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AUGUST 2017 MAUDIE 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. MYSTERY MATINEE IFI OPEN DAY This month’s secret screening, for which tickets cost just €5, To celebrate our 25th anniversary in Temple Bar, the IFI will take place at 14.00 on Sunday 13th. Sometimes it will be a Open Day returns on Saturday, September 16th for a full day preview, but not always; sometimes, it will be a title one might of FREE screenings, as well as a glimpse behind the scenes expect to see at the IFI, but not always. Join us for this month’s at the IFI, and more. Check out www.ifi.ie, our Facebook and screening, and expect the unexpected! Instagram accounts, and @IFI_Dub on Twitter for details of what we’re showing and doing and, more importantly, how to get your FREE tickets! DARK CORNERS 1918 Westfront FAMILY FESTIVAL Sabaku This August, in association with Goethe-Institut Irland, The IFI Family Festival returns this year, from Friday 25th to the IFI presents Dark Corners, a collection of films from the Sunday 27th, with fascinating cinematic adventures from Weimar Republic. A period of great cinematic innovation, Japan, Thailand, Australia and beyond! This year features our the season includes rarely screened masterpieces from such usual mix of Irish premieres, beautiful short films, and brilliantly luminaries as F.W. Murnau, Ernst Lubitsch, and Fritz Lang. engaging workshops. You’ll find something for all film fans Starting Saturday 5th, the season also features Carl Boese and aged 4–12 to help chase away those Back to School blues! Paul Wegener’s The Golem, accompanied by a live performance For more information and to book your tickets, from musician Hilary Woods. See pages 14–18 for more details. see www.ifi.ie/familyfest. 2 DIRECTOR’S NOTE Welcome to the IFI August programme which is packed with the first of the year’s IFI Festivals and a major focus on films from the Weimar Republic. AUGUST AT THE IFI A Ghost Strory Last month we published the IFI Strategy 2017-22, unveiling from Australia, Japan, Thailand and elsewhere, all told through our plans for the next five years across our core areas of animation and live action. The IFI Family Festival is a great exhibition, preservation and education. Our strategy opportunity to introduce young film enthusiasts to films from highlights the IFI’s five core values of leadership, passion, all around the world, most of which would not be otherwise respect, inclusivity and world-class, and is built around seen, and many are complemented by hands-on workshops. 4 main pillars, with people (both audiences and artists) at the Check out the full programme online or in the separate flyer. centre. In addition to the five-year plan, we also announced more a detailed outline of the next twelve months which In one of our most significant seasons of the year, includes a total refurbishment of our two largest cinema Dark Corners focuses on German films made during the period spaces in Temple Bar, building new climate-controlled vaults of the Weimar Republic, 1919–1933. Among other things, the to accommodate our expanding archival collections, and a Weimar Republic produced the design of the Bauhaus, the pilot programme of film clubs for young people to operate in theatre of Max Reinhardt and Bertolt Brecht, the provocative an after-school environment. Full details of all of our plans can art of Otto Dix and Georg Grosz, and – not least – the arthouse be found on our website at www.ifi.ie/strategy. cinema of Friedrich W. Murnau, Fritz Lang, Georg W. Pabst and others, whose films were produced in the best-equipped A key strategic objective of our exhibition pillar is a studios in Europe at the time. In the perception of many commitment to reflect a diversity of different voices, cultures, contemporaries, Weimar Berlin outstripped Paris and London and genders throughout our film programming. As part of this as the cultural capital of Europe, famous for its high-brow and focus, the IFI is proud to introduce the F-rating to our monthly avant-garde arts, and notorious for its decadence. This season programme. The F-rating was originally developed by the Bath presents some of the lesser-known works of these great Film Festival in 2014 as a way to champion the substantial filmmakers, alongside many of the most significant pieces creative contributions by women to the film industry. of cinema from this remarkable period. The F-rating will apply to any films as part of our monthly, or festival, programming that are directed by women, or written All of this, alongside a selection of wonderful new releases, by women, or feature significant women on screen in their own all our regular monthly strands, and a unique selection of right. Aisling Walsh’s Maudie, Kathryn Bigelow’s Detroit, and special events. two films from our season of Weimar cinema, Lotte Reiniger’s The Adventures of Prince Achmed and Leontine Sagan’s Ross Keane Mädchen in Uniform, are among the August films to receive our Director first F-ratings. This year, the IFI Family Festival kick-starts our annual festival season and runs from August 25th to 27th, right at the end of the school holidays, offering one last weekend of family fun before the new term starts. We have another wonderful programme lined up for our younger film fans, with stories 3 NEW RELEASES, IFI SEASONS & DOCS & IFI CLASSICS EVENTS CALENDAR ENGLAND IS MINE OPENS AUG 4TH DATE SCREENING TIME LAND OF MINE OPENS AUG 4TH 1ST IFI CAFÉ BAR PUB QUIZ (FREE EVENT) 21.30 MAUDIE OPENS AUG 4TH TUES 5TH DARK CORNERS: LE DOULOS OPENS AUG 11TH SAT BERLIN: SYMPHONY OF A GREAT CITY 15:15 A GHOST STORY OPENS AUG 11TH 6TH DARK CORNERS: STEP OPENS AUG 11TH SUN THE ADVENTURES OF PRINCE ACHMED 14.30 FINAL PORTRAIT OPENS AUG 18TH 7TH ACCESSIBLE SCREENING: MAUDIE* 13.00 MON QUEST OPENS AUG 18TH 8TH DARK CORNERS: THE GOLEM 18.30 SONG TO SONG OPENS AUG 18TH TUE DETROIT OPENS AUG 25TH 9TH THE BIGGER PICTURE: INSIDE OUT 18.30 WED 10TH NT LIVE ENCORE: ANGELS IN AMERICA PART II 19.00 THU 12TH DARK CORNERS: FRAU IM MOND 13.00 GET SOCIAL! SAT Excited about this month’s programme? So are we! 13TH MYSTERY MATINEE 14.00 Tell your friends which film you’re planning to watch, SUN DARK CORNERS: VARIETY 16.15 share your movie reviews and show us your best pics 14TH IFI FILM CLUB: A GHOST STORY 18.20 on Instagram, Twitter and Facebook! MON Join the IFI Community online: 15TH FROM THE VAULTS: TUE AISLING WALSH: IN CONVERSATION 18.30 linkedin.com/company/irishfilminstitute DARK CORNERS: WAXWORKS 18.30 16TH FROM THE VAULTS: SONG FOR A RAGGY BOY 18.30 @IrishFilmInstitute @IFI_Dub WED IFI FRENCH FILM CLUB: LE DOULOS 18.30 17TH ACCESSIBLE SCREENING: MAUDIE* 18.20 @IrishFilmInstitute THU 19TH DARK CORNERS: FAUST 14.15 SAT Open Captioned screening 20TH DARK CORNERS: THE MOUNTAIN LION 15.30 SUN 22ND DARK CORNERS: WESTFRONT 1918 18.30 Audio Described screening TUE 23RD FEAST YOUR EYES: FINAL PORTRAIT 19.00 WED For bookings and film information, please see our 24TH DARK CORNERS: MÄDCHEN IN UNIFORM 18.30 website, www.ifi.ie, or contact the IFI Box Office THU on 01-6793477 (open 12.30 to 21.00 daily). AUTHOR: THE JT LEROY STORY + Q&A 20.00 25TH IFI FAMILY FESTIVAL‡ FRI For a breakdown of times and dates of IFI New WILD STRAWBERRIES: GOING IN STYLE 11.00 26TH IFI FAMILY FESTIVAL‡ Releases, IFI Docs & IFI Classics, check out our SAT weekly schedule on www.ifi.ie/weekly-schedule 27TH IFI FAMILY FESTIVAL‡ or the IFI ads in The Irish Times on Fridays. SUN You can also sign up to receive our weekly ezine DARK CORNERS: WEIMAR DISCUSSION 14.00 by joining at www.ifi.ie/signup. DARK CORNERS: PEOPLE ON SUNDAY 15.30 29TH IRISH FOCUS: FROM THE LAND OF MÚSCRAÍ 18.30 TUE ACCESSIBLE SCREENING: DETROIT* 17.00 The IFI is proud to introduce the F-rating 30TH WILD STRAWBERRIES: GOING IN STYLE 11.00 to its monthly programme. The F-rating WED DARK CORNERS: KUHLE WAMPE 18.30 is a classification for any film which is directed by a woman, is written by a * Denotes screenings which are open captioned. For more information woman, or features significant women on our Accessible Screenings, please visit www.ifi.ie/accessible on screen in their own right. † The exclusivity status of films is correct at time of going to print ‡ See separate flyer or visit www.ifi.ie/familyfest 4 AUGUST 2017 ENGLAND NEW RELEASE IS MINE OPENS AUG 4TH ‘Life is too short’ says Anji (Katherine It’s 1976. Steven lives at home with his Pearce) to Steven Patrick Morrissey mum, earning a meagre wage at the FILM INFO: (Jack Lowden), ‘for clichés’, he retorts Inland Revenue while posting withering 94 mins, 2017, UK, Digital drolly, advice the makers of this film have band reviews to NME. Arch, prickly, yet Notes by David O’Mahony wisely chosen to heed. The Morrissey painfully shy, he dreams of a life beyond of England is Mine is not the gladioli- the gloomy pall of rainy Manchester, wielding, defiantly miserable voice taking what solace he can in the city’s of a generation whose image would underground art and music scene.