AUGUST 2014 TWO DAYS, ONE NIGHT 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.

FREE FILM CLUB Catch a Thief To FRENCH FILM

Join our panel for The Critical Take on August 25th (18.30) Our French Film Club screening this month will be Michel to discuss the reissue of director Michael Cimino’s formidable Gondry’s Mood Indigo, starring Romain Duris and Audrey The Deer Hunter (opens August 1st), Hitchcock’s 1955 classic Tautou (see page 6 for notes). IFI and Alliance Française To Catch a Thief (opens August 8th) starring Cary Grant and members who attend the film on the evening of August 5th Grace Kelly, and the powerful new film from the Dardenne can avail of a discounted ticket price of €7. brothers, Two Days, One Night (opens August 22nd). See www.ifi.ie for the screening time. This event is FREE and open to all to attend and take part.

IFII IRISH DVD FILM DIRECTORY

Dublin-born Thaddeus O’Sullivan is one of Ireland’s IFI International, which facilitates the distribution of Irish cinema most distinguished cinematographers and film directors. to cultural exhibitors worldwide, is delighted to announce the His award-winning feature films include Stella Days, The Heart launch of the Irish Film Directory, a database of films held in of Me, Nothing Personal and December Bride. The IFI Irish the IFI Irish Film Archive and elsewhere that are available for Film Archive has digitally remastered five of his earliest films film exhibition. This exciting programming resource will allow and made them available for the first time since their original, for research into the breadth of Irish cinema and is available at limited release 40 years ago. The collection is available to buy www.ifi.ie/ifiifilmdirectory. The service is administered by IFI now on DVD at the IFI Film Shop (01 679 5727). and supported by Culture Ireland.

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August sees the IFI Irish Film Archive embark on a major digital upgrade, the launch of a new online database of Irish film, and a reappraisal of some ‘cursed films’. AUGUST

AT THE IFI Margaret (see page 18) This August, the IFI will be busy with one of the biggest Classic films remain an integral part of the IFI’s exhibition developments for the IFI Irish Film Archive in many years. programme, providing many people with the opportunity As part of the IFI Strategy 2013-2016, a key priority identified to see some of their old favourites back on the big screen, was the development of a Digital Preservation and Access whilst allowing others to see them for the very first time. Strategy, which would ultimately move a significant part This month we have a particularly strong selection of of our vast and varied collections (of over 20,000 cans of restorations and reissues for you. Michael Cimino’s Vietnam film) online to be accessed by audiences nationally and War epic, The Deer Hunter (Robert De Niro, Christopher internationally. This summer, a digital infrastructure upgrade Walken) returns to cinema screens alongside Alfred is taking place within the main Archive building, which is Hitchcock’s comedy-romance, To Catch a Thief (Cary Grant, located right next to the main IFI centre in Temple Bar. The Grace Kelly), a new restoration of Satyajit Ray’s exquisite work being undertaken over the coming months is the first The Lonely Wife, and Robert Wiene’s brilliantly innovative phase of the IFI's long-term digital strategy and will enable 1920s horror, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari. If these blasts from the IFI Irish Film Archive to receive digital deposits for the past aren’t enough for you, we’re also offering you the preservation and access, whilst simultaneously enabling us to opportunity to experience what it was like to frequent the begin the process of transferring our print collections to digital cinema in days gone by. A Night at the Cinema 1914 is a formats. This is a significant development for the IFI Irish Film wonderful programme comprised of comedies and newsreels, Archive and will make the national archive of moving image recreating a typical night out at a British cinema in 1914, and infinitely more accessible to both Irish and international is presented with a BFI-commissioned score by Stephen Horne. audiences over time through the use of technology and online access points. We would like to thank the Department of Arts, All of this alongside new releases, including the Dardenne Heritage and the Gaeltacht for their support of this exciting brothers’ latest social drama starring Marion Cotillard, new initiative. Two Days, One Night; and this month’s season, Films Maudits, which looks at ‘cursed films’, celebrating works that were Over the past number of months, the Irish Film Programming unfairly maligned or overlooked upon their initial release department at the IFI has been developing a new online (including an opportunity to see a second Michael Cimino database of Irish film. This has now been launched at film – Heaven’s Gate). www.ifi.ie and includes listings and synopses of many Irish features, documentaries and shorts. This new directory can Also in August, the IFI Café Bar is the perfect setting for a be used by anyone with an interest in Irish film, students and Sunday afternoon as we’re introducing a brand new Brunch researchers, and should also be invaluable to our international Menu – the ideal accompaniment to an IFI classic or new partners with whom we coordinate Irish film festivals and release on a lazy afternoon. events around the globe. Last year alone, IFI International facilitated 171 events in 50 countries, including Australia, the Ross Keane United States, Brazil, Argentina, Tanzania, Canada, Russia, Director South Korea and India, and this new online database should be a hugely useful tool for those international exhibitors doing initial research into potential programmes of Irish film.

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A NIGHT AT THE CINEMA 1914 OPENS AUG 1ST DATE SCREENING TIME THE DEER HUNTER OPENS AUG 1ST 3RD FILMS MAUDITS: FREAKS 16:00 SUN HIDE YOUR SMILING FACES OPENS AUG 1ST 4TH FILMS MAUDITS: 18:15 MOOD INDIGO OPENS AUG 1ST MON THE MAGNIFICENT AMBERSONS GOD’S POCKET OPENS AUG 8TH 5TH IFI FRENCH FILM CLUB: MOOD INDIGO TUES (SEE WWW.IFI.IE FOR TIME) LILTING OPENS AUG 8TH 6TH FILMS MAUDITS: SILKEN SKIN 18.30 TO CATCH A THIEF OPENS AUG 8TH WED IFI CAFÉ BAR: PUB QUIZ (FREE EVENT) 21:30 WAKOLDA OPENS AUG 8TH 10TH FILMS MAUDITS: L’ECLISSE 16:00 SUN WELCOME TO NEW YORK OPENS AUG 8TH 13TH FILMS MAUDITS: SECONDS 18:15 WED FROM THE VAULTS: IFI & SAMUEL BECKETT 20:30 MOEBIUS OPENS AUG 15TH SUMMER SCHOOL SHORTS PROGRAMME THE ROVER OPENS AUG 15TH 16TH FILMS MAUDITS: 16:00 WE GOTTA GET OUT OF SAT WE CAN’T GO HOME AGAIN PREVIEW: GOD HELP THE GIRL + SATELLITE 18:00 THIS PLACE OPENS AUG 15TH PERFORMANCE BY BELLE & SEBASTIAN GOD HELP THE GIRL OPENS AUG 22ND 17TH FILMS MAUDITS: MARGARET 16:00 THE LONELY WIFE OPENS AUG 22ND SUN 23RD FILMS MAUDITS: CRUISING 16:00 TWO DAYS, ONE NIGHT OPENS AUG 22ND SAT THE CABINET OF DR. CALIGARI OPENS AUG 29TH 24TH FILMS MAUDITS: HEAVEN’S GATE 16:00 SUN MYSTERY ROAD OPENS AUG 29TH 25TH THE CRITICAL TAKE (FREE EVENT) 18:30 NIGHT MOVES OPENS AUG 29TH MON OBVIOUS CHILD OPENS AUG 29TH 26TH FEAST YOUR EYES: 18:15 TUES THE SCENT OF GREEN PAPAYA 27TH WILD STRAWBERRIES: THE GREAT BEAUTY 11:00 WED IFI & EXPERIMENTAL FILM CLUB: 18:30 LOOP STRUCTURES 29TH WILD STRAWBERRIES: THE GREAT BEAUTY 11:00 FRI 31ST IFI FAMILY: MOOMIN & MIDSUMMER 11:00 SUN MADNESS IRELAND ON SUNDAY: POISON PEN 18:00 TIMES + SPECIAL GUESTS For a breakdown of times and dates of IFI New Releases & IFI Classics, check out our weekly schedule on www.ifi.ie or the IFI ads in The Irish Times on Fridays and Saturdays. You can also sign up to receive our weekly ezine by emailing [email protected]

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4 AUGUST 2014 NEW RELEASES & IFI CLASSICS A NIGHT AT THE CINEMA 1914 OPENS AUG 1ST This glorious miscellany of comedies, the highlights of this programme of 14 adventure films, travelogues and short films are a comic short about a IFI CLASSIC newsreels recreates a typical night out face-pulling competition, a sensational at the British cinema in 1914. Cinema episode of the American film serial EXCLUSIVELY AT IFI † a century ago was a new, exciting and The Perils of Pauline, Allied troops highly democratic form of entertainment. celebrating Christmas at the Front and an FILM INFO: Picture houses across Britain offered a early sighting of one of cinema’s greatest Approx. 85 minutes, U.K.-U.S.A., 1914, Black and White, D-Cinema sociable, lively environment in which icons. The BFI has commissioned Notes by BFI to relax and escape from the daily composer and pianist Stephen Horne, grind. With feature films still rare, one of Britain’s leading accompanists of the programme was an entertaining, silent film, to create a new improvised There were various directors for these films, some uncredited at ever-changing roster of short items with score which reflects the spirit in which the time. For the full list of titles, live musical accompaniment. Among the films were made. see www.ifi.ie

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OPENS AUG 1ST After his debut feature, Thunderbolt and play Russian roulette for the amusement Lightfoot (1974), director Michael Cimino of their captors before making their IFI CLASSIC created something on a more epic scale escape, but lose each other along the with this tale of three Pennsylvania way. Finally, Michael, now home, tracks EXCLUSIVELY AT IFI † steelworkers who serve in the Vietnam down his friends and discovers the War – Michael (Robert De Niro), Steven terrible aftermath of their experiences FILM INFO: (John Savage), and Nick (Christopher in Vietnam. Sprawling, complex, and 216 minutes, U.K.-U.S.A, 1978, Colour, D-Cinema Walken). The tripartite structure begins hugely ambitious, the film’s success Notes by Kevin Coyne with Steven’s wedding shortly before would prove Cimino’s undoing when he the three ship out. Moving to the tried to repeat its scale on his next film, battlefield, the next section finds the 1980’s Heaven’s Gate, also showing this three held as prisoners of war, forced to month (see page 18).

5 AUGUST 2014 NEW RELEASES & IFI CLASSICS HIDE YOUR SMILING FACES

OPENS AUG 1ST Eric and Tommy are brothers, New With raw, honest performances from its Jersey teenagers spending their time young cast, Hide Your Smiling Faces is sparring, playing and messing about an unsentimental portrait of youth, FILM INFO: 81 minutes, U.S.A., 2013, around their home. They are too young a rare and original coming-of-age Colour, D-Cinema to be confronted with death, yet when drama which suggests there is no hiding Notes by Michael Hayden Tommy’s friend dies in mysterious place for innocents. It is a lyrical drama circumstances, the two boys are of depth and sensitivity which has IFI IRISH SHORT shaken by events that are beyond their drawn worthy comparisons to Terrence These screenings will be preceded understanding. The incident has a deep, Malick, and a debut feature that marks by the award-winning short animation, Left, by Eamonn O’Neill. unsettling impact on the boys and their filmmaker Daniel Patrick Carbone as a Joe is preparing to leave home, behaviour as they confront questions fascinating talent with a future. triggering memories of his time spent with childhood friend Neill and about mortality, which no one around subsequent divergent paths each has them can supply answers for. taken. (9 mins, Ireland, 2013.) MOOD INDIGO

OPENS AUG 1ST An adaptation of the 1947 novel ending soon fades away as Chloé Froth on the Daydream written by becomes ill on their honeymoon and the remarkable polymath Boris Vian, Colin desperately struggles to provide (L’ÉCUME DES JOURS) Michel Gondry’s Mood Indigo is a her with relief, a source of expense FILM INFO: characteristically tender story of which bankrupts the once wealthy 94 minutes, France-Belgium, devotion and despair. Meeting at a and ebullient couple. Replete with 2013, Colour, D-Cinema lavish party where they instantly hit spellbinding visual effects, Mood Indigo Notes by Alice Butler it off, Romain Duris’ Colin and Audrey is a uniquely told story of love and Tautou’s Chloé are soon inseparable downfall which creatively evokes an and, following an idyllic courtship and epic struggle against the drastic effects fairly shambolic wedding proposal at of serious disease. an ice rink, are then married. However, what seems like the couple’s happy

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OPENS AUG 8TH Mickey Scarpato is just getting by in An embittered hack investigating the God’s Pocket, a low rent Philadelphia death, a demanding undertaker and neighbourhood whose inhabitants a best pal with mob connections add FILM INFO: 88 minutes, U.S.A., 2014, don’t care much for outsiders. to Mickey’s woes. Mad Men star John Colour, D-Cinema A gambler and a thief, Mickey is Slattery adapts Peter Dexter’s 1983 Notes by Michael Hayden devoted to his wife Jeanie, so much so novel for his impressive feature debut, that he endures her graceless, hot-wired a darkly comic ensemble piece with a son Leon with begrudging patience. terrific cast featuring Richard Jenkins, When Leon is killed at his construction Christina Hendricks, John Turturro and job, Mickey has to pacify his grieving Eddie Marsan, alongside Philip Seymour wife, who refuses to accept her son’s Hoffman in one of his final roles. death is an accident, and hustle up enough money to pay for the funeral. LILTING

OPENS AUG 8TH The death of Kai (Andrew Leung) Vann and Richard become conduits in leaves his timid boyfriend Richard a burgeoning courtship between Junn (Ben Whishaw) and his obstinate and Alan (Peter Bowles), yet Junn is FILM INFO: 86 minutes, U.K., 2014, Chinese-Cambodian mother Junn baffled as to why Richard, a stranger Colour, D-Cinema (Cheng Pei-Pei) shaken with grief. to her, would care to get involved so Notes by Michael Hayden Kai had not had the opportunity to much. The debut feature from Hong come out to Junn while he was alive, Khaou is an intimate and graceful film, but as she lives in a care home and has a sensitive examination of two lost no other relatives, Richard feels some souls in mourning, which portrays how responsibility, and reaches out to her. connections can be made across barriers Junn speaks no English, so Richard of age, culture and sexuality. employs his acquaintance Vann (Naomi Christie) to act as an interpreter.

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OPENS AUG 8TH To Catch a Thief finds the great Alfred gang and makes plans to capture the Hitchcock in frothy form, showcasing copycat, thus proving his innocence, stunning locations and alluring stars in he comes into contact with Frances IFI CLASSIC this undeniably entertaining comedy- (Grace Kelly) and her mother, who may EXCLUSIVELY AT IFI † romance. Cary Grant is retired jewel well be the thief’s next targets. Placing thief John Robie, formerly known charismatic Grant and elegant Kelly FILM INFO: as ‘The Cat’, now living a quiet life (in her final role for Hitchcock) on the 106 minutes, U.S.A., tending to his vineyards on the French Rivera makes for an almost impossibly 1955, Colour, D-Cinema Notes by Kevin Coyne Riviera. When a new spate of robberies glamorous film which, while not one of follows his modus operandi, he is Hitch’s masterpieces, is sophisticated, immediately suspected by local police witty, and fun. of having reverted to his previous ways. While he seeks refuge with his former WAKOLDA

OPENS AUG 8TH In Patagonia, 1960, an Argentinean A mutual fascination develops between family travel to a glorious setting by Helmut and 12-year-old Lilith (Florencia Lake Nahuel Huapi at the foot of the Bado), a young girl who the family FILM INFO: Andes. Pregnant mother Eva (Natalia worry is not growing up quickly enough. 93 minutes, Argentina- Spain-Norway-France, Oreiro) was brought up in the region, Suspicion that Helmut is not all he 2013, Colour, D-Cinema and is returning with husband Enzo seems increases as news that Nazi war Notes by Michael Hayden (Diego Peretti) and their three children criminals have looked to escape to South to reopen a lodging house she has America filters through. Adapted from inherited. Their first guest introduces her own novel, Lucía Puenzo’s gripping himself as Helmut Gregor (Àlex period potboiler addresses troubling Brendemühl), a charismatic German events in Argentina’s history and has a physician who charms the family with his dark tension bubbling throughout. manners, intelligence and money.

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OPENS AUG 8TH George Devereaux is a powerful man influence. An imagining inspired by the with a voracious sexual appetite. In a 2011 scandal surrounding the head of New York hotel room, he indulges in the IMF, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the FILM INFO: 125 minutes, U.S.A., a night of intense carnality. Blondes latest film from legendary auteur Abel 2014, Colour, D-Cinema leave and brunettes arrive, bodies are Ferrara is as provocative and fearless Notes by Michael Hayden smeared with booze and ice cream and as the best of his work. It revolves women perform lewd acts under his around an extraordinary performance direction. When a housemaid walks from Gérard Depardieu as the brutishly into Devereaux’s room in the aftermath grotesque Devereaux, a man so of this, an incident leads Devereaux to intoxicated by power that he can no be arrested at JFK airport, and he is put longer recognise moral lines. through a legal process that has little respect for his authority, affluence or MOEBIUS

OPENS AUG 15TH When Mother (Lee Eun-woo) discovers (Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter . . . that Father (Jo Jae-hyeon) is having and Spring) to the demanding (The Isle) an affair (the Other Woman is also to the unclassifiable (Arirang). Over EXCLUSIVELY AT IFI † played by Lee), she is enraged with the course of Moebius’ remainder, FILM INFO: jealousy and attacks him with a equally shocking events regularly take 90 minutes, South Korea, kitchen knife, intending to castrate place as the quartet falls apart and 2013, Colour, D-Cinema him. He fights her off, and she attacks reconfigures, all told entirely without Notes by Kevin Coyne Son (Seo Yung-ju) instead, severing dialogue. While the context and his penis and swallowing it. By this execution is provocative, the film is point, we’re about ten minutes into serious in its intent, seeking to explore the new film from Kim Ki-duk, the ideas of sexual jealousy and familial Korean auteur whose work ranges relationships. from the quiet and contemplative

9 AUGUST 2014 NEW RELEASES & IFI CLASSICS THE ROVER

OPENS AUG 15TH Following his award-winning debut them pay for their crime. He comes feature, Animal Kingdom, director across the injured Rey, a simple-minded David Michôd returns with this warped, kid who has been left for dead by the FILM INFO: 102 minutes, Australia, daring and vividly realised thriller. It is car thieves. The pair form an unlikely 2014, Colour, D-Cinema set 10 years on from a severe economic and uneasy alliance. Notes by Michael Hayden collapse from which the western world is never going to recover, and in the Featuring excellent, powerful desolate Australian outback, where performances from Guy Pearce and lawlessness reigns and life is cheap. Robert Pattinson, The Rover is a Eric is a lone drifter, and his car is his savagely brutal, brilliantly twisted only possession. When a desperate dystopian nightmare presenting an gang steals it, Eric is relentless in his easily imaginable near future which mission to track them down and make resonates with the here and now. WE GOTTA GET OUT OF THIS PLACE

OPENS AUG 15TH It’s the end of summer, and teenagers dangerous heist at his behest. We Gotta Bobby (Jeremy Allen White) and Sue Get Out of This Place is literate neo noir (Mackenzie Davis) are making plans which references Jim Thompson, and † EXCLUSIVELY AT IFI for college, desperate to escape a nothing is quite what it seems in this FILM INFO: dead-end existence in their cotton-mill debut feature from sibling co-directors 92 minutes, U.S.A., town, the Texan backwater where they Simon and Zeke Hawkins. It is a winning, 2013, Colour, D-Cinema have grown up. Yet bullish B.J. (Logan expertly constructed pulp fiction Notes by Michael Hayden Huffman), Bobby’s best pal and Sue’s populated by characters capable of boyfriend, manages to drag them into casual deception and violence, while its conflict with local hard man Giff (Mark plot moves at a breathless pace. Pellegrino). Giff boasts connections with serious gangsters, and the young trio are vindictively cajoled into carrying out a

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OPENS AUG 22ND Eve (Emily Browning) is a troubled The directorial debut of Stuart young woman with a vivid imagination. Murdoch is as sincere, courageous and She meets James (Olly Alexander), a loveable as the music he makes with FILM INFO: 111 minutes, U.K., sensitive musician, and the pair bond Belle and Sebastian. With its attractive 2014, Colour, D-Cinema over the notion of forming a band cast kitted out in jaunty berets, Notes by Michael Hayden together. Joined by the sweet-natured Breton shirts, vintage frocks and Cassie (Hannah Murray), the group hairslides, God Help the Girl emerges spends a Glasgow summer talking as a delicious pop musical, about music, ideas and plans for the a refreshingly uncynical celebration PREVIEW & SATELLITE PERFORMANCE future. James agonises over whether he of youth and dreamers. Only the most We’re delighted to host a preview should confess to Eve that he has fallen jaded will deny a place in their hearts of this film on August 16th (18.00) followed by a satellite stream of in love with her, but he is not her for its numerous delights, the fabulous Belle & Sebastian performing at the only admirer. soundtrack being the first of them. Corn Exchange, Edinburgh. THE LONELY WIFE

OPENS AUG 22ND Racing from window to window in her seething, suppressed emotions, subtly vast, ornate mansion, Charulata spies revealed by Subrata Mitra’s eloquent hungrily on the outside world through camera. A richly atmospheric soundtrack ( ) CHARULATA opera glasses. Her wealthy husband, the evokes the wider world, while Ray’s IFI CLASSIC high-minded editor of a political journal, wistful score and the romantic songs is too preoccupied with the latest tax beloved of Charulata and Amal heighten FILM INFO: legislation and the forthcoming English the sense of longing. Exquisitely 117 minutes, India, 1964, election (Disraeli v Gladstone) to pay adapted from a novella by Rabindranath Black and White, D-Cinema Notes by BFI much attention to his wife. Somewhat Tagore, Charulata was described by its unwisely, he invites his charming director as “the one film I would make younger cousin Amal, a would-be poet, the same way if I had to do it again.” to keep her company and encourage This ravishing new restoration does her literary talent. This is a household of justice to its perfection.

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OPENS AUG 22ND After suffering a breakdown that has can afford to keep her on. She has a seen her take time off from her job, weekend to do this. In the time since Sandra has returned to work at a solar Rosetta won them international acclaim, ( ) DEUX JOURS, UNE NUIT panel plant. Yet her employers have the Dardenne brothers have excelled FILM INFO: realised that they can be more profitable in producing pertinent, cogent social 95 minutes, Belgium-France- without her, and threaten to make her drama, and their work becomes more Italy, 2014, Colour, D-Cinema redundant. A married woman with vital with each release. Two Days, One Notes by Michael Hayden young children, Sandra can’t afford to Night is their latest triumph, a timely, lose her job, and pleads to be kept on. urgent film featuring a sensitive, nuanced Her boss offers her a glimmer of hope; performance from Marion Cotillard, who if Sandra can persuade the majority of is superb as the working class woman her 16 co-workers not to accept a bonus enduring a desperate dilemma. they’ve been promised, the company THE CABINET OF DR. CALIGARI

OPENS AUG 29TH Widely considered to be the first true as predicted by Cesare, Francis and horror film ever made, the innovative his betrothed, Jane, suspect Caligari’s Cabinet of Dr. Caligari was hugely involvement in this and other recent (DAS CABINET DES DR. influential on the German expressionist mysterious deaths. Their investigation CALIGARI) movement of the 1920s. It tells in leads to Cesare’s kidnapping of Jane, IFI CLASSIC flashback of the visit to a carnival by and the discovery of the truth behind Francis and his friend Alan, where Caligari, a truth which may however FILM INFO: one of the exhibits is somnambulist hide something even more disturbing. 75 minutes, Germany, 1920, Cesare (Conrad Veidt), who can tell the A film of unsettlingly alien beauty, it Silent, Black and White, D-Cinema future and is controlled hypnotically retains its power to surprise the viewer. Notes by Kevin Coyne by the enigmatic and charming Dr. Caligari (Werner Krauss). When Alan is found dead the following morning,

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OPENS AUG 29TH Jay Swan (Aaron Pedersen) is an have warned him from, particularly indigenous cop who has recently when his investigation into the killing returned to his outback home town to indicates broader corruption and FILM INFO: 112 minutes, Australia, take up a detective posting with the he finds a connection between the 2013, Colour, D-Cinema local police. His first case is the murder murdered girl and his own daughter. Notes by Michael Hayden of a teenage girl, whose ravaged body has been found on a trucking route on Filmmaker Ivan Sen delivers an the edge of town. The white dominated impressively crafted modern noir, a police force aren’t supportive, while heart-pounding thriller which boldly his own community view his career takes on timely issues of race, class and choice as a betrayal, and aren’t keen crime in modern Australia. to help either. Yet Jay has a righteous determination to pursue avenues others NIGHT MOVES

OPENS AUG 29TH Three committed environmentalists consequences of their actions lead to are drawn together, driven by the bouts of fear, doubt and paranoia among notion of making a big statement to get the trio. Kelly Reichardt (Old Joy, Wendy FILM INFO: their views heard in a society that has and Lucy, Meek’s Cutoff) has retained 112 minutes, U.S.A., 2013, Colour, D-Cinema ostracised them. Josh (Jesse Eisenberg) much of the minimalist manner of her Notes by Michael Hayden is a brooding organic farmer who has previous work in this committed genre connected with Dena (Dakota Fanning), piece, a tense thriller of real substance. a rich kid rebelling against her roots. Night Moves provokes essential questions They meet up with Harmon (Peter about morality, idealism, and violence, Sarsgaard), an ex-Marine, jailbird and contains great performances from its adrenaline junkie, who may have more cast, and enhances Reichardt’s reputation experience than his younger cohorts, but as one of the most fascinating filmmakers who carries a dark-hearted cynicism. The working in America today.

13 AUGUST 2014 NEW RELEASES & IFI CLASSICS OBVIOUS CHILD

OPENS AUG 29TH Understandably distressed when she it’s unnecessary to tell the unwitting gets ‘dumped up with’ and then fired father, something about which Donna is in quick succession, comedian Donna less convinced. FILM INFO: Stern (Parks and Recreation’s hilarious 83 minutes, U.S.A., 2014, Colour, D-Cinema Jenny Slate) divulges all in a fairly solemn Awarded Best International Feature at Notes by Alice Butler stand-up routine and then ends up this year's Galway Film Festival, Obvious drinking, followed by sleeping with a Child is a superb romantic comedy that very wholesome chap she meets at the offers a refreshing take on a difficult bar. When she realises a few weeks later subject matter and brings something that she’s pregnant and not ready to be a new to a genre that’s long been in need mother, her close friend Nellie (played by of an overhaul. the inimitable Gaby Hoffman) supports her decision to get an abortion but insists UPCOMING HIGHLIGHTS Noble

The 11th IFI Stranger than Fiction Pilgrim Hill director Gerard Barrett Documentary Film Festival, follows up his highly acclaimed debut returns to the IFI from September with Glassland, which sees a young 25th to 28th with the best new taxi driver (Jack Reynor) attempt to documentaries from Ireland and save his mother (Toni Collette) from around the world. This year’s line-up crippling addiction. Stephen Bradley includes premieres, special guests, the directs Deirdre O’Kane (Moone Boy) in first showing of the Irish Film Board/ Noble, based on the life of Christina Bord Scannán na hÉireann’s Reality Noble, who left Ireland for Saigon in Bites scheme and a return of short the late 1980s and set up the Christina programme partners, Eat My Shorts. Noble Children’s Foundation, changing Full details will be announced on the lives of hundreds of thousands www.ifi.ie/stf in mid-August. of people.

14 FILMS MAUDITS Freaks (see page 16)

The term film maudit, the ‘cursed film’, has its origins Martin Scorsese’s New York, New York, and, regularly in a 1949 festival curated by, amongst others, Jean championed by the IFI in the past, Leonard Kastle’s Cocteau, André Bazin, Robert Bresson, René Clément, The Honeymoon Killers and Ivan Passer’s Cutter’s and Henri Langlois. The purpose of the festival was Way, may be termed films maudits according to the to celebrate films that had been unfairly maligned term’s original definition. or overlooked on their original release, and included films such as Jean Vigo’s L’Atalante, Luchino Visconti’s In this spirit of reappraisal and curiosity, we invite Ossessione, and Jacques Tati’s Jour de fête, all of audiences to attend these screenings, and to consider which have now achieved the status of canon. which contemporary films, currently dismissed, may in the future play to rapt audiences unable to In the years since, the term has come to be used in understand how their greatness was not immediately a much broader sense, often applied more to films appreciated. which have suffered a troubled production history, regardless of their eventual merit, films of such Introduction and notes on individual films wide-ranging reception and critical and commercial by Kevin Coyne. success as Dennis Hopper’s The Last Movie or Francis Ford Coppola’s Apocalypse Now. Since the 1949 festival, films such as Michael Powell’s Peeping Tom,

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company despite being a ‘normal’ FREAKS person. When she is found to have been unfaithful with strongman Hercules, the freaks exact a terrible revenge.

Tod Browning’s use of performers AUG 3RD (16.00) with real physical conditions led to a widespread ban on screenings, FILM INFO: Sideshow midget Hans is the leader and severe cuts by its studio, 63 minutes, U.S.A., 1932, Black and White, 35mm of a troupe which includes a bearded MGM. However, the film is now woman, pinheads, and a human included on the U.S. National Film torso. Beautiful trapeze artist Clara Registry, recognised as much for its seduces and marries Hans for his compassion as its horror. money, and is accepted by the

Kane, Welles now found himself in THE MAGNIFICENT conflict with RKO over the final cut of The Magnificent Ambersons after AMBERSONS disastrous test screenings. This story of the declining fortunes of an Indianapolis family in the AUG 4TH (18.15) automobile age had some 40 minutes excised by the studio; in FILM INFO: Throughout Orson Welles’ career, he Welles’ own words, “they destroyed 88 minutes, U.S.A., 1942, Black and White, 35mm faced any number of problems with Ambersons, and it destroyed me.” his films, from production difficulties A commercial flop on its release, to studio interference to critical it is now one of Welles’ most mauling. Following the battles with acclaimed works. William Randolph Hearst over Citizen

Best Director award for his debut. SILKEN SKIN There, the screening of this tale of an affair between married editor Pierre (Jean Desailly) and flight attendant Nicole (Françoise Dorléac) that ends badly, was, Truffaut wrote to a friend, "a complete fiasco." It is now AUG 6TH (18.30) considered by some to be one of his best, its coolly detached presentation (LA PEAU DOUCE) Following the success of his early marking a significant maturation of Truffaut as a filmmaker. FILM INFO: films, Les Quatre cents coups and 118 minutes, France, 1964, Jules et Jim, Silken Skin (La Peau Subtitled, Black and White, 35mm douce), Truffaut’s fourth feature, saw him return to the Cannes Film Festival for the first time since winning the

16 relationship with Riccardo. L’ECLISSE Vittoria meets with her mother at the Rome Stock Exchange to discuss the recent break-up, where she is introduced to her mother’s broker, Piero (Alain Delon), with whom she drifts into the early stages of a AUG 10TH (16.00) new relationship.

FILM INFO: Considered the last part of a loose As with much of Antonioni’s 126 minutes, Italy-France, 1962, Subtitled, Black and White, 35mm trilogy on alienation, malaise, work, the film proved divisive on and ennui in contemporary Italy, release, but its portrayal of the preceded by L’Avventura (1960) and difficulties of human connection in a La Notte (1961), L’Eclisse begins with materially obsessed world has led to Vittoria (Monica Vitti) ending her subsequent laudatory reappraisal.

Arthur Hamilton (John Randolph) SECONDS is experiencing a mid-life crisis, unfulfilled by career and family, when he is offered the opportunity of a new identity with which to build a new life by the mysterious Company. He re-emerges as AUG 13TH (18.15) bohemian artist Tony Wilson (Rock Hudson). However, finding it difficult FILM INFO: Seconds was greeted with such to adjust to his new persona, he 106 minutes, U.S.A., 1966, Black and White, D-Cinema hostility at the Cannes Film Festival finds himself in increasing danger that director John Frankenheimer with the Company. Strikingly shot refused to leave nearby Monte Carlo by James Wong Howe, Hamilton’s to attend the post-screening press Faustian pact makes for conference. chilling viewing.

feature which remained a work-in- WE CAN’T GO progress at the time of his death, HOME AGAIN in 1979. Playing lightly fictionalised versions of themselves, Ray and his students created a capsule of the times in AUG 16TH (16.00) which they lived. Consisting of multiple overlaid images, the film FILM INFO: After the end of his Hollywood was considered a fool’s errand by 90 minutes, U.S.A., 1976, Colour some and a visionary masterpiece by and Black and White, D-Cinema career with 55 Days in Peking (1963), Nicholas Ray taught film at SUNY others when it received its premiere. Binghamton between 1971 and 1973, where he collaborated with his students on the fascinating We Can’t Go Home Again, an experimental

17 featuring a tour-de-force performance MARGARET from Anna Paquin in the lead role of Lisa, a high school student who believes in absolutes and whose eloquence masks her immaturity, was met with a tidal wave of critical acclaim, if not the audiences to AUG 17TH (16.00) match. Burdened with guilt over her role in a fatal accident, she begins FILM INFO: While Kenneth Lonergan struggled to unravel as she realises that the 150 minutes, U.S.A., 2011, Colour, D-Cinema with Margaret’s final cut, multiple adult world is one of ambiguity lawsuits further delayed completion, and compromise. until the film was finally given a very low-key release six years after filming. This sprawling story of teenage angst,

undercover to investigate. Clearly CRUISING drawn to the scene on some level, Burns becomes increasingly involved, placing strain on his relationship with his girlfriend.

Production of the film was AUG 23RD (16.00) frequently disrupted by groups of protesters outraged at what was FILM INFO: New York police suspect a serial believed to be a bigoted depiction 102 minutes, U.S.A.-West Germany, 1980, Colour, D-Cinema killer when male body parts start of homosexuality. Met with similar appearing in the Hudson River. protests on its release, the film now Believing it may be connected to stands as a remarkable depiction of the city’s gay S&M scene, Officer the pre-AIDS era. Steve Burns (Al Pacino) is sent deep

(for an entertaining and frank HEAVEN’S GATE account of the full story, UA executive Steven Bach’s book Final Cut is highly recommended). This epic Western focuses on clashes between newly arriving settlers and the established land barons, the latter of whom AUG 24TH (16.00) augment the corrupt law enforcement agencies with hired mercenaries. FILM INFO: One of cinema’s most notoriously Starring Kris Kristofferson, Isabelle 216 minutes, U.S.A., Hupert, Christopher Walken, and 1980, Colour, D-Cinema troubled productions and financial disasters, Michael Cimino’s Heaven’s John Hurt, the film now has a number Gate as good as ended his career, of champions, and has justifiably as well as bringing down the begun to emerge from the shadow venerable United Artists studio of its past.

18 IRELAND ON SUNDAY WILD STRAWBERRIES ARCHIVE AT LUNCHTIME IFI EVENTS IFI FAMILY FROM THE VAULTS FEAST YOUR EYES IFI & EXPERIMENTAL FILM CLUB

a Booker-prize-winning author, is IRELAND ON coerced into writing for a tabloid SUNDAY gossip magazine. Cultures clash and sparks fly as the cerebral Molloy finds POISON PEN himself immersed in the world of vain celebrities and he begins to fall for his boss (Aoibhinn McGinnity). A smart and savvy romantic comedy, Poison Pen asks AUG 31ST (18.00) questions about the nature of celebrity, integrity and deception. DIRECTORS: Ireland on Sunday is our monthly Steven Benedict, Lorna Fitzsimons, showcase for new Irish film. The directors will participate in a Q&A Jennifer Shortall and Eoin Colfer and the film’s cast and FILM INFO: Poison Pen is a new feature film based crew will be in attendance. Poison 95 minutes, Ireland, on a screenplay by internationally Pen is a production of the Filmbase/ 2014, D-Cinema renowned author Eoin Colfer (Artemis Staffordshire University MSc Digital Fowl). P.C. Molloy (Lochlann Ó Mearáin), Feature Film Production Course.

Jep, an ageing socialite and famous WILD journalist, is at its epicentre. One STRAWBERRIES evening, an unexpected encounter with a stranger leads him to reflect THE GREAT on times past. From the mayhem BEAUTY of his 65th birthday at the start to the magnificent closing scene, the AUG 27TH film offers a glimpse of a life against & 29TH (11.00) the great beauty of a city which has defined him. DIRECTOR: Wild Strawberries is our Paolo Sorrentino bi-monthly film club for over 55s. €3.85 including regular tea/coffee FILM INFO: before the screening. Wild Strawberries 142 minutes, Italy-France, 2013, Rome has provided the backdrop for is our film club for over 55s. If you are Subtitled some of the greatest Italian films. In lucky enough to look younger, please this enthralling drama, it is a city of don’t take offence if we ask your age. beauty, wealth and excess in which

19 ARCHIVE AT IFI LUNCHTIME FAMILY Inisheer

Join us for FREE lunchtime screenings of films from the IFI Irish Film Archive. MOOMIN & MIDSUMMER Simply collect your tickets at the IFI Box MADNESS Office. Please see www.ifi.ie for dates AUG 31ST (11:00) and times. This month we continue our investigation of the Based on the fourth book in the much loved Radharc Collection. Moomins series by Tove Jannson, this brand new film is for old and new fans of the carefree and PROGRAMME 1: CHRISTY BROWN adventure-loving family. & SUNSHINE HOUSE An interview at home with author and painter For anyone out there who doesn’t know, a Christy Brown. Moomin is a troll, white and roundish in shape SUNSHINE HOUSE with a big nose like a hippopotamus. The Holidays for children from disadvantaged areas at Moomin family live in Moominvalley where the Sunshine House, Ballbriggan. summer has been long and hot. When a major flood forces the family out, they find refuge in a FILM INFO: 27 minutes, 1962 floating house which turns out to be a theatre PROGRAMME 2: INISHEER occupied by Emma. Together they explore the The challenge and isolation of life on Inisheer for many costumes and props, and put on their first a young priest. Moomin play with hilarious results. FILM INFO: 27 minutes, 1970 Celebrate the 100th anniversary of the author’s PROGRAMME 3: NO TEA FOR SOLDIERS birth and join us for this charming film. An exploration of British army presence in Northern Ireland. Tickets: €4.80 per person, €14.40 family ticket FILM INFO: 27 minutes, 1970 (2 adults + 2 children/1 adult + 3 children) PROGRAMME 4: DEAR ANGELA A profile of Angela McNamara, Ireland's most DIRECTOR: Maria Lindberg popular agony aunt. FILM INFO: 71 minutes, Finland, 2008, English language (dubbed), Recommended Age 4+ FILM INFO: 27 minutes, 1975 These screenings are complemented by an online exhibition of related material from the Radharc Document Archive which is also preserved in the IFI Irish Film Archive.

20 Eh Joe (1966): A rare opportunity to FROM THE see the original BBC teleplay on which VAULTS Beckett worked extensively, featuring Jack McGowran (for whom the part IFI & SAMUEL BECKETT was written) and the voice of Sian SUMMER SCHOOL: Phillips. Directed by Alan Gibson. SHORTS PROGRAMME Film (1964): Beckett’s only screenplay, AUG 13TH (20.30) Film, features Buster Keaton in this 'silent' film exploring concepts of FILM INFO: The IFI and the Samuel Beckett perception. Directed by Alan Schneider. Eh Joe: 19 mins, 1966; Film (1964): Summer School (August 10th 22 mins, 1964; Film (1979): 26 mins, Film (1979): A chance to see a 1979. All films: Digi-beta. – 16th) present a programme of short films from the IFI Irish little-known BFI remake of Film and This screening will be introduced Film Archive. compare it with the original, featuring by Jonathan Heron, University of British comedian, Max Wall. Directed Warwick. by David Rayner Clark.

before the outbreak of the Vietnam War, FEAST YOUR The Scent of Green Papaya won the EYES prestigious Caméra d’Or prize at the 1993 Cannes Film Festival and was nominated THE SCENT OF for the Academy Award for Best Foreign GREEN PAPAYA Language Film the same year. The story is told through the eyes of Mùi, a servant who sets about her tasks with delicacy AUG 26TH (18:15) and grace, including the preparation of the unripe papaya. DIRECTOR: Our monthly gastronomic Tran Anh Hung feature followed by a meal in the THE FOOD FILM INFO: IFI Café Bar. After the film, join us in the IFI Café 104 minutes, France, Bar for your choice of the following: 1993, Colour, DVD THE FILM Traditional Sour Beef and Noodle Soup; Shot entirely on a sound stage in Light Summer Roll Salad; or Vietnamese Tickets €20. Free list suspended. France but set in Saigon in the decades Curry with Chicken and Pineapple.

to subvert meaning and to mirror the IFI & mechanics of filmmaking, memory EXPERIMENTAL and history. FILM CLUB In each film, rhythmic patterns quickly LOOP STRUCTURES emerge and the figures on screen begin to appear as though they’re in a kind of enforced choreography, sometimes tied AUG 27TH (18.30) to a soundtrack built up in compulsive but varying repetitions. FILM INFO: A chapter title in Chris Meigh-Andrews’ Pièce Touchée, Martin Arnold, 16 mins, book on the history of video art, ‘Loop 1989, 16mm; Berlin Horse, Malcolm Le Grice, 9 mins, 1970, 16mm; Report, Structures’ is made up of a selection Bruce Conner, 13 mins, 1967, 16mm; of films which use repetition and Yes Frank No Smoke, George Barber, looping as a central device. Curated by 6 mins, 1985, DVD; He jumped and kicked and spun and twirled, David Alice Butler, this programme explores Donohoe, 4 mins, 2010, DVD how the effect has been used both

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