JULY 2017

DUNKIRK (70MM) THE IRISH FILM INSTITUTE

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DARK SKIES FarthestThe MYSTERY MATINEE

This July, the IFI is proud to present Dark Skies: A Festival of This month’s Mystery Matinee, for which tickets cost just €5, Science Fact and Fiction, in collaboration with Science Gallery will screen at 15.30 on Sunday, July 30th. Sometimes it will be at Trinity College . The films selected have been chosen a preview, but not always; sometimes, it will be a title one might for their willingness to incorporate plausible scientific methods expect to see at the IFI, but not always. While away your Sunday and practices into their fictional scenarios, and include a afternoon with an unexpected treat! screening of Philip Kaufman’s The Right Stuff on 70mm, and Emer Reynolds’s breathtaking new documentary, The Farthest. See pages 16–18 for more details.

NT LIVE WEIMAR REPUBLIC Wampe Kuhle

Marianne Elliott directs an all-star cast in a brand new Throughout August, the IFI will present a season of production of Tony Kushner’s seminal masterpiece German films from the Weimar era. This was a period of Angels in America. Showing in two parts on consecutive great innovation, with the development of Expressionism Thursdays, July 20th and 27th, the plays follow a group of and emerging, still influential, talents such as Fritz Lang, New Yorkers at the height of the AIDS crisis in the 1980s. F.W. Murnau, G.W. Pabst, and Ernst Lubitsch. Tickets for the individual screenings are €15 each, with a special ticket for both screenings available for €25. For more details, please see page 12.

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This month the IFI will get to showcase its 70mm projection facilities on numerous occasions. JULY AT THE IFI This month, the IFI is highlighting one of its many unique about their new period piece Pilgrimage on its opening aspects - the ability to screen 70mm film. We’re delighted night here on July 14th, while the aforementioned to be the only cinema in Ireland with the capability to The Farthest will go on release at the end of the month. exhibit film on this magnificent format. Christopher Nolan, like many of his directorial contemporaries, is a There are plenty of other great new releases on offer proponent of film over digital in regard to how film should including the wryly amusing and beautifully observed be exhibited, believing its quality to be superior. For this The Beguiled, for which Sofia Coppola became only the reason, Nolan chose to film his latest work, the World second woman in the 70-year history of Cannes to win War II drama Dunkirk, on 65mm stock. As a result, the IFI the Best Director prize, and Matthew Heineman’s stunning is delighted to be in possession of the only 70mm print City of Ghosts about a group of journalists smuggling in Ireland, and will be presenting Dunkirk in all its 70mm news out of Syria during the Arab Spring, which just won glory. This promises to be an exceptional cinematic the top prize at the Sheffield Doc/Fest. experience for film goers, and we’re delighted to be able to show off this rare piece of projection equipment and There is great excitement about Marianne Elliott’s new the expert skills of our projection team. For film fans, production of Angels in America, which we’ll be showing the IFI is THE place to see Dunkirk this summer! live via satellite as part of our NT Live programme. This is will be shown over two consecutive Thursdays This month we’re also pleased to present the inaugural (20th & 27th) and boasts an all-star cast including Dark Skies – A Festival of Science Fact and Fiction. Andrew Garfield, Russell Tovey, Nathan Lane and Irish Inspired by the success of our Futures Past season actress (and Olivier Best Actress Award winner) last summer, this new addition to the IFI’s annual Denise Gough. festival calendar aims to explore scientific concepts and breakthroughs as presented by filmmakers. For music fans, the Doc’N’Roll Festival is on We’re delighted to be presenting Emer Reynolds’s tour and coming to IFI with two great music docs fantastic new filmThe Farthest as the closing film in – Gregory Porter: Don’t Forget your Music and the programme (which will also go on release with us Chasing Trane: The John Coltrane Story. from July 28th), while we’ll be putting our 70mm projector to good use again with a special presentation And our accessible screenings continue this month of Philip Kaufman’s The Right Stuff. with both open caption and audio described screenings of the aforementioned The Beguiled. Irish film will be at the heart of the programme again this month with a range of new titles including Len Collin’s All of this, and lots more, will be sure to keep you busy Sanctuary, a warm and funny story about the rights throughout the month of July! of people with intellectual disabilities, which will have a post-screening Q&A on July 7th. Director Brendan Ross Keane Muldowney and writer Jamie Hannigan will be speaking Director

3 NEW RELEASES, IFI SEASONS & DOCS & IFI CLASSICS EVENTS CALENDAR

RISK OPENS JUN 30TH DATE SCREENING TIME THE MIDWIFE OPENS JUL 7TH 1ST DUBLIN PLAYS ITSELF 11.00 SAT SANCTUARY OPENS JUL 7TH DUBLIN PLAYS ITSELF 14.30 THE BEGUILED OPENS JUL 14TH 2ND EDITH WALKS + FORGOTTEN THE QUEEN 16.00 SUN DAVID LYNCH: THE ART LIFE OPENS JUL 14TH 3RD EDITH WALKS + FORGOTTEN THE QUEEN 18.20 PILGRIMAGE OPENS JUL 14TH MON CITY OF GHOSTS OPENS JUL 21ST 4TH IFI CAFÉ BAR PUB QUIZ (FREE EVENT) 21.30 TUE DUNKIRK (70MM) OPENS JULY 21ST 5TH DOC’N’ROLL: GREGORY PORTER: DON’T FORGET 18.20 THE BIG SICK OPENS JULY 28TH WED YOUR MUSIC + Q&A THE FARTHEST OPENS JULY 28TH 7TH SANCTUARY + Q&A 18.30 FRI 9TH DOC’N’ROLL: CHASING TRANE: THE JOHN 16.00 SUN COLTRANE DOCUMENTARY 10TH THE BIGGER PICTURE: CHILDREN OF MEN 18.30 IFI Box Office: 01-6793477 MON * Denotes screenings which are open captioned. For more information 11TH IRISH FOCUS: WE ARE MOVING – 18.30 on our Accessible Screenings, please visit www.ifi.ie/accessible TUE MEMORIES OF MISS MORIARTY + Q&A † The exclusivity status of films is correct at time of going to print IFI FRENCH FILM CLUB: THE MIDWIFE 18.30 12TH FILM CLUB: SANCTUARY 18.20 WED 13TH DARK SKIES: THE ANDROMEDA STRAIN 18.15 GET SOCIAL! THU 14TH DARK SKIES: PRIMER 18.40 Excited about this month’s programme? So are we! FRI PILGRIMAGE + Q&A 20.30 Tell your friends which film you’re planning to watch, 15TH DARK SKIES: PHASE IV + ALTERNATE ENDING 16.40 share your movie reviews and show us your best pics SAT on Instagram, Twitter and Facebook! DARK SKIES: THE RIGHT STUFF (70MM) 19.30 16TH Join the IFI Community online: DARK SKIES: VILLAGE OF THE DAMNED 13.40 SUN DARK SKIES: THE QUIET EARTH 18.00 linkedin.com/company/irishfilminstitute DARK SKIES: THE FARTHEST + Q&A 20.00 18TH OPEN CAPTIONED SCREENING: THE BEGUILED* 18.30 @IrishFilmInstitute @IFI_Dub TUE 20TH NT LIVE: ANGELS IN AMERICA PART I: 19.00 @IrishFilmInstitute THU MILLENNIUM APPROACHES 21ST OPEN CAPTIONED SCREENING: THE BEGUILED* 13.20 FRI 23RD IFI FAMILY / FROM THE VAULTS: 13.00 Open Captioned screening SUN THE BOY FROM MERCURY 24TH FEAST YOUR EYES: THE BEGUILED 18.45 Audio Described screening MON 25TH IFI & AEMI PROJECTIONS + IMMA: 18.30 TUE OUT OF BODY 26TH WILD STRAWBERRIES: THEIR FINEST 11.00 TIMES WED 27TH NT LIVE: ANGELS IN AMERICA PART II: 19.00 For a breakdown of times and dates of IFI New THU PERESTROIKA Releases, IFI Docs & IFI Classics, check out our 28TH WILD STRAWBERRIES: THEIR FINEST 11.00 weekly schedule on www.ifi.ie/weekly-schedule FRI or the IFI ads in The Irish Times on Fridays. 30TH MYSTERY MATINEE 15.30 You can also sign up to receive our weekly ezine SUN by joining at www.ifi.ie/signup.

4 JULY 2017 RISK IFI DOC IFI

OPENS JUN 30TH Laura Poitras follows up Citizenfour and the revelation of the global mass- (2014), her Oscar-winning portrait surveillance industry released FILM INFO: of Edward Snowden, with an equally in 2011. However, the tone of her portrait 92 mins, 2016, USA, Digital candid study of WikiLeaks founder becomes increasingly conflicted as Notes by David O’Mahony Julian Assange. Poitras was granted she is forced to digest Assange’s many extraordinary access to her subject, glaring contradictions, especially his holed up in the Ecuadorian embassy pending extradition to Sweden to face in along with his lawyer and multiple sexual assault charges, an sometime girlfriend, Sarah Harrison, unfolding ambiguity which lends Risk and tech expert Jacob Appelbaum. an in-the-moment urgency. Poitras is present for many key moments in the evolving WikiLeaks narrative, for example the arrest of Bradley Manning,

THE RELEASE NEW MIDWIFE

OPENS JUL 7TH Martin Provost’s (Séraphine) However, with her son failing at The Midwife is a showcase for star medical school and her outmoded (SAGE FEMME) performances from two very different hospital struggling to compete with icons of French cinema. Claire (Catherine newer facilities, Claire faces a minor FILM INFO: Frot) is a workaholic midwife at a mid-life crisis. Enter the chaotic, 117 mins, 2017, France, maternity hospital in Paris, devoting frequently drunken figure of Béatrice Digital, Subtitled Notes by David O’Mahony herself utterly to what she views as (a fearless Catherine Deneuve), a her calling in life. She has high-minded former mistress of Claire's father who FRENCH FILM CLUB ideals about the sort of person she wants to reconnect after thirty years, Tickets to the 18.30 aspires to be; she forswears alcohol whether Claire wishes to or not. screening on July 11th are and favours home-grown produce, just €7.50 for IFI and Alliance Française members. virtuous traits that tend to alienate rather than endear her to others.

5 JULY 2017 SANCTUARY NEW RELEASE

OPENS JUL 7TH Larry, a young man with Down intellectual disabilities to enjoy syndrome, is in love with Sophie, consensual sexual relationships, a right FILM INFO: who has severe epilepsy, and is keen they are currently denied. 87 mins, 2016, Ireland, Digital to express his love for her. With the Notes by Sunniva O’Flynn help of their care-worker, they plan a The script for Len Collin’s ambitious romantic afternoon in a Galway debut has been tailored to the strengths hotel under cover of a cinema of each of its cast, most of whom have outing with their care centre friends. intellectual disabilities. It is filled with joy and welcome insights into their world. The afternoon proves eventful An astonishing achievement. FILM CLUB as they each experience new freedoms Join us for a discussion and new challenges. At the core of The 18.30 screening on Friday 7th will be after the 18.20 screening on Wednesday 12th. the film is the right for people with followed by a Q&A with the cast members. THE BEGUILED NEW RELEASE

OPENS JUL 14TH 1864. As the Civil War rages on, Shifting the perspective from the wounded Union soldier John McBurney central soldier figure to that of the FILM INFO: (Colin Farrell) finds shelter in Miss women who care for him allows 94 mins, 2016, USA, Digital Martha Farnsworth’s (Nicole Kidman) for plenty of simmering conflict in Notes by David O’Mahony Seminary for Young Ladies, where this humid, wryly amusing piece of his disruptive male presence ignites southern gothic melodrama. tensions between schoolteacher Edwina (Kirsten Dunst) and the precocious Alicia The Beguiled will have OC screenings (Elle Fanning). Sofia Coppola’s take on at 18.30 on Tuesday 18th and 13.20 on FEAST YOUR EYES Thomas P. Cullinan’s 1966 novel, ditches Friday 21st. All other screenings will have Please see page 12 for details the plot’s more lurid elements in favour Audio Description. of our screening on Monday 24th at 18.45. of a slow-burn, nuanced and decidedly feminist approach to the material.

6 DAVID LYNCH: THE ART LIFE DOC IFI

OPENS JUL 14TH Made by the team who produced 2007’s from his youngest daughter, the film Lynch, a film which chronicled the also includes family photos and CO-DIRECTORS: making of Inland Empire, David Lynch: home movie footage, extracts from Rick Barnes & The Art Life is an intimate portrait of which are accompanied by accounts Olivia Neergaard-Holm the usually private director, providing of suitably strange and indelible FILM INFO: a privileged view of his process as childhood memories. 89 mins, 2017, USA, Digital a fine artist, as well as insight into Notes by Alice Butler his upbringing and intransigent With no other contributors, this is commitment to self-expression. Lynch’s own take on his early life and experiences as an art student, first in Shot in the Hollywood studio where Boston, but more successfully later in Lynch’s work is seemingly interrupted Philadelphia, a haunted city in ruins that only by cigarette breaks and visits served as the inspiration for Eraserhead.

PILGRIMAGE RELEASE NEW

OPENS JUL 14TH Cistercian monk Brother Geraldus On the journey, the relic is to be watched (Stanley Weber) arrives on the shores over by selected monks, including a FILM INFO: of early-13th century Ireland with young novice (Tom Holland, recently 96 mins, 2017, the aim of obtaining a religious relic introduced to the Marvel universe as the Ireland-Belgium, Digital of great significance from a remote new Spider-Man), and the order’s mute Notes by Kevin Coyne community of fellow monks. servant (Jon Bernthal, The Walking Dead).

Q&A His ultimate goal is to present the As they attempt to reach the coast The 20.30 screening on object to the Pope in Rome as a however, they are beset on all sides Friday 14th will be followed source of divine power from which by those who would take the sacred by a Q&A with director to draw righteous strength while object for themselves in this violent Brendan Muldowney and writer Jamie Hannigan. planning and undertaking another and authentic period piece. crusade for the capture of Jerusalem.

7 JULY 2017 CITY OF GHOSTS IFI DOC

OPENS JUL 21ST Documentarian Matthew Heineman the tech-savvy group continued their continues to shine a light onto some of covert efforts to show the outside world FILM INFO: the world’s most dangerous places in the what was happening in Raqqa as ISIS 90 mins, 2017, USA, extraordinary City of Ghosts. tanks rolled into the city in July 2014. Digital, Subtitled Notes by David O’Mahony The film focuses on members of the A worthy successor to Cartel Land (2015), Syrian citizen journalism group ‘Raqqa Heineman’s masterful, Oscar-nominated is Being Slaughtered Silently’ (RBSS), portrait of Mexican drug cartels, City of who smuggle written, photographic and Ghosts is an angry, urgent work made video evidence of atrocities from the with insight and empathy. ISIS-controlled city at great risk to their lives and those of their families. Formed during the Arab Spring of 2012, DUNKIRK (70MM) NEW RELEASE

OPENS JUL 21ST Throughout his career, Christopher Taking the various perspectives of Nolan has been a vocal advocate for the the air, the sea and the land, the cast FILM INFO: superiority of celluloid over digital, and includes Tom Hardy as RAF pilot Farrier, 105 mins, 2017, Netherlands- of the importance of the experience of Cillian Murphy as a solider rescued by UK-France-USA, 70mm viewing films in a cinema. In keeping with Mark Rylance’s civilian boatsman, and Notes by Kevin Coyne this, the IFI is pleased to present Ireland’s upcoming Irish actor Barry Keoghan as only screenings of Dunkirk on 70mm. one of the thousands of troops stranded on the beach. Nolan’s new film focuses on the events around the ‘Miracle of Dunkirk’, when This 70mm presentation offers close to 340,000 retreating soldiers of audiences a chance to appreciate the full the Allied forces were evacuated from spectacle of Nolan’s audacious work. the French beaches.

8 THE BIG SICK RELEASE NEW

OPENS JUL 28TH The irresistibly sweet, charming, and very intent on arranging a marriage for him. funny The Big Sick is written by Emily When Emily realises that his family know FILM INFO: V. Gordon and Silicon Valley’s Kumail nothing about her, and that he can’t 120 mins, 2017, USA, Digital Nanjiani, and tells the story of their real- commit to a long-term future with her, Notes by Kevin Coyne life romance and the difficulties it faced, she ends the relationship. which included the breaking of family traditions and a medically-induced coma. When she suddenly becomes seriously ill however, Kumail is drawn back into her Pakistani-born Nanjiani, playing himself, life, meeting her initially hostile parents is a stand-up comedian in Chicago who is (Ray Romano and a wonderful Holly one night heckled by Emily (Zoe Kazan), Hunter), and realising what he might lose. with whom he soon begins a relationship. However, his traditional parents are THE FARTHEST DOC IFI

OPENS JUL 28TH Emer Reynolds’s enthralling benefit of any civilisation that might documentary details NASA’s ambitious encounter the probe, and the taking of FILM INFO: Voyager program which, in 1977, the famous photograph that presents 121 mins, 2017, Ireland, Digital launched two probes whose original the Earth as a ‘pale blue dot’. Notes by Kevin Coyne mission was to study the outermost planets of the Solar System, but went This is a genuinely inspiring and on to become the first human-created uplifting documentary, and a tribute object to enter interstellar space. to the ingenuity and curiosity which PREVIEW created a craft with less computing A preview of The Farthest will Members of the program’s scientific power than a modern smartphone which also screen as part of our Dark team recount anecdotes of the ‘golden is now 21 billion km from the Earth, Skies season on Sunday 16th. See page 18 for more details. record’ affixed to each craft containing and may outlast the planet itself as it information about our planet for the continues to explore the universe.

9 ARCHIVE AT LUNCHTIME Join us for free daily lunchtime screenings of films from the IFI Irish Film Archive. Collect your tickets at the IFI Box Office. See www.ifi.ie for times. Flying Saucer Rock 'N' Roll Rock Saucer Flying

PROGRAMME TWO STARRY, STARRY NIGHTS FIFTY PERCENT GREY Notes by Sunniva O’Flynn Ruairí Robinson's Oscar-nominated dark comedy sees PROGRAMME ONE a bloodied soldier facing an infinite future filled with SPACEMAN THREE eternal peace and emptiness. In Hugh O'Conor’s short, an astrogeologist in space for FILM INFO: 3 mins, 2001, Ireland, Digital the first time upsets his peace-loving fellow travellers. FILM INFO: 12 mins, 2008, Ireland, Digital THEY’RE MADE OUT OF MEAT In Stephen O'Regan's droll comedy, two alien visitors WHITE are flabbergasted to discover what the inhabitants of Long before the science factual The Farthest earth are made of. (see page 9), Emer Reynolds was captivated by science FILM INFO: 6 mins, 2005, Ireland, Digital fiction. In an unspecified future, a pregnant woman and her boyfriend try to elude a fascist government. FLYING SAUCER ROCK ’N’ ROLL FILM INFO: 11 mins, 2001, Ireland, Digital Enda Hughes’s rollicking pastiche of 1950s B-movies sees a small town rock’n’roll rebel confront a mutant DARK SKIES from another galaxy. See pages 16–18 for information on our Dark Skies season. FILM INFO: 12 mins, 1998, Ireland, Digital, Black and White

IFI FAMILY & FROM THE VAULTS THE BOY FROM MERCURY JUL 23RD (13.00)

DIRECTOR: Tying in with this month’s Dark Skies achieving terrific performances from Martin Duffy season, this sweet and nostalgic the cast which includes Hugh O’Conor FILM INFO: fantasy is set in 1960s Dublin, and was as Harry’s brother, Rita Tushingham as 88 mins, 1996, filmed around Walkinstown and Crumlin, his mother, Tom Courtenay as Uncle France-UK-Ireland, 35mm Notes by Alicia McGivern childhood home of the filmmaker, Tony, and Sean Flanagan as Harry’s Martin Duffy. It’s the story of eight-year- school pal. old Harry, who finds comfort in the Flash TICKETS Gordon TV series as he tries to deal This screening will be introduced Tickets: €4.80 per person, with the death of his father. Bullied in by Sean Flanagan, now of comedy trio €14.40 family ticket school, Harry imagines he and his dog ‘Foil, Arms and Hog’. (2 adults + 2 children, have been sent down from Mercury. 1 adult + 3 children). Duffy directs with affection and warmth,

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IRISH FOCUS WE ARE MOVING: MEMORIES OF MISS MORIARTY

JUL 11TH (18.30) We Are Moving is an intimate portrait invaluable legacy, but it also reveals of Joan Denise Moriarty (1912–1992), the controversies that surrounded her: DIRECTOR: a pioneer of early 20th century Irish accused of fabricating her professional Claire Dix dance. With a dream of bringing ballet dance training and of misrepresenting FILM INFO: to every corner of Ireland, Moriarty herself as a vanguard of Irish ballet, her 65 mins, 2016, Ireland, Digital created a uniquely Irish form of the dance personal life was the subject of much Notes by Sunniva O’Flynn style inspired by her love of nature and scrutiny over the years. A Reel Art film funded by the Irish folklore. Arts Council/An Chomhairle Ealaíon. This screening will be followed Through archive footage, ethereal by a Q&A with director Claire Dix. dance sequences and interviews with former pupils, Claire Dix’s artful new documentary celebrates Miss Moriarty’s

THE BIGGER PICTURE CHILDREN OF MEN

JUL 10TH (18.30) Alfonso Cuarón’s prescient dystopian group, The Fishes, and coerced into sci-fi depicts London in 2027 as a city smuggling a mysterious young African DIRECTOR: on the brink of collapse. Two decades refugee to the coast. Celebrated for its Alfonso Cuarón of infertility have thrown the world depiction of the UK as a police state into chaos as humanity faces possible which deals punitively with refugees, FILM INFO: 109 mins, 2006, USA, Blu-Ray extinction. Mass immigration into and its immersive single-shot action Notes by David O’Mahony the UK, home to the last functioning sequences, Children of Men has never government, has reached crisis point. seemed more relevant.

Cynical bureaucrat Theo Faron This screening will be introduced by (Clive Owen) is kidnapped by Julian Ian Brunswick, Head of Programming, (Julianne Moore) and her militant Science Gallery at Trinity College Dublin.

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NT LIVE ANGELS IN AMERICA

PART I: JUL 20TH (19.00) & PART II: JUL 27TH (19.00)

PART I: MILLENNIUM APPROACHES America in the mid-1980s. In the midst a cast that includes Denise Gough of the AIDS crisis and a conservative (Paula), Nathan Lane (The Producers), INFO: 210 mins, 2017, UK, Digital Reagan administration, New Yorkers James McArdle (Star Wars: The Force PART II: grapple with life and death, love and Awakens) and Russell Tovey (The Pass, PERESTROIKA sex, heaven and hell. Being Human, Looking).

INFO: 240 mins, 2017, UK, Digital This unforgettable and critically- Tickets priced €15 for each individual DIRECTOR: Marianne Elliott acclaimed staging of Tony Kushner’s screening. A pass for entry to Part I and multi-award-winning two-part play is Part II is available for €25 in person or directed by Olivier and Tony award- over the phone from the IFI Box Office winning director Marianne Elliott. on 01-6793477. Andrew Garfield Silence( , Hacksaw Ridge), plays Prior Walter alongside

FEAST YOUR EYES THE BEGUILED

JUL 24TH (18.45) July’s pairing of a new release and a adapted in 1971 by Don Siegel and specially devised main course menu will starring Clint Eastwood, ditches the DIRECTOR: be Sofia Coppola’s The Beguiled. As the plot’s more lurid elements in favour of Sofia Coppola American Civil War rages on, wounded a slow burn, nuanced and decidedly Union soldier John McBurney (Colin feminist approach to the material. FILM INFO: Farrell) finds shelter in Miss Martha 94 mins, 2016, USA, Digital Farnsworth’s (Nicole Kidman) Seminary The menu comprises: Chilled Watermelon for Young Ladies, where his disruptive Soup, Wild Rice and Turkey Casserole, male presence ignites tensions between and Crab Cakes. schoolteacher Edwina (Kirsten Dunst) and the precocious Alicia (Elle Fanning). Tickets: €20.00, free list suspended. Sofia Coppola’s take on Thomas P. Cullinan’s 1966 novel, previously

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IFI & AEMI PROJECTIONS + IMMA OUT OF BODY

JUL 25TH (18.30)

EVENT INFO: Presented in partnership with IMMA’s Mairéad McClean, Paul Sharits, 68 mins exhibition As Above, So Below: Portals, John Smith and Susan MacWilliam. Psychic Edit, Susan MacWilliam; Visions, Spirits & Mystics, aemi is These films encourage a consideration Witch’s Cradle Outtakes, delighted to collaborate with artist of the external and the internal, of Maya Deren; State of Mind remix #4, Mairéad McClean; Susan MacWilliam to present that which is visible and which is not, Faint, Susan MacWilliam; ‘Out of Body’, a selection of films that drawing attention to the very act of The Black Sea, Jordan Baseman; explore the psychic and physical spaces looking and even eliciting the feeling Mountain Mist, Susan MacWilliam; of body and landscape. of being 'out of body'. Om, John Smith; Ray Gun Virus, Paul Sharits; The Last Person, Automatic, subliminal and unconscious Susan MacWilliam will introduce this Susan MacWilliam states of mind are explored through screening. See www.ifi.ie, www.imma.ie a variety of approaches in works from and www.aemi.ie for further details. Jordan Baseman, Maya Deren,

EDITH WALKS + FORGOTTEN THE QUEEN

JUL 2ND (16.00) & JUL 3RD (18.20) Inspired by a statue of King Harold in the of The Pogues, the troupe steadfastly arms of his first wife Edith Swan-Neck, make their way, taking only occasional DIRECTOR: who it is said identified her husband’s breaks, including one memorable Andrew Kötting body following the Battle of Hastings in conversation with writer and occultist 1066, filmmaker Andrew Kötting journeys Alan Moore. Featuring some entrancing FILM INFO: 60 mins, 2016, UK, Digital 108 miles on foot from Waltham Abbey camerawork from the inimitable Tony Notes by Alice Butler in Essex to St Leonards-on-Sea in East Hill, this experimental documentary Sussex, where the sculpture is situated. relishes as much in the eccentric as the historic. Accompanied by regular collaborator writer Iain Sinclair, singer Claudia Barton Edith Walks will screen with Forgotten (dressed as Edith), drummer David the Queen, a 12-minute animated short Aylward, and Jem Finer, former member directed by Eden Kötting.

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WILD STRAWBERRIES THEIR FINEST

JUL 26TH & JUL 28TH (11.00)

DIRECTOR: Wild Strawberries is our bi-monthly the women’s dialogue, and makes her Lone Scherfig film club for over 55s. presence felt among the cast of egos FILM INFO: and cads, featuring Jeremy Irons and 107 mins, 2016, This charming World War II drama offers Bill Nighy. UK-Sweden, Digital Notes by Alicia McGivern an antidote to the weightier war-themed features showing in July. Here folk are Tickets: €4.25 including regular tea/coffee getting on with life despite the war, with before the event. Wild Strawberries is our plenty of pluck and steel. film club for over 55s. If you happen to look younger, please don’t take offence Gemma Arterton excels in the role of a if we ask your age. government screenwriter. Working on a risible propaganda feature, she proves herself capable of writing more than

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14 DOC’N’ROLL FESTIVAL ON TOUR GREGORY PORTER: DON’T FORGET YOUR MUSIC

JUL 5TH (18.20) From humble beginnings in Bakersfield, Jools Holland, Van Morrison, Gilles California, Gregory Porter found his Peterson and Jamie Callum, Don’t Forget DIRECTOR: voice after an injury put paid to his Your Music is an intimate, black and white Alfred George Bailey football ambitions. However, it wasn’t portrait of an exceptional talent. FILM INFO: until he was in his forties that he came 85 mins, 2016, USA, to international acclaim, winning two The screening of Gregory Porter: Digital, Black & White Grammy awards in the process. Don’t Forget Your Music will be followed Notes by David O’Mahony by a Q&A with producer Heather Taylor. Made over a four-year period by musician-turned-photographer Alfred George Bailey, and featuring interviews with Porter’s brother Lloyd and sister Lawanda, as well as jazz luminaries CHASING TRANE: THE JOHN COLTRANE DOCUMENTARY

JUL 9TH (16.00) John Scheinfeld explores the life of the that would ultimately see him fired pioneering saxophonist in this finely from Miles's ground-breaking group. DIRECTOR: crafted film that boasts contributions John Scheinfeld from such diverse figures as Denzel Ironically, it was this that led FILM INFO: Washington and Bill Clinton, as well as Coltrane to kick the drugs and 99 mins, 2016, USA, Digital jazz elder statesmen Wayne Shorter, devote time to creating his Notes by David O’Mahony Sonny Rollins and Reggie Workman. masterpiece, A Love Supreme.

In 1959, John Coltrane appeared to be at the zenith of the jazz world having just recorded Kind of Blue with Miles Davis; he was, however, struggling with a debilitating heroin addiction

15 Dark Skies A Festival of Science Fact and Fiction July 13th – 16th

From its beginnings, cinema has engaged with, and The festival represents a development of the taken inspiration from, scientific discoveries and new programming concept that informed Futures Past, technologies; the films in Dark Skies: A Festival of presented at IFI in April 2016 in collaboration with Science Fact and Fiction have been chosen for their Science Gallery at Trinity College Dublin, which willingness to incorporate plausible scientific methods explored how the cinema of the past has imagined our and practices into their fictional scenarios. future. Dark Skies hopes to indulge in both the pure enjoyment of speculative science fiction cinema and The imaginative leaps taken by the creators of these investigate the more grounded work of filmmakers fantastical cinematic visions are underpinned by real- representing advances in the sciences. world scientific explorations: the exacting lab work of The Andromeda Strain, with its steady accretion Introduction and notes by David O’Mahony. of increasingly alarming data, the hard science approach Primer takes to the concept of time travel, Presented in collaboration with Science Gallery the representation of actual achievements in space at Trinity College Dublin. exploration in The Right Stuff, showing in 70mm, A free screening of Roy Cohen’s documentary Philip Kaufman’s epic salute to the first astronauts, Machine of Human Dreams will take place at Science and The Farthest, Emer Reynolds’s magnificent Gallery at Trinity College Dublin on Thursday 6th at documentary account of NASA’s Voyager space 18.00. See dublin.sciencegallery.com for more details programme, a truly complementary pairing. and to book tickets.

high-tech facility five stories THE ANDROMEDA underground, uncovering microscopic STRAIN particles of alien origin in the process. Based on Michael Crichton’s 1969 novel of the same name, Robert Wise’s brilliantly conceived sci-fi suspense film foregrounds procedural fact JUL 13TH (18.15) gathering over conventional shock tactics, as the true nature of the alien virus is teasingly revealed. FILM INFO: When a US satellite falls from orbit 131 mins, 1971, USA, Digital in the New Mexico desert, all but The screening will be introduced two inhabitants of a nearby town die by Lauren McKeown, PhD student, mysteriously. A team of scientists are Trinity College Dublin. recruited to secure the satellite and study it in a hermetically sealed

16 With an appropriately DIY aesthetic, PRIMER Carruth applies a rigorously intellectual approach to the concept of time-travel, investigating its potential applications and knotty conundrums in real-world fashion, trusting the audience will keep pace with the often dizzying parallels ( ) and alternative realities Aaron and Abe’s JUL 14TH 18.40 box-like device permits.

FILM INFO: Aaron and Abe, two young engineers The screening will be introduced by 77 mins, 2004, USA, Digital dabbling in a side-line entrepreneurial Sean Power, Department of Philosophy, tech project, stumble upon a means Trinity College Dublin. to travel in time in Shane Carruth’s ultra- low budget début, which he directed, produced, edited, wrote, scored and starred in.

Phase IV, the only feature directed by PHASE IV Saul Bass, best known for innovative title + ALTERNATE sequences for the likes of Hitchcock, Wilder, Kubrick and Scorsese, reveals ENDING an innate visual sensibility, especially in the astonishing final sequence which at the time was rejected as being too JUL 15TH (16.40) psychedelic. Now restored, the original ending will screen after the feature.

FILM INFO: Ant colonies in the Arizona desert are 84 mins, 1974, USA, behaving unusually. Two scientists set 35mm and Digital up camp nearby, linking their behaviour to the titular lunar cycle; evolving at an alarming rate, the ants’ sophisticated behaviour suggests that it is they who are scrutinising the scientists.

breaking pilot Chuck Yeager THE RIGHT (), Kaufman’s adaptation ( ) of Tom Wolfe’s bestseller broadens STUFF 70MM its scope to encompass the gruelling training of the eager young hopefuls (including Scott Glenn, Ed Harris and Dennis Quaid) jockeying for position JUL 15TH (19.30) to become the first American in space, all the while caught up in a PR drive to thwart Russia in the process. FILM INFO: The tentative first steps of US space 192 mins, 1983, USA, 70mm exploration are thrillingly realised in Presented in association with Philip Kaufman’s triumphal ode to the test pilots who paved the way for the astronauts of the Mercury Space Program. Initially focusing on the enigmatic figure of sound-barrier

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exponentially and appear to exhibit VILLAGE OF telekinetic and telepathic powers which they use to manipulate and ultimately THE DAMNED control the townsfolk.

Based on John Wyndham’s novel The Midwich Cuckoos, Wolf Rilla’s classic ( ) tale of an alien invasion by stealth was JUL 16TH 13.40 a huge hit in its day, spawning a sequel and a 1995 remake by none other than FILM INFO: One night the inhabitants of the John Carpenter. 77 mins, 1960, UK, 35mm sleepy British village of Midwich fall mysteriously unconscious; two months later, all the town’s women of childbearing age are discovered to be pregnant. The resultant children are identikit blonde cherubs that grow

of being the last man on earth becomes THE QUIET a reality. A speculative sci-fi mystery with a commitment to psychological depth EARTH that is rare for the genre, Geoff Murphy’s film builds to a strikingly ambiguous climax that should provoke much discussion and debate. JUL 16TH (18.00)

FILM INFO: Zac Hobson (Bruno Lawrence) awakes 91 mins, 1985, to find himself the sole survivor of a New Zealand, Digital catastrophic malfunction in a secret energy project on which he has been engaged; days turn into weeks and Zac begins to succumb to madness and despair, as the frightening prospect

Employing interviews with the THE Voyager team, archive footage and FARTHEST animations, Emer Reynolds recreates Voyager’s forty-five year journey, one that continues still. The Farthest is a captivating tribute to one of the most audacious projects in human history. JUL 16TH (20.00) This screening will be followed by a Q&A with director Emer Reynolds, FILM INFO: In 1977, two probes were launched former NASA astronaut Daniel M. 121 mins, 2017, to explore the outer planets of our solar Tani, and Norah Patten, International USA-Ireland, Digital system. Running on less computing Space University. power than a smart phone, the little aluminium machines have now become The Farthest opens at the IFI on the first man-made objects to travel to July 28th. See page 9 for film notes. interstellar space.

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