JANUARY 2017 LA LA LAND THE IRISH FILM INSTITUTE

The Irish Film Institute is Ireland’s national cultural institution for film. EXHIBIT 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.

NEW YEAR’S DAY PETE WALSH AWARD

The IFI will open its doors on New Year’s Day to The Pete Walsh Critical Writing Award is an annual welcome fantastic new films from Martin Scorsese and award inspired by the late IFI programmer, Pete Walsh. J.A. Bayona. Scorsese’s Silence follows two Jesuits in The award will be granted to an exceptional piece of critical search of a colleague who reportedly has renounced his writing on any one film theatrically screened in Ireland faith, while Bayona’s A Monster Calls focusses on a young during the previous calendar year, i.e. 2016. The focus is boy struggling to cope with his mother’s terminal illness. on film appreciation and criticism rather than academic The IFI Café Bar will also open to serve you the freshest analysis. Closing date for entries is February 28th 2017. food to get your 2017 off to a perfect start. See www.ifi.ie/writingaward for more details.

IFI FILM CLUB Jackie IFI NATIONAL

Join us for an open discussion following a screening of January is a busy month for our IFI National initiative. Jackie on Wednesday, January 25th at 18.20. Pablo Larraín’s The month sees us collaborate with mental health film eschews the conventions of the biopic, choosing instead organisation First Fortnight for nationwide screenings of to focus on the immediate aftermath of JFK’s assassination Infinitely Polar Bear starring Mark Ruffalo – for more details and a number of key confrontations between the grieving please see page 13. It also signals the start of IFI@Belltable, First Lady and White House staff. The film is anchored by a our partnership with Limerick’s Belltable Arts Centre – weekly critically-acclaimed performance by Natalie Portman and an screenings start January 9th with Ken Loach’s I, Daniel Blake. innovative score from Under the Skin composer Mica Levi. Tickets available from www.limetreetheatre.ie

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This January the IFI programme features some of the most hotly anticipated films of the year as we gear up for the annual awards season. JANUARY

AT THE IFI Land La La We have some exciting and ambitious plans for the IFI in This year the IFI is breaking with tradition and opening on 2017 with initiatives planned across our three core activities New Year’s Day, largely due to the arrival of two brilliant new of exhibition, preservation and education. In the coming films. For the best part of thirty years, Martin Scorsese has weeks, we will be announcing details of the IFI 2017 been working to adapt Japanese novelist Shūsaku Endō’s tale Programme with information on some of your favourite of a 17th-century Jesuit missionary faced with the dilemma events and festivals, alongside brand new programming of renouncing his faith. Starring Liam Neeson, Andrew initiatives and strands. We hope you’ll be as excited about Garfield and Adam Driver, Silence is sure to be one of the our ideas as we are. most talked-about films of the new year. Also screening from January 1st, and also based on a book, is J.A. Bayona’s Following on from the huge success of Irish film across A Monster Calls, a powerful coming-of-age story with true 2016, we’re delighted to see the trend continuing with depth and emotional weight. the recent Golden Globe nominations for Sing Street and The Lobster, the latter receiving a Best Actor nomination IFI Education will also have a busy year in 2017. After for Colin Farrell. There are more Irish successes in the launching the Schools’ Programme for the full academic pipeline, and we were thrilled to see a Golden Globes Best year last September, we’re adding some great new titles Actress nomination for Ruth Negga’s subtle and moving to the already released programme. Be sure to check out performance in Loving, which we’ll be screening here www.ifi.ie/learn for more details. next month. We will also be running our annual competition for the At the time of going to print, many of other forthcoming Pete Walsh Critical Writing Award, in memory of our late titles have also been shortlisted for Golden Globes. esteemed colleague, Pete Walsh, who was IFI Programmer The musical La La Land (opening January 13th) leads the for 18 years and passed away in 2012. It will be awarded pack with seven nods in total (having already won eight to the author of an outstanding piece of critical writing on awards at the Critics’ Choice Awards), including Best Film, any one film theatrically screened in Ireland during 2016. Best Director for Damien Chazelle, and acting nominations The winner receives a year’s free entry to films at the for its two leads, Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling. Another IFI, they will be mentioned as winner in the IFI monthly highly nominated film is the powerful bereavement drama programme, and published in full on the IFI website. Manchester by the Sea, a contender for Best Film from For more details, see www.ifi.ie/writingaward director Kenneth Lonergan (nominated for both direction and screenplay), starring Casey Affleck and Michelle 2017 is certainly shaping up to be a busy one for us here at Williams who both earned acting nominations. For Jackie IFI. I’d like to take this opportunity to wish all of our patrons (opening January 20th), Natalie Portman has already won and supporters a happy New Year. the Best Actress Award at the Critics’ Choice Awards for her portrayal of the first-lady Jackie Kennedy, as director Ross Keane Pablo Larraín focusses the biopic on the days directly after Director the assassination of JFK.

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A MONSTER CALLS OPENS JAN 1ST DATE SCREENING TIME SILENCE OPENS JAN 1ST 3RD IFI CAFÉ BAR PUB QUIZ (FREE EVENT) 21.30 OPENS JAN 6TH TUES 6TH FROM THE VAULTS: THE DEAD 18.30 LA LA LAND OPENS JAN 13TH FRI MANCHESTER BY THE SEA OPENS JAN 13TH 7TH IFI & FIRST FORTNIGHT: INFINITELY POLAR BEAR 16.00 SAT GOODFELLAS OPENS JAN 20TH 9TH ACCESSIBLE SCREENING: SILENCE* 14.50 JACKIE OPENS JAN 20TH MON CAMERAPERSON OPENS JAN 27TH 14TH IFI & FIRST FORTNIGHT: THE WONDER EYE 12.00 SAT DENIAL OPENS JAN 27TH 17TH THE BIGGER PICTURE: SHADOWS 18.30 TUES ACCESSIBLE SCREENING: SILENCE* 20.00 18TH ACCESSIBLE SCREENING: MANCHESTER BY THE SEA* 15.30 WED 20TH ACCESSIBLE SCREENING: LA LA LAND* 15.30 GET SOCIAL! FRI Excited about this month’s programme? So are we! 22ND THE HANGOVER LOUNGE: IDIOCRACY 14.30 Tell your friends which film you’re planning to watch, SUN share your movie reviews and show us your best pics 23RD ACCESSIBLE SCREENING: MANCHESTER BY THE SEA* 18.00 on Instagram, Twitter and Facebook! MON 24TH FEAST YOUR EYES: GOODFELLAS 18.15 Join the IFI Community online: TUES @IrishFilmInstitute 25TH WILD STRAWBERRIES: DAVE 11.00 WED ACCESSIBLE SCREENING: LA LA LAND* 18.10 @IrishFilmInstitute @IFI_Dub IFI FILM CLUB: JACKIE 18.20 27TH WILD STRAWBERRIES: DAVE 11.00 FRI 28TH IFI & TRADFEST 2017: IRISHMEN – AN IMPRESSION 13.30 SAT OF EXILE + PANEL DISCUSSION 29TH IFI FAMILY: ANTZ 11.00 Open Captioned screening SUN 31ST IRISH FOCUS: TAKASERA 18.30 Audio Described screening TUES * Denotes screenings which are open captioned and audio described. For more information on our Accessible Screenings, please visit www.ifi.ie/accessible

TIMES For a breakdown of times and dates of IFI New Releases, IFI Docs & IFI Classics, check out our weekly schedule on www.ifi.ie/weekly-schedule or the IFI ads in The Irish Times on Fridays and Saturdays. You can also sign up to receive our weekly ezine by joining at www.ifi.ie/signup.

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A MONSTER RELEASE NEW CALLS

OPENS JAN 1ST Based on the beloved book by Patrick to tell him three tales, after which Ness, J.A. Bayona’s striking all-ages film Conor must reciprocate with a tale of FILM INFO: is a welcome riposte to the recent glut his own. Tackling the pain of death and 108 mins, 2016, USA, Digital of saccharine young adult adaptations. bereavement in a remarkably forthright Notes by David O’Mahony Life has dealt twelve-year-old Conor fashion, A Monster Calls is that rarity, O'Malley (Lewis MacDougall) a series of a grounded coming-of-age movie that devastating blows: his mother (Felicity artfully accommodates fantastical AUDIO DESCRIBED Jones) is incurably ill, his father (Tony visual diversions without sacrificing Kebbell) is an occasional figure in its considerable emotional weight. his life, and he is the target of school bullies. Conor is visited one night by All screenings have Audio Description an enormous tree-shaped monster (AD). Please see page 15 for more details. (voiced by Liam Neeson) promising

SILENCE RELEASE NEW

OPENS JAN 1ST Throughout his career, Martin (Liam Neeson) who has reportedly Scorsese has grappled with issues of renounced his faith in a country FILM INFO: spirituality: from Mean Streets (1973) where Christians face violence and 159 mins, 2016, to 1988’s hugely controversial The persecution for their beliefs. USA-Taiwan-Mexico, Digital Last Temptation Of Christ, to Kundun Notes by Kevin Coyne (1997), these struggles have informed Accessible screenings of Silence are his greatest and most personal films. available in January. Please see page Silence proves fertile ground once 15 for more details. OPEN CAPTIONED again for the exploration of faith, as two 17th century Jesuit priests (Andrew Garfield and Adam Driver) are dispatched to Japan in order to locate AUDIO DESCRIBED a respected missionary

5 JANUARY 2017 ENDLESS POETRY NEW RELEASE

OPENS JAN 6TH A sequel to The Dance of Reality (2013) As in The Dance of Reality, Jodorowsky in which Jodorowsky painted a vivid himself appears at intervals, offering FILM INFO: account of his childhood, Endless Poetry his younger self, played beautifully by 128 mins, 2016, Chile-France, picks up where the former left off with his son Adanowsky, words of wisdom Digital, Subtitled the adolescent, erudite Alejandro living and spiritual guidance. Highly praised Notes by Alice Butler in Santiago with his mother, who speaks when it premiered at Cannes this year, in song, and the merchant father he this film, shot by Christopher Doyle, despises. Refusing to follow orders to while more introspective and poignant study medicine, a teenage Alejandro than his hugely influential earlier work abandons his family in a demented, - , Holy Mountain - nevertheless tree-axing rage and moves in with a boasts the same spectacular flair group of artists who at once appreciate for the absurd and carnivalesque. his creative talent. LA LA LAND NEW RELEASE

OPENS JAN 13TH Director Damien Chazelle’s love of jazz the cinematic year. Mia (Emma Stone), an has proved an ongoing inspiration in his aspiring actress, meets pianist Sebastian FILM INFO: work. Evident in his 2009 debut feature, (Ryan Gosling), who dreams of opening 128 mins, 2016, USA, Digital Guy and Madeline on a Park Bench, his own jazz club. Encouraging each other Notes by Kevin Coyne a romantic musical, it came to the fore to follow their dreams, the two meet with again in the Oscar-winning Whiplash a success that strains their relationship. (2014), about a young jazz musician OPEN CAPTIONED trying to make it under the tutelage of a Accessible screenings of La La Land are brutally exact teacher. La La Land is again available in January. Please see page a musical, one which evokes Jacques 15 for more details. Demy as much as it does Busby Berkeley, AUDIO DESCRIBED and which does so with irresistible verve and passion, making for a joyful start to

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OPENS JAN 13TH A sudden bereavement forces a to the titular town he was forced to small-town New Englander to leave many years earlier, reconnecting FILM INFO: confront a past tragedy anew in with his estranged former wife Randi 137 mins, 2016, USA, Digital Kenneth Lonergan’s (You Can Count (Michelle Williams) in the process. Notes by David O'Mahony on Me, Margaret) emotionally raw, It transpires Joe has nominated Lee to structurally nuanced and brilliantly be of his temperamental acted portrait of a damaged family teenage son Patrick, a responsibility OPEN CAPTIONED attempting to reconcile its traumatic the emotionally brittle Lee is entirely history. Lee Chandler (Casey Affleck) unprepared for. is a withdrawn Boston janitor who nurses a private pain; when his beloved Accessible screenings of Manchester AUDIO DESCRIBED older brother Joe (Kyle Chandler) dies By The Sea are available in January. of a heart attack, he journeys back Please see page 15 for more details.

GOODFELLAS CLASSIC IFI

OPENS JAN 20TH Regularly cited as one of the greatest As Henry rises through the ranks, crime/gangster films ever made, he meets and marries Karen (Lorraine FILM INFO: Martin Scorsese’s classic Goodfellas Bracco), who is seduced as much by 146 mins, 1990, USA, Digital gets a welcome reissue in a new digital the lifestyle as by the man. However, Notes by Kevin Coyne restoration. It tells the true story of Henry Henry’s life of crime eventually catches Hill (Ray Liotta), who as a boy idolised up with him, and he must find a way gangsters and wanted nothing more to protect himself and his family. than to become one. He falls in with Frenetic, funny, and violent, this is the local organisation, making friends Scorsese at his absolute best. such as the outwardly charming ‘Jimmy the Gent’ (Robert De Niro) and Tommy DeVito (Joe Pesci), whose volcanic temper frequently leads to extreme violence.

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OPENS JAN 20TH In depicting the trauma of JFK’s Life magazine conducted by Theodore assassination as experienced by his H. White (Billy Crudup) in Hyannis Port FILM INFO: wife Jackie (Natalie Portman), director a mere week afterwards. Anchored by 99 mins, 2016, USA, Digital Pablo Larraín (The Club, No) eschews an extraordinarily three-dimensional Notes by David O’Mahony the conventions of the biopic, choosing performance from Natalie Portman instead to focus on the immediate and graced by Mica Levi’s innovative aftermath of the shooting, with brief score that is by turns disorientating and AUDIO DESCRIBED flashbacks to the days before the event. delicate, Larraín’s Jackie is a fractured Larraín shuffles the timelines of a mosaic of grief, shock and confusion. number of key confrontations between the grieving First Lady and White House All screenings have Audio Description staff whilst providing a loose framing (AD). Please see page 15 for more details. device in the shape of the interview for CAMERAPERSON IFI DOC

OPENS JAN 27TH As a cinematographer Kirsten Johnson these fragments to allow them to has shot films of the calibre of Fahrenheit chime and comment on one another, FILM INFO: 9/11 and Citizenfour; using outtakes and building to a powerfully cohesive 101 mins, 2016, USA, Digital unused material from her work, Johnson whole. Winner of Best Film at Sheffield Notes by David O’Mahony reframes the footage associatively in Doc/Fest, Cameraperson pushes the the style of a collage, or visual essay boundaries of the documentary form, to illustrate moments and situations challenges our preconceptions and that have affected her. The seemingly argues for new modes of expression. unconnected incidents include candid Inventive and profoundly moving, the interviews with conflict survivors, a film asks pertinent questions about young boxer's prep for a fight and home the relationship between filmmaker movies with her mother who is suffering and subject. from dementia. Johnson precisely orders

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OPENS JAN 27TH In 1996, Deborah Lipstadt (portrayed here verdict could have been interpreted as a by Rachel Weisz), a historian specialising judgement on the truth of the Holocaust FILM INFO: in the study of the Holocaust, was in a court of law. Scripted by Sir David 110 mins, 2016, UK-USA, Digital sued by fellow historian and Holocaust Hare, the cast also includes Timothy Spall Notes by Kevin Coyne denier David Irving for comments made as the reptilian Irving, and Andrew Scott about him in one of her books which and Tom Wilkinson as the solicitor and he considered to be damaging to his barrister on whose shoulders rests this AUDIO DESCRIBED professional reputation. As Irving filed awesome responsibility. suit in the United Kingdom, where the burden of proof is placed on the accused, All screenings have Audio Description the onus was placed on Lipstadt and (AD). Please see page 15 for more details. her legal team to prove the falseness of Irving’s claims in a case whose COMING SOON Loving

February sees a number of exciting returns home to his estranged family new releases here at the IFI. Opening after more than a decade, prompting a on February 3rd, Jeff Nichols’s Loving series of confrontations and revelations. stars Joel Edgerton and Irish actress The film stars Marion Cotillard and Ruth Negga as Richard and Mildred Vincent Cassel. Finally, the eagerly Loving, an interracial couple whose anticipated Moonlight, directed by challenge of their anti-miscegenation Barry Jenkins, also opens at the IFI on arrest led to a Supreme Court ruling February 24th. The film chronicles the that such prohibitions on marriage were life of a young man from childhood to unconstitutional. It’s Only the End of the adulthood as he struggles to grow up World, which opens February 24th, is in a rough neighbourhood of Miami. the latest film from Canadian director Xavier Dolan. A terminally ill writer

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own. To the outside world it may seem an IRISH FOCUS isolated and forgotten place, but Takasera TAKASERA is in fact the centre of Kham Magar culture, and a former Maoist stronghold, that played an important role in the Maoist revolution that ended a decade ago. This gently-paced, observational documentary follows the everyday life JAN 31ST (18.30) of the village.

DIRECTORS: Takasera, a village in western Nepal, This film was supported by Maynooth Matjaž Pinter, Eva Pivač is settled on a hill above an ancient University and the Irish Research Council. FILM INFO: lakebed, composed of hundreds of tightly 94 mins, 2016, Ireland, interwoven houses, giving an appearance The screening will be introduced by Digital, Subtitled of a giant buzzing bee-hive. Surrounded Chandana Mathur of Maynooth University. Notes by Sunniva O’Flynn by mountains, and connected only by a dead-end dirt road, it leads a life of its

activity, lookalike Dave Kovic (Kevin WILD Kline) is called upon to act as stand-in. STRAWBERRIES Under the tutelage of the scheming chief-of-staff, Dave has to learn an DAVE array of presidential duties, including convincing the First Lady (Sigourney Weaver) that this nice guy is in fact JAN 25TH her two-timing husband. Plenty of & 27TH (11.00) laughs and a little satire too in this Capraesque romantic comedy. DIRECTOR: Wild Strawberries is our Ivan Reitman bi-monthly film club for over 55s. Tickets: €4.25 including regular FILM INFO: tea/coffee before the event. 110 mins, 1993, USA, Digital Here’s a White House drama where Wild Strawberries is our film club Notes by Alicia McGivern the good guy gets the job! When for over 55s. If you happen to President Bill Mitchell suffers a severe look younger please don’t take stroke during some extra-marital offence if we ask your age.

101010 ARCHIVE AT IFI FAMILY LUNCHTIME Bodhrán CEOL AGUS CRAIC ANTZ

Join us for free screenings of films from the JAN 29TH (11.00) IFI Irish Film Archive. Simply collect tickets at IFI Box Office. Please see www.ifi.ie for The ants living under General Mandible’s dates and times. dictatorship all know their place – you’re either a worker or warrior. Z, a worker, is fed up with his PROGRAMME 1 lot. He wants to stand out from the crowd. In a bar BODHRÁN one night he meets Princess Bala (Sharon Stone) Handmade in cottages around the country; beaten by and the pair are drawn to each other. To impress Wren Boys from Killorglin to Stephen’s Green; played her, Z switches jobs with his warrior friend, Weaver gently by hearthside revellers in Coolea and beloved (Sylvester Stallone). When Mandible wages war with of festival goers in Listowel and Leitrim, the humble the neighbouring termites, Z gets caught up in the Bodhrán provides the steady heartbeat of traditional fighting. How will he survive? Irish music. FILM INFO: Tom Hayes, 28 mins, 1973, Ireland, Digital, Irish with no subtitles. With its combination of terrific voice casting, a great script and ground breaking animation PROGRAMME 2 this Dreamworks film raised the bar for animated BÍMÍS AG RINCE / WE ARE DANCING feature films. In Finuge, north Kerry, a Teach Siamsa is built to DIRECTORS: Eric Darnell & Tim Johnson encourage and develop local culture and the traditions FILM INFO: 83 mins, 1998, USA, Blu-Ray of music, dance, and drama. This lively music-filled film records the opening and development of the centre Notes by Alicia McGivern. attended by musicians, artists and clergymen, Bryan MacMahon, Bishop Eamon Casey and Fr. Pat Ahern. FILM INFO: Radharc, 26 mins, 1974, Ireland, Digital. Tickets: €4.80 per person, €14.40 family ticket (2 adults + 2 children, 1 adult + 3 children). Notes by Sunniva O'Flynn.

See also IFI & Tradfest 2017 screening of The Irishmen – An Impression of Exile. Please see page 12 for more details.

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JAN 6TH (18.30) In what has become an annual treat, subtle direction and Anjelica Huston we celebrate the Feast of the Epiphany in and Donal McCann’s delicately wrought DIRECTOR: the household of the Misses Morkan and performances perfectly capture the social John Huston their housemaid, Lily, as they prepare for atmosphere and emotional nuances of FILM INFO: their New Year’s gathering in this Joyce’s original text. For Huston, the film 83 mins, 1987, pitch-perfect adaptation of James served as an elegant and melancholic UK-USA- Ireland, 35mm Joyce’s The Dead. Set in Dublin in farewell to Ireland and to life itself. Notes by Sunniva O’Flynn 1904, the mood of the evening is anguished as Gretta (Anjelica Huston) We are delighted to welcome remembers a long-lost love, much to Rachael Dowling (pictured above with the incomprehension of her husband Donal McCann and Anjelica Huston) Gabriel (Donal McCann). John Huston’s to introduce the film.

IFI & TRADFEST THE IRISHMEN – AN IMPRESSION OF EXILE

JAN 28TH (13.30) Directed by pioneering television the traditional Irish singing of Paul documentarian Philip Donnellan, this Lenihan and Joe Heaney and the lyrics DIRECTOR: rarely-seen socio-realist documentary of Ewan McColl & Peggy Seeger. Philip Donnellan foregrounds the lives of migrant Irish FILM INFO: labourers in Britain of the 1960s. This screening will be followed by a 52 mins, 1965, UK, Digital, It shows Irishmen working on the discussion chaired by Professor Lance Black and White construction of railways, tunnels and Pettitt on Irish music and culture in Notes by Sunniva O’Flynn motorways, and explores ‘how their the UK. He will be joined by musician See page 11 for details of imaginations are related to their own Órlaith McAuliffe and London publican our Archive at Lunchtime land’. Traditional music enthusiasts will Tom King, who has hosted many Irish screening, Ceol agus Craic, be rewarded by the film’s score with and English musicians over the years. throughout January. musical supervision by Séamus Ennis,

12 IFI & FIRST FORTNIGHT The IFI is proud to again partner with mental health organisation First Fortnight throughout January PROGRAMME 1: PROGRAMME 2: INFINITELY POLAR BEAR INFINITELY THE WONDER JAN 7TH (16.00) POLAR BEAR EYE RECOMMENDED Boston in the late 1970s: Cameron Ivor Browne has been a central FOR AGES 16+ (Mark Ruffalo) is struggling with figure in Irish mental health for many DIRECTOR: bipolar disorder; the future appears decades. Some people wish he wasn’t. Maya Forbes uncertain for his wife Maggie Yet many people owe their lives to him. FILM INFO: (Zoe Saldana) and their two The Wonder Eye, a thought-provoking 90 mins, 2015, USA, Digital daughters when a particularly difficult new film by Alan Gilsenan, captures period sees him both fired from his the essence of an extraordinary human The screening will be followed job and hospitalised. When she is being. Browne somehow managed by a panel discussion. awarded a business scholarship to to be part of the establishment while attend Columbia University, Maggie still being one of its greatest critics. convinces her reluctant husband His pioneering and often controversial – convalescing at home on lithium lifelong work on behalf of the many who THE WONDER treatment – to look after the girls for cannot speak for themselves is notable. EYE the eighteen months she’ll be in New JAN 14TH (12.00) York, a less than ideal arrangement In this quirky and challenging cinematic given his somewhat chaotic approach portrait, we meet him, now in his DIRECTOR: Alan Gilsenan to domestic life. For her debut feature late eighties, and witness not only his writer/director Maya Forbes draws on energy, good humour, music-making FILM INFO: personal experience of being raised and true compassion but also his deeply 70 mins, 2016, Ireland, Digital by a bipolar father; by turns poignant informed, startlingly innovative thought. and humorous, Infinitely Polar Bear His unique attributes continue to find Alan Gilsenan and Ivor Browne will take part in is a refreshingly positive depiction vital expression and offer real hope in a post-screening discussion. of living with mental illness. an increasingly bewildering world. With contributions from Tommy Tiernan, Tom Murphy, Mary Coughlan, Sebastian Barry, Nell McCafferty and others, The Wonder Eye is a film as radical as the man himself.

Infinitely Polar Bear will tour nationwide as part of IFI National in partnership with First Fortnight. The film will screen at the following venues: Mon Jan 9th at 8pm – Mermaid Arts Centre, Wicklow Tues Jan 17th at 8pm – VISUAL, Carlow Tues Jan 10th at 8pm – Droichead Arts Centre, Louth Tues Jan 17th at 8pm – Town Hall Theatre, Galway Wed Jan 11th at 8pm – Dunamaise Arts Centre, Laois Wed Jan 18th at 8pm – Riverbank Arts Centre, Kildare Thurs Jan 12th at 8pm – St Patrick’s Mental Heath Services, Dublin

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JAN 22ND (14.30) Our monthly indulgent he and fellow subject Rita (Maya Sunday afternoon of Rudolph) find an America in which DIRECTOR: brunch and a classic film. stupidity and anti-intellectualism are Mike Judge the norm, with society blundering FILM INFO: In films such as cult favourite Office towards extinction. A film that 83 mins, 2006, USA, DVD Space (1999), director Mike Judge has manages to make its bleak predictions Notes by Kevin Coyne taken a slyly satirical approach towards extremely funny, it seems increasingly American society. Here, Joe (Luke prescient as world events unfold. Wilson), a completely average man, is selected for a suspended animation Brunch + Film €16; film only is normal experiment that goes wrong. Waking IFI pricing. Sunday brunch is served up centuries later than intended, 12pm – 4pm.

FEAST YOUR EYES GOODFELLAS

JAN 24TH (18.15) Our monthly gastronomic nothing more than to become one. feature followed by a meal He falls in with the local organisation, DIRECTOR: in the IFI Café Bar. making friends with ‘Jimmy the Gent’ Martin Scorsese (Robert De Niro) and Tommy DeVito FILM INFO: January’s pairing of a new release (Joe Pesci), whose volcanic temper 146 mins, 1990, USA, Digital and a specially devised main course frequently leads to extreme violence. menu will be Martin Scorsese’s Frenetic, funny, and violent, this is Goodfellas followed by an Italian Scorsese at his absolute best. feast inspired by the film in the IFI Café Bar. The film tells the true story See page 7 for film notes. of Henry Hill (Ray Liotta), who as a boy idolised gangsters and wanted Tickets €20, free list suspended.

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JAN 17TH (18.30) John Cassavetes’s directorial debut This month’s Bigger Picture will is also a landmark of American be introduced by Dr Zélie Asava, DIRECTOR: independent cinema, one of the first to Programme Director of Video and John Cassavetes be produced outside of the Hollywood Film at Dundalk IT and author of The FILM INFO: system. Starring Ben Carruthers, Black Irish Onscreen: Representing 87 mins, 1959, USA, 35mm Lelia Goldoni and Hugh Hurd as Black and Mixed-Race Irish Identities Notes by Alice Butler three African-American siblings on Film and TV. living in Manhattan, the film – shot twice – was originally almost entirely improvised, allowing for the story of an interracial romance to naturally evolve from the characters’ actions.

JANUARY’S OPEN CAPTIONED ACCESSIBLE SCREENINGS SCREENINGS ARE: At the Irish Film Institute we are committed to providing access Silence for audiences with disabilities and are delighted to announce 14.50, Monday 9th that we will be providing audio description and open captioning 20.00, Tuesday 17th for selected screenings. La La Land 15.30, Friday 20th 18.10, Wednesday 25th Manchester by the Sea 15.30, Wednesday 18th OPEN CAPTIONED AUDIO DESCRIBED 18.00, Monday 23rd Open Captions will be Audio Description (AD) is provided for a selection designed to allow audiences AUDIO DESCRIPTION IS of screenings and are like who are visually impaired AVAILABLE ON ALL SCREENINGS subtitles. Captions not only enjoy a film through the use of OF THE FOLLOWING TITLES: display dialogue, but also headphones. The headphones Silence text describing sounds, sound receive a narration of the La La Land effects, speaker identification, film which describe the visual Manchester by the Sea music, and other auditory elements of the scenes on A Monster Calls information not conveyed screen. Headphones are Jackie in speech e.g. door banging. available at Box Office and Denial our staff are happy to show you how they work.

15 Joel Edgerton Ruth Negga as Richard Loving as Mildred Loving

All love is created equal.

Written and Directed by Jeff Nichols IN CINEMAS FEBRUARY 3

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