Cousins will participate in a post-screening Q&A with Donald Clarke on Wednesday 22nd.
There are some fantastic new releases this month, among which is Pawel Pawlikowski’s follow-up to his award-winning Ida, the visually stunning and captivating Cold War. Once again presented in black and white, it follows the epic romance across many years of two lovers destined to be together. This is one not-to-be-missed and a real highlight of the August programme.
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SICILIAN GHOST STORY OPENS FRI 3RD DATE SCREENING TIME 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY (70MM) OPENS FRI 10TH 5TH THE PRODUCERS 13.30 THE IMAGE YOU MISSED OPENS FRI 10TH SUN 7TH IRISH FOCUS: SHELTER ME + PANEL DISCUSSION 18.30 POPE FRANCIS: TUES A MAN OF HIS WORD OPENS FRI 10TH 10TH THE IMAGE YOU MISSED + Q&A 18.30 UNDER THE TREE OPENS FRI 10TH FRI THE EYES OF ORSON WELLES OPENS FRI 17TH 11TH ORSON WELLES: BATTLESHIP POTEMKIN 15.30 THE GUARDIANS OPENS FRI 17TH SAT 12TH MYSTERY MATINEE 13.00 THE HEIRESSES OPENS FRI 17TH SUN ORSON WELLES: CITY LIGHTS 15.30 MILDRED PIERCE OPENS FRI 17TH 14TH OPEN CAPTIONED SCREENING: POPE FRANCIS: 16.15 BLACKKKLANSMAN OPENS FRI 24TH TUES A MAN OF HIS WORD THE WOMEN OPENS FRI 24TH FROM THE VAULTS: THE PATRIOT GAME 18.30 15TH ORSON WELLES: STAGECOACH 18.30 C’EST LA VIE! OPENS FRI 31ST WED FEAST YOUR EYES: POPE FRANCIS: 18.45 COLD WAR OPENS FRI 31ST A MAN OF HIS WORD I, DOLOURS OPENS FRI 31ST 16TH OPEN CAPTIONED SCREENING: POPE FRANCIS: 18.30 THUR A MAN OF HIS WORD 18TH ORSON WELLES: CITIZEN KANE 15.30 SAT 19TH ORSON WELLES: THE MAGNIFICENT AMBERSONS 15.30 SUN 20TH THE BIGGER PICTURE: THE LOVERS ON THE BRIDGE 18.20 MON † The exclusivity of films is correct at time of print. PREVIEW: BLACKKKLANSMAN + SATELLITE Q&A 18.30 21ST IFI FILM CLUB: MILDRED PIERCE 18.10 TUES 22ND THE EYES OF ORSON WELLES + Q&A 18.20 GET SOCIAL! WED Join the IFI community online: 23RD IFI FRENCH FILM CLUB: THE GUARDIANS 18.00 THUR ORSON WELLES: TOUCH OF EVIL 18.30 linkedin.com/company/irishfilminstitute 24TH IFI & HERITAGE WEEK: IFI IRISH FILM ARCHIVE 15.00 FRI TALK & TOUR @IrishFilmInstitute @IFI_Dub 25TH ORSON WELLES: THE KILLING 15.40 SAT THE PUBLIC IMAGE IS ROTTEN 20.20 @IrishFilmInstitute 26TH ORSON WELLES: THERE WILL BE BLOOD 15.00 SUN 28TH OPEN CAPTIONED SCREENING: BLACKKKLANSMAN 18.10 For bookings and film information, please see our TUES BRIEF ENCOUNTERS: NEW IRISH FICTION 18.30 website, www.ifi.ie, or contact the IFI Box Office on 01-6793477 (open 12.30 to 21.00 daily). 29TH WILD STRAWBERRIES: FAMILIA RODANTE 11.00 WED ORSON WELLES: STORIES WE TELL 18.20 30TH OPEN CAPTIONED SCREENING: BLACKKKLANSMAN 13.00 THUR Open Captioned screening LE CRIME DE MONSIEUR LANGE 18.30 31ST WILD STRAWBERRIES: FAMILIA RODANTE 11.00 Audio Described screening FRI IFI FAMILY FESTIVAL* 1ST IFI FAMILY FESTIVAL* SAT 2ND IFI FAMILY FESTIVAL* The F-rating is a classification SUN reserved for any film which is directed and/or written by a woman. *See page 21 and the separate IFI Family Festival brochure for details
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OPENS FRI 3RD The disparate notes of teenage romance, abruptly disappears. Shocked at the gothic fantasy and mafia criminality are indifference of the townsfolk to the boy’s FILM INFO: elegantly combined in this atmospheric fate, Luna determines to uncover his 122 mins, Italy, 2017, second feature from writing-directing duo whereabouts, her passionate devotion to Digital, Subtitled Grassadonia and Piazza, which builds Giuseppe developing into an otherworldly Notes by David O’Mahony on the promise of Salvo, their impressive connection with the missing boy. With its debut from 2013. potent, fairy tale imagery – an enchanted forest, a magical lake, and even a big The year is 1993. Giuseppe (Gaetano bad wolf – Sicilian Ghost Story is a Fernandez) is the 13-year-old son of a richly textured, immersive work of the mafia hitman-turned-informant. He is imagination falling deeply in love with his classmate Luna (Julia Jedlikowska) when he
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OPENS FRI 10TH Stanley Kubrick’s iconic masterpiece is With its inspired use of classical music, speculative sci-fi on a truly grand scale; astonishing special effects, designed FILM INFO: covering the entire history of man, the by Douglas Trumbull (Silent Running), 141 mins, UK-USA, 1968, 70mm film dares to posit what might be the and overwhelming sense of awe and Notes by David O’Mahony next evolutionary leap for our species. wonder, 2001: A Space Odyssey is more A monolith, unknowable and of alien aligned to philosophical inquiry than origin, is present at key moments in conventional cinema. humanity's development; from the first discovery of tools to interplanetary Presented in association with space travel and beyond, it acts as a TICKETS sentinel to our progress. Tickets for 70mm screenings cost €14/€13.
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OPENS FRI 10TH The complexities of a father/son unseen imagery, The Image You Missed relationship are explored in this is a documentary essay that weaves EXCLUSIVELY AT IFI† documentary from Irish director Donal together a history of the Troubles with Foreman. Foreman, a passionate the haunting but unsentimental story FILM INFO: cinephile and keen filmmaker since of a son's search for his father. In the 74 mins, Ireland-USA-France-UK, childhood, grapples with the legacy process, the film creates a candid 2018, Digital Notes by Sunniva O’Flynn of his estranged father, the late encounter between two filmmakers documentarian Arthur MacCaig, whose born into different countries and decades-long preoccupation with the different political moments, revealing Troubles in Northern Ireland produced their contrasting experiences of Irish Q&A several films and a vast archive of nationalism, the role of images in social Join Donal Foreman for a Q&A Republican experience and sensibility. struggle, and the competing claims of following the 18.30 screening Drawing on over 30 years of previously personal and political responsibility. on Friday 10th. POPE FRANCIS: A MAN OF IFI DOC HIS WORD
OPENS FRI 10TH In advance of this month’s papal Bergoglio coming across as a man of visit to Ireland, Wim Wenders’s new supreme decency and compassion FILM INFO: documentary on the current Bishop of who truly believes in practising what he 96 mins, Switzerland-Vatican Rome receives a cinema release. Like preaches. City State-Italy-Germany-France, Werner Herzog, Wenders has had more 2018, Digital, Subtitled Notes by Kevin Coyne recent success with his documentaries There will be Open Captioned (OC) than his features. Consisting mostly screenings at 16.15 on Tuesday 14th of interviews in which the Pope holds and 18.30 on Thursday 16th. forth honestly and without hesitation on FEAST YOUR EYES Enjoy the film with a specially a range of topics, including the wealth devised main course following of the Church and its recent history of the 18.45 screening on Wednesday 15th. sexual abuse, the film is at its best when at its simplest, with the former Jorge
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OPENS FRI 10TH A minor dispute over the shade cast Björgvinsdóttir) and Baldwin (Sigurður by a tree on the property boundary of Sigurjónsson). Older son Uggi has been UNDIR TRÉNU two families escalates out of control missing and presumed dead for some in Hafsteinn Gunnar Sigurðsson’s years, and the volatile Inga’s unresolved FILM INFO: pitch black-humoured tale of suburban grief manifests though excessive 89 mins, Iceland, 2017, Digital, Subtitled disaffection. When Atli (Steinþór Hróar daytime drinking. Inga’s increasingly Notes by David O’Mahony Steinþórsson) is thrown out of their barbed comments to neighbour Konrad apartment by wife Agnes (Lára Jóhanna (Þorsteinn Bachmann) and his new, Jónsdóttir) and barred from seeing their younger wife Eybjorg (Selma Björnsdóttir) young daughter on account of being enflame the already tense situation over caught with DIY porn from a previous whether the offending tree should relationship, he is forced to move back be pruned. home with retired parents Inga (Edda THE EYES OF IFI DOC IFI ORSON WELLES DOC IFI
OPENS FRI 17TH With unprecedented access to his Eschewing the chronological approach drawings, sketches and paintings, Mark of traditional biography for a looser, FILM INFO: Cousins offers a personal reflection associative structure, Cousins’s playful, 110 mins, UK, 2018, Digital on how Orson Welles saw the world. wide-ranging film is brimming with Notes by David O’Mahony Adopting a conceit whereby he addresses psychological insight. the deceased filmmaker directly though voiceover, Cousins’s expansive Mark Cousins will participate in a post- documentary chronicles the multi- screening Q&A, hosted by Donald Clarke, faceted life and work of the filmmaker, on Wednesday 22nd at 18.30. ARCHIVE AT LUNCHTIME See page 16 for details of charting his political maturation, unique our free daily Orson Welles visual sensibilities, complicated love life, See pages 12–15 for our Orson Welles screenings throughout August. and proudly independent working ethics season. in a layered and detailed visual essay.
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OPENS FRI 17TH The year is 1915. As World War I rages and milking, Francine will also prove throughout Europe, the women of to be a surprising catalyst for change LES GARDIENNES Pardier Farm, under the guidance for the entire household. Adapted from of matriarch Hortense (Nathalie the 1924 novel by Ernest Pérochon, EXCLUSIVELY AT IFI† Baye), must grapple with the arduous Beauvois’s film pays tribute to the FILM INFO: workload while the men are at the women of the home front, depicting 138 mins, France, 2017, front. Help arrives when the bank in the in lush, painterly compositions the Digital, Subtitled nearby village sends them 20-year- working rituals and seasonal rhythms of Notes by David O’Mahony old labourer Francine (impressive farming life in a bucolic idyll unspoilt by newcomer Iris Bry) instead of the the ongoing war. IFI FRENCH FILM CLUB Tickets for Alliance Française loan they sought to modernise their and IFI members cost just outmoded equipment. As well as doing €7.50 for the 18.00 screening her share of the ploughing, reaping on Thursday 23rd. THE HEIRESSES NEW RELEASE
OPENS FRI 17TH Life long partners Chela (Ana Brun) barely acknowledging the live-in maid and Chiquita (Margarita Irun) have Chiquita has hired to take care of LAS HEREDERAS fallen on hard times; once members of her. Stirred from her paralysis when Paraguay’s gilded elite, their spiralling waspish older neighbour Pituca asks EXCLUSIVELY AT IFI† debts have forced them to sell off to be driven to her bridge game, Chela much of Chela’s inherited possessions, is soon a paid chauffeur for an elderly FILM INFO: 98 mins, Paraguay, 2017, and Chiquita is facing a prison coterie of card players. Drawn to the Digital, Subtitled sentence for fraud. Chela, an artist candidly sensual presence of Angy Notes by David O’Mahony working with abstract painting, is cast (Ana Ivanova), the daughter of one of adrift without the stabilising presence Pituca’s circle, Chela experiences an of the more affable and grounded awakening of dormant sensations. Chiquita. A remote figure, Chela indulges her reclusive tendencies,
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OPENS FRI 17TH When Mildred Pierce’s second husband embarrassed by her mother’s labours Monte Beragon is shot and killed, her and treats her with derision. Mildred FILM INFO: first husband Bert Pierce confesses meets and falls for wealthy society 111 mins, USA, 1945, to the crime; wishing to set the record playboy Monte (Zachery Scott), who Digital, Black and White straight, Mildred recounts her life story owns the building Mildred wishes to Notes by David O’Mahony to the investigating officer through purchase for a restaurant venture, but an extended flashback sequence. Veda’s increasingly entitled behaviour When Bert (Bruce Bennett) left her threatens to disrupt their plans. Joan for another woman, Mildred (Joan Crawford won her only Oscar for the Crawford) was forced to look for title role in Michael Curtiz’s perennially IFI FILM CLUB waitressing work to provide for her two enjoyable film noir-cum-melodrama. Join the IFI team for an open children, 10-year-old Kay and 16-year- discussion following the 18.10 old would-be socialite Veda, who is screening on Tuesday 21st.
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OPENS FRI 24TH Spike Lee’s new film, which premiered colleagues including Flip Zimmerman in competition at Cannes this year, (Adam Driver). Biting and hard-hitting FILM INFO: inserts polemic borne of anger and in its references to the contemporary 135 mins, USA, 2018, Digital outrage at the division of America along situation, it’s also very funny as Notes by Kevin Coyne racial lines into his most accessible Lee proves his mastery of tone. and straightforwardly entertaining film in some time. Based on a true story, There will be Open Captioned (OC) it recounts the successful infiltration screenings at 18.10 on Tuesday 28th of the Ku Klux Klan in 1979 by Ron and 13.00 on Thursday 30th. PREVIEW A special preview of the film, Stallworth (John David Washington), followed a satellite Q&A with the first African-American police Spike Lee, will take place on Monday 20th at 18.30. officer and detective in the Colorado Springs Police Department, aided by
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OPENS FRI 24TH The second of this month’s digitally venomous Crawford), leading Mary to restored Joan Crawford reissues is this seek a divorce in Reno. While there, Mary FILM INFO: classic from director George Cukor meets women in similar predicaments, 133 mins, USA, 1939, Digital, (The Philadelphia Story, Adam’s Rib), including Paulette Goddard and Joan Black and White notable for every one of its over 130 Fontaine, all of whom come to realise the Notes by Kevin Coyne speaking roles being played by women. web of marriages and affairs in which Centring on the lives and complicated they are caught. Ultimately, Mary is loves of a group of Manhattan women, inspired to fight to reclaim her marriage it stars Norma Shearer as Mary Haines, in this deftly directed and engaging a contented wife and mother who comedy. discovers that her husband is having an affair with perfume counter girl Crystal Allen (a wonderfully scheming, C’EST LA VIE! NEW RELEASE
OPENS FRI 31ST The latest effervescent comedy from the tyrant who insists repeatedly that the French directing duo of Olivier Nakache event be ‘sober, chic and elegant’; the LE SENS DE LA FÊTE and Éric Toledano (The Intouchables) caterers are forced to wear ill-fitting depicts one sprawling, increasingly period costumes; and the singer (an EXCLUSIVELY AT IFI† fraught day in the life of Max (Jean- amusing Gilles Lellouche) seems to Pierre Bacri), a world-weary Parisian think he’s James Brown. As the night FILM INFO: 117 mins, France-Belgium, 2017, wedding caterer whose latest over- continues, Max’s relationship problems Digital, Subtitled planned assignment in a 17th century and the risk of food poisoning from the Notes by David O’Mahony château may prove to be his undoing. misfiring kitchen threaten to derail the nuptials entirely. The many characters Cracks are apparent from the outset: and narrative threads in this breathlessly the groom, Pierre (Benjamin Lavernhe), paced film overlap and collide to is an insufferable micro-managing delightful comedic effect.
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OPENS FRI 31ST Two star-crossed lovers play out an statement of national pride. He epic, much-thwarted romance spanning becomes captivated by the talented ZINMA WOJNA 15 years across Poland, France and young singer/dancer Zula (Joanna Germany in Pawel Pawlikowski’s Kulig), who is the star attraction of what FILM INFO: entrancing, rapturously beautiful follow will eventually become the real-life 85 mins, Poland-France-UK, 2018, Digital, Subtitled, up to his much-fêted Ida. Mazowsze folk ensemble. They are Black and White separated when Wiktor defects to the Notes by David O’Mahony The film begins in the war-ravaged West, but their paths are destined to Poland of 1946 where Wiktor (Tomasz cross again. As with Ida, Cold War is Kot) has been tasked by party filmed in luminous monochrome in apparatchiks to record the country’s the Academy ratio, the frame neatly traditional folk music and dance for accommodating Pawlikowski’s a propagandistic, morale-boosting beautifully ordered compositions. I, DOLOURS IFI DOC IFI IFI DOC IFI
OPENS FRI 31ST I, Dolours is the story of one of the first illuminating reconstructions of her female leaders in the IRA. A member earlier life. Her testimony, provided FILM INFO: of a crack IRA unit which she claims only for release after her death, is 82 mins, Ireland-UK, 2018, Digital was run by Gerry Adams, Dolours incriminating and uncensored. She died Notes by Sunniva O’Flynn Price participated in the Old Bailey car in 2013 plagued by guilt, alcoholism and bomb attack of 1973 and was centrally PTSD, and haunted by memories involved in the notorious IRA campaign of what she had done. which saw the murder and dumping into unmarked graves of the so-called This new perspective on a familiar Q&A ‘disappeared’. narrative challenges us to consider Join director Maurice Sweeney whether or not the perpetrators of terrible for a Q&A following the 18.20 The film is based on lengthy interviews acts have a right to tell their story. screening on Friday 31st. with Price in 2009 and on extensive,
11 THE EYES OF ORSON WELLES On the occasion of the release of Mark Cousins’s new contribution to that film that Ford shared documentary (see page 7), from which this season his onscreen credit with him, as Welles would. takes its name, the IFI takes the opportunity to place the films of Orson Welles in a broader context. While Despite his later belief that “it’s very harmful to see it is undeniable that Welles’s approach to cinema movies for movie makers”, here are presented three was as startlingly innovative as his work in theatre films that show elements of the DNA of Welles’s and radio had been, the notion that he stood a fully cinema, from fellow titans Eisenstein, Chaplin, and formed filmmaker on his first day on the set of Citizen the director of whom Welles said, “I prefer the old Kane, regardless of his lack of experience or interest masters, by which I mean John Ford, John Ford, in film history, is misleading. During his time at the and John Ford”. Placed alongside these are perhaps Mercury Theatre and even while still in prep school, Welles’s three most popular films and, following the Welles had been involved in the making of a number thread, three films that can be seen to have been of shorts. The groundwork for the extraordinary influenced in turn by Welles’s work. cinematography of Kane had been laid by Gregg Introduction and notes on individual films Toland when working on John Ford’s The Long by Kevin Coyne. Voyage Home in 1940. Indeed, such was Toland’s
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released in 1925, Strike and Battleship BATTLESHIP Potemkin. Commissioned as part of the 20th anniversary celebrations of the POTEMKIN first Russian revolution, Potemkin is a dramatisation of the events surrounding a famous mutiny. Although intended as a propaganda film, Eisenstein used it to SAT 11TH (15.30) test his theories of montage, believing that careful editing would elicit the desired emotional responses БРОНЕНО́СЕЦ There are a number of parallels between from audiences. ПОТЁМКИН these two of cinema’s most influential filmmakers. Like Welles, Eisenstein FILM INFO: 72 mins, USSR, 1926, Digital, began his career in theatre, and on Black and White, Silent moving into film made an immediate and definitive mark on the future of the medium with his first two features, both
for which he received a story credit. CITY LIGHTS Arguably the greatest of his silent films, City Lights sees Chaplin as The Tramp, who falls in love with a blind flower girl and determines to help her better her situation.
SUN 12TH (15.30) Funny, lyrical, and romantic, the film stands as testament to Chaplin’s gift for visual storytelling. FILM INFO: Although Welles and Chaplin may not 86 mins, USA, 1931, Digital, Black and White, Silent immediately appear to have much in common, Welles often referred to City Lights as his favourite film (it was also a favourite of Kubrick and Tarkovsky), and was at one point supposed to direct Chaplin in 1947’s Monsieur Verdoux,
my first day as a director. I'd learned STAGECOACH whatever I knew in the projection room – from Ford”. In this Western, John Wayne, in his breakthrough role, joins a group of travellers who come under threat from Apaches on the warpath. A film that proved hugely WED 15TH (18.30) influential on any number of directors, it was for Welles the textbook for filmmaking. FILM INFO: Throughout his career, Welles remained 96 mins, USA, 1939, Blu-ray, Black and White unstinting in his praise of John Ford. He Efforts to trace the copyright holder of this claimed that he watched Stagecoach film proved unsuccessful. Anyone with some 40 times in advance of filming pertinent information is invited to contact Citizen Kane, saying, "As it turned out, the IFI. the first day I ever walked onto a set was
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these techniques and combined CITIZEN them with what was for the time Welles’s radical approach to sound, in KANE which he utilised methods previously only used on radio, opened up the possibilities of cinema. The thrill of the new extended to a narrative based SAT 18TH (15.30) on the multiple, sometimes unreliable perspectives of its characters, creating a film whose influence and importance FILM INFO: Many of the stylistic flourishes of 119 mins, USA, 1941, 35mm, cannot be overstated. Black and White Citizen Kane, such as chiaroscuro lighting and the use of unusual camera angles, can be traced back to the German Expressionist films of the 1920s. However, the way in which Welles and Toland expanded upon
broken promises that bedevilled THE MAGNIFICENT Welles’s career. The film follows the changing fortunes of the titular family AMBERSONS against the backdrop of the social and emotional fabric of American life as the nineteenth century moves into the twentieth. Despite the excision and SUN 19TH (15.30) destruction by the studio of some 40 minutes of footage, to Welles’s credit, what remains is highly regarded FILM INFO: Following the tumultuous release of 88 mins, USA, 1942, 35mm, as one of his best works. Black and White Kane and the negativity it attracted from William Randolph Hearst’s media empire, Welles signed a new and less favourable deal with RKO, including surrendering final cut. Thus began a pattern of studio interference and
Opening with a tracking shot that would TOUCH OF EVIL be paid homage by Robert Altman’s The Player (1992), Touch Of Evil sees Charlton Heston and Janet Leigh caught up in police corruption in one of the last, best examples of classic film noir. Despite finishing on schedule and on THURS 23RD (18.30) budget, it was once again subject to studio interference and is screened here in a version that best approximates the FILM INFO: After time spent in Europe, where he 110 mins, USA, 1958, director’s original vision. Digital, Black & White made films including Othello (1951), starring Micheál Mac Liammóir and Hilton Edwards, co-founders of the Gate Theatre, where Welles made his stage debut, Welles returned to Hollywood.
14 to me to be a giant”. Although the two THE KILLING seem like polar opposites, like Welles with Kane, Kubrick is often seen as a director without antecedent. But while The Killing, an invigorating heist movie, bears narrative similarities to John Huston’s The Asphalt Jungle (1950), SAT 25TH (15.40) stylistically both it and his previous film Killer’s Kiss (1955) are reminiscent of Welles in their framing and lighting. FILM INFO: In 1963, an American magazine 86 mins, USA, 1956, Digital, Black & White published what remains Stanley Kubrick’s only official ‘Top 10’ list, which included Kane, while the following year, Welles told a Spanish publication, “Among those whom I would call ‘younger generation’, Kubrick appears
The Master (2012). However, it is THERE WILL Daniel Day-Lewis’s Daniel Plainview that has most resonance with Charles BE BLOOD Foster Kane. There Will Be Blood is a similar examination of America, with Plainview the man-become-monster who will stop at nothing in his obsessive SUN 26TH (15.00) quest for ever more wealth and power, willing to sacrifice anything and anyone in the process. FILM INFO: Few current filmmakers are tackling 158 mins, USA, 2007, 35mm subjects with the scope and scale of Paul Thomas Anderson. His recent films echo Welles in their study of the corruption and megalomania that can befall the self-made man, such as Philip Seymour Hoffman’s Lancaster Dodd in
and the multi-faceted nature of truth, STORIES it takes some of its flourishes from Welles’s final completed film, F For Fake WE TELL (1973). A loose form of documentary, Welles’s film essay focuses on the fields of fakery, fraud, and fiction, setting forth the fabulous fable of forger WED 29TH (18.20) Elmyr de Hory. Filled with fluctuating interpretations of a fickle truth, it is Welles at his most playful. FILM INFO: Sarah Polley’s fine documentary, which 108 mins, Canada, 2012, Digital has grown in stature since its original release, is an extremely personal work, laying bare the copious secrets and foibles of her parents’ marriage. In part a meditation on the fallacy of memory
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Notes by Sunniva O’Flynn. Glennascaul to Return Orson Welles made his theatrical début on the Gate Theatre stage in 1930 at the age of 16 and so began PROGRAMME TWO a life-long friendship with the Gate’s founders Hilton HAMLET AT ELSINORE Edwards and Micheál Mac Liammóir (both of whom he This film of the Gate Theatre’s visit to Denmark in 1952 cast in his 1952 version of Othello). with a production of Hamlet, with Mac Liammóir in the title role, follows the cast through rehearsal and PROGRAMME ONE performance. (Welles had previously appeared in an RETURN TO GLENNASCAUL / earlier Gate production of Hamlet in Woodstock, ORSON WELLES GHOST STORY Illinois in 1934). Introduced by a bemused Orson Welles (on a break FILM INFO: Hilton Edwards, 20 mins, 1952, Black and White from filming Othello), this story, set in the foothills of the Dublin Mountains, tells of a man’s encounter The Eyes of Orson Welles opens at the IFI on Friday 17th. with an ethereal young woman and her mother. See pages 12–15 for information on our FILM INFO: Hilton Edwards, 1951, 23 mins, Black and White Orson Welles season.
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TUES 14TH (18.30)
DIRECTOR: When the British Foreign Office warned “the coloniser and the colonised”. Arthur MacCaig its embassies that The Patriot Game, a The Patriot Game is a searingly EVENT INFO: new documentary about the Northern intense history of the conflict rooted 90 mins, France, 1978, 16mm Ireland conflict, was “damaging in an unapologetically Republican, Notes by Donal Foreman and highly critical of Her Majesty’s socialist point of view, distinguished Government”, director Arthur MacCaig by MacCaig’s rare insider access to the welcomed it as “the best review I ever Provisional IRA. had”. MacCaig, a leftist Irish-American, perceived a stark disparity between the The screening will be introduced by NEW RELEASE tribal, religious conflict he saw depicted Arthur MacCaig’s son, filmmaker Donal Foreman’s The Image in the media and what he experienced Donal Foreman. You Missed opens on Friday 10th. on the ground as a struggle between
16 IRISH BRIEF FOCUS ENCOUNTERS Here's Looking at You, Kid! Looking at You, Here's
SHELTER ME NEW IRISH FICTION TUES 7TH (18.30) TUES 28TH (18.30) The story of a grassroots movement as told by The second instalment of our 2018 focus on short- its key protagonists, community activists and the form cinema. artists who joined them – Jim Sheridan, Terry McMahon, Hozier and Glen Hansard. TIME TRAVELLER A Traveller boy strives to finish building his own Their campaign to raise awareness of DeLorean replica. homelessness in Dublin culminated in the FILM INFO: Sam Kenny, Steve Kenny, 2017 bold takeover of Apollo House, a vacant NAMA- FERN controlled office block, and its conversion into a The unlikely relationship between a lonely woman temporary shelter for homeless people in Dublin, and a potted plant. sparking massive media attention in the run-up to FILM INFO: Johnny Kelly, 2018 Christmas 2016. BEHIND BARS A car park attendant takes us through his typical Zahara Moufid’s documentary provides extensive working day. coverage of the events and intimate access to FILM INFO: Leon Kavanagh, 2018 those involved, revealing their commitment to the campaign but also their doubts about the HERE’S LOOKING AT YOU, KID! effectiveness of their actions. A boy deals with a tragedy the only way he knows how, in the latest short from Oscar-nominated and DIRECTOR: BAFTA-winning filmmaker Michael Lennox. Zahara Moufid FILM INFO: Michael Lennox, 2018 FILM INFO: WAVE 65 mins, Ireland, 2018, Digital Oscar winner Benjamin Cleary co-directs the story Notes by Sunniva O’Flynn of a young man who wakes from a coma speaking an unknown language. The screening will be followed by a Q&A with FILM INFO: Benjamin Cleary, TJ O’Grady Peyton, 2017 Jim Sheridan, Brendan Ogle and Dean Scurry. TAKE ME SWIMMING A family battles an advanced case of Alzheimer's disease. With a sterling performance from Olwen Fouéré. FILM INFO: Claire Dix, 2017
EVENT INFO: 71 mins / Notes by Dean Kavanagh
17 FEAST YOUR EYES POPE FRANCIS: A MAN OF HIS WORD WED 15TH (18.45)
DIRECTOR: Our monthly gastronomic feature range of topics, including the wealth of Wim Wenders followed by a meal in the IFI Café Bar. the Church, the film is at its best when FILM INFO: at its simplest, with the former Jorge 96 mins, Switzerland-Vatican City August’s pairing of a new release and a Bergoglio coming across as a man of State-Italy-Germany-France, 2018, specially devised main course menu will Digital, Subtitled supreme decency and compassion Notes by Kevin Coyne be Pope Francis: A Man of His Word. who truly believes in practising what he preaches. In advance of this month’s papal visit to Ireland, Wim Wenders’s new documentary The menu for this month will include a on the current Bishop of Rome receives choice of: Choripán, chorizo sausage in a cinema release. Consisting mostly of bread with chimichurri; Fish Empanadas, TICKETS interviews in which the Pope holds forth delicious dough pockets filled with €20.00, free list suspended. honestly and without hesitation on a seafood; and a Forest Mushroom Risotto.
WILD STRAWBERRIES FAMILIA RODANTE
WED 29TH & FRI 31ST (11.00)
DIRECTOR: Road trips have featured in many films, jealousy and downright chaos Pablo Trapero but few will be as ramshackle, hilarious that unfolds as they trundle across FILM INFO: and excruciating as this one featuring the country. 99 mins, Argentina-Spain-Germany- thirteen members of a family crammed Brazil, 2004, Digital, Subtitled Wild Strawberries is our film club for over Notes by Alicia McGivern into a creaking camper van travelling to a village wedding, 1,000 miles from 55s. Tickets: €4.25 including regular tea/ Buenos Aires. coffee before the event. If you happen to look younger, please don’t take offence if When an 84-year-old grandmother we ask your age. receives a wedding invitation, she expects her family to travel with her, but nothing can prepare her for the secrecy,
18 THE BIGGER PICTURE THE LOVERS ON THE BRIDGE MON 20TH (18.20)
LES AMANTS DU One of the most polarising of for repairs. He is a street performer PONT-NEUF contemporary French directors, the and alcoholic, she a painter who is DIRECTOR: third feature from Leos Carax (Pola slowly losing her sight. The film had Leos Carax X, 1999; Holy Motors, 2012) remains a notoriously difficult production and FILM INFO: his most successful to date, a film distribution history, beset by accidents, 125 mins, France, 1991, that, according to critic Roger Ebert, injuries, and spectacularly spiralling Digital, Subtitled inspires “affection and exasperation in costs. What resulted is something Notes by Kevin Coyne nearly equal measure”. At heart, it’s a unique and wonderful, filled with deliriously romantic love story between visual poetry and gleeful abandon. vagrants Michèle (Juliette Binoche) and Alex (regular Carax collaborator The screening will be introduced by Denis Lavant), who make their home freelance writer and IFI projectionist on the titular bridge while it is closed Paul Markey.
LE CRIME DE MONSIEUR LANGE
THURS 30TH (18.30)
DIRECTOR: François Truffaut wrote that Le Crime She pleads their case, and Lange is Jean Renoir de Monsieur Lange “is a film touched allowed to recount the story of how FILM INFO: by divine grace”. One of Jean Renoir’s this formerly introverted worker in 80 mins, France, 1936, France, more rarely screened films, this brand a publishing house, whose biggest Digital, Subtitled, Black and White Notes by Kevin Coyne new digital restoration shows once dream was to write Westerns, came again the director’s skill in blending a to be driven to kill. humanist approach with socio-political commentary. Monsieur Lange (René Presented as part of Cinema Lefèvre) is on the run, wanted for Rediscovered on Tour, a Watershed murder, when recognised by the project with support from BFI awarding workers of a hotel in which he and funds from The National Lottery. a female companion seek shelter.
19 THE PRODUCERS
SUN 5TH (13.30)
DIRECTOR: Mel Brooks’s comedy masterpiece The circumstances, a producer could make Mel Brooks Producers, widely regarded as one of the more money with a flop than a hit. FILM INFO: funniest films ever, has been stunningly 88 mins, USA, 1967, Digital restored and is back on the big screen Together Bialystock and Bloom come up to celebrate its 50th anniversary. with what they consider to be a sure-fire disaster waiting to happen – a musical Max Bialystock (Zero Mostel) is a version of Adolf and Eva’s love story washed-up Broadway producer forced entitled ‘Springtime For Hitler’. But is it to romance old ladies to finance his possible that they might actually have plays. When timid accountant Leo the most unlikely hit of all time on their Bloom (Gene Wilder) is brought in to hands? do his books, he inadvertently reveals to Bialystock that under the right
ROCK’N’ROLL CINEMA THE PUBLIC IMAGE IS ROTTEN SAT 25TH (20.20)
DIRECTOR: On the same weekend as John Lydon’s While the focus here is on the music Tabbert Fiiller Public Image Limited returns to Dublin, and its influence as figures such as FILM INFO: both he and his work come under the Thurston Moore pay their respects, 103 mins, USA, 2017, Digital spotlight in director Tabbert Fiiller’s PiL is to Lydon as The Fall was to Mark Notes by Kevin Coyne examination of a band that, while not as E. Smith, and so inevitably the film takes seismic in their cultural impact as the on elements of a study of Lydon himself: Sex Pistols, is perhaps more worthy of iconoclastic, abrasive, unforgiving, and serious consideration in terms of the as endlessly compelling and unique calibre of their output and its expression within the industry as the music he of and relationship to Lydon’s restless has produced over his career. and inventive musical nature.
20 IFI & HERITAGE WEEK IFI IRISH FILM ARCHIVE TALK AND TOUR FRI 24TH (15.00)
This year is European Year of Cultural This event will take place on Heritage, and in order to celebrate we Friday 24th at 15.00 and will last approx. will be giving the public the opportunity 60 minutes. Tickets are free, but places to see what goes on behind the scenes are extremely limited and must be of the IFI Irish Film Archive. booked in advance. In addition to a tour of our vaults, there Please email [email protected] with will also be a presentation on one of ‘Heritage Week’ in the subject line to the Heritage Council-supported projects secure your place. we are currently working on, giving you a chance to see what goes into looking after Ireland’s national moving image collections.
IFI FAMILY FESTIVAL
FROM AUG 31ST
- SEPT 2ND World Marnie's
Forget the back to school rush for We have adventures, crazy cats, cool a few more days as the IFI Family heroines, quests, spells, and much Festival returns for another weekend of more, all for you to discover at the IFI. cinematic fun and frolics from August 31st to September 2nd. Meet our Tickets cost just €5 each, with a family young critics and some special guests, ticket available for €15, so come join including festival regular Clara Murray us for some of the best international from RTÉJr. You’ll also have a chance family films of the year at the to meet some of the very skilled people IFI Family Festival! who worked on two of this year’s festival films, Captain Morten and the Spider Queen and The Ash Lad.
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