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FEBRUARY 2019 IF BEALE STREET COULD TALK THE IRISH FILM INSTITUTE

The Irish Film Institute is Ireland’s EXHIBIT national cultural institution for film. It aims to exhibit the finest in independent, Irish and international cinema, preserve PRESERVE Ireland’s moving image heritage at the IFI Irish Film Archive, and encourage EDUCATE engagement with film through its various educational programmes.

IFI IRISH FILM ARCHIVE TOURS MYSTERY MATINEE

Get a truly behind-the-scenes perspective on the workings of This month’s secret screening, for which tickets cost just the IFI Irish Film Archive and visit the climate-controlled film €5.20, will take place at 13.00 on Sunday 10th. Sometimes it vaults deep beneath our Temple Bar building. This tour will will be a preview, but not always; sometimes, it will be a title give a unique insight into the collections held in the IFI Irish one might expect to see at the IFI, but not always. Join us for Film Archive, show you around the film vaults and talk through this month’s screening, and expect the unexpected! Previous how we safeguard our collections that span from 1897 to the Mystery Matinee screenings have included a preview of Greta present day. Attendees will then be treated to lunch at the IFI Gerwig’s Lady Bird and ’s Citizen Ruth. Café Bar. See www.ifi.ie/archivetours for further details.

THE GREAT ESCAPE FEAST YOUR EYES + SATELLITE EVENT

Every month we pair a new release with a specially devised March 24th marks the 75th anniversary of the real-life POW main course from the IFI Café Bar. This month’s film choice escape during World War II from the Stalag Luft III prison in will be the 18.40 screening of ’s German-occupied Poland. In honour of this event, historian on Wednesday 20th. The menu on the evening will include a Dan Snow will host a commemorative evening live from the choice of Steak and Kidney Pie served with mash, Fish and Eventim Apollo in , followed by a screening of the Chips, and Vegetarian Wellington. Tickets cost €21, free list 1963 Steve McQueen classic The Great Escape presented in a suspended. Film notes on page 6. 4K restoration. Tickets now available from the IFI Box Office and www.ifi.ie.

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This February the IFI programme features more of the season’s award-winning films plus the spring Evening Course. FEBRUARY

AT THE IFI All Is True With awards season well and truly in full swing, there We’re also delighted to be partnering with Virgin Media has been an embarrassment of riches on offer in recent Dublin International Film Festival this month on a selection weeks, and February continues to see the release of some of films and events, including two films made under the Arts of the most critically-acclaimed and hotly anticipated Council’s ‘Reel Art’ scheme. In a partnership between IFI films of the year. Education and VMDIFF, we’ll also be presenting our second annual one-day Careers In Screen Day event for Senior Cycle This month be sure to see ’s follow-up students aged 15-18, providing them with an opportunity to Moonlight, If Beale Street Could Talk. A beautiful to learn about the broad range of potential jobs within the adaptation of ’s novel of the same name, film sector. the film was nominated for three Golden Globes (Best Picture, Best Supporting Actress and Best Screenplay), So there’s all of this, on top of our usual monthly and it’s sure to continue to be a strong contender programming strands, a special Chinese New Year throughout this year’s awards season. event, and a lot more besides!

Winner of the Jury Prize at Cannes, and shortlisted for Ross Keane Best Foreign Language Feature at most award ceremonies, Director Nadine Labaki’s Capernaum is an absolute must-see. Heartbreaking and beautiful in equal measure, Labaki secures a stunning performance from her young lead actor Zain al Rafeea. This film is sure to stay with you long after all awards have been handed out.

The IFI spring Evening Course (starting on March 12th) analyses post-1980s British cinema, examining how, be it through social realism, romantic comedies or the period drama, the UK has produced work that has offered local audiences and the wider cinema-going world an insight into life, creativity and the arts in a changing Britain. Titles featured will include ’s 28 Days Later and William Oldroyd’s Lady . With a selection of six film screenings over six weeks, each week will feature a talk by a special guest, including academics and industry practitioners.

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

GREEN BOOK FROM JANUARY DATE SCREENING TIME BURNING OPENS FRI 1ST 4TH OPEN CAPTIONED SCREENING: GREEN BOOK 20.35 ALL IS TRUE OPENS FRI 8TH MON BOY ERASED OPENS FRI 8TH 5TH OPEN CAPTIONED SCREENING: GREEN BOOK 13.00 TUES IFI & CHINESE NEW YEAR FESTIVAL: 20.20 IF BEALE STREET COULD TALK OPENS FRI 15TH SUBURBAN BIRDS THE LADY EVE OPENS FRI 15TH 10TH MYSTERY MATINEE 13.00 A PRIVATE WAR OPENS FRI 15TH SUN OPEN CAPTIONED SCREENING: BOY ERASED 13.15 CAPERNAUM OPENS FRI 22ND 12TH OPEN CAPTIONED SCREENING: ALL IS TRUE 18.10 TUES THE BIGGER PICTURE: RED DUST 18.30 13TH OPEN CAPTIONED SCREENING: BOY ERASED 18.00 WED IRISH FOCUS: WE OURSELVES + Q&A 18.15 14TH OPEN CAPTIONED SCREENING: ALL IS TRUE 13.00 THUR VALENTINE’S DAY PREVIEW: 20.30 IF BEALE STREET COULD TALK 19TH OPEN CAPTIONED SCREENING: 13.00 TUES IF BEALE STREET COULD TALK IFI FILM CLUB: A PRIVATE WAR 18.20 20TH FROM THE VAULTS: BROTH OF A BOY 18.30 WED FEAST YOUR EYES: ALL IS TRUE 18.40 21ST OPEN CAPTIONED SCREENING: 18.10 Films not classified by IFCO, including festival, one-off, and special IF BEALE STREET COULD TALK screenings, are exhibited under Club rules and are restricted to persons 18 THUR years and over. If you are not an IFI member, a daily membership (€1.50) is 22ND WILD STRAWBERRIES: A PRIVATE WAR 11.00 required for unclassified films, and this will be added to your transaction. FRI

† The exclusivity of films is correct at the time of print. 24TH IFI FAMILY: PEE-WEE’S BIG ADVENTURE 11.00 SUN 25TH IFI & VMDIFF 2019: 18.30 MON FLOATING STRUCTURES + Q&A GET SOCIAL! 26TH IFI & VMDIFF 2019: 18.30 Join the IFI community online: TUES WHAT TIME IS DEATH? + Q&A 27TH WILD STRAWBERRIES: A PRIVATE WAR 11.00 linkedin.com/company/irishfilminstitute WED 28TH IFI & VMDIFF 2019: 10.30 @IrishFilmInstitute @IFI_Dub THUR CAREERS IN SCREEN DAY @IrishFilmInstitute

For bookings and film information, please see our website, www.ifi.ie, or contact the IFI Box Office on 01-6793477 (open 12.30 to 21.00 daily).

Open Captioned screening

Audio Described screening

The F-rating is a classification reserved for any film which is directed and/or written by a woman.

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GREEN RELEASE NEW BOOK

FROM JANUARY New York, 1962. When nightclub bouncer south. Mortensen and Ali essay their Tony (Viggo Mortensen) finds himself out classic odd couple roles with aplomb, FILM INFO: of work, he answers an advert to chauffeur both actors relishing the opportunity to 130 mins, USA, 2018, Digital renowned African American classical play against type. Irresistibly entertaining, Notes by David O’Mahony pianist Don Shirley () Green Book offers a well-timed plea for through a tour of the Deep South where tolerance and empathy. the refined musician will need a measure of protection. Using the The Negro Motorist There will be Open Captioned screenings Green Book, which lists establishments on Monday 4th at 20.35 and Tuesday 5th that welcome African Americans, as at 13.00. their guide on the road, the mismatched duo form an unlikely bond as they are confronted by racism in the segregated

BURNING RELEASE NEW

OPENS FRI 1ST The conventions of the thriller genre claims they grew up together though are upended in this strikingly enigmatic he has no recollection of this. When FILM INFO: and provocative tale of romantic Hae-mi returns from a trip to Africa 148 mins, South Korea, obsession set against the backdrop of a with the handsome and affluent Ben 2018, Digital, Subtitled contemporary South Korea fraught with (Steven Yeun), Jong-su is consumed Notes by David O’Mahony uncertainty and status anxiety. Jong-su by jealous insecurity. Convinced of (Yoo Ah-in) is an aspiring novelist from Ben’s nefarious intentions, he begins to an inauspicious farming background spiral into dark psychological territory. working part-time as a deliveryman. Richly atmospheric and boasting a trio He begins an impromptu relationship of brilliant performances, Burning is a with Hae-mi (Jun Jong-seo) whom teasingly complex, elusive drama of he encounters by chance and who uncommon power.

5 FEBRUARY 2019 ALL IS TRUE NEW RELEASE

OPENS FRI 8TH In 1613, during a production of Henry is confronted by long-repressed grief VIII – the alternative title of which is for his son, Hamnet, who had died many FILM INFO: All Is True – Shakespeare’s beloved years previously at the age of 11. Based 101 mins, UK, 2018, Digital Globe Theatre burned down in a freak on an incisive, literate script by , Notes by David O’Mahony accident. Retiring from his gilded career Branagh’s film is a melancholy, restrained in London, the playwright (played by portrait of the Bard’s final years. director Kenneth Branagh) returns home to a semblance of domesticity in There will be Open Captioned screenings Stratford-upon-Avon where he is greeted at 18.10 and Tuesday 12th and at 13.00 on as a near stranger by stoical wife Anne Thursday 14th. FEAST YOUR EYES Enjoy the film with a specially () and two troubled daughters, created main course following Susanna and Judith. Without the the 18.40 screening on demands of work and fame, Shakespeare Wednesday 20th. See page 2. BOY ERASED NEW RELEASE NEW RELEASE

OPENS FRI 8TH A young man endures a prolonged by Victor (Edgerton), who misguidedly retreat in a gay conversion therapy believes he can cure gay teens of their FILM INFO: centre in Joel Edgerton’s empathetic 'affliction'. Initially willing to be ‘healed’, 115 mins, USA-Australia, second feature, a successful change Jared begins to question Victor’s motives 2018, Digital of pace for the actor-director following as the ignorance and bigotry of the Notes by David O’Mahony his thriller debut, The Gift (2015). When camp’s practices are gradually revealed. Arkansas teenager Jared (Lucas Hedges) confesses uncertainty about his sexual There will be Open Captioned screenings orientation, Marshall (), his at 13.15 on Sunday 10th and at 18.00 on Baptist pastor father, and Nancy (Nicole Wednesday 13th. Kidman), his devoutly religious mother, are shocked and saddened. Jared is sent to ‘Love in Action’, a conversion camp run

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OPENS FRI 15TH Barry Jenkins follows up Moonlight, his journey to seek justice, often confounded 2016 Oscar®-winning triumph, with an by institutional racism, with delicate FILM INFO: exquisitely beautiful, swooningly romantic scenes of the couple’s youthful courtship, 119 mins, USA, 2018, Digital adaptation of the celebrated novel by the lush orchestral score and elegant Notes by David O’Mahony James Baldwin (I Am Not Your Negro). The photography combining to create an setting is 1950s Harlem; 19-year-old Tish intoxicating cinematic experience. is married to 22-year-old sculptor Fonny whom she has known since childhood. There will be Open Captioned Their hopeful plans for the future are screenings on Tuesday 19th at waylaid when Fonny is imprisoned having 13.00 and Thursday 21st at 18.10. PREVIEW A special Valentine’s Day been falsely accused of rape. While he preview of If Beale Street is incarcerated, Tish discovers she is Could Talk will take place at pregnant. Jenkins juxtaposes Tish’s legal 20.30 on Thursday 14th.

THE LADY CLASSIC IFI EVE

OPENS FRI 15TH One of the greatest screwball comedies Seeking revenge for what she feels is her from one of the genre’s greatest mistreatment, she seeks to inveigle her FILM INFO: practitioners, Preston Sturges’s The Lady way back in to his life by posing as the 94 minutes, USA, 1941, Eve has now been digitally restored for aristocratic Lady Eve Sidwich. With its Digital, Black and White a welcome return to cinema screens. sparkling dialogue and knowing satire Notes by Kevin Coyne Con artist Jean Harrington (Barbara on gender roles, the film belongs to the Stanwyck) enlists her father and his wonderful comic performance from partner in a scheme to separate naïve Stanwyck, better known for her later, Charles Pike (Henry Fonda) from the dramatic performances. fortune he is due to inherit. However, her plans are derailed when she falls hard for Charles, only to be turned away when her original intentions come to light.

7 FEBRUARY 2019 A PRIVATE WAR NEW RELEASE

OPENS FRI 15TH Having directed acclaimed unconventional approach to reporting documentaries about some of the on the human cost of war, aided by FILM INFO: world's most dangerous places — her professional partnership with 110 mins, UK-USA, 2018, Digital Cartel Land (2015) and City of photojournalist Paul Conroy (Jamie Notes by David O’Mahony (2017) — Matthew Heineman makes Dornan), brought her international an apt feature debut with the story recognition, whilst privately she of Marie Colvin, the Sunday Times struggled to cope with PTSD and war correspondent who died in 2012 alcoholism. Based on a Vanity Fair covering the atrocities of the Syrian article, Heineman brings authenticity war. Rosamund Pike immerses herself and urgency to this portrait of a towering IFI FILM CLUB Join members of the IFI in the role of the outspoken journalist figure in contemporary journalism. team for a discussion with the trademark eyepatch whose following the 18.20 screening on Tuesday 19th. CAPERNAUM NEW RELEASE

OPENS FRI 22ND 12-year-old Zain (Zain al Rafeea) is sister. Lost in the chaotic sprawl of serving a five-year prison sentence Beirut he finds himself looking after (CAPHARNAÜM) when he sues his abusive, petty criminal the baby of a migrant hiding from the parents for bringing him into a world authorities. The two vulnerable children FILM INFO: which has shown him little love and face an uncertain future and must 121 mins, Lebanon-USA, 2018, Digital, Subtitled considerable hardship. With the trial as adapt quickly if they are to survive. Notes by David O’Mahony a framing device, director Nadine Labaki With a heartbreaking performance (Caramel) employs extended flashbacks from al Rafeea, the exceptionally to describe how the boy came to this moving Capernaum conveys with great extreme situation. empathy the plight of those living on the margins of Lebanese society. Zain runs away from home when his parents marry off his beloved older

8 ARCHIVE AT LUNCHTIME Join us for free films from the IFI Irish Film AND THE OSCAR GOES TO... Archive. Simply collect tickets at IFI Box Office With this year’s ceremony taking place on Sunday 24th, we present another selection of – please see www.ifi.ie for more information. Oscar®-winning or Oscar®-nominated Irish shorts. Notes by Sunniva O’Flynn. Six Shooter Sins Aul Up Yer Give

PROGRAMME 1 PROGRAMME 2 GRANNY O'GRIMM'S GIVE UP YER SLEEPING BEAUTY AUL SINS Nicky Phelan’s dark comedy centres on a bitter Cathal Gaffney’s much-loved film illustrating the story old lady telling a bedtime story to her terrified of John the Baptist as told by a young Dublin schoolgirl granddaughter. Nominated for an Academy Award® was nominated for an Academy Award® for Best for Best Animated Short in 2010. Animated Short in 2002. FILM INFO: 6 mins, Ireland, 2008 FILM INFO: 4 mins, Ireland, 2001

SIX SHOOTER PENTECOST Martin McDonagh’s pitch-black debut about a train Peter McDonald’s comedy about a disgraced, football- encounter between a recently bereaved man (Brendan loving altar-boy secured a nomination for an Academy Gleeson) and a violently angry youth (Rúaidhrí Award® for Best Live Action Short in 2011. Conroy). Winner of the Academy Award® for Best FILM INFO: 11 mins, Ireland, 2011 Short Film in 2006. FILM INFO: 27 mins, UK-Ireland, 2004 THE DOOR Juanita Wilson’s masterful short about a father and daughter in the days following the Chernobyl disaster in 1986 was nominated for an Academy Award® for Best Live Action Short in 2010. FILM INFO: 17 mins, Ireland, 2008

9 IRISH FOCUS WE OURSELVES

WED 13TH (18.15)

DIRECTOR: We Ourselves is a formally friendships and their Irishness but who Paul Mercier unconventional film dealing with the ultimately feel isolated and in exile. FILM INFO: lives of a group of seven friends over 96 mins, Ireland, 2018, Digital a period of more than two decades. In Written and directed by Paul Mercier Notes by Sunniva O’Flynn consecutive monologues, the film tells (Pursuit, Studs) the film creates a the story of Irish characters who worked generous space for the acting talents together in a factory in Germany before of new and established actors including separating to develop their individual Caitríona Ennis, Gavin Drea, Seána lives and careers as teachers, actors, Kerslake, Paul Reid, Catherine Walker, Aidan Gillen and Declan Conlon. Q&A lawyers, computer programmers and This screening will be followed civil servants. This is an intimate drama by a Q&A with director Paul about identity, love and loss told from Mercier and guests. the perspective of people who value their

FROM THE VAULTS BROTH OF A BOY

WED 20TH (18.30)

DIRECTOR: In this early whimsical comedy (aka and Patrick Kirwan from Hugh Leonard's George Pollock The Big Birthday) filmed in the fledgling original stage play, is an entertaining FILM INFO: Ardmore Studios, 110-year-old Patrick satire about exploitative journalism, 74 mins, Ireland, 1959, Farrell (Barry Fitzgerald) lives with his conflicting British and Irish sensibilities, Digital, Black and White aging, infantilised son (Harry Brogan) in and encroaching modernity. Fitzgerald, in Notes by Sunniva O’Flynn the quaint little village of Ballymorrissey. his final screen role, plays the conniving When he is discovered by a British centenarian with great comic flair and producer determined to make a TV is ably supported by Abbey actors Harry special about the oldest man in the Brogan, Philip O'Flynn, and Marie Keane. world, truculent Farrell, a widely-disliked poacher, is determined to avoid the TV cameras at any cost. The screenplay, adapted by writing duo Blanaid Irvine

10 THE BIGGER PICTURE RED DUST

TUES 12TH (18.30)

DIRECTOR: From a time when ‘women’s pictures’ era, when censors eased restrictions so Victor Fleming were the backbone of Hollywood studios, that studios might recoup ticket sales FILM INFO: and countless films were released lost in the Depression. Gable plays a 83 mins, USA, 1932, centering on strong female characters, manager of a rubber plantation who Digital, Black and White albeit in a man’s world, comes this first has an affair with Vantine (Harlow), Notes by Megan McGurk and Alicia McGivern steamy smash hit starring Clark Gable before taking up with Barbara Willis and Jean Harlow. (Mary Astor). Gable earned the sobriquet ‘King of Dr Megan McGurk, of Sass Mouth Dames Hollywood’ because he was a swoon Film Club, will present Red Dust as a merchant with women and a role prime example of a Pre-Code film. model for men. This film confirmed his reputation, released during the Pre-Code

WILD STRAWBERRIES A PRIVATE WAR

FRI 22ND & WED 27TH (11.00)

DIRECTOR: War correspondent Marie Colvin was Wild Strawberries is our film club for over Matthew Heineman driven by bravery, a commitment 55s. Tickets: €4.45 including regular tea/ FILM INFO: to giving a voice to the silent, and coffee before the event. If you happen to 110 mins, UK-USA, 2018, Digital conveying the truth of the inhumanity look younger, please don’t take offence if Notes by Alicia McGivern of war. Rosamund Pike excels in the we ask your age. role of the American-born journalist, her determination undiminished by the explosion which led her to wear a distinctive eye patch. While harrowing in places, the film is informed by the filmmakers’ determination to convey the risks Colvin took in far-flung places to try and make the rest of the world care.

11 IFI FAMILY PEE-WEE’S BIG ADVENTURE

SUN 24TH (11.00)

DIRECTOR: With excitement surrounding screen debut brought wide recognition Tim Burton’s forthcoming film, a to both actor Paul Reubens and Burton, FILM INFO: live-action version of the classic Dumbo, heralding the director as a talent with a 91 mins, USA, 1985, Blu-ray we take a look back at his first feature. distinctive, unique and brilliant vision. Notes by Alicia McGivern This irrepressible adventure, and Outlandish, madcap, filled with Burton’s now cult classic, gave us many of the skew-ways looks at the world, Pee-Wee elements which would become hallmarks gave us a highly energetic glimpse of the of the highly original filmmaker. genius that was to come. Pee-Wee is the eccentric man-child Tickets: €5.00 per person, €15.00 family whose bike is stolen, setting him off ticket (2 adults + 2 children, 1 adult + on a journey across America to find it. 3 children). Already a TV character, Pee-Wee’s big

IFI & VMDIFF 2019 CAREERS IN SCREEN DAY

THURS 28TH (10.30 – 16.00)

TICKETS Following the huge success of last the many diverse film and television Tickets cost €5.50 per person. year’s inaugural event, the IFI and Virgin disciplines, guests will talk about their Careers In Screen Day is presented by the Irish Film Institute and Virgin Media Dublin International Film Festival experience and the respective skills Media Dublin International Film will once again offer an inspiring and required for each role. Last year’s guests Festival with the kind support of innovative day of events for young included actor Moe Dunford, costume Screen Skills Ireland and BAI. people interested in finding out more designer Joan Bergin, casting agent about working in the film industry. Louise Kiely, and Brown Bag Films animator Darragh O’Connell. This event, aimed at Senior Cycle students aged 15 to 18, will include A number of third-level institutions insights from very special guests, will also be on hand to offer guidance including Oscar®-nominated director on the day. Lenny Abrahamson. Drawn from

12 IFI & VIRGIN MEDIA DUBLIN INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL

The IFI is pleased to once again partner with Virgin Media Dublin International Film Festival. This year’s programme includes the world premieres of two films made under the Arts Council’s Reel Art scheme. This influential programme is designed to provide film artists with a unique opportunity to make highly creative, imaginative, and experimental documentaries. Tickets are available from www.diff.ie.

REEL ART: REEL ART: FLOATING STRUCTURES WHAT TIME IS DEATH?

MON 25TH (18.30) TUES 26TH (18.30)

Floating Structures follows a researcher travelling In 2017, Bill Drummond and Jimmy Cauty, formerly across central and southern Europe seeking out an known as The KLF, returned after 23 years of silence array of buildings and structures that seem as though – but they were no longer a pop group. They were they have emerged from another world. Our mysterious now undertakers, planning to build a monument, The guide, drawing on the ideas and visions of the great People's Pyramid, out of 34,952 bricks made from the Irish engineer Peter Rice, explores the hinterlands that remains of dead people and make November 23rd in surround and gave rise to these structures. It is a rail Liverpool known as 'The Toxteth Day of the Dead.' The trip of revelation that wanders from the quiet Bavarian band’s last famous action was in 1994, when they town of Haßfurt, to the inner and outer realms of Paris, burned one million pounds of their earnings in a disused to the Andalusian city of Seville. Suspended artefacts warehouse on a Scottish island after being one of the and ruins from the distant future and the industrial UK’s most successful early 90s pop acts. past are sifted through and interlinked with precision and wonder. Director Paul Duane will attend this screening.

Directors Feargal Ward and Adrian Duncan DIRECTOR: Paul Duane will attend this screening. FILM INFO: 82 mins, Ireland-UK, 2019, Digital

DIRECTORS: Feargal Ward & Adrian Duncan FILM INFO: 64 mins, Ireland, 2018, Digital

13 IFI & EAFFI & CHINESE NEW YEAR FESTIVAL SUBURBAN BIRDS TUES 5TH (20.20)

(JIAO QU DE NIAO) Qiu Sheng’s absorbing, dreamy feature The screening of Suburban Birds is DIRECTOR: debut connects and intertwines the presented by the East Asia Film Festival Qiu Sheng stories of two characters linked by Ireland and is organised in association with chance. Xiahao is part of an engineering the IFI and the Dublin Chinese New Year FILM INFO: team investigating the cause of Festival (www.dublinchinesenewyear.com). 118 mins, China, 2018, Digital, Subtitled subsidence prior to construction works Notes by Marie-Pierre Richard on a subway. While wandering through The screening will follow the the empty suburb to identify the source announcement of the programme for of the problem, he walks into a primary the 3rd East Asia Film Festival Ireland school where he finds a diary chronicling (第三届爱尔兰东亚电影节), 11–14 the story of a boy also by the name of April 2019 (2019年4月11日－14日). Xiahao which may contain prophecies See eaffi.ie for more details. about his own life.

IFI EVENING COURSE EXIT THROUGH THE CINEMA

MARCH 12TH

– APRIL 16TH

Exit Through the Cinema is a six-week Our course will look at some key films evening course on British film since of the era. Speakers will include Dr Ruth the 1980s. Barton (TCD) on reinventing the costume drama with Lady Macbeth, while Whether continuing the legacy of social Dr Jennie Carlsten (QUB) will look realism, attracting big stars for rom at cinema during the Thatcher era. coms, or revisiting the period drama, The enduring legacy of British horror British cinema since the 1980s has will be the focus of Dr Sian Barber’s talk produced work that has offered local on 28 Days Later. These and more will audiences and the wider cinema-going comprise the six-week course, which world, an insight into life, creativity and will run on consecutive Tuesdays, the arts in a changing Britain. commencing at 6.30pm. Full details and booking from our website www.ifi.ie.

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