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The Irish Film Institute is Ireland’s Welcome to the IFI June programme EXHIBIT national cultural institution for film. which is packed with great new releases It aims to exhibit the finest in independent, and classics, alongside a season dedicated Irish and international cinema, preserve to Killer Couples. PRESERVE Ireland’s moving image heritage at the IFI Irish Film Archive, and encourage EDUCATE engagement with film through its various educational programmes. JUNE

AT THE IFI McQueen IRISH INDEPENDENCE June at the IFI is a strong month for documentary with five Make sure that you don’t miss the Irish Independence Film superb new films being released. Titles include a prequel to Collection that was released on the IFI Player in May. We are MYSTERY MATINEE FILM COLLECTION (also getting a special one-off screening this delighted to present this remarkable collection of over 150 month), Göran Hugo Olsson’s fascinating film That Summer, newsreels spanning 1900–1930, repatriated from British which through 16mm footage shot in 1972, captures ‘Big Pathé and the , and newly digitised to This month’s secret screening, for which tickets cost just The Irish Independence Film Collection is now available to Edie’ and ‘Little Edie’ , living in squalor in a astonishingly high resolution. This significant project of €5, will take place at 13.00 on Sunday 24th. Sometimes view on the IFI Player. A culturally significant collection dilapidated, once-magnificent estate in . national importance is now available on the IFI Player’s free it will be a preview, but not always; sometimes, it will be of Irish newsreel material from the period 1900–1930 We’ll also screen McQueen, an engrossing portrait of the suite of Apps and on www.ifiplayer.ie. a title one might expect to see at the IFI, but not always. numbering over 150 newsreels in total, it provides a legendary British fashion designer Alexander McQueen; Previous titles have included George Melford’s 1931 fascinating and unparalleled look at life in Ireland as it and present a portrait of another renowned institution of The IFI and the Irish Architecture Foundation will reprise classic Drácula, Greta Gerwig’s Lady Bird, and Andrei entered one of the most turbulent periods in its history. the past, Studio 54. Another one for music lovers not to the popular Dublin Plays Itself walking tours (experiencing Konchalovsky’s Runaway Train. Join us for this month’s Download the IFI Player App for free on all your streaming miss is : Coda, a contemplative portrait of Dublin through a different lens with a range of films from screening, and expect the unexpected! devices. the Oscar-winning composer. We are delighted to welcome the IFI Irish Film Archive at various stop-off points along the director Ivo Marloh and Irish jockey Donie Fahy to the chosen route). Since places are very limited for these tours, opening screening of All the Wild Horses, which follows the we strongly advise early booking. Mongol Derby horse race, the longest and toughest race of its kind in the world. And to top it all off, keep an eye out for the IFI Café Bar’s new Summer menu which is guaranteed to tickle your This month’s season takes a look at a selection of titles taste buds! that mix love and crime in fiction and fact: Killer Couples. Nine titles include the film noir classic Double Indemnity, the Ross Keane real life story Compulsion; Sam Peckinpah’s The Getaway; Director one of the great crime classics The Honeymoon Killers; and Peter Jackson’s captivating Heavenly Creatures. Of course no season based on couples committing crime would be complete without Oliver Stone’s visceral Natural Born Killers, WINE TASTING FEAST YOUR EYES which was famously banned from theatrical screening in Ireland on its release in 1995.

Join us in the IFI Café Bar for a night of Spanish wine Our monthly Feast Your Eyes strand of a film and main course In keeping with our commitment to screening the 70mm tasting on Tuesday 19th at 19.30. For only €20 learn for €20 will be Rupert Everett's directorial debut The Happy format, we are delighted to show a brand new 70mm print how to tell your Rueda from Rioja, all paired with tasty Prince. This month’s screening will take place on Wednesday of The Sound of Music for an exclusive week-long run, and and tempting lamb, cheese and fish tapas. A perfect 27th at 18.30 and the menu will include a choice of Baked another classic getting a re-release this month is the 1929 mid-week treat! Haddock with a potato and beetroot salad, or Green pea, masterpiece Pandora’s Box, starring Louise Brooks as the asparagus, mint and goats cheese risotto. See page 9 for iconic Lulu, one not to be missed! film notes.

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MY FRIEND DAHMER OPENS FRI 1ST 2ND ROCK ’N’ ROLL CINEMA: THE BALLAD 18.30 RELEASE NEW THAT SUMMER OPENS FRI 1ST SAT OF SHIRLEY COLLINS + Q&A ISMAEL’S 3RD GREY GARDENS 16.00 ALL THE WILD HORSES OPENS FRI 8TH SUN MCQUEEN OPENS FRI 8TH 6TH IFI FRENCH FILM CLUB: ISMAEL’S GHOSTS 18.10 GHOSTS PANDORA’S BOX OPENS FRI 8TH WED KILLER COUPLES: DOUBLE INDEMNITY 18.20 THE SOUND OF MUSIC (70MM) OPENS FRI 15TH 7TH IFI FILM CLUB: MY FRIEND DAHMER 18.15 STUDIO 54 OPENS FRI 15TH THUR 8TH ALL THE WILD HORSES + Q&A 18.30 THE HAPPY PRINCE OPENS FRI 22ND FRI IN THE FADE OPENS FRI 22ND 9TH DUBLIN PLAYS ITSELF (MORNING) 11.00 SAT KISSING CANDICE OPENS FRI 22ND DUBLIN PLAYS ITSELF (AFTERNOON) 14.30 OPENS FRI 1ST In Ismael’s Ghosts, Mathieu Amalric complex world is further derailed by the DUBLIN OLDSCHOOL OPENS FRI 29TH DAWSON CITY: FROZEN TIME 16.00 reprises the role of Ismaël Vuillard, who surprise reappearance of Carlotta (Marion RYUICHI SAKAMOTO: CODA OPENS FRI 29TH 10TH KILLER COUPLES: COMPULSION 15.45 LES FANTÔMES D'ISMAËL first appeared in Arnaud Desplechin’s Cotillard), sending the increasingly brittle SUN Kings and Queen (2004). Ismaël is now director into an emotional tailspin. 12TH OPEN CAPTIONED SCREENING: MCQUEEN 18.15 EXCLUSIVELY AT IFI† a film director making a thriller based TUES FILM INFO: on the life of his brother Ivan, played by By turns a gothic melodrama a 13TH KILLER COUPLES: THE GETAWAY 18.20 114 mins, France, 2017, Louis Garrel, in parallel film-within-a-film comedy and a thriller; Ismael’s Ghosts, WED Digital, Subtitled sequences, and who he suspects is a spy. which opened the 2017 Cannes Film † The exclusivity of films is correct at time of print. Notes by David O’Mahony 14TH OPEN CAPTIONED SCREENING: MCQUEEN 13.00 Ismaël’s wife Carlotta has been missing Festival, is a typically exuberant film THUR for over twenty years having disappeared from Desplechin. 16TH BLOOMSDAY: BLOOM 18.00 IFI FRENCH FILM CLUB without a trace and presumed dead. Now SAT Tickets for IFI and Alliance Française Members for the living with Sylvia (Charlotte Gainsbourg), GET SOCIAL! 17TH KILLER COUPLES: LIFT TO THE SCAFFOLD 15.30 18.10 screening on Wednesday an astrophysicist, Ismaël’s already Excited about this month’s programme? So are we! SUN 6th cost just €7.50. Tell your friends which film you’re planning to watch, 19TH IFI CAFÉ BAR WINE TASTING 19.30 share your movie reviews and show us your best pics TUES

on Instagram, Twitter and Facebook! 20TH KILLER COUPLES: PRETTY POISON 18.30 RELEASE NEW Join the IFI Community online: WED MY FRIEND 22ND OPEN CAPTIONED SCREENING: THE HAPPY PRINCE 13.45 DOC IFI linkedin.com/company/irishfilminstitute FRI KISSING CANDICE + Q&A 18.30 23RD KILLER COUPLES: THE HONEYMOON KILLERS 15.30 DAHMER @IrishFilmInstitute @IFI_Dub SAT 24TH IFI FAMILY: SWALLOWS AND AMAZONS 11.00 @IrishFilmInstitute SUN MYSTERY MATINEE 13.00 KILLER COUPLES: NATURAL BORN KILLERS 15.30 25TH IRISH FOCUS: A WOMAN’S PLACE + Q&A 18.30 For bookings and film information, please see our MON website, www.ifi.ie, or contact the IFI Box Office 26TH ANDREW KÖTTING: LEK AND THE DOGS 18.20 Based on the acclaimed graphic novel, part to his mother’s mental illness. on 01-6793477 (open 12.30 to 21.00 daily). TUES OPENS FRI 1ST My Friend Dahmer is a memoir of the The film is extremely skilful in its 27TH WILD STRAWBERRIES: VICEROY’S HOUSE 11.00 FILM INFO: author’s time in high school with the presentation of its subject: there is WED THE BIGGER PICTURE: 18.20 Open Captioned screening 107 mins, USA, 2017, Digital future serial killer. In Ohio in the late empathy for the lonely, conflicted FEAST YOUR EYES: THE HAPPY PRINCE 18.30 Notes by Kevin Coyne 1970s, Jeffrey Dahmer (Ross Lynch, a young man, but also a refusal to blame Audio Described screening 28TH OPEN CAPTIONED SCREENING: THE HAPPY PRINCE 18.20 Disney TV star cast brilliantly against anyone but Dahmer for his behaviour THUR KILLER COUPLES: GUN CRAZY 18.30 type) is a social outcast whose main and actions, showing in many subtle 29TH WILD STRAWBERRIES: VICEROY’S HOUSE 11.00 hobby is dissolving roadkill in acid. ways the existing character traits that FRI At school, he is befriended by a trio would ultimately lead to 17 murders. The F-rating is a classification 30TH KILLER COUPLES: HEAVENLY CREATURES 18.20 IFI FILM CLUB who enjoy his disruptive behaviour, reserved for any film which is SAT Join us for an open discussion pushing him to ever more extreme directed and/or written by a woman. following the 18.15 screening on Thursday 7th. displays. At the same time, his parents’ marriage is collapsing due in large

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OPENS FRI 1ST That Summer is a prequel of sorts to sister, , and photographer OPENS FRI 8TH Legendary British fashion designer McQueen’s story is told in six chapters, Grey Gardens, ' Peter Beard hired the Maysles to record Alexander McQueen brought daring each developed around a pivotal moment FILM INFO: justly celebrated 1975 portrait of an Radziwill’s intriguing aunt and first EXCLUSIVELY AT IFI† levels of theatricality and complexity to in his life coinciding with the launch of a 80 mins, USA, 2018, Digital eccentric mother and daughter. ‘Big cousin for a neglected project that his 1990s runway shows. “My collections new collection in one of his revolutionary Notes by David O'Mahony Edie’ and ‘Little Edie’ Bouvier Beale, ultimately led to the creation of their FILM INFO: have always been autobiographical”, he fashion shows where the catwalk was cousins of Jacqueline Kennedy, own seminal Grey Gardens. 111 mins, UK, 2018, Digital said, “a lot to do with my own sexuality transformed into a dramatic spectacle. are captured living in squalor in a Notes by David O’Mahony and coming to terms with the person I As his star rose however, so did the dilapidated, once-magnificent estate There will be a special screening of Grey am”. From modest beginnings in London, pressure and accompanying anxiety to in the Hamptons, upstate New York. Gardens on Sunday, June 3rd at 16.00. McQueen honed his innovative approach, strive for greater heights of creativity. Almost exclusively comprised of 16mm See page 14. swiftly become the head designer at footage shot in 1972, Göran Hugo Givenchy at age 27 and winning the There will be Open Captioned (OC) Olsson’s fascinating film recounts the British Fashion Award for Designer screenings at 18.15 on Tuesday 12th summer when Jacqueline Kennedy’s of the Year four times. and 13.00 on Thursday 14th.

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OPENS FRI 8TH The Mongol Derby, an eight-day, multi- all the while contending with scorching OPENS FRI 8TH A classic of Weimar-era German Here, Brooks is truly luminous as Lulu, station race through 1000 kilometres temperatures and dehydration. Relying cinema, G.W. Pabst’s Pandora’s Box, moving from one affair to the next even EXCLUSIVELY AT IFI† of the Mongolian Steppe, is the longest on the generosity of local families to DIE BÜCHSE DER PANDORA along with his subsequent film Diary of as her sexual magnetism wreaks havoc and toughest horse race on the provide nightly food and shelter, riders a Lost Girl (also 1929), offered actress in her lovers’ lives, ultimately bringing FILM INFO: planet, modelled after the postal route must change their horses every 40km FILM INFO: Louise Brooks, whose American career about her own tragic downfall. The frank 90 mins, Mongolia-South Africa- established by Genghis Khan in the early at support stations, where vets may 136 mins, Germany, 1929, was fading with the advent of sound, attitude to sex and sexuality (for Lulu UK-USA, 2017, Digital Black and White, Silent Notes by David O’Mahony 13th century. All the Wild Horses follows impose strict time penalties if horses (German title cards with showcase roles that would cement her proves equally attractive and attracted five international competitors from are pushed too hard. Ivo Marloh’s English subtitles), Digital place in cinema history as a style icon. to both sexes) is typical of Weimar the USA, Canada, South Africa, Ireland thrilling documentary is a testament Notes by Kevin Coyne Her bobbed haircut remains immediately cinema, and the film and its star retain Q&A Join us for a Q&A with director and the UK along a gruelling terrain of to human and animal endurance. recognisable, and has been appropriated their seductive allure. Ivo Marloh and jockey Donie mountain passes, valleys, woodlands, in films as varied as Jean-Luc Godard’s Fahy following the 18.30 screening on Friday June 8th treacherous river crossings and the Vivre sa vie (1962) and Jonathan harsh beauty of the vast open Steppe, Demme’s Something Wild (1986).

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OPENS FRI 15TH One of the most beloved musicals affection through music, teaching them OPENS FRI 22ND Oscar Wilde’s final years are the subject manipulative Bosie (Colin Morgan) and returns to the big screen in a new 70mm to sing as a group. The Captain also of Rupert Everett’s heartfelt debut as Wilde’s devoted literary agent Robbie FILM INFO: print, offering audiences the chance proves susceptible to Maria’s charms, FILM INFO: director, the actor ably essaying the role Ross (Edwin Thomas). The titular 174 mins, USA, 1965, 70mm to share or rediscover the film as it eventually marrying her, before the 105 mins, Germany-UK- of the once-celebrated writer who now children’s story of the statue of a gilded Notes by Kevin Coyne was meant to be seen. Based on the family’s life is thrown into chaos by the Belgium-Italy, 2017, Digital lives in destitution in Paris, diminished prince who comes to learn the gravity award-winning Broadway production, it Nazi annexation of Austria. Featuring Notes by David O’Mahony by alcoholism and illness, and plagued of human suffering is a recurring motif, stars Julie Andrews as Maria, who leaves classic songs including Sixteen Going by bitter memories of his glory days a fitting metaphor for Wilde’s depleted, the abbey in which she was studying on Seventeen, My Favourite Things, and prior to the public shaming of his once-golden existence. to become a nun in order to become Edelweiss, it’s a treat for all ages. incarceration on charges of indecency. governess to the seven children of Flashbacks to Wilde in his pomp as the There will be Open Captioned (OC) FEAST YOUR EYES widower Captain von Trapp (Christopher Presented in association with Enjoy the film with a specially toast of London society are mixed with screenings at 13.45 on Friday 22nd TICKETS Plummer). Less of a disciplinarian than devised main course following an exploration of the love triangle that and 18.20 on Thursday 28th. Tickets for 70mm screenings their father, Maria gains their trust and the 18.30 screening on existed between the writer, the toxic and cost €14/€13 Wednesday 27th.

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OPENS FRI 15TH The legendary Studio 54 made its debut convey a sense of time and place, director OPENS FRI 22ND Diane Kruger gives a superlative but thriving travel agency in Hamburg’s on the New York nightclub scene forty- Matt Tyrnauer (Citizen Jane, 2017) puts performance in Fatih Akin’s (Head-On, Turkish quarter. Coming home late FILM INFO: one years ago in 1977 and remained the audience in the heart of the dance AUS DEM NICHTS The Edge of Heaven) confident, highly one evening she finds the premises 98 mins, USA, 2018, Digital open for just thirty-three months; a floor while showing the bigger picture topical political thriller which explores destroyed in a terrorist attack, killing Notes by David O’Mahony disproportionately brief period in relation of the club’s cultural impact at the time, FILM INFO: the newly radicalised behaviour of a both Nuri and Rocco; in the days and to the impact it made and how its an approach that demystifies the disco 106 mins, Germany-France, 2017, Digital, Subtitled woman battling for justice when her weeks that follow, Katja spirals through reputation has endured. Conceived, built Valhalla without tarnishing its legacy. Notes by David O’Mahony husband and young son are killed in a stages of grief, shock and despair, the and operated by two friends from college racially motivated bomb blast. Beginning seemingly ineffectual court proceedings – Steve Rubell (who died in 1989) and Ian Presented in association with GCN, with flashbacks that establish Katja’s against the assailants pushing her Schrager – Studio 54 brought the disco Ireland's national LGBTQ press. (Kruger) marriage to jailed Turkish drug towards thoughts of vengeance. music scene out of the gay subculture dealer Nuri (Numan Acar), the film cuts to and helped it become a crossover the present where the couple now have a phenomenon. With a canny ability to six-year-old son, Rocco, and run a small

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OPENS FRI 22ND This atmospheric, hallucinatory drama the Troubles", proclaims her police OPENS FRI 29TH From his pioneering synth-pop music novels of Paul Bowles, in works that are about youth at risk in small-town Ireland detective father (John Lynch). A sufferer to winning an Oscar for his score to concerned with environmental crises, FILM INFO: represents an auspicious feature of chronic epileptic seizures, Candice EXCLUSIVELY AT IFI† The Last Emperor in 1987, Ryuichi nuclear power and global warming. 102 mins, Ireland, 2017, Digital debut for Northern Irish director Aoife has recurring visions of enigmatic Sakamoto has become one of the most Conventional biographical detail is Notes by David O’Mahony McArdle, who brings to the cinema young Jacob (Ryan Lincoln), a figure FILM INFO: renowned composers of his generation. eschewed in favour of a deep focus screen the dynamic visual sense she both alluring and frightening, who bears 100 mins, Japan, Made over a five-year period during on his creative processes; we see him 2017, Digital, Subtitled honed through working on celebrated a striking resemblance to a member Notes by David O’Mahony which he was diagnosed and treated gathering found-sounds first-hand from music videos. Seventeen-year-old of the vicious local gang led by Conor for throat cancer, Stephen Nomura places as far-flung as the Arctic Circle Candice (Ann Skelly) lives in a gloomy (Ryan McParland) and Dermot Schible’s film is a gentle, contemplative glacier or Lake Turkana, Kenya, where northern seaside village beset by (Conall Keating). portrait of an artist. Sakamoto is the world’s oldest human remains Q&A Join us for a Q&A with director gang violence, and reeling from the revealed as empathetic and eternally were discovered. Aoife McArdle following the recent disappearance of a young boy; curious, referencing amongst others the 18.30 screening on Friday "things were a lot safer here during influence of Andrei Tarkovsky and the June 22nd. DUBLIN JULY OLDSCHOOL HIGHLIGHTS NEW RELEASE Aliens

OPENS FRI 29TH Emmet Kirwan’s play was a hit on the brother darkly warns, he is just one bad Dark Skies, the IFI’s annual celebration (Touching The Void, 2003). Also featuring Irish stage, drawing from the author’s weekend away from following the same of science fiction films, returns in July. will be directorial debuts from the UK's FILM INFO: own experiences as he played Jason, an path. Over the course of a bank holiday This year’s event has taken as its theme Dan Kokotajlo with Apostasy, a subtle 95 mins, Ireland, 2018, Digital aspiring DJ whose life revolves around weekend, the two take the first steps Invasion! Taking place throughout the and intriguing study of family conflict Notes by Kevin Coyne ‘the session’, but who is stopped in towards reconnecting, reminiscing over month, screenings will include Invasion against the backdrop of their faith as his tracks by a chance encounter with better times and tunes, while Jason Of The Body Snatchers (Philip Kaufman, Jehovah’s Witnesses, and Spain’s Carla his homeless, heroin-addicted brother juggles his various social engagements, 1978), and, on an excellent 70mm print, Simón, whose Summer 1993 is the Daniel (Ian Lloyd Anderson) after years including a possible breakthrough gig, James Cameron’s Aliens (1986). Watch sensitive and moving tale of six-year-old without any contact. Although Jason in this lively and kinetic film. the skies for future announcements. , recently orphaned and finding it is filled with hurt and anger over his Our programme of international new hard to adapt to her new life with her brother’s disappearance and looks down releases will include the documentary uncle’s family. on him as a junkie, his own lifestyle Whitney, recently premiered at Cannes, is ragingly hedonistic and, as his from director Kevin Macdonald

10 11 KILLER COUPLES Natural Born Killers Natural the story of insurance salesman Walter DOUBLE Neff (Fred MacMurray), who begins an affair with Phyllis Dietrichson (Barbara INDEMNITY Stanwyck), the wife of one of his clients. When her questions lead him to believe that she is considering murdering her husband, he resists at first before WED 6TH (18.20) becoming a willing collaborator, leading to a maze of complications and double- crosses in this hardboiled classic. FILM INFO: Double Indemnity is considered to have 104 mins, USA, 1944, Black and White, Digital set the template for film noir. Based on a novella by James M. Cain, whose work would also provide the source material for films such as Mildred Pierce (Michael Curtiz, 1945) and The Postman Always Rings Twice (Tay Garnett, 1946), it is

Alfred Hitchcock’s Rope (1948) and COMPULSION Tom Kalin’s Swoon (1992). Here, close friends Judd Steiner (Dean Stockwell) and Artie Strauss (Bradford Dillman) are the egotistical pair who murder a boy JUNE 6TH – 28TH simply for the thrill, convinced that their preparations and intellectual superiority SUN 10TH (15.45) will obviate all consequences. When this assumption proves incorrect, their case is taken by famed attorney Jonathan FILM INFO: Richard Fleischer made a number of 103 mins, USA, 1959, Wilk (, in a part based on Black and White, Digital films throughout his career that focused Clarence Darrow). KILLER on real life killers, including The Strangler (1968) and 10 Rillington Place (1971). Compulsion is based on the infamous 1924 Leopold and Loeb case COUPLES that also provided the inspiration for The mixture of love and crime has proved fertile The films selected for this season see couples either himself also co-wrote the screenplay ground for filmmakers throughout the history of willingly participating, or at the very least proving THE for Stanley Kubrick’s The Killing (1956). cinema, attracting great directors such as Victor complicit in that most heinous of crimes, the act of GETAWAY Sam Peckinpah’s take on his work stars Sjöström (The Outlaw And His Wife, 1918), Fritz murder. Mixing genre work with fact-based films, Steve McQueen as ‘Doc’ McCoy, inmate Lang (You Only Live Once, 1937), Luchino Visconti the purpose of the season is not to glamorise this of a Texas prison, who persuades his wife (Ossessione, 1943), Nicholas Ray (They Live by Night, connection (and there are consequences for each Carol (Ali MacGraw) to use her wiles on 1948), and Jean-Luc Godard (Pierrot Le Fou, 1965); pair’s actions), but to provide a snapshot view of a corrupt and influential businessman as well as proving the basis for the entire genre of both the artist’s and the audience’s never-ending WED 13TH (18.20) in order to secure his release. In return, film noir, as well as any number of tales of amour fou. fascination with those two great totems of life, Doc is forced to participate in a bank robbery that quickly goes wrong, The popularity of such material has endured through sex and death. FILM INFO: Jim Thompson’s crime fiction has forcing the troubled couple on the run recent times in films such as Michael Lehmann’s 123 mins, USA, 1972, Digital been adapted by directors such as Heathers (1988), which will be re-released later this Introduction and notes on individual films by in an entertaining thriller replete with Kevin Coyne, except where indicated. James Foley (After Dark, My Sweet, Peckinpah’s trademark balletic violence. year, and Tony Scott’s True Romance (1993). 1990), Stephen Frears (The Grifters, 1990), and Michael Winterbottom (The Killer Inside Me, 2010), while Thompson

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Davis. Florence (Jeanne Moreau) and who meet when Mickey saves her from LIFT TO THE Julien (Maurice Ronet) are lovers intent NATURAL her abusive home, embark on a killing on killing her husband, who is also spree given such coverage by the media SCAFFOLD his boss. Immediately after the deed, BORN KILLERS that they become folk heroes before Julien is trapped between floors in a their capture. However, imprisonment lift. Meanwhile, his car and identity are proves a mere stepping stone to even stolen by Louis (Georges Poujouly) and greater mayhem. Stone’s film is a SUN 17TH (15.30) Véronique (Yori Bertin), a young couple SUN 24TH (15.30) visceral experience, its frenetic style of whose own night is about to take a shooting and editing perfectly in tune murderous turn, complicating matters with an era of media saturation and ASCENSEUR POUR FILM INFO: Louis Malle’s debut feature gave the for both lethal pairs. Arguably the most infamous of films questionable celebrity. L’ÉCHAFAUD conventions of film noir a Gallic twist, 118 mins, USA, 1994, 35mm featuring killer couples, and one of the FILM INFO: incorporating stylistic elements with most controversial films ever made, 88 mins, France, 1958, its photography and lighting that would Oliver Stone’s social and cultural satire Black and White, Digital, soon become familiar to viewers as has grown in power in the years since Subtitled characteristic of the Nouvelle Vague, its release. Mickey and Mallory Knox set to a score by the legendary Miles (Woody Harrelson and Juliette Lewis),

a CIA operative. When he brings her army, he meets and marries carnival PRETTY along on a supposed mission to foil GUN sharpshooter Annie Laurie Starr (the a Communist plot, the truth of what late Irish actress Peggy Cummins). POISON lies behind Sue Ann’s innocent face is CRAZY However, Laurie’s life is one of crime, revealed when she murders a security one in which she forces her husband to guard without hesitation. As the become complicit. Featuring a bravura body count grows, Dennis is reduced one-take sequence of a bank heist, the WED 20TH (18.30) to the status of horrified bystander, THUR 28TH (18.30) film may be considered a precursor to subject to her manipulation and Arthur Penn’s Bonnie and Clyde (1967) cold-blooded nature. in its audacious blending of violence FILM INFO: The first film from director Noel Black FILM INFO: With a screenplay by the then- 89 mins, USA, 1968, Digital 87 mins, USA, 1950, and sexuality. is a jet- starring Anthony Black and White, Digital blacklisted Dalton Trumbo, Gun Crazy Perkins as Dennis Pitt, recently released features John Dall as Bart Tare, a young from a mental institution. A compulsive man who, despite his gentle nature, fantasist, Dennis finds an eager listener is fascinated by guns, spending some in teenager Sue Ann (), time in reform school as a teenager for who is entranced by his tales of life as the theft of one. Following a spell in the

and marriage. Martha (Shirley Stoler) Melanie Lynskey in their screen debuts THE HONEYMOON could have been one of Ray’s victims HEAVENLY as Juliet Hulme (now better known as but instead becomes his lover and author Anne Perry) and Pauline Parker. In KILLERS associate in crime. The couple prove CREATURES 1950s New Zealand, the two teenagers, to be a lethal combination when they both outsiders, form an obsessive bond, operate as a brother-sister team, creating their own elaborate fantasy with Ray’s philandering and Martha’s world, over which they rule. Suspecting a SAT 23RD (15.30) jealousy leading to a string of gruesome SAT 30TH (18.20) sexual undercurrent to their relationship, murders. Director Leonard Kastle’s Pauline’s mother Honora (Sarah Peirse) take on this material is fascinating and tries to keep the two apart, unleashing a FILM INFO: This is one of the great American crime FILM INFO: Something of an anomaly in a career that 108 mins, USA, 1970, his treatment never less than inspired, 99 minutes, New Zealand, 1994, desperation in the girls that leads to Black and White, 35mm movies and deserves better than its resolutely refusing to glamorise either Format TBC began with splatter comedy such as Bad her murder. reputation as a minor cult classic. the killers or their victims. Taste (1987) before moving on to Tolkien Ray (Tony Lo Bianco) is a swindler adaptations, Peter Jackson’s stylish and who uses the lonely hearts columns Notes by Pete Walsh. compelling Heavenly Creatures, based to prey on women by promising love on real events, stars Kate Winslet and

14 15 FROM THE from the IFI Irish Film Archive which IRISH ARCHIVE AT are screened at stop-off points in the VAULTS IFI, the IAF on Bachelor’s Walk, and FOCUS LUNCHTIME DUBLIN finally at the premises of Poetry Ireland PLAYS ITSELF on Parnell Square. Please note that both tours include the same content. Places strictly limited

SAT 9TH Bargaintown to 20 people per tour. All tickets €10, available through www.ifi.ie MORNING TOUR: Meet at IFI, Following the success of last Temple Bar at 11.00. Tour ends at 13.30, Poetry Ireland, Parnell Square year’s event, the Irish Architecture Foundation (IAF) and the IFI take to the AFTERNOON TOUR: Meet at streets again with two walking tours IFI, Temple Bar at 14.30. Tour ends at 17.00, Poetry Ireland, Parnell Square exploring Dublin’s architecture. The city is experienced first-hand, and also through a range of films The Irish College Ranafast College Irish The

A WOMAN’S PLACE GAELS OF LAUGHTER IFI FAMILY in which two sets of children's gangs MON 25TH (18.30) Join us every Monday, Wednesday and battle to conquer. Setting off free Saturday for free lunchtime screenings of films SWALLOWS from adults, the children sail and fight To celebrate one hundred years of women’s from the IFI Irish Film Archive. Simply collect AND and get caught in international suffrage, artist Noel Murphy embarked on a tickets at IFI Box Office – please see www.ifi.ie espionage, too busy to save the picnic six-month journey to paint the 53 sitting women for more information. AMAZONS basket from going overboard. The members of the Houses of the Oireachtas in one boys and girls each get a fair shot of Notes by Sunniva O’Flynn the action while the Cumbrian scenery single portrait, unveiled in the Oireachtas on SUN 24TH (11.00) International Women’s Day 2018. provides a stunning backdrop for this PROGRAMME ONE fun and charming family tale. This observational documentary charts Murphy’s AMHARC ÉIREANN DIRECTOR: With school nearly out, it’s time to get Claude Whatman artistic journey marking both the centenary of the A compilation of stories from Gael Linn’s newsreel ready for great holiday adventures Tickets: €4.80 per person, €14.40 family 1918 election of Countess Constance Markievicz – showing holiday camps for children and dogs. FILM INFO: on land and sea. A perfect place to ticket (2 adults + 2 children, the first female TD in Dáil Éireann – and the record FILM INFO: 7 mins, 1956 – 1964, Black & White, Irish language 92 mins, UK, 1974, Blu-ray start is with this adaptation of Arthur 1 adult + 3 children). Notes by Alicia McGivern number of women TDs in the 32nd Dáil following DIRECTOR: Colm O Laoghaire Ransome’s classic children’s book; a the introduction of the gender quota in 2016. story of high jinks and derring-do on a THE IRISH COLLEGE RANAFAST mysterious island in the Lake District, Throughout the artistic journey, journalist Eamonn An early film from the Radharc Team – and one of Mallie talks to the women about their role in politics the few presented in the Irish language – this film as they visit the artist’s studio. The film not only shows the townland of Ranafast in Donegal come affords the viewer a behind-the-scenes glimpse of alive each year as thousands of students from all WILD wife Edwina (Gillian Anderson). The the artist’s creative process but also allows them to over Ireland arrive to attend Coláiste Bhríde, stay huge events which led to a bloody experience the colour and emotions of the sitters with local families and improve their Irish. STRAWBERRIES Partition are contracted into this being captured in paint and on camera. FILM INFO: 12 mins, 1962, Irish language VICEROY’S rather Downtonesque drama, which is set largely in the Viceroy’s house, the This screening will be followed by a panel PROGRAMME TWO HOUSE imperial seat of administration; and discussion moderated by Eamonn Mallie, attended by AN GHAEILGE BHEO starring the late, great Om Puri. artist Noel Murphy and director Declan McGrath and A young girl fondly remembers her summer at WED 27TH & members of the Houses of the Oireachtas who sat for Irish College in the Connemara Gaeltacht. She FRI 29TH (11.00) Tickets: €4.25 including regular the portrait. remembers a visit to Pádraig Pearse’s cottage and tea/coffee before the event. Wild Raidió na Gaeltachta, fun at the ceilidh, helping local DIRECTOR: The director of Bhaji on the Beach Strawberries is our film club for over DIRECTOR: Declan McGrath farmers with the harvest and a trip to Aran Mór. Gurinder Chadha and Bend it Like Beckham offers a 55s. If you happen to look younger, FILM INFO: 59 mins, Ireland, 2018, Digital FILM INFO: 30 mins, 1975, Colour, Irish language FILM INFO: cinematic interpretation of the 1947 please don’t take offence if we ask DIRECTOR: Jim Mulkerns 106 mins, UK-India-Sweden, transfer of power from Britain to your age. Notes by Sunniva O'Flynn 2017, Digital Notes by Alicia McGivern India through the experiences of the last Viceroy, Lord Mountbatten (Hugh Bonneville) and his liberal

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chords known as dysphonia which business. In a bold move, director Sean ROCK ‘N’ ROLL robbed her of her unique singing BLOOMSDAY Walsh breaks up the order of Joyce’s CINEMA voice and forced her into early BLOOM narrative, rearranging events – such as THE BALLAD retirement. Deliberately eschewing Molly’s famous closing soliloquy – to a straightforward biopic approach, create a more accessible narrative OF SHIRLEY Rob Curry and Tim Plester’s film than that of the novel. Characters COLLINS is a lyrical response to the life and have breakfast, attend a funeral and times of this totemic musical figure. discuss literature, with Bloom and SAT 2ND (18.30) Granted intimate access to recording SAT 16TH (18.00) Stephen’s paths slowly converging as sessions for Shirley’s first album the film builds to a surrealist climax. DIRECTORS: Shirley Collins is widely regarded of new recordings in almost four DIRECTOR: A vivid adaptation of Joyce’s For all his bold deviations from his Rob Curry, Tim Plester as one of the 20th century’s most decades, The Ballad of Shirley Collins is Sean Walsh celebrated Ulysses, Bloom is a rich source, director Sean Walsh holds firm FILM INFO: important singers of English a meditative, carefully textured piece FILM INFO: costume drama about Leopold to Joyce’s celebration of the ordinary, 94 mins, UK, 2017, Digital traditional song and was a key figure of documentary portraiture. 113 mins, Ireland, 2003, 35mm Bloom (Stephen Rea), his ribald wife with earthy sexuality central in this Notes by David O’Mahony in the folk music revival of the ‘60s Notes by Sunniva O'Flynn Molly (Angeline Ball), and the young playful and creative retelling. and ‘70s. However in 1980, Shirley This screening will be followed intellectual Stephen Dedalus (Hugh developed a disorder of the vocal by a Q&A with director Rob Curry. O’Conor) going about their daily

directors with its elegiac tone and the Dogs. Taking inspiration from the GREY intimate, observational style. By LEK AND play, experimental British artist and GARDENS turns playful and melancholic, the THE DOGS filmmaker Andrew Kötting creates a film captures the eccentric pair living ground-breaking crossover between in squalor, surrounded by cats in a narrative film, documentary and dilapidated, once-magnificent estate in contemporary art. Kötting’s highly the Hamptons, upstate New York. distinctive story of survival draws When not bickering and squabbling, on a range of innovative techniques, SUN 3RD (16.00) they mournfully sing old show tunes TUES 26TH (18.20) including home movies and and reminisce on the glory days of the archive footage to produce an DIRECTORS: Albert and David Maysles' justly past, a time of great wealth, replete DIRECTOR: The true story of Ivan Mishukov, a unforgettable montage essay. The film Albert and David Maysles celebrated portrait of the co-dependent with debutante balls, parties and Andrew Kötting four-year-old Russian boy who ran completes the director’s Earth Trilogy, FILM INFO: mother and daughter pair, ‘Big Edie’ endless champagne. FILM INFO: away from his home in Moscow in along with Ivul (2009) and This Filthy 94 mins, USA, 1975, Digital and ‘Little Edie’ Bouvier Beale, cousins 92 mins, UK, 2017, Digital, Subtitled the mid-1990s to live for two years Earth (2001). Notes by David O'Mahony of Jacqueline Kennedy, is a milestone That Summer opens Friday 1st, Notes by David O’Mahony on the streets in the company of in American documentary filmmaking see page 6. feral dogs, formed the basis of Hattie This screening will be followed by a that has influenced a generation of Naylor’s award-winning play, Ivan and Q&A with director Andrew Kötting.

in the Yukon Territory. Using these threat when a great white shark INTERNATIONAL permafrost protected silent films THE BIGGER makes its home offshore, causing ARCHIVES DAY and newsreels, archive footage, PICTURE a number of fatalities. Police Chief DAWSON CITY: interviews and historical photographs JAWS Brody (Roy Scheider) teams up with to tell the story, and accompanied oceanographer Hooper (Richard FROZEN TIME by an enigmatic score by Sigur Rós Dreyfuss) and shark hunter Quint collaborator Alex Somers, Dawson (Robert Shaw) to find and kill the City: Frozen Time depicts a unique deadly predator. The film is filled SAT 9TH (16.00) history of a Canadian gold rush town WED 27TH (18.20) with classic dialogue (“You’re gonna by chronicling the life cycle of a need a bigger boat”, Quint’s U.S.S. DIRECTOR: Bill Morrison’s extraordinary singular film collection from its DIRECTOR: As we enter the summer months, Indianapolis speech) and terrifying Bill Morrison documentary pieces together the true exile, to its burial, rediscovery Steven Spielberg June’s Bigger Picture takes the moments, accompanied by its FILM INFO: history of a collection of 533 films and restoration. FILM INFO: opportunity to revisit the film famous score. 120 mins, USA, 2016, Black and White dating from the 1910s to the 1920s, 124 mins, USA, 1975, Digital considered to be the first blockbuster, with Colour, Digital, Subtitled Notes by Kevin Coyne Notes by David O'Mahony lost for over fifty years until being This screening will be introduced by Steven Spielberg’s Jaws. The small The screening will be introduced by discovered buried in a sub-arctic Kasandra O’ Connell, Head of the IFI community of Amity Island, which Sinéad Gleeson, writer, editor, freelance swimming pool in Dawson city, deep Irish Film Archive. relies on tourism, comes under broadcaster and journalist.

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