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15 JUNE 2013 IFI OPEN A DAY OF FREE FILM SCREENINGS DAY AT THE IFI IFI OPEN DAY The 5,000 Fingers Fear and Desire of Dr. T. It’s that special time of year 13.00 13.10 again - the IFI Open Day! Join us The only feature film written by ’s first feature was to celebrate all that the IFI has to Dr. Seuss, this is a typically day-glo out of circulation for decades, partly offer with a day of FREE previews, fantasy in which young Bart Collins due to the efforts of the director classics, Irish, and international is forced to endure piano lessons at himself, who did not wish the public films. A day-long cinematic feast the strict hands of Dr. Terwilliker. to see his debut. An anti-war drama, that won’t cost you a thing! These lessons inspire a dream in it contains hints of what was to come which Dr. T. has constructed a piano in the master’s career. Don’t miss this The IFI is throwing open its doors so large that it will require 500 boys incredibly rare opportunity to see it once again to film fans of all to play it properly. on the big screen. ages and cinematic tastes 89 Minutes • U.S.A. • 1953 62 Minutes • U.S.A. • 1954 with a day full of screenings Colour • D-Cinema Black & White • Blu-Ray that will amuse, entertain, Director: Roy Rowland Director: Stanley Kubrick delight and inspire audiences. Whether you’re an IFI regular or visiting us for the first time, you’ll find something to enjoy in our eclectic array of films on offer. With 13 free screenings throughout the day, including our Audience Choice where we bring a recent favourite back to the big screen, it promises to be an event to remember.

While you’re visiting the IFI, why The Great White Godzilla, King of not treat yourself to a coffee or Silence the Monsters! a bite to eat in our IFI Café Bar, 13.30 14.30 or find that elusive DVD you’ve Director Herbert Ponting joined Captain The film that introduced Godzilla been hunting for in the IFI Film Scott’s doomed 1910-1913 Terra Nova to audiences outside of , this Shop. We’ll have special drink expedition to the South Pole, capturing Americanised version of the original and food offers throughout the images of the great and haunting beauty Gojira adds Raymond Burr as a day, along with entertainment of the region and its wildlife. A failure journalist investigating a sea monster that night so all your needs will on its release (to the extent that mutated and enraged by radiation be catered to! Ponting died impoverished), the film as it attacks . Made under the has been digitally restored in recent shadow of the nuclear threat, it’s now Join us on June 15th for a years, giving audiences a unique insight a cult classic thanks to its dubbing, celebration of the best of the IFI! into the exploration of uncharted effects, and, of course, its costumes. territory, and its consequences. 96 Minutes • Japan-U.S.A. • 1954 See back page for details on 106 Minutes • U.K. • 1924 • Silent Black & White • 35Mm how to get your FREE tickets. Colour Tinted • D-Cinema Director: Ishirô Honda Director: Herbert Ponting The Godfather: Paris-Manhattan THE LAST OF THE Part II HIGH KINGS 15.00 16.00 16.30 After last year’s popular screening of Lonely pharmacist Alice is devoted This year’s Open Day presentation The Godfather, this year we present to the films of , even from the IFI Irish Film Archive is the one of cinema’s few truly great prescribing them as medicine to charming story of Frankie Griffin sequels. While Robert Duvall, Diane her clients. She asks advice on her (), who is spending his Keaton, and return in their life from a poster of him, which post-Leaving Certificate Summer original roles, the film also adds answers in dialogue cleverly culled in 1977 Dublin organising a beach Robert De Niro as the young Vito from his own films, in this witty and party while torn between the various Corleone, who we see becoming the enjoyable spin on Allen’s own Play It women in his life. A fine supporting man we met in the first installment, Again, Sam, his play in which he took cast includes Gabriel Byrne, Colm adding to the film’s epic scope. guidance from Humphrey Bogart. Meaney, Stephen Rea, Lorraine 200 Minutes • U.S.A. • 1974 79 Minutes • France • 2012 Pilkington and Christina Ricci. Colour • D-Cinema Subtitled • Colour • D-Cinema 104 minutes • Denmark-Ireland-U.K. Director: Director: Sophie Lellouche 1996 • Colour • 35mm Director: David Keating

Killer of Sheep LÉon The Summit

18.20 18.40 18.50 Denied a full release for 30 years Hitman Léon (Jean Reno) leads Nick Ryan’s gripping documentary because of poor quality prints a solitary life, until 12-year-old examines the circumstances and issues with the music rights, Mathilda (Natalie Portman in her surrounding a 2008 expedition to Charles Burnett’s story of the mid- remarkable debut) comes into his life climb K2 (the “Savage Mountain”, Los Angeles ghetto focuses following the murder of her family by considered the world’s most dangerous) on the sensitive Stan, whose job in corrupt cop Norman Stansfield (Gary and how it became the greatest a slaughterhouse is beginning to Oldman). Taking the vengeful girl disaster in the history of such attempts. affect his home life. Shot in a style under his wing, Léon teaches her the At its centre is Ger McDonnell, an reminiscent of the neo-realists, it’s a tricks of the trade as a tentative bond Irish member of the party, whose lyrical and highly rewarding film. forms between the two. disappearance during the descent has 87 Minutes • U.S.A. • 1977 110 Minutes • France • 1994 never been fully explained. Black & White • D-Cinema Colour • 35Mm 95 minutes • Ireland-U.K. • 2012 Director: Charles Burnett Director: Luc Besson Colour • D-Cinema Director: Nick Ryan RAshÔmon Audience Choice The Bling Ring

20.30 20.50 21.00 Following its triumph at the 1951 This slot invites IFI audiences to Fresh from its world premiere at Venice , Rashômon has choose from a selection of films (see Cannes last month, we’re delighted to been credited with introducing both www.ifi.ie/openday). From over 90 present this preview of Sofia Coppola’s Kurosawa and Japanese cinema in new releases shown since last year’s new film starring Emma Watson and general to audiences. A Open Day, ten have been voted for by Leslie Mann. It’s based on the true nobleman and his wife are attacked IFI staff. Whether it’s a film you’d like story of a group of celebrity-obsessed by a bandit who kills the man and to revisit, or one you missed on the L.A. teens who used the internet to rapes the woman. However, as the big screen first time around, this is track down, and subsequently burgle, story is recounted from the your chance to make it happen. the homes of the stars. perspectives of four different 90 Minutes • U.S.A. • 2013 witnesses, events seem less clear. Colour • D-Cinema 87 Minutes • Japan • 1950 Director: Sofia Coppola Subtitled • Black & White • D-Cinema Director: Akira Kurosawa

TICKETS

Tickets for all films will become available at 11am on June 15th at the IFI. Tickets will not be available online or by phone. Maximum of four tickets per person (all allocated on a first come, first served basis). Arrive early as tickets are expected to go quickly!

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