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Little Women the Irish Film Institute DECEMBER 2019 LITTLE WOMEN 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 Irish Film Archive, and encourage EDUCATE engagement with film through its various educational programmes. IFI MEMBERSHIP IFI FILMSHOP IFI Membership is the perfect stocking filler! For From the best in Irish film to the top DVDs of 2019, just €35 (€20 concession), IFI Members get cheaper including Apollo 11, Marianne and Leonard, and hit TV show tickets, discounts, double loyalty points, and lots more. Chernobyl, look no further than the IFI FilmShop for the best Moreover, you also directly help support the IFI’s vital Christmas gifts. Don’t forget, if you’re an IFI Member, you’ll work in preserving and restoring Ireland’s moving automatically get 10% off purchases (excluding gift cards) image heritage, via the IFI Irish Film Archive, as well and the IFI Film Shop will be open on Christmas Eve for that as engaging young people through our national last-minute shopping! education programme. IFI CAFÉ BAR NAME A SEAT The IFI Café Bar’s festive fare returns on Monday 2nd with Looking for a truly special and memorable festive gift this year? a delicious and great value set menu with dishes including Naming a seat in the newly refurbished Cinema 1 is a great way Smoked Salmon Mousse, Roulade of Roast Turkey, and to celebrate a loved one’s passion for film. Each seat receives Christmas Pudding. You can also enjoy a Christmas main its own unique engraved plaque from Dublin designers course as part of our traditional Feast Your Eyes screening Snow Design, and we’d be delighted to provide a special of It’s a Wonderful Life on Tuesday 17th at 18.30. Tickets €24 certificate of naming to present on Christmas Day. – free list suspended. The only limit is 50 characters and your imagination! See www.ifi.ie/name-your-seat/ for more information. 2 DIRECTOR’S NOTE As yet another busy year comes to a close at the IFI, I’d like to take this opportunity to thank all our customers and members for their support over the past twelve months. We’ve had a fantastic and varied year. DECEMBER AT THE IFI Little Women A highlight of the early part of 2019 was the launch of the It is your support of our programme that helps us to continue Loopline Collection on the IFI Player following two years of the work that we do. So, this December, I would like to thank you work to document, digitise and preserve this material, and to for all of your support throughout 2019 – especially those who ultimately make it widely available to the public. Loopline Film have supported our capital fundraising drive - and would once was founded by Irish filmmaker Sé Merry Doyle in 1992, and again encourage you to keep IFI Membership, our IFI Friends this Collection captures important chapters in Irish society, scheme, and IFI Gift Cards in mind as you do your Christmas often with a focus on the everyday life, in both urban and rural shopping this year. settings, and its launch was a significant event for us at IFI. In the autumn, we began the third year of a pilot programme to Before we say goodbye to 2019, we have one last exciting bring IFI Film Clubs to classrooms around the country, and we month of events for you to enjoy. It wouldn’t be December were delighted to sign up even more schools for this next phase without bringing back our old festive favourite It’s a Wonderful of the project which allows young people to watch films in an Life and we’ll also present a Yuletide programme as part of after-school setting and encourages conversation and debate our free Archive at Lunchtime screenings. There’s also a great around film. And of course, a major milestone for us this year selection of new releases (including Little Women, Beanpole and was the total refurbishment of Cinemas 1 and 2 at our home Ordinary Love), classics, documentaries and special events to in Temple Bar, completely transforming the customer cinema keep you busy before the year draws to a close. This month we experience at the IFI. We were delighted to complete this phase also present a focus on the legendary Derek Jarman, one of the of building work, and with the overwhelmingly positive response most influential figures of 20th century British culture. to the significant changes. Finally, I would like to thank the board and staff of the IFI for all The IFI remains a not-for-profit organisation, one that of their hard work during 2019, and on behalf of everyone at the constantly invests in our film preservation and education IFI, I’d like to wish all of our patrons and supporters a very merry initiatives. It is through our Box Office, IFI Café Bar, IFI Film and peaceful Christmas. Shop, fundraising and membership that we generate our income in order to preserve over 30,000 cans of films in the vaults at the Ross Keane IFI Irish Film Archive and offer lifelong learning opportunities to Director people all over Ireland. 2020 will see the further development of our archival and educational programmes with many new initiatives about to be unveiled, and we will be continuing with the refurbishment of some of our key spaces within our 18th century home on Eustace Street; our major capital project will keep us busy well into 2020. 3 NEW RELEASES, IFI SEASONS & DOCS & IFI CLASSICS EVENTS CALENDAR SHOOTING THE MAFIA OPENS NOV 29TH DATE SCREENING TIME THE CAVE OPENS FRI 6TH 2ND IRISH FOCUS: SEAMUS HEANEY AND THE MUSIC 18.30 ORDINARY LOVE OPENS FRI 6TH MON OF WHAT HAPPENS + Q&A SO LONG, MY SON OPENS FRI 6TH 3RD IFI & IMMA: DEREK JARMAN: SEBASTIANE 18.30 TUES PREVIEW: ORDINARY LOVE + Q&A 20.30 BEANPOLE OPENS FRI 13TH 4TH IFI & AEMI: SYMBIOPSYCHOTAXIPLASM: TAKE ONE 18.30 CITIZEN K OPENS FRI 13TH WED IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE OPENS FRI 13TH 5TH EUROPEAN CINEMA NIGHT: COLD WAR 18.20 THE KINGMAKER OPENS FRI 13TH THUR IFI & IMMA: DEREK JARMAN: JUBILEE 18.30 7TH IFI & IMMA: DEREK JARMAN: 13.30 BAIT OPENS FRI 20TH SAT THE ANGELIC CONVERSATION BUDDIES OPENS FRI 20TH 8TH OPEN CAPTIONED SCREENING: ORDINARY LOVE 13.00 MILES DAVIS: SUN IFI & IMMA: DEREK JARMAN: CARAVAGGIO 13.30 BIRTH OF THE COOL OPENS FRI 20TH 10TH IFI & IMMA: DEREK JARMAN: 18.30 THE UMBRELLAS OF CHERBOURG OPENS FRI 20TH TUES THE LAST OF ENGLAND 12TH IFI & IMMA: DEREK JARMAN: THE GARDEN 18.30 LITTLE WOMEN OPENS FRI 27TH THUR OPEN CAPTIONED SCREENING: ORDINARY LOVE 19.00 LONG DAY’S JOURNEY 14TH IFI & IMMA: DEREK JARMAN: EDWARD II 13.30 INTO NIGHT (3D) OPENS FRI 27TH SAT 15TH IFI & IMMA: DEREK JARMAN: WITTGENSTEIN 13.30 SUN 16TH IFI & HORRRORTHON PRESENTS: DEATHCEMBER 20.10 MON 17TH THE SCIENCE OF GHOSTS + Q&A 18.20 TUES FEAST YOUR EYES: IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE 18.30 Films not classified by IFCO, including festival, one-off, and special screenings, are exhibited under Club rules and are restricted to persons 18 18TH WILD STRAWBERRIES: SOMETIMES ALWAYS NEVER 11.00 years and over. If you are not an IFI member, a daily membership (€1.50) is WED required for unclassified films, and this will be added to your transaction. 22ND IFI FAMILY: THE MAN WHO INVENTED CHRISTMAS 11.00 † The exclusivity of films is correct at the time of print. All films exclusive SUN to the IFI are kindly supported by the Arts Council. 24TH CINEMAS CLOSED TUES 25TH CINEMAS CLOSED linkedin.com/company/irishfilminstitute WED 26TH CINEMAS CLOSED @IrishFilmInstitute @IFI_Dub THUR 27TH WILD STRAWBERRIES: SOMETIMES ALWAYS NEVER 11.00 @IrishFilmInstitute FRI 29TH OPEN CAPTIONED SCREENING: LITTLE WOMEN 13.00 For bookings and film information, please see our SUN FROM THE VAULTS & IFI FAMILY: DARBY O’GILL 14.00 AND THE LITTLE PEOPLE website, www.ifi.ie, or contact the IFI Box Office on 01-6793477 (open 12.30 to 21.00 daily). 30TH OPEN CAPTIONED SCREENING: LITTLE WOMEN 18.10 MON Open Captioned screening Audio Described screening The F-rating is a classification reserved for any film which is directed and/or written by a woman. 4 DECEMBER 2019 SHOOTING THE MAFIA IFI DOC OPENS NOV 29TH Sicilian Letizia Battaglia began a lifelong Much-admired documentarian Kim battle with the Mafia when she first Longinotto adds this vivid portrait to FILM INFO: pointed her camera at a brutally slain her gallery of empowered and inspiring 94 mins, Ireland, 2019, Digital victim. A woman whose passions led women. Juxtaposing glimpses of Notes by Sunniva O’Flynn her to eschew traditional family life and Battaglia’s colourful personal life with become a photojournalist, she found her unflinching photographs, archival herself on the frontlines of one of the footage, classic Italian films, and the bloodiest chapters in Italy’s recent now 84-year-old’s own memories, she history. She fearlessly and artfully presents a remarkable woman whose captured Sicilian life – from weddings bravery helped expose the stark reality and funerals to the grisly murders of life and death, under the oppressive of ordinary citizens – to record the yoke of the Corleonesi Mafia. experience of the community she loved. THE CAVE FERAS IFI DOC FAYYAD OPENS FRI 6TH Syrian filmmaker Feras Fayyad has hospital known as ‘The Cave’. Managed followed up Last Men in Aleppo, his by thirty-year-old Dr Amani, her EXCLUSIVELY AT IFI† Oscar-nominated 2017 documentary resourceful team try to cope with the about the volunteer organisation endless line of wounded civilians.
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