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OCTOBER 2018 FIRST MAN 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. IFI FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL Place publique MYSTERY MATINEE The IFI’s flagship festival, the IFI French Film Festival, This month’s secret screening, for which tickets cost just €5, will return for its 19th edition from November 14th to 25th. will take place at 13.00 on Sunday 14th. Sometimes it will Highlights of this year’s festival include Agnès Jaoui’s latest be a preview, but not always; sometimes, it will be a title one Place publique, Stéphane Brizé’s At War, and Gilles Lellouche’s might expect to see at the IFI, but not always. Join us for this hilarious Sink or Swim. Full festival details will be available month’s screening, and expect the unexpected! Previous from www.ifi.ie/frenchfest. surprise screenings have included a preview of Greta Gerwig’s Lady Bird and Alexander Payne’s Citizen Ruth. WINE TASTING FEAST YOUR EYES AND TAPAS Every month we pair a new release with a specially Join us at the IFI Café Bar for a night of classic wine tasting devised main course from the IFI Café Bar kitchen. This on Thursday, October 4th at 19.30. For just €20 learn how month’s film choice will be the 18.30 screening of Matteo to tell your Rueda from Rioja, all paired with Lamb Sausage, Garrone’s Italian crime drama Dogman on Wednesday Salmon and Crab Roulade, and Durrus Cheese with Pickled 24th. The menu on the evening will include a choice of Mushrooms and Blackberries. Meatballs in Tomato Sauce with Spaghetti, Seafood Risotto, or Spinach and Ricotta Tortellini with Creamy Gorgonzola Sauce and Walnuts. 2 DIRECTOR’S NOTE A number of excellent Irish documentaries and the return of IFI Horrorthon and the Dublin Arabic Film Festival are among the October highlights at the IFI. OCTOBER AT THE IFI 1945 IFI festival season has well and truly hit its stride, following a selection of shorts from the Fastnet Film Festival. another successful IFI Documentary Festival. In October, As always, every screening will be followed by a talk from we’re delighted to welcome the return of the Dublin Arabic a specially invited expert. The course starts on October 9th Film Festival for its fifth edition from October 5th to 7th. and places are limited, so don’t miss out. Curated once again by Jim Sheridan, the festival showcases the very best in new Arab cinema; highlights this year October boasts a particularly strong selection of new include the terrific opening film Looking for Oum Kulthum, releases, with a robust slate of homegrown documentaries. and Ziad Doueiri’s Oscar-nominated drama The Insult. Katrina Costello’s The Silver Branch opens on Friday 5th, the stunning The Lonely Battle of Thomas Reid opens on Friday Among the 30 Irish premieres awaiting IFI Horrorthon fans 19th, and Ross Whitaker’s hotly-anticipated profile of boxer at the end of the month include Nicolas Pesce’s Piercing, Katie Taylor opens on Friday 26th, after a great screening at starring Mia Wasikowska, and anthology film Nightmare the IFI Documentary Festival. Also opening during the month Cinema, starring the legendary Mickey Rourke. This year’s will be Paddy Breathnach’s emotive drama Rosie, written festival will run over the October Bank Holiday weekend from by Roddy Doyle and starring Sarah Greene, plus we have a October 25th to 29th; a taster of the programme is included special one-off screening of Under the Clock, a moving new in this programme, but keep an eye on www.ifi.ie/horrorthon film from the makers of Older Than Ireland. for the full schedule when it becomes available. We look forward to seeing you there… if you dare! Finally, our delicious and great value IFI Café Bar autumn menus are available every day, so drop in for a With students back at their desks, October sees the start of bite as you catch a new release, or if you’re just pottering IFI Education’s annual Schools Programme. The IFI has the around town. national remit for film education in Ireland and, as always, the programme offers a wide range of film screenings, Ross Keane resources, and related events for children and young people Director around the country to support and enhance the school curriculum. To see the full programme, download the brochure at www.ifi.ie/learn, or request a copy from the IFI Education team on 01-6795744. IFI’s educational activities don’t stop with the Leaving Certificate. October also sees the return of our popular autumn evening course which this year focuses on the pivotal (and often diverse) role music plays in the cinematic experience. Screenings include Steven Spielberg’s Amistad and Jean Cocteau’s Beauty and the Beast, while we’re also delighted to welcome composer Maurice Seezer to introduce 3 NEW RELEASES, IFI SEASONS & DOCS & IFI CLASSICS EVENTS CALENDAR COLUMBUS OPENS FRI 5TH DATE SCREENING TIME THE SILVER BRANCH OPENS FRI 5TH 3RD FROM THE VAULTS: IFI & DUBLIN FESTIVAL 18.30 TEHRAN TABOO OPENS FRI 5TH WED OF HISTORY + PANEL DISCUSSION 4TH WINE TASTING AND TAPAS EVENING 19.30 1945 OPENS FRI 12TH THUR FIRST MAN OPENS FRI 12TH 5TH THE SILVER BRANCH + Q&A 18.30 ROSIE OPENS FRI 12TH FRI IFI & DAFF 2018: LOOKING FOR OUM KULTHUM 20.00 DOGMAN OPENS FRI 19TH 6TH IFI & DAFF 2018: SHEIKH JACKSON 14.00 THE LONELY BATTLE SAT IFI & DAFF 2018: THE INSULT 16.10 OF THOMAS REID OPENS FRI 19TH IRISH FOCUS: UNDER THE CLOCK + Q&A 18.30 7TH IFI & DAFF 2018: HOUSE IN THE FIELDS 14.00 ORPHÉE OPENS FRI 19TH SUN IFI & DAFF 2018: UNTIL THE BIRDS RETURN 16.00 TOUCH ME NOT OPENS FRI 19TH 9TH EVENING COURSE: DOWN ARGENTINE WAY 18.30 KATIE OPENS FRI 26TH TUES 12TH ROSIE + Q&A 18.10 UTØYA – JULY 22 OPENS FRI 26TH FRI 14TH MYSTERY MATINEE 13.00 SUN 15TH OPEN CAPTIONED SCREENING: FIRST MAN 20.20 MON 16TH EVENING COURSE: KATALIN VARGA 18.30 TUES 17TH OPEN CAPTIONED SCREENING: FIRST MAN 13.00 WED † The exclusivity of films is correct at time of print. 18TH IFI FILM CLUB: ROSIE 18.15 THUR 19TH THE LONELY BATTLE OF THOMAS REID + Q&A 18.30 FRI GET SOCIAL! 20TH IFI & AEMI PROJECTIONS: PROCESS | EVENT 12.30 SAT Join the IFI community online: 22ND THE BIGGER PICTURE: THE ASCENT 18.15 linkedin.com/company/irishfilminstitute MON IFI FRENCH FILM CLUB: ORPHÉE 18.30 23RD EVENING COURSE: I WALKED WITH A ZOMBIE 18.30 @IrishFilmInstitute @IFI_Dub TUES 24TH WILD STRAWBERRIES: THE BOOK THIEF 11.00 @IrishFilmInstitute WED FEAST YOUR EYES: DOGMAN 18.30 25TH IFI HORRORTHON* THURS For bookings and film information, please see our 26TH WILD STRAWBERRIES: THE BOOK THIEF 11.00 website, www.ifi.ie, or contact the IFI Box Office FRI IFI HORRORTHON* on 01-6793477 (open 12.30 to 21.00 daily). 27TH IFI HORRORTHON* SAT 28TH IFI FAMILY: PHANTOM BOY 11.00 Open Captioned screening SUN IFI HORRORTHON* 29TH IFI HORRORTHON* Audio Described screening MON 30TH EVENING COURSE: BEAUTY AND THE BEAST 18.30 TUES The F-rating is a classification reserved for any film which is *See separate flyer or visit www.ifi.ie/horrorthon directed and/or written by a woman. 4 OCTOBER 2018 COLUMBUS NEW RELEASE OPENS FRI 5TH Acclaimed video essayist Kogonada as Jin’s tourist guide to a city famed makes his feature debut with Columbus, for its modernist buildings. The cast EXCLUSIVELY AT IFI† which sees Jin (John Cho) arrive to the features strong support from Parker titular city in Ohio to visit his estranged, Posey and Rory Culkin, and while the FILM INFO: coma-stricken father, an esteemed film is reminiscent of Lost In Translation 100 mins, USA, 2017, Digital professor of architecture. There he (Sofia Coppola, 2003) or Richard Notes by Kevin Coyne encounters librarian Casey (Haley Lu Linklater’s Before trilogy, it is Kogonada’s Richardson), an architecture enthusiast visual mastery that marks both film and who has put off going to college due to filmmaker as something truly special, her concern over how leaving the city and definitely one to watch. would affect her meth-addicted mother. The two find an immediate and easy rapport, becoming friends as Casey acts THE SILVER BRANCH IFI DOC OPENS FRI 5TH The Silver Branch is a cinematic eulogy This debut from director Katrina to nature and agrarian culture and a Costello, who shot many of the EXCLUSIVELY AT IFI† glimpse into the life of farmer/poet breathtaking nature sequences, creates Patrick McCormack, descendant of a viewing experience that is deeply FILM INFO: 75 mins, Ireland, 2017, Digital generations of farmers who have lived meditative, leading to a deep connection Notes by Sunniva O’Flynn off the Burren in County Clare. Patrick with the natural environment, and a longs to farm quietly like his forebears, heightened awareness of our role in but life takes a different turn when he protecting our vulnerable planet. joins the Burren Action Group in their Q&A campaign to oppose plans for a vast The screening on Friday 5th interpretative centre at Mullaghmore. at 18.30 will be followed by a Q&A with Katrina Costello. 5 OCTOBER 2018 TEHRAN TABOO NEW RELEASE OPENS FRI 5TH An unsparing glimpse behind Iran’s Rafizadeh), a prostitute, is seeking façade of moral conservatism, a divorce from her drug-addicted EXCLUSIVELY AT IFI† Tehran Taboo follows three characters husband.