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If Beale Street Could Talk the Irish Film Institute 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 Alexander Payne’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 Kenneth Branagh’s All Is True 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 London, 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. 2 DIRECTOR’S NOTE 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 Barry Jenkins’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 James Baldwin’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 Danny Boyle’s 28 Days Later and William Oldroyd’s Lady Macbeth. 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. 4 FEBRUARY 2019 GREEN NEW RELEASE 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 (Mahershala Ali) 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 NEW RELEASE 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 Ben Elton, 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.
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