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MAY 2018 ON CHESIL BEACH THE IRISH DIRECTOR’S FILM INSTITUTE NOTE

The Irish Film Institute is Ireland’s A look at the cultural legacy of EXHIBIT national cultural institution for film. Lady Augusta Gregory, a season of iconic It aims to exhibit the finest in independent, thrillers, and a fantastic selection of new Irish and international cinema, preserve releases from across the globe headline a PRESERVE Ireland’s moving image heritage at packed May at the IFI. the IFI Irish Film Archive, and encourage EDUCATE engagement with film through its various educational programmes. MAY

AT THE IFI on Pete Lean May at the IFI sees a wide range of events throughout May also sees the IFI join forces with the International the month, with something for old and young alike. Literary Festival Dublin for two very special events, including MYSTERY MATINEE IFI FILM CLUB Those with a taste for nostalgia can immerse themselves a screening of Jan Švankmeyer’s Alice, presented by in Trust No One, our season of international thrillers bestselling author Neil Gaiman. Regular IFI collaborator from the and 1970s. Student uprisings in France, Matthew Nolan (of post-rock band 3epkano) returns to This month’s secret screening, for which tickets Join us for an open discussion with members of the IFI team domestic terrorism in Italy and Germany, and the Watergate the IFI with a special event with musician Chris Brokaw, cost just €5, will take place at 13.00 on Sunday following the 18.15 screening of Tully on Wednesday 9th. scandal on the other side of the Atlantic contributed to an former guitarist with iconic band Codeine. The pair have 20th. Sometimes it will be a preview, but not always; Directed by Jason Reitman and written by Oscar winner atmosphere of fear and paranoia that produced classics collaborated on new music to accompany the film work of sometimes it will be a title one might expect to see at (Juno), the film features as such as Costa-Gavras’s Z, ’s The Day the late artist Peter Hutton. the IFI, but not always. Previous titles have included Marlo, a woman overwhelmed by the arrival of an unplanned of the Jackal, and Alan J. Pakula’s The Parallax View. ’s Lady Bird, John Carpenter’s Star Man, and third child. The nine-film season opens on Saturday 12th. On Sunday 6th, we’re excited to host the Irish judging panel ’s Beat the Devil. Join us for this month’s for the European Film Academy’s Young Audience Award. screening, and expect the unexpected! The IFI prides itself on working closely with other leading An annual event that sees young juries from across the cultural institutions, and our programme in May is a fine continent pick the Best European Film for Young People, this testament to these strong relationships. On Saturday 12th, year will see one of the screenings, Finnish film Hobbyhorse the IFI teams up with the Abbey Theatre to examine the Revolution, open to the public for the first time. Always a legacy of Lady Augusta Gregory, a prolific and experimental wonderful occasion, the day allows young people to critically dramatist and close collaborator with W.B. Yeats, who engage with their peers and further encourage their love of continues to tower over Ireland’s cultural history. The day- cinema. long event will include a shorts programme, a screening of ’s The Rising of the Moon, alongside a panel Finally, as always, we have a strong slate of new releases discussion featuring a number of renowned Gregory including films from Jason Reitman and Lucrecia Martel, scholars – it promises to be a lively and enlightening day. the return of IFI French Film Festival favourites Redoubtable and Jeune Femme, and a stunning re-release of Tony We’re also delighted to once again team up with the Science Richardson’s 1959 classic . Gallery at Trinity College Dublin for a series of screenings FRENCH FILM CLUB FEAST YOUR EYES responding to their latest exhibition, FAKE. The films in this Ross Keane season explore how filmmakers have explored the topics of Director fakery or imitation and how, often, it can often prove to be a This month’s French Film Club screening, which takes Our monthly Feast Your Eyes strand of a film and main course path to success. Films on screen include Abbas Kiarostami’s place on Friday 11th at 18.30 and where IFI and Alliance for €20 will be Nora Twomey’s Oscar nominated animation Certified Copy and the critically-acclaimed Tim’s Vermeer. Française members pay just €7.50 per ticket, is Michel The Breadwinner. This month’s screening will take place on Hazanavicius’s Redoubtable. Louis Garrel plays iconic Tuesday 29th at 18.45 and the menu will include a choice of director Jean-Luc Godard in the aftermath of the May 1968 XXXXX. See page 9 for film notes. student revolts, as the auteur embarks on a new creative and ideological path.

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A CAMBODIAN SPRING OPENS FRI 4TH DATE SCREENING TIME LEAN ON PETE OPENS FRI 4TH 2ND IFI & ADIFF: CAREERS IN FILM DAY 10.30 TULLY OPENS FRI 4TH WED IFI & AEMI & DOUGLAS HYDE GALLERY: IN FOCUS: 18.30 A CAMBODIAN LOOK BACK IN ANGER OPENS FRI 11TH TAMARA HENDERSON DOC IFI 4TH WILD STRAWBERRIES & BEALTAINE: SULLY 11.00 REDOUBTABLE OPENS FRI 11TH FRI SPRING THE YOUNG KARL MARX OPENS FRI 11TH 5TH ROCK'N'ROLL CINEMA: U2: DREAM OUT LOUD 18.30 THE COLOUR OF SAT 6TH EFA YOUNG AUDIENCE AWARD: 12.45 POMEGRANATES OPENS FRI 18TH SUN HOBBYHORSE REVOLUTION FILMWORKER OPENS FRI 18TH 7TH OPEN CAPTIONED SCREENING: TULLY 18.20 JEUNE FEMME OPENS FRI 18TH MON THE BREADWINNER OPENS FRI 25TH 8TH OPEN CAPTIONED SCREENING: TULLY 16.00 This documentary is an intimate portrait Screened at last year’s IFI Documentary TUES IRISH FOCUS: BIAFRA (FORGOTTEN MISSION) 18.30 OPENS FRI 4TH ON CHESIL BEACH OPENS FRI 25TH of three people caught up in the chaotic Festival, and winner at Hot Docs for 9TH IFI FILM CLUB: TULLY 18.15 ZAMA OPENS FRI 25TH WED EXCLUSIVELY AT IFI† and often violent developments shaping Best International Feature, the film is modern-day Cambodia. about the complexities, both political 11TH IFI FRENCH FILM CLUB: REDOUBTABLE 18.30 FILM INFO: and personal, of fighting for what you FRI 126 mins, 2017, UK, Digital, Subtitled Shot over six years, the film charts the believe in. 12TH FROM THE VAULTS: IFI & ABBEY THEATRE: 13.30 gradual politicisation of two young SAT LADY GREGORY Notes by Sunniva O’Flynn mothers and one Buddhist monk, the † The exclusivity of films is correct at time of print. TRUST NO ONE: Z 16.00 growing wave of land-rights protests 13TH TRUST NO ONE: THE DAY OF THE JACKAL 16.00 PREVIEW SCREENING that led to the ‘Cambodian Spring’, SUN A special screening on Monday, April 30th will be and the tragic events that followed. 15TH FAKE VIEWS: CERTIFIED COPY 18.30 followed by a Q&A with GET SOCIAL! TUE director Chris Kelly and the Venerable Luon Sovath. Excited about this month’s programme? So are we! 16TH TRUST NO ONE: THE FLIGHT 18.15 Tell your friends which film you’re planning to watch, WED STORIES FROM THE HALF LIGHT: THE FILMS OF 20.30 share your movie reviews and show us your best pics PETER HUTTON IFI & BLIAIN NA GAEILGE 2018: CAOINEADH AIRT 18.30 on Instagram, Twitter and Facebook! 17TH RELEASE NEW THUR UÍ LAOIRE Join the IFI Community online: LEAN ON

19TH FAKE VIEWS: CATFISH 13.30 DOC IFI linkedin.com/company/irishfilminstitute SAT TRUST NO ONE: INVESTIGATION OF A CITIZEN 16.00 ABOVE SUSPICION PETE @IrishFilmInstitute @IFI_Dub 20TH MYSTERY MATINEE 13.00 SUN TRUST NO ONE: THE PARALLAX VIEW 16.00 @IrishFilmInstitute 23RD TRUST NO ONE: STATE OF SIEGE 18.30 WED 25TH WILD STRAWBERRIES: A MAN CALLED OVE 11.00 For bookings and film information, please see our FRI OPEN CAPTIONED SCREENING: ON CHESIL BEACH 16.00 website, www.ifi.ie, or contact the IFI Box Office IFI & ILFD: NEIL GAIMAN PRESENTS... ALICE 20.00 on 01-6793477 (open 12.30 to 21.00 daily). OPENS FRI 4TH The wide open spaces of the American his jockey partner Bonnie (played by 26TH IFI FAMILY & ILFD: MARY AND THE WITCH’S FLOWER 11.00 mid-west offer a striking change Steve Buscemi and Chloë Sevigny), SAT FAKE VIEWS: TIM’S VERMEER 13.30 TRUST NO ONE: THE LOST HONOUR OF 16.00 FILM INFO: of pace for director hitching a ride on their precarious Open Captioned screening KATHERINA BLUM 121 mins, UK, 2017, Digital following the interior intimacies of his tour of the small-time racing circuit. Notes by David O’Mahony previous films Weekend (2011) and Charley grows attached to a failing 27TH TRUST NO ONE: THREE DAYS OF THE CONDOR 16.00 Audio Described screening SUN (2015). Adapted from the racehorse named Lean on Pete, a bond novel by Willy Vlautin, this latest film that grows more urgent and poignant 29TH FEAST YOUR EYES: THE BREADWINNER 18.45 TUE OPEN CAPTIONED SCREENING: ON CHESIL BEACH 18.15 centres on Charley (), when he learns that Pete has become a lonely 15-year-old living under the superfluous to Del’s requirements. The F-rating is a classification 30TH WILD STRAWBERRIES: A MAN CALLED OVE 11.00 WED thumb of an abusive father in a glum reserved for any film which is TRUST NO ONE: KNIFE IN THE HEAD 18.30 Portland suburb. Charley happens directed and/or written by a woman. 31ST THE BIGGER PICTURE: WHAT’S UP, DOC? 18.30 upon a racetrack one day and falls in THUR with travelling horse trainers Del and

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OPENS FRI 4TH Charlize Theron stars as Marlo, a identity can be subsumed by family, OPENS FRI 11TH (The Artist) tackles Redoubtable pokes affectionate fun at woman overwhelmed by the arrival of anchored by Theron’s best performance a key moment in the life of iconic French Godard’s foibles, using pastiches of FILM INFO: an unplanned third child. Receiving little in years. LE REDOUTABLE New Wave director Jean-Luc Godard, cinematic devices he popularised to droll 96 mins, USA, 2018, Digital in the way of actual help from her well- played by Louis Garrel. The year is effect, with certain famous shots being Notes by Kevin Coyne meaning though ineffectual husband There will be Open Captioned (OC) EXCLUSIVELY AT IFI† 1967; Godard’s latest film, La Chinoise, reproduced as Hazanavicius introduces (Ron Livingston), Marlo begrudgingly screenings at 18.20 on Monday 7th FILM INFO: has been a disaster. His marriage his . In the lead role, Garrel nimbly accepts her brother’s offer of a night and 16.00 on Tuesday 8th. 107 mins, 2017, France, to second wife, 20-year-old actress avoids caricature and essays Godard’s nanny, Tully (Mackenzie Davis), to ease Digital, Subtitled Anne Wiazemsky (Stacy Martin), is combination of effortless cool and the pressure. Writer Diablo Cody and Notes by David O’Mahony stagnating. Disillusioned, the director brittle insecurity with great aplomb. director Jason Reitman present an becomes increasingly radicalised by IFI FRENCH FILM CLUB IFI FILM CLUB acerbic and unsentimental look at the Tickets for IFI and Alliance the student revolt of 1968 and rejects Join us for an open discussion difficulties of motherhood and the ease Française members for the his past life and work to embark on a following the 18.15 screening with which a woman’s own past and 18.30 screening on Friday 11th new creative and ideological path. on Wednesday 9th. cost just €7.50.

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OPENS FRI 11TH Jimmy Porter (), a what became known as the British OPENS FRI 11TH Raoul Peck, a keenly political filmmaker behest of his patron. Meanwhile, in disillusioned university graduate, rejects New Wave of cinema that emerged in and director of I Am Not Your Negro, Manchester, Engels witnesses firsthand EXCLUSIVELY AT IFI† his wife’s middle-class aspirations and the late 1950s and early 1960s. Often LE JEUNE KARL MARX one of last year’s outstanding the cruelty with which workers in his instead chooses to earn a living as referred to as ‘kitchen sink dramas’, documentaries, returns with a more father’s factories are treated, and FILM INFO: a jazz musician and a trader at the these films represented working class FILM INFO: conventional biopic of Karl Marx begins a relationship with working class 98 mins, UK, 1959, local market. life in a refreshingly forthright and 118 mins, France-Belgium- (August Diehl) that focuses on his Irishwoman Mary Burns. Just as the Digital, Black & White Germany, 2017, Digital, Subtitled Notes by David O’Mahony realistic manner. Notes by Kevin Coyne relationship with Friedrich Engels two men travel around Europe refining Their already troubled marriage reaches (Stefan Konarske), his lifelong friend their political doctrine, arguing against a crisis point when another woman and collaborator. Following his arrest prevailing thought and attracting a becomes the object of his aggression in Germany, Marx moves to with growing band of eager revolutionaries, and attention. Adapted from John his wife Jenny (Phantom Thread’s Vicky the film will similarly prove of interest to Osborne’s play, Tony Richardson’s Look Krieps), scion of one of Prussia’s most devotees and neophytes alike. Back in Anger is a landmark entry into prominent aristocratic families, at the

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OPENS FRI 18TH One of the great films of the Soviet A film that exists almost entirely outside OPENS FRI 18TH Winner of the Camera d’Or for best helped by an ability to improvise that era, The Colour of Pomegranates is an of the standard grammar of cinema, The first feature at the 2017 Cannes Film occasionally strays into outright lies, SAYAT NOVA unconventional biopic of 18th century Colour of Pomegranates is presented here FILM INFO: Festival, and the closing film of last but equally hindered by an abrasive Armenian ashug (a kind of folk poet or in a beautiful new digital restoration that 97 mins, France, 2017, November’s IFI French Film Festival, edge to her personality that sometimes FILM INFO: musician) Sayat-Nova. Taking a lyrical enhances the immersive experience of Digital, Subtitled Jeune Femme is the story of Paula and unintentionally exacerbates her 80 mins, Soviet Union, and mystical approach to its subject the imagery and soundtrack, affording Notes by Kevin Coyne (Laetitia Dosch), a woman struggling to situation. Dosch’s startling, kinetic 1969, Digital, Subtitled Notes by Kevin Coyne that is somewhat similar to the work of audiences the rare and welcomed reassert her individuality following the performance gives vivid life to a Alejandro Jodorowsky (El Topo, The Holy opportunity of experiencing its wonders break-up of a decade-long relationship character that, though her initial Mountain), the film explores the man’s and mysteries on the big screen. in which she felt very much the junior inability to adjust to being responsible life in chapters using a series of visually partner. With no money, no job, and for her own life is often frustrating, stunning tableaux that emphasise the no fixed address, she drifts from one is never less than sympathetic. effect of his surroundings and culture encounter to another, taking advantage on his art. of any opportunity that presents itself,

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OPENS FRI 18TH In 1975, was on the crest which delves into the true passion for OPENS FRI 25TH The Kilkenny-based Cartoon Saloon In this restrictive régime women are of a wave, moving from TV fame to a film behind Kubrick’s tyrannical public animation studio (The Secret of Kells, not permitted to leave the house EXCLUSIVELY AT IFI† high profile part in , the persona. Through photos, behind FILM INFO: Song of the Sea) returns with another unescorted, to earn money or shop sumptuously-shot period drama partly the scenes video and more, we get a 94 mins, Ireland-Canada- Oscar-nominated triumph; directed by in the market. When Parvana’s father FILM INFO: made in Ireland by master filmmaker glimpse at the mania required to keep Luxembourg, 2017, Digital Nora Twomey – co-director of Kells – is imprisoned under suspicious 94 mins, USA, 2017, Digital . He then abandoned it Kubrick’s life in order, and the toll it Notes by David O’Mahony The Breadwinner is a beautifully realised circumstances, she is forced to Notes by Daniel Anderson all to become Kubrick’s right-hand man, takes on a filmworker. ode to resilience under oppression and disguise herself as a boy to become the a tireless cog in the movie-making- the imaginative power of storytelling. family’s sole breadwinner, whilst trying machine and painstaking caretaker Adapted from Deborah Ellis’s bestselling desperately to free her beloved father. of the celluloid left behind. novel, the film tells the story of Parvana, FEAST YOUR EYES Enjoy the film with a specially a young girl living in Kabul, Afghanistan, Vitali makes for an absorbing subject devised main course following under the control of the Taliban. in Tony Zierra’s intimate documentary, the 18.45 screening on Tuesday 29th. 8 9 MAY 2018 IRISH ARCHIVE AT FOCUS LUNCHTIME ON CHESIL BEACH NEW RELEASE

OPENS FRI 25TH Ian McEwan’s celebrated novella of and frustration. With the impending Uli Night Flight to newlyweds Florence (Saoirse Ronan) consummation as a framing device, FILM INFO: and Edward (Billy Howle) is sensitively the film flashes back to flesh out who BIAFRA RADHARC IN AFRICA 110 mins, UK, 2017, Digital brought to the screen by director they are and how they met, McEwan’s Notes by David O’Mahony Dominic Cooke. screenplay adding satisfying layers (FORGOTTEN MISSION) Join us for free films from the IFI Irish Film of complexity. Archive. Simply collect tickets at IFI Box Office The film opens in 1962 on the day of BIAFRA (MISEAN DEARMADTA) – please see www.ifi.ie for more information their wedding; staying in a Dorset hotel There will be Open Captioned (OC) on the titular beach, they nervously screenings at 16.00 on Friday 25th TUES 8TH (18.30) Notes by Sunniva O’Flynn circle the inevitable intimacy that and 18.15 on Tuesday 29th. the day demands. Both are clearly Ireland and Nigeria: a world apart and yet intimately PROGRAMME ONE inexperienced, their hesitancy connected by traumatic events that took place NIGHT FLIGHT TO ULI undercut by revealing notes of shame 50 years ago, which would have attracted little Filmed in Biafra as the Nigerian civil war drew to a attention here but for the fact that Nigeria was close, the film shows how supplies from Irish and home to thousands of Irish people. international aid agencies were flown to Biafra to relieve the besieged Ibo people. It includes an In the midst of a tragic civil war, Irish missionaries interview with the then Biafran leader Colonel Ojuku ZAMA defied a cynical international cartel to save millions and evidence of the work being done by Irish relief from starvation, and became international media volunteers in the area. celebrities. But at the end of the war, they were FILM INFO: 30 mins, Ireland, 1969, Digital expelled from Nigeria, accused of prolonging the conflict. PROGRAMME TWO

The film brings together eyewitness accounts CROSSROADS IN NIGERIA Ten years after the civil war in Nigeria, this film looks and a rich tapestry of film archive to present a

NEW RELEASE at the dilemma facing Catholic foreign missionaries remarkable episode in the history of Ireland and who no longer have control of mission schools and Nigeria, now wiped from the public memory of hospitals. Missionaries must now find new avenues both countries. of approach in their work of evangelisation. Argentine master Lucrecia Martel elliptical narrative sees Don Diego OPENS FRI 25TH FILM INFO: 26 mins, Ireland, 1982, Digital returns from an eight year absence de Zama (Daniel Giménez Cacho), Directors Irina Maldea and Brendan Culleton will be present at this screening. EXCLUSIVELY AT IFI† to deliver what is perhaps her most an officer of the Spanish crown, distinctive work to date. Ostensibly working for the local magistrate in DIRECTORS: Irina Maldea, Brendan Culleton FILM INFO: a colonial period drama set in the the deadening heat of a remote South FILM INFO: 50 mins, Ireland, 2018, Digital 115 mins, Argentina-Brazil- 18th century, Zama is revealed to be American colony, anxiously awaiting Spain-Dominican Republic- France-Netherlands-Mexico- an intoxicating and unsettling study a much desired and forever delayed Notes by Sunniva O'Flynn Switzerland-Portugal-USA- of thwarted ambition that exhibits reassignment to Buenos Aires. Lebanon, 2017, Digital, Subtitled a fetid, pestilential air redolent of Confounded by layers of bureaucracy, Notes by David O'Mahony Herzog's Aguirre: The Wrath of God Zama’s world descends into a and Fitzcarraldo. Based on the 1956 nightmarish fever dream. Argentine novel of the same name by Antonio De Benedetto, the sparse,

10 11 FROM THE VAULTS IFI & IFI & ABBEY THEATRE PRESENTS - THE OLD LADY BLIAIN NA SAYS YES: LADY GREGORY, GAEILGE 2018 THE ABBEY, AND FILM CAOINEADH SAT 12TH AIRT UÍ LAOIRE THUR 17TH (18.30) The range of Lady Augusta Gregory’s talents was considerable: co-founder of the Abbey Theatre, translator, PANEL DISCUSSION: LAMENT FOR ART O’LEARY folklorist, theatre producer and Yeats collaborator. She THE CULTURAL LEGACY Continuing our 2018 focus on Irish film skilfully interweaves the twin was also an important, resolutely experimental dramatist DIRECTOR: language productions, Caoineadh narratives of the actors’ rebellion with Bob Quinn in her own right. Initially showing a genius for comedy, OF LADY GREGORY Airt Uí Laoire, Bob Quinn’s first Irish the O'Leary story to create a potent language feature, uses the story of the political statement within a subversive she later wrote tragedies, histories, translations and an (15.00) TICKETS €5 FILM INFO: explicitly feminist play Grania. She has been a significant 56 mins, Ireland, 1975, 18th century Irish rebel Art O’Leary to drama that was quite unprecedented in Digital, Subtitled examine questions of national identity, Irish cinema at the time. presence in film also with Ria Mooney’s adaptation Exploring the life and legacy of Lady Gregory and Notes by Sunniva O’Flynn of her comedy The Workhouse Ward (1950); with John her continuing influence on the Abbey Theatre and Irish culture and the nature of history Ford’s adaptation of her play, The Rising of the Moon its practitioners. itself. A group of unruly players refuse This screening will be introduced by (1957); as represented by Dame Edith Evans in Ford’s the orders of their British director (John director Bob Quinn. Young Cassidy (1965); and with her translation of the Arden) as he orchestrates a dramatic poem ‘Dónall Óg’ in John Huston’s The Dead (1987). Panel moderator Melissa Sihra (TCD) will be joined retelling of the life of Irish rebel Art by Lelia Doolan, former Artistic Director of the Abbey O’Leary (Seán Bán Breathnach). The Introductory note by Anthony Roche. Theatre; Anthony Roche (UCD); Barry Monahan (UCC); and Mairéad Delaney, Archivist at the Abbey Theatre. Tickets for each event sold separately. A ticket for all events costing €15 is also available online and from the IFI Box Office. IFI & AEMI & DOUGLAS HYDE SHORTS PROGRAMME THE RISING OF THE MOON GALLERY: IN FOCUS (13.30) TICKETS €5 (16.45) REGULAR IFI PRICING THE WORKHOUSE WARD The Rising of the Moon is one of John Ford’s TAMARA This recently acquired adaptation of Lady most personal films. Shot entirely on location Gregory’s one-act comedy centres on two in Ireland with actors recruited mainly from the HENDERSON bickering paupers confined to adjacent hospital Abbey Theatre, the film served as a fine showcase

WED 2ND (18.30) End: Out of Body Seasons beds until the arrival of the Widow Donohue for Irish acting talent of the day, capturing the (Eileen Crowe). An excellent record of the Abbey actors at the peak of their careers, and Abbey’s writing, directing and acting skills. bringing the work of three important Irish writers FILM INFO: To coincide with Seasons End: More Müller’s dreamlike opus Alpsee to the 67 mins, 1994-2018, DIRECTOR: Ria Mooney, to the world’s stage. The triptych style, which Various, 16mm Than Suitcases, her current exhibition playful interaction of colourful fabric FILM INFO: 25 mins, Ireland, 1950, Digital, Black and White is by turns contemplative, comic and political at the Douglas Hyde Gallery, aemi have with the natural environment in Ute includes work by Frank O'Connor, Martin J. curated a screening of works featuring and Detel Aurand’s Thread Games II and CRADLE OF GENIUS McHugh, and a powerful updating to 1921 of the three recent 16mm films by Canadian the costumed performances in Tamara This Academy Award-nominated film, written play by Lady Gregory that gives the film its title. artist Tamara Henderson. Alongside Henderson's most recent film, Seasons by Frank O’Connor, presents a history of the those films are two additional 16mm End: Out of Body. Abbey as fondly remembered by Abbey stalwarts DIRECTOR: John Ford films by Matthias Müller and sisters Siobhán McKenna, Maureen Delaney, Harry EVENT INFO: 81 mins, Ireland-USA, 1957, Digital, Black and White Ute and Detel Aurand. All of these films This screening will be followed by a Q&A Brogan, Barry Fitzgerald and Seán O’Casey. Notes by Sunniva O'Flynn challenge our assumptions about how with aemi and artist Tamara Henderson. DIRECTOR: Paul Rotha materiality operates in cinema, from FILM INFO: 42 mins, Ireland, 1959, Digital, Black and White the repurposed footage in Matthias

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DIRECTOR: Fresh from the success of The Last another belongs to freeloader Judy Peter Bogdanovich Picture Show, Warner Bros asked Peter Maxwell (Streisand), and the fourth to FILM INFO: Bogdanovich to direct something with Prof. Bannister (Ryan O’Neal) with whom 94 mins, USA, 1972, Digital Barbra Streisand, so he took his idea of Judy falls in love. Doors are banged, a Notes by Alicia McGivern ‘a professor and a dizzy dame’ to some theft takes place, a fiancé is kidnapped, high-calibre writers. The result is this and a San Francisco chase ensues in gag-filled, whirlwind of a comedy, filled this homage to Bringing up Baby. with chaos and one-liners. This screening will be introduced by Four identical plaid bags are checked Festival Director of the Audi Dublin in to a hotel: one contains top-secret International Film Festival Gráinne documents, another precious jewels, Humphreys. SULLY A MAN CALLED OVE EN MAN SOM HETER OVE FRI 4TH (11.00) FRI 25TH & WED 30TH (11.00) IFI & INTERNATIONAL Join us for the launch of the 2018 access>Cinema There are grumpy old men, and then there’s Ove. LITERATURE FESTIVAL film tour, which features this grand biopic starring Though not that old, he’s certainly grumpy. Based on Tom Hanks as Chesley Sullenberger, the aircraft pilot the bestselling Swedish novel by Fredrik Backman, DUBLIN who dramatically landed his damaged plane on the Ove feels that life is no longer worthwhile since losing Hudson river, saving the lives of his passengers and his job and his wife’s death. However, interuptions by NEIL GAIMAN crew. Tying in with the Bealtaine theme of hosting and unruly neighbours keep disrupting his suicide attempts. SELECTS… generosity, Sully demonstrates his hugely generous spirit, risking all to bring everyone to safety. Clint As flashbacks reveal his sad life, there are contrasting ALICE Eastwood’s direction brings his quiet heroism to darkly funny scenes, and warm interventions by new the fore. neighbor Parvaneh and her family, who give him FRI 25TH (20.00) reasons to live again. DIRECTOR: NECO Z ALENKY Neil Gaiman joins us to introduce and audio theatre, and movies. From the FILM INFO: 96 mins, 2016, USA, Digital DIRECTOR: Hannes Holm FILM INFO: 116 mins, Sweden, 2016, Digital, Subtitled DIRECTOR: discuss Alice, a dark fantasy film by BBC dark fantasy TV series Neverwhere Jan Švankmajer Czech filmmaker Jan Švankmajer. A and Doctor Who to film work including Screening as part of Bealtaine @ Temple Bar. surreal adaptation of Lewis Carroll’s Stardust, Coraline and Beowolf, he’s as Bealtaine, the annual celebration of creativity in older Notes by Alicia McGivern FILM INFO: age, takes place at venues throughout the country in 86 mins, 1988, - classic children’s book Alice in at home writing for the screen as he is Switzerland-UK-West Germany, Wonderland, this 1988 fantasy thriller in print. Join Neil Gaiman and ILFDublin May 2018. See www.bealtaine.ie for more details. Digital, Subtitled looks into the darkest, wildest recesses at the IFI for a very special evening! of a child’s mind. Tickets: €16/€14. Wild Strawberries is our film club for over 55s. Tickets: €4.25 including regular tea/coffee before the event. One of the greatest living storytellers, If you happen to look younger, please don’t take offence if we ask your age. Neil Gaiman has written short fiction, novels, comic books, graphic novels,

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DIRECTOR: U2: Dream Out Loud illuminates the shared experiences of joy, loss, RECOMMENDED AGE: 10+ The Young Audience Award (YAA) is an documentary from Finland depicts the David Barry extraordinary connection U2 fans strength and empowerment. Where DIRECTOR: initiative of the European Film Academy weird and somehow wonderful sport of FILM INFO: share with their music, the band and they have been and where they will go Selma Vilhunen (EFA), and is awarded annually by hobbyhorse riding, which encourages 111 mins, USA, 2018, Digital each other for four decades. as they Dream Out Loud. EVENT INFO: young juries from all across Europe. teenagers in Finland to stand up for 88 mins, Finland, 2017, On Sunday 6th, IFI will host these themselves through their shared passion. The documentary is a conversation Digital, Subtitled awards with our YAA panel, who will between 200 people, and is a heartfelt Notes by Alicia McGivern watch the three nominated films and collection of experiences from fans vote on their favourite. representing 25 countries ranging in TICKETS age from 12 to 72. Their stories bring Tickets: €4.80 per person, The jury screening of nominated film €14.40 family ticket (2 adults + to life the incredible journey that U2 2 children, 1 adult + 3 children). Hobbyhorse Revolution will be open fans have been on since 1980 through to the public. This warm and funny

STORIES FROM IFI FAMILY THE HALF LIGHT: & ILFD THE FILMS OF MARY AND PETER HUTTON THE WITCH’S FLOWER WED 16TH (20.30) SAT 26TH (11.00)

EVENT INFO: Boston guitarist/composer Chris information overload even in the 1970s MEARI TO MAJO NO HANA Presented in association with the one day, wandering in the woods, she 100 mins, USA, 1979–1997, 16mm Notes by Chris Brokaw Brokaw and Dublin guitarist/ were uniquely prescient. Brokaw and DIRECTOR: International Literature Festival Dublin finds a bright blue flower which gives composer Matthew Nolan present an Nolan seek to explore the questions Hiromasa Yonebayashi 2018, this gorgeous anime features her magic powers. Transported by evening exploring the silent films of raised by these films about how we EVENT INFO: flame-haired Mary, a brave, bold girl broomstick to a magic school, Endor experimental filmmaker Peter Hutton take in information with an evening 102 mins, Japan, 2017, who gets the gift of magic. Based on College, she has to deal with monsters, (1944-2016). Over a period of 50 years, alternating films, includingBoston Fire, Digital, Subtitled the book The Little Broomstick, it’s the mayhem and mystery and find a way Hutton made a series of short silent New York Portrait #1, Study of a River, Notes by Alicia McGivern first film from Studio Ponoc, home to back home. films, often in black and white, and Landscape (for Manon), and In Titan’s many former Ghibli animators, including Q&A primarily of landscapes and cities. Goblet, in their original/silent state with TICKETS director Hiromasa Yonebayashi. Writer and illustrator ER Murray will The screening will be followed He likened the films to paintings, and ones featuring new live scores Tickets: €5 per person, €15 introduce the film and talk about her own by a Q&A with Chris Brokaw family ticket (2 adults + 2 and Matthew Nolan. described watching them as 'a little for electric guitars and electronics. children, 1 adult + 3 children). Mary is bored spending the summer at love of witches in books and films. like daydreaming'. His concerns about her Great Aunt Charlotte’s home until

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Operating both as a gripping thriller and TRUST Z a political expose, Z won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 1970. The film’s crusading nature is immediately evident from the on-screen statement at the beginning: ‘Any NO ONE similarity to actual events or persons SAT 12TH (16.00) living or dead is not coincidental. A season of international political thrillers It is intentional.' FILM INFO: Inspired by the killing of Greek politician 127 mins, France, 1969, Digital, Subtitled Grigoris Lambrakis in 1963, Costa- Gavras's exhilarating, brilliantly directed MAY 12TH - 30TH third feature focuses on the aftermath of a similar assassination of a As the 1960s drew to a close, the idealism and Responding to these seismic cultural and political politician leading the opposition optimism that typified the decade soured and was shifts, filmmakers turned to the thriller, a genre to a right-wing government. replaced by an air of uncertainty and an anxious that readily offered the opportunity to explore strain of political activism. The student uprisings conspiracies, authoritarian régimes, state corruption in Paris in 1968, terrorism in Italy and Germany, and the violence both the left and right factions THE DAY OF is given emergency powers to conduct President Kennedy’s assassination, and the were using to effect the changes they sought for his investigation and a game of cat shockwaves from the Watergate scandal in the society. The films in this season are reflective of the THE JACKAL and mouse ensues. Fred Zinnemann’s US all contributed to the volatile mood of the era creativity and urgency this new age of high anxiety adaptation of Frederick Forsyth’s 1971 – old norms were being challenged and the future engendered in the filmmakers of the era. novel, itself inspired by an actual 1962 was unstable. attempt on De Gaulle’s life, is a classic of Introduction and film notes by David O’Mahony. suspense cinema with a career-defining SUN 13TH (16.00) performance from Edward Fox as the elusive Jackal. FILM INFO: A right-wing paramilitary group plotting 143 mins, UK-France, 1973, Digital to kill French President General De Gaulle in response to his granting of Algerian independence in 1963 contracts a professional assassin code-named As Above, So Below: Portals, Visions, Spirits & Mystics Alejandro Jodorowsky and Kenneth Anger feature ‘The Jackal’. Learning of the conspiracy, is a major international exhibition taking place at IMMA both in the exhibition and in this film selection, police inspector Lebel (Michael Lonsdale) from April 13th to August 27th which examines the role of thereby providing the opportunity to engage with their spirituality in visual art from a wide range of perspectives. extraordinary work in different contexts – in other cases, A saying often used to allude to the familiar but mysterious the connections are less explicit, giving the viewer the makes Roland Gräf’s film all the more world around us, As Above, So Below also hints at a chance to perceive for her or himself possible kinships THE FLIGHT remarkable for addressing the topic duality or a mirroring of sorts, a striking and important between specific films and artworks. head-on whilst being financed under feature that recurs in a number of the films selected here the auspices of the state owned DEFA to respond to, reflect upon and interact with the varied Introduction and film notes by Alice Butler. studios. Winner of the Grand Prix at the themes that arise in the exhibition. 1978 Karlovy Vary Film Festival, it was As Above, So Below: Portals, Visions, Spirits & Mystics runs at IMMA the last film Mueller-Stahl made in the In keeping with the artworks in the exhibition, the films until August 27th 2017. For more details on the exhibition and event ( ) East before moving to West Germany in WED 16TH 18.15 Flucht©DEFA-Stiftung/ Die GoldmannKlaus that feature here, from directors as diverse as Krzysztof programme see www.imma.ie. 1980 and later to the US. Kieślowski, , Barbara McCullough DIE FLUCHT and , transcend the limitations of what Dismayed by East German state is conventionally understood as spiritual to embrace FILM INFO: bureaucracy, Dr Schmidt (Armin Mueller- ideas around mysticism, ritual, human consciousness, the 94 mins, East Germany, 1977, Stahl) seeks the help of an underground otherworld and the occult. While a direct correspondence Digital, Subtitled faction to assist in his escape to the or through-line can be discerned in some instances – west. Defection to the west was a taboo subject for GDR filmmakers, which The Holy Mountain Holy The

18 19 TRUST NO ONE INVESTIGATION 1971 . Volontè plays a THE LOST HONOUR The tabloid press, working in cahoots respected police inspector who, at the OF KATHERINA BLUM with the corrupt police force, are led OF A CITIZEN outset, brutally murders his mistress to her door and subject her to a brutal then investigates the scene of the character assassination that tests the ABOVE SUSPICION crime himself. limits of her dignity and sanity. Exonerating all potential suspects, he Schlöndorff and von Trotta’s gripping SAT 19TH (16.00) begins to plant ever-more obvious clues SAT 26TH (16.00) adaptation of Heinrich Böll’s novel to his guilt - all of which are wilfully explores state power, individual freedom INDAGINE SU UN ignored by his fearful subordinates DIE VERLORENE EHRE DER and the means by which a vindictive Director Elio Petri’s supremely stylish, - to prove his untouchable status. Life begins to unravel for young media can ruin an innocent reputation. CITTADINO AL DI SOPRA blackly humorous exposé of endemic KATHERINA BLUM Katherina Blum (Angela Winkler) after DI OGNI SOSPETTO police corruption in Italian society boasts FILM INFO: she spends the night with an alleged FILM INFO: a magnetic performance from his regular 106 mins, West Germany, 1975, terrorist, immediately becoming the 115 mins, Italy, 1970, lead Gian Maria Volontè, and was named Blu-ray victim of an unremitting campaign of Digital, Subtitled Best Foreign Language Film at the police surveillance and harassment.

professional hit men. Memorably shot by his department has been shot and killed. THE PARALLAX the great Gordon Willis, Alan J. Pakula’s THREE DAYS Kidnapping a stranger (Faye Dunaway) (All The President’s Men) post-Watergate OF THE CONDOR at gunpoint, Turner hides out at her VIEW conspiracy thriller brilliantly caught the apartment, warding off threats to his life prevailing mood of cynicism and paranoia. from assassin Max Von Sydow whilst The bravura sequence where Parallax trying to uncover what it was he was operatives subject Frady to a montage of working on that has made him a target, SUN 20TH (16.00) confrontational imagery to evaluate his SUN 27TH (16.00) ultimately uncovering a plot with responses is unforgettable. global implications. FILM INFO: When witnesses to the assassination FILM INFO: ’s fourth collaboration 102 mins, USA, 1974, 35mm 117 mins, USA, 1975, Blu-ray of a presidential candidate begin to with director is a classic mysteriously disappear, journalist Joe example of the paranoid conspiracy Frady () goes undercover thrillers that proliferated in the wake in an investigation that leads him to the of Watergate. Redford plays unassuming Parallax Corporation, a shadowy entity CIA researcher Joe Turner who returns involved in the recruitment and training of from lunch one day to find everyone in

pro-US Latin American country on Hoffman’s journey of rehabilitation STATE torture techniques. KNIFE IN and investigation into the truth of what THE HEAD happened to him leads to a fateful OF SIEGE He is targeted by a militant guerrilla confrontation with the authorities. group and kidnapped to bargain for the release of political prisoners; the press Confused, brittle and full of self-doubt, the seize on his abduction and it becomes character of Hoffman serves as a metaphor WED 23RD (18.30) a media sensation, leading inevitably WED 30TH (18.30) for West Germany as a traumatised to violence. The film acts as a critique country learning to slowly rethink its ÉTAT DE SIEGE of US sanctions for corrupt foreign MESSER IM KOPF political beliefs. A landmark political thriller, Costa- dictatorships while questioning the use Caught in the crossfire at a raid on a FILM INFO: Gavras’s State of Siege reflected growing of violence to oppose such régimes. FILM INFO: left-wing rally, apolitical scientist Hoffman 120 mins, France-Italy, 1972, mistrust at US interventions overseas. 108 mins, West Germany, 1978, (Bruno Ganz) is critically injured with Digital, Subtitled plays Philip Michael 35mm lingering memory loss. Smeared as a Santore, a CIA operative covertly terrorist by the police who almost killed advising the government of an unnamed him and hailed as a hero by other groups,

20 21 FAKE VIEWS IRISH FILM INSTITUTE & SCIENCE GALLERY AT TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN CERTIFIED COPY FROM IAN M EWAN, THE ACCLAIMED AUTHOR OF TUES 15TH (18.30) COPIE CONFORME ATONEMENT. Juliette Binoche plays an antiques dealer in Tuscany; she attends a talk by a British writer (played by Opera singer William Shimell) which addresses Tim's Vermer Tim's issues of authenticity in the art world – why do we ascribe such value to original works when they are “SAOIRSE RONAN We may be obsessed with authenticity, but in indistinguishable from counterfeits – a question that the natural world and human society, faking and underpins much of what is to follow in Kiarostami’s IS REMARKABLE” VARIETY mimicking can be highly effective strategies for intriguing puzzle. The two later meet and she drives success. Curated in response to the Science Gallery at him to a nearby village; along the way they begin Trinity College Dublin’s current free exhibition FAKE, to playfully assume the roles of a long-married ★★★★ which runs throughout May, the films in this season couple to an extent that forces the audience to MARIE CLAIRE explore how filmmakers have engaged with issues reconsider the nature of what has come before. around copying and fakery. From the fascinating Tim’s Vermeer, which ponders the value of replicating the Introduction to the film and the season old masters, to Catfish, the shocking documentary from Ian Brunswick, Head of Programming that coined the term, the films in the season shed at Science Gallery Dublin. light on our preconceptions of authenticity. FILM INFO: 106 mins, Italy-France-Iran, 2010, 35mm, Subtitled

CATFISH TIM’S VERMEER

SAT 26TH (13.30) SAT 19TH (13.30) 17th century Dutch master Johannes Vermeer created astonishingly beautiful paintings that Directors Ariel Schulman and Henry Joost sense foreground the minutiae of everyday lives, capturing a story unfolding as they begin to film the life of the play of light with a degree of photorealism that Ariel’s brother Nev, a photographer and avid social has led art historians to speculate that Vermeer networker. Their project begins when Nev receives sought the assistance of a camera obscura – an a mysterious package from an eight-year-old girl optical device that projects a reflected image onto called Abby; Nev is charmed and immediately begins a wall – in the creation of his scenes. Entrepreneur a Facebook correspondence. The reality thriller that and inventor Tim Jenison puts his insatiable then unfolds is an alarming product of our times. The curiosity and considerable financial largesse to film is credited with originating the term ‘catfishing’, the task of physically recreating the conditions which has seeped into the cultural vernacular, to under which Vermeer worked to create an exact denote fake social networking presences created replica of the artist’s painting ‘The Music Lesson’. for deceptive and mischievous purposes. The film will be introduced by Sinéad Kathy Rice, The film will be introduced by Head of Education at the National Gallery of Ireland. cyberpsychologist Nicola Fox Hamilton. FILM INFO: 80 mins, USA, 2013, Digital FILM INFO: 88 mins, USA, 2010, Blu-ray

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