FEBRUARY 2020 PARASITE BONG JOON HO THE IRISH FILM INSTITUTE

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IFI & VIRGIN MEDIA DIFF 2020 Soleil et ombre IFI FILM CLUB

IFI is proud to once again partner with the Virgin Media Dublin Love to talk about film? If so, the IFI Film Club screening is for International Film Festival (VMDIFF) to bring a selection of you! Every month, we invite you to join members of the IFI team screenings and events as part of this year’s festival. This to take part in an informal discussion following the screening of year’s programme includes our third annual Careers in Screen a new release or a classic re-release. This month’s IFI Film Club Day, new documentaries from Vivienne Dick and Ciara Nic will take place following the 18.00 screening of Bong Joon Ho’s Chormaic, Pat Murphy’s 1984 classic Anne Devlin, and early Parasite on Monday 10th. Stay behind after the film and let us French cinema from Germaine Dulac. See www.diff.ie and know what you thought! www.ifi.ie for more.

MYSTERY MATINEE FEAST YOUR EYES

Join us for Dublin’s best kept secret! This month’s Every month we pair a new release with a specially devised main screening, for which tickets cost just €6, will take course from the IFI Café Bar kitchen. This month’s film choice will place at 13.00 on Sunday 23rd. The film chosen could be the 18.15 screening of the Elia Kazan classic A Streetcar Named be anything from throughout the history of cinema, Desire starring Marlon Brando and Vivien Leigh on Tuesday 11th. or even a preview of a hotly-anticipated release. With Tickets cost €24. Free list suspended. the Mystery Matinee, you should always expect the unexpected! A full list of previous screenings is available from www.ifi.ie/mystery-matinee-archive.

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This February the IFI programme features more of the season’s award-winning films plus a brand new, immersive IFI film studies weekend in March. FEBRUARY

AT THE IFI Named Desire A Streetcar With awards season well and truly in full swing, there has On top of our usual monthly programming strands, we’ll also been an embarrassment of riches on offer in recent weeks, be presenting a host of special one-off events. On Sunday and February continues to see the release of some of the 2nd, Happy Birthday, Mr Joyce! will see our first theatrical most critically-acclaimed and hotly anticipated films collaboration with the Museum of Literature Ireland (MoLI) of the year. as we screen two film pieces to celebrate James Joyce’s birthday; both filmmakers (Alan Gilsenan and Dave Tynan) Winner of the Palme d’Or at last year’s Cannes Film Festival, will be in attendance. James McAvoy stars in the acclaimed Bong Joon Ho’s Parasite opens at IFI on February 7th. production of Cyrano de Bergerac which will stream live Nominated for six Academy Awards, including Best Picture, from London as part of National Theatre Live on February Best Director, and Best Original Screenplay, Parasite defies 20th. Finally, Chilean filmmaker Alejandro Jodorowsky will any easy genre labelling as it hurtles from comedy to farce be under the spotlight this month in a season celebrating to thriller. It’s sure to be one of the most talked about films his work which spans over 60 years; great value multi-film of the year. passes are available for the season.

Many IFI regulars may have caught Céline Sciamma’s Ross Keane beautifully crafted Portrait of a Lady on Fire as the Opening Director Film at last year’s IFI French Film Festival. Now it’s back with a theatrical release, and has also been lauded throughout awards season. Having already picked up the Best Screenplay and Queer Palme at Cannes, it’s now also being recognised internationally with various nominations for Best Foreign Language Film including at the Golden Globes and BAFTAs.

Next month, the IFI is proud to present a brand new offering for film enthusiasts. Stretching over an intensive weekend (March 20th-22nd), the Big Screen Blast offers screenings and discussions, all facilitated by critic and lecturer Stephen Boyd. This is an absolute must for anyone wanting to delve deeper into film appreciation and to develop their understanding of the basics of film studies. There are limited spaces available, and these are now on sale.

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MR JONES OPENS FRI 7TH DATE SCREENING TIME PARASITE OPENS FRI 7TH 2ND OPEN CAPTIONED SCREENING: QUEEN & SLIM 15.30 A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE OPENS FRI 7TH SUN IRISH FOCUS: IFI & MOLI: HAPPY BIRTHDAY, 18.15 JIHAD JANE OPENS FRI 14TH MR JOYCE! 3RD PREVIEW: PARASITE + SATELLITE Q&A 18.00 TALKING ABOUT TREES OPENS FRI 14TH MON END OF THE CENTURY OPENS FRI 21ST 4TH OPEN CAPTIONED SCREENING: QUEEN & SLIM 20.30 LITTLE JOE OPENS FRI 21ST TUES 5TH ALEJANDRO JODOROWSKY: JODOROWSKY’S DUNE 18.15 MIDNIGHT FAMILY OPENS FRI 21ST WED OPEN CAPTIONED SCREENING: THE LIGHTHOUSE 18.20 DARK WATERS OPENS FRI 28TH 10TH IFI FILM CLUB: PARASITE 18.00 PORTRAIT OF A LADY ON FIRE OPENS FRI 28TH MON ALEJANDRO JODOROWSKY: FANDO AND LIS 18.30 11TH FEAST YOUR EYES: A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE 18.15 TUES 13TH PREVIEW: JIHAD JANE + Q&A 18.15 THUR 14TH VALENTINE’S DAY PREVIEW: END OF THE CENTURY 18.30 FRI VALENTINE’S DAY PREVIEW: PORTRAIT OF A LADY 20.20 ON FIRE 15TH ALEJANDRO JODOROWSKY: EL TOPO 18.15 SAT 16TH ALEJANDRO JODOROWSKY: THE HOLY MOUNTAIN 18.15 SUN 18TH ALEJANDRO JODOROWSKY: SANTA SANGRE 18.15 TUES Films not classified by IFCO, including festival, one-off, and special 19TH IFI & AEMI: PAT O’NEILL: WATER AND POWER 18.30 screenings, are exhibited under Club rules and are restricted to persons 18 WED years and over. If you are not an IFI member, a daily membership (€1.50) is required for unclassified films, and this will be added to your transaction. 20TH ALEJANDRO JODOROWSKY: THE RAINBOW THIEF 18.30 THUR † The exclusivity of films is correct at the time of print. All films exclusive NT LIVE: CYRANO DE BERGERAC 19.00 to the IFI are kindly supported by the Arts Council. 22ND ALEJANDRO JODOROWSKY: THE DANCE OF REALITY 15.50 SAT DAVID CROSBY: REMEMBER MY NAME 18.30 23RD IFI FAMILY: MY NEIGHBOUR TOTORO 11.00 linkedin.com/company/irishfilminstitute SUN MYSTERY MATINEE 13.00 ALEJANDRO JODOROWSKY: ENDLESS POETRY 15.30 @IrishFilmInstitute @IFI_Dub 25TH THE BIGGER PICTURE: BRAZIL 20.00 @IrishFilmInstitute TUES 26TH WILD STRAWBERRIES: THE SISTERS BROTHERS 11.00 WED FROM THE VAULTS: PATRICK CAREY: 18.30 For bookings and film information, please see our LANDSCAPE ARTIST website, www.ifi.ie, or contact the IFI Box Office 28TH WILD STRAWBERRIES: THE SISTERS BROTHERS 11.00 on 01-6793477 (open 12.30 to 21.00 daily). FRI IFI & NATIONAL GALLERY: PORTRAIT OF A LADY ON 16.30 FIRE + GALLERY TOUR

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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MR JONES RELEASE NEW AGNIESZKA HOLLAND

OPENS FRI 7TH Ambitious Welsh journalist Gareth As the death count in Ukraine mounts, Jones (James Norton) travels to Jones must fight to have his incendiary FILM INFO: Moscow in an attempt to secure story published. Oscar-nominated 119 mins, Poland-UK-Ukraine, an interview with none other than director Agnieszka Holland (Europa 2019, Digital Stalin himself. Hearing rumours of a Europa, In Darkness) brings to the screen Notes by David O’Mahony government-induced famine, Jones the extraordinary and powerful true covertly visits Ukraine where he bears story of the journalist who blew the witness to the atrocities of man-made whistle on Stalin’s genocidal famine, starvation. Deported back to London, which killed almost 10 million people Jones publishes an article revealing the between 1932 and 1933. horrors he experienced, yet is accused of being a liar by those who have an interest in silencing him.

PARASITE RELEASE NEW BONG JOON HO

OPENS FRI 7TH Inveterate grifter Kim Ki-taek (Song wife and spoiled son. Winner of the Kang-ho) and his family are penniless Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival (GISAENGCHUNG) and unemployed. Cramped into a tiny, and nominated for six Oscars, Parasite bug-infested semi-basement apartment confounds expectations, beginning as FILM INFO: 132 mins, South Korea, in a dilapidated neighbourhood, they a knockabout farce before delving into 2019, Digital, Subtitled subsist on a meagre stipend earned much darker territory. An excoriating, Notes by David O’Mahony by folding pizza boxes. Opportunity pitch-black comedy that lays bare the knocks when his teenage son Ki-woo inequalities of South Korean society PREVIEW (Choi Woo-shik) is hired to be the private with a gleeful sense of mischief. A special preview of the film followed by a satellite Q&A English tutor for Da-hye, the daughter with director Bong Joon Ho of Mr Park, a wealthy corporate CEO Join members of the IFI team for an will take place on Monday 3rd who lives in a vast, gleaming modernist informal discussion following the 18:00 at 18.00. house with his somewhat distracted screening on Monday 10th.

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IFI CLASSIC KAZAN

OPENS FRI 7TH Having directed the original Broadway in with her sister and her husband in production in 1947, Elia Kazan brought an environment she obviously feels is FILM INFO: Tennessee Williams’s play to the big beneath her, the simmering antipathy 127 mins, USA, 1951, Digital, screen just four years later, with the she and Stanley exhibit towards each Black and White playwright and director collaborating other comes to a horrible climax as the Notes by Kevin Coyne on the screenplay. While Marlon Brando mentally fragile Blanche proves no match as the brutish Stanley Kowalski, Kim for Stanley’s animalistic callousness. Hunter as his put-upon wife Stella, and Brando in particular, in only his second Karl Malden as suitor Mitch all reprised film role, offers a masterclass in acting, their stage roles, the original Blanche his 'method' style becoming hugely FEAST YOUR EYES Enjoy a specially curated main DuBois, Jessica Tandy, was replaced influential over the following decade. course in the IFI Café Bar by Vivien Leigh. When the recently following the 18.15 screening widowed Blanche is forced to move on Tuesday 11th. JIHAD JANE CIARAN IFI DOC CASSIDY

OPENS FRI 14TH Troubled American Colleen LaRose ‘new face on terror’, pleaded guilty immerses herself in online extremist and served a lengthy sentence. FILM INFO: activity, is radicalised, converts to Islam, 94 mins, Ireland-Netherlands- and assumes the persona Jihad Jane Ciaran Cassidy’s fascinating film Sweden, 2018, Digital in a bid to create a more empowered about a somewhat absurd terrorist Notes by Sunniva O’Flynn identity for herself. Her quest for cell explores the post-9/11 surge meaning brings her to Europe where she of anti-Islamic sentiment and the connects with a cell of Waterford-based powerful allure of online fanaticism for PREVIEW + Q&A terrorists planning an attack on Swedish impressionable and vulnerable men RTÉ broadcaster Claire Byrne will host a Q&A with director cartoonist Lars Vilks as punishment for and women – a phenomenon which has Ciaran Cassidy following his drawings of the Prophet Muhammad played out dramatically on these shores the 18.15 screening on as a dog. Jihad Jane was arrested in recent times. Thursday 13th. in March 2010 in a US sweep on the

6 TALKING ABOUT TREES DOC IFI SUHAIB GASMELBARI OPENS FRI 14TH Four retired Sudanese filmmakers, free screenings of classics such as idealists and friends for over 45 years, Chaplin’s Modern Times in town squares, EXCLUSIVELY AT IFI† are reunited after a long period of before taking on the formidable task of distance and exile when they attempt to renovating an outdoor cinema venue FILM INFO: bring back the movies to the people of near Khartoum, which has been derelict 94 mins, France-Sudan-Chad- Germany-Qatar, 2019, Digital, their homeland. They left Sudan in the for many years. Talking About Trees was Subtitled 1960s and 1970s to study film abroad, a deserving winner of both the Best Notes by David O’Mahony and founded the Sudanese Film Group Documentary and Audience Awards in 1989, determined to ignite a passion in the Panorama section of the 2019 for cinema. Led by the indefatigable Berlin Film Festival. Ibrahim Shadad, and undeterred by mounting red tape, censorship and intimidation, they begin by hosting

END OF THE RELEASE NEW CENTURY LUCIO CASTRO OPENS FRI 21ST On vacation in Barcelona, Ocho (Juan nagging suspicion that they have Barberini), an Argentinian poet from actually met once before, and the (FIN DE SIGLO) New York, crosses paths with Javi ensuing series of flashbacks beautifully (Ramon Pujol), a director of children’s expands upon everything we thought FILM INFO: television from Berlin. The attraction we knew about the two men. Lucio 86 mins, Argentina-Spain, 2018, Digital, Subtitled is immediate and the two strangers Castro’s delicate, deceptively simple Notes by David O’Mahony engage in a passionate holiday fling. debut feature considers the lifelong Ocho has recently split from his partner resonance of an erotically charged yet of 20 years, and doesn’t want kids. Javi fleeting encounter and the selective has a daughter with his husband, with nature, and ultimate fallibility, VALENTINE’S PREVIEW whom he is in an open relationship. of memory. A preview of the film will take Relaxing with drinks following a day place on Friday 14th at 18.30. of sightseeing, Javi confirms Ocho’s

7 FEBRUARY 2020 LITTLE JOE JESSICA NEW RELEASE HAUSNER OPENS FRI 21ST Single mother Alice (Cannes Best Against company policy, Alice takes a Actress winner Emily Beecham) is a plant home as a gift for her teenage FILM INFO: committed senior plant breeder at a son Joe. They christen it ‘Little Joe’ 105 mins, UK-Austria-Germany, corporation dedicated to developing and, as it grows, so too does Alice’s 2019, Digital new species. She has engineered a very suspicion that her new creations Notes by David O’Mahony special crimson flower, remarkable not may not be as harmless as their only for its beauty but for its therapeutic nickname suggests. Her assistant value. If kept at an ideal temperature, Chris (Ben Whishaw) has also inhaled fed properly and spoken to regularly, the pollen, and is behaving strangely. the plant will engender an emotional With everyone she knows potentially change in its owner, effectively making affected, who can Alice trust? them happier. MIDNIGHT FAMILY IFI DOC LUKE LORENTZEN OPENS FRI 21ST In Mexico City, the government When a crackdown by corrupt operates fewer than 45 emergency police forces the family to legitimise FILM INFO: ambulances for a population of nine their business, their desperate 81 mins, Mexico, 2019, million, a situation which has spawned financial situation pushes them Digital, Subtitled an underground industry of for-profit into questionable practices even as Notes by David O’Mahony ambulances, which are often run by they continue providing essential people with little or no training or medical services. In humanising certification. The Ochoa family operate the Ochoa’s ethically compromised one such vehicle, competing with other business, Midnight Family explores EMTs for patients in need of urgent urgent questions around healthcare, help, while struggling to keep their own the failings of government and the financial needs from jeopardising the complexity of personal responsibility. people in their care.

8 DARK RELEASE NEW WATERS TODD HAYNES OPENS FRI 28TH In the late 1990s Robert Bilott (a solid during Teflon production) which has performance from producer Mark polluted groundwater and the worrying FILM INFO: Ruffalo) is about to be made a partner at implications for local residents. Based 126 mins, USA, 2019, Digital his law firm where he defends chemical on a true story and directed by Todd Notes by Saidhbh Ní Dhúlaing companies. When cattle farmer Wilbur Haynes (Carol, I’m Not There), with Tennant (a powerful and emotional a strong supporting cast featuring turn by Bill Camp) contacts him with Anne Hathaway, Tim Robbins and Bill chilling details about the effects that Pullman, Dark Waters is a moody and chemical waste from the nearby DuPont slow-burning drama which will leave factory has had on his livestock, Bilott you feeling rightfully enraged. reluctantly agrees to look into it. In a career-upending move, Bilott uncovers details about the chemical PFOA (used

PORTRAIT OF A RELEASE NEW LADY ON FIRE CÉLINE SCIAMMA

OPENS FRI 28TH Grieving for the death of her sister, man to whom she has been betrothed Héloïse (Adèle Haenel) has returned by her mother without introduction, (PORTRAIT DE LA JEUNE from a convent to her home in Brittany. and consequently Marianne must FILLE EN FEU) Her mother (Valeria Golino), a widowed capture her likeness covertly. The two FILM INFO: Italian noblewoman, has engaged women gradually connect, and a subtle 120 mins, France, 2019, Digital, Marianne (Noémie Merlant), an artist, seduction of stolen glances, touches Subtitled. Notes by David O’Mahony to surreptitiously paint Héloïse’s and conversations gives way to burning portrait while acting on the pretence desire. Céline Sciamma’s delicate, that she is to be a companion to the beautifully acted fourth feature bereaved young woman. Previous explores what it means to see, VALENTINE’S PREVIEW painters have failed in the commission and to truly be seen. A preview of the film will take as Héloïse has refused to pose, aware place on Friday 14th at 20.20. the picture will be sent to the Milanese

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Chilean filmmaker Alejandro Jodorowsky is one Jodorowsky’s work is strongly informed by his lifelong of cinema’s great polymaths. His artistic career interest in philosophy and psychology, and equally has lasted over 70 years, with no signs of slowing, strongly influenced by his association with the Surrealist spanning the disciplines of theatre, mime (including movement and its practitioners. As a result, they are a period of collaboration with Marcel Marceau), artefacts densely packed with allusion and symbolism, literature from stage plays to comic strips, painting, displaying a strong emphasis on the visual. The and sculpture, as well as film. Given his numerous abstract, subversive, and occasionally shocking nature preoccupations, it is perhaps unsurprising, if of his imagery has often seen the director dogged by unfortunate, that his filmic body of work is quite a reputation as a cult filmmaker in the midnight movie small. However, this is also a situation that has been genre, but his work is far richer than this might suggest. exacerbated by perennial funding problems, as well Instead, it speaks of Jodorowsky’s continuing search for as complicated distribution and copyright conditions spiritual enlightenment through art. that for some years made even his best-known films difficult to see. Introduction and notes on individual films by Kevin Coyne. Fando and Lis, El Topo and The Holy Mountain will screen in new 4k restorations. Multi-film pass available – 5 films for €50.

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set to adapt and direct Frank Herbert’s JODOROWSKY’S seminal 1965 novel Dune (subsequently DUNE filmed by David Lynch in 1984, with a new version from Denis Villeneuve FRANK coming later this year). To this end, he assembled a remarkable team to PAVICH realise his vision, including Pink Floyd, WED 5TH (18.15) H.R. Giger, Salvador Dalí, and Orson Welles. When a substantial part of the budget was spent in the pre-production FILM INFO: Frank Pavich’s fascinating and 90 mins, France-USA, process, resulting in a script for a 2013, Digital entertaining documentary serves as 14-hour film and legendarily detailed a fine introduction to Jodorowsky’s storyboards and concept art, the project methods and interests, and recounts sadly began to fall apart. the tale of one of sci-fi cinema’s great what-ifs. Following the success of his first three features, Jodorowsky was

Tar, where wishes are granted and FANDO eternal happiness awaits. The journey leads to a series of encounters that AND LIS spiral from odd to disturbing as the two are exposed to the extremes of human experience and desire and the impossibility of reaching the city MON 10TH (18.30) becomes apparent.

(FANDO Y LIS) The film’s 1968 premiere at the Jodorowsky’s debut feature was based Acapulco Film Festival incited the FILM INFO: on his memories of seeing a play by audience to riot, forcing the director 97 mins, Mexico, 1968, Digital 4K, Spanish writer Fernando Arrabal. to hide from the crowd for his own Subtitled, Black and White Titular couple Fando (Sergio Kleiner) safety, merely setting the scene for and his girlfriend Lis (Diana Mariscal), his later notoriety. who is confined to a wheelchair, seek the mythical and paradisiacal city of

him to duels with four great gun masters, EL TOPO encouraged by the mysterious Mara (Mara Lorenzio), despite his growing misgivings. Ultimately betrayed by her, he resolves to help the tribe of deformed outcasts who have taken him under their protection.

SAT 15TH (18.15) The film that brought Jodorowsky to international attention and established him as a leading figure of the counter- FILM INFO: In this picaresque Western, Jodorowsky 125 mins, Mexico, 1970, Digital cultural movement, El Topo’s mixture 4K, Subtitled himself takes the lead role of the violent of violence, symbolism, and religious gunfighter seeking redemption and imagery remains as startling and original enlightenment. When El Topo (the Mole) an experience as it was on release half a comes across a village whose inhabitants century ago. have been slaughtered, he hunts down and kills the instigators, which in turn leads

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satire of organised religion, the film THE HOLY follows a thief (Horacio Salinas) who joins the entourage of The Alchemist MOUNTAIN (Jodorowsky), their intention being to ascend a legendary Holy Mountain and confront the immortal masters who dwell at the summit. The film is arguably SUN 16TH (18.15) Jodorowsky’s most complex and perhaps also presents his vision at its (LA MONTAÑA SAGRADA) purest. The surreal imagery is beautiful, After El Topo became something bewildering, and shocking, often in the FILM INFO: of an underground phenomenon, same scene, and saw the director’s 114 mins, Mexico, 1973, Jodorowsky acquired powerful and expression of and interest in spirituality Digital 4K, Subtitled influential fans, including John Lennon reach new heights. and Yoko Ono, who contributed to the funding of his next feature, The Holy Mountain. Working on one level as a

cinemas once again hosted a new film SANTA by Alejandro Jodorowsky, one which was a return to the more avant-garde SANGRE style of his earlier work. Whereas El Topo was often described as an acid western, Santa Sangre could be roughly classified as a psychedelic horror film. TUES 18TH (18.15) Traumatised as a child by the violence in his parents’ relationship, Fenix (played at the various stages in his life FILM INFO: Following the collapse of Dune, 123 mins, Mexico, 1989, Digital by Jodorowsky’s sons Adan and Axel) Jodorowsky took another direction grows to become a murderer-by-proxy entirely with children’s fable Tusk for his disturbed and disfigured mother. (1980), which, despite best efforts, proved unavailable for this season. It was not a success, and the decade would almost have turned before

largely due to his experiences working THE with ‘stars’, particularly Peter O’Toole, who is here reunited with Lawrence RAINBOW of Arabia co-star Omar Sharif. When eccentric millionaire Rudolf Von Tannen THIEF (Christopher Lee) falls into a coma, his similarly idiosyncratic nephew Meleagre THUR 20TH (18.30) (O’Toole) moves to the sewers to await his inheritance. There he takes up with petty thief Dima (Sharif), who believes FILM INFO: While devotees may have been 90 mins, UK, 1990, Blu-ray he will be due a share of what is to come. delighted to see another Jodorowsky Although largely restrained on this film appear so soon after Santa production, the film nonetheless retains Sangre, The Rainbow Thief was met a definite Jodoroskowian flavour. largely with bemusement on release, and remains a title about which the director himself is at best ambivalent,

12 THE DANCE OF REALITY

SAT 22ND (15.50) Following the dispiriting experiences work. Returning to cinema with this on The Rainbow Thief, the following semi-autobiographical piece, he created (LA DANZA DE LA two decades saw Jodorowsky fail a film which although does not wholly REALIDAD) to see a number of cherished and sacrifice the abstractions of his earlier long-gestating projects to fruition. The films, is arguably his most accessible, FILM INFO: usual funding difficulties bedeviled the and showed that even in his mid-80s, 133 mins, Chile-France, 2013, Digital, Subtitled mooted sequel to El Topo and a new Jodorowsky’s creativity and vision gangster film. However, also during remained as vital as ever. this period, the long-awaited resolution of some of the difficulties around his first three films saw them released for the first time for home entertainment, sparking a renewal of interest in his ENDLESS POETRY

SUN 23RD (15.30) Continuing his cinematic growing interest in poetry, as well autobiography, this sequel to The as his early love affairs which come (POESÍA SIN FIN) Dance of Reality again showcases about in no small part because of his Jodorowsky at his most exuberant, membership of a community of fellow FILM INFO: drawing comparisons with Fellini as aspirational bohemians. By turns 128 mins, Chile-UK-France, 2016, Digital, Subtitled his cinematic self moves towards bawdy and surreal, the film is perhaps adulthood and art. With master most surprising for its emotional cinematographer Christopher Doyle resonance, with Jodorowsky unafraid overlaying the director’s visuals to appear before his audience as tender with his own lush style, the film is a and vulnerable. freewheeling burlesque that focuses on the adolescent Jodorowsky’s troubled relationship with his father and his

13 IFI FILM STUDIES WEEKEND BIG SCREEN BLAST MARCH 20TH – 22ND

Just when you’re ready to jump off the sofa and step Stephen Boyd is a writer, academic, film critic and out into spring, here’s a unique film studies event that lecturer in Film and Digital Media studies at the offers you the chance to watch and discuss special Institute of Art, Design and Technology (IADT), previews, one-off screenings and the latest films in the Dun Laoghaire. Stephen has taught film and media IFI programme over the course of one weekend. studies for over a decade with a particular focus on global and non-western cinemas, European cinema, From Friday to Sunday, facilitated by critic and lecturer Irish cinema and Irish popular culture. He is a film Stephen Boyd, participants will watch four complete critic and commentator for Arena on RTÉ Radio 1, films, and through discussion and interaction, get a and his research focuses on the use of film, cinema deeper and richer understanding of contemporary film and digital media within the Irish surfing subculture culture, and the IFI programme. and Irish surf filmmaking.

If you like the idea of a weekend film binge, or Tickets: €90 including all films and talks, tea and discussing current cinema trends, then join us coffee x 4 and Sunday brunch. Final programme is for this brand new cinematacular weekend. subject to change.

true story of John Merrick. In crisp black THE and white, the film presents Victorian London in all its grime and misery, shot ELEPHANT on real locations and filled with great performances, including John Hurt MAN as Merrick. FRI 20TH (17.30) Placing the film in the context of David Lynch's wider filmmaking career, and his return to television with Twin Peaks DIRECTOR: Welcome and introduction David Lynch (2017), Stephen will discuss recurrent (tea or coffee on arrival). themes and the continued relevance FILM INFO: of Lynch’s work, while illustrating how 124 mins, USA-USA, 1980, We begin our weekend with the cinema, through this fine restoration, Digital 4K, Black and White newly restored 4K version of David Notes by Stephen Boyd still has the power to deliver. Lynch’s early masterpiece which he directed following the success of The Elephant Man opens at the the avant-garde Eraserhead. A more IFI on March 13th. straightforward horror, it is based on the

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SAT 21ST (11.00) BREAK 13.00 – 13.45 SAT 21ST (14.00)

Introduction to Irish film and the horror genre The much admired Hirokazu Kore-eda infuses his regular (tea or coffee on arrival). family theme with the stellar wattage of Catherine Deneuve, Juliette Binoche and Ethan Hawke in this Get your Saturday off to a spooky start with a tale of actress Fabienne (Deneuve) whose new memoir preview of this mystery sci-fi from Irish director disappoints daughter Lumir (Binoche) for its failure to Lorcan Finnegan. Set in Yonder, a labyrinthine suburb accurately reflect their relationship. Kore-eda’s melodrama of identical houses, young couple Tom and Gemma slowly yields details that reveal the true state of things, (Jesse Eisenberg and Imogen Poots) slowly realise and the family that just about hangs together. they are trapped both within the estate and its lifestyle. Following the screening, Stephen will discuss the film Before the film, Stephen will offer a brief retrospective of in the context of the horror genre and its place within Kore-eda’s work in the context of wider Japanese cinema Irish film. and also the global qualities of contemporary film culture.

Vivarium opens at the IFI on March 27th. The Truth opens at the IFI on March 20th.

DIRECTOR: Lorcan Finnegan DIRECTOR: Hirokazu Kore-eda FILM INFO: 97 mins, USA-Belgium-Ireland-Denmark, 2019, Digital FILM INFO: 106 mins, France-Japan, 2019, Digital, Subtitled

BRUNCH HUSTLERS & MOVIE MIXER

SUN 22ND (11.00) SUN 22ND (12.30)

Join us in IFI Café Bar for brunch, a chat with other We finish with one of the brashest and most participants, and a chance to talk about the films entertaining of 2019’s releases, with a central ‘shoulda you’ve been watching in the context of some key film been a contender’ performance from Jennifer Lopez. concepts, facilitated by Stephen Boyd. Lorene Scafaria directs this comedy drama in which a group of former strip club employees band together Meet David O’Mahony, Head of IFI Cinema to get their own back on their Wall Street clients. This Programming, who will give a background to some of original story won hearts, critics and box office, yet his programming decisions. failed to convince the juries that a female-driven story could also be worthy of a top prize.

The Irish Times film critic Tara Brady will introduce the film. After the screening, Stephen Boyd will discuss the film with respect to the current rise of women in filmmaking.

DIRECTOR: Lorene Scafaria FILM INFO: 110 mins, USA, 2019, Digital

15 ARCHIVE AT FROM THE LUNCHTIME VAULTS OCTOBER 2015 The New Matchmakers New The Ireland Reflections RADHARC: RITUAL PATRICK CAREY: AND ROMANCE LANDSCAPE ARTIST Join us for free films on Mondays, Wednesdays WED 26TH (18.30) and Saturdays from collections at the IFI Irish Film Archive. Simply collects tickets Patrick Carey (1916–1994) was a prolific Irish at the IFI Box Office. Check www.ifi.ie for filmmaker of considerable renown. As a camera more information. operator, he worked on international features including A Man for All Seasons and Barry Lyndon, PROGRAMME ONE but it was in the short form documentary that his remarkable skill as cinematographer and director LÁ FHÉILE BRÍDE was fully realised. His passion lay in the natural This timely short film, an early offering from the environment which he approached with awe, Radharc production team, documents the rituals meticulousness and endless patience to create films associated with St. Brigid's Night in Donegal. that were supremely assured in their simplicity, and FILM INFO: 7 mins, Ireland, 1960, Digital, As Gaeilge which garnered two Oscar nominations. THE NEW MATCHMAKERS WAVES This film shows the efforts made by rural priests The wild Atlantic Ocean crashes off the Aran to increase low marriage rates through the Islands in a film unadorned by music or voiceover. establishment of dating agencies around the FILM INFO: 25 mins, Ireland, 1973, Digital country. Best dating preparation and conduct is taught at an etiquette class for young farmers. REFLECTIONS IRELAND FILM INFO: 25 mins, Ireland, 1969, Digital This film features farmers, fishermen, horse-riders and children immersed in the Irish landscape. PROGRAMME TWO FILM INFO: 21 mins, Ireland, 1977, Digital FOR LOVE AND MONEY An investigation into the rising cost of getting ERRIGAL married in Ireland in 1968. The film follows a This short film captures the magnificent young couple from engagement to the departure Co. Donegal mountain in all its moods. for their honeymoon as they run up a staggering FILM INFO: 14 mins, Ireland, 1970, Digital bill of £470. FILM INFO: 25 mins, Ireland, 1968, Digital Notes by Sunniva O’Flynn

Notes by Sunniva O’Flynn Introduced by award-winning environmental film producer/ director John Murray. The Patrick Carey Collection will be launched on the IFI Player in February – see ifiplayer.ie for more.

16 IRISH FOCUS IFI & AEMI IFI & MOLI OCTOBER 2015 Ulysses | Film HAPPY BIRTHDAY, PAT O’NEILL: MR JOYCE! WATER AND POWER SUN 2ND (18.15) WED 19TH (18.30) IFI and the Museum of Literature Ireland (MoLI) In Pat O’Neill’s dizzying 1989 masterpiece celebrate James Joyce’s birthday with work Water and Power, he combines techniques of specially commissioned by MoLI. collage, time-lapse, and superimposition to depict an ongoing clash between industry and nature. ULYSSES | FILM Operating in a ‘city symphony mode’ that would Alan Gilsenan presents a personal response to, extend elsewhere from Dziga Vertov’s Man With and cinematic ‘reading’ of, Joyce’s iconic novel. a Movie Camera to Thom Andersen’s Los Angeles Fractured and poetic, reverent and irreverent, the Plays Itself, this is a deeply personal experimental film is a ragbag of sorts; a myriad of images and documentary that continues to feel utterly current sounds emerging from the infinite wonders of but also utterly unlike anything we have seen Joyce’s imaginary world. Structured around the either before or since - “it is surely the greatest of 18 episodes of the book, the film, narrated by contemporary 'city symphonies'"- Paul Arthur. Paul Durcan, acts as a distillation of Ulysses. Water and Power will be preceded by Saugus DIRECTOR: Alan Gilsenan Series (19 mins, 1974) an earlier abstract work that FILM INFO: 83 mins, Ireland, 2019, Digital combines several formalist techniques. Both works WAKE THE STREETS screen from recently restored prints. If you walk through the streets of Dublin, you can aemi is an Arts Council-funded organisation that still trace the descriptions and hear the sounds supports and exhibits moving image work by artists of Joyce’s beloved city. This short film, adapted & experimental filmmakers. For more information visit by Susie Lopez and directed by Dave Tynan, is a www.aemi.ie. sprint through Joyce’s Finnegans Wake featuring an eclectic host of actors, poets (including John Kelly and Paul Muldoon), performers and children DIRECTOR: Pat O’Neill FILM INFO: 57 mins, USA, 1989, Digital reading passages from Joyce’s work in the places that inspired him. Image courtesy of Lookout Mountain Studios. DIRECTOR: Dave Tynan FILM INFO: 15 mins, Ireland, 2019, Digital Filmmakers Alan Gilsenan and Dave Tynan will be present at the event. Notes by Simon O’Connor, Director, MoLI

17 IFI FAMILY MY NEIGHBOUR TOTORO

SUN 23RD (11.00)

(TONARI NO TOTORO) Finish off the mid-term break with a Appearing in 1988 at a time when DIRECTOR: family outing to one of Studio Ghibli’s American animation seemed generic, Hayao Miyazaki most-loved titles. Directed by Hayao through its story, characterisation and Miyazaki for the studio, it was the first exquisite craft, Totoro showed how FILM INFO: to garner international attention for the animation could once again enchant 86 mins, Japan, 1988, Digital Notes by Alicia McGivern famous anime house. Exquisitely hand- audiences worldwide. drawn visuals establish a real world in which two sisters reside, close to their My Neighbour Totoro will screen in ailing grandma, and a fantasy world to the English language version, featuring which they escape, filled with spirits the voices of Dakota Fanning and Elle and creatures of the forest, all offering Fanning. comfort to the saddened pair.

WILD STRAWBERRIES THE SISTERS BROTHERS

WED 26TH & FRI 28TH (11.00)

DIRECTOR: Adapted from the acclaimed novel performances, comic moments and Jacques Audiard by Patrick deWitt, John C. Reilly and some profound musings on life. FILM INFO: Joaquin Phoenix excel as sibling hitmen 122 mins, USA-France, 2018, Digital in gold rush Oregon, on the hunt for a Wild Strawberries is our film club for over Notes by Alicia McGivern hermit alchemist who claims to have a 55s. Tickets: €5.50 including regular tea/ method for identifying gold. coffee before the event. If you happen to look younger, please don’t take offence if When the pair send detective John we ask your age. Morris (Jake Gyllenhaal) ahead, the latter falls for the alchemist’s tales, and Please note this film contains scenes of ultimately the conflict of interest leads to a violent nature. violence in this shaggy tale with terrific

18 IFI & DOC’N’ROLL DAVID CROSBY: REMEMBER MY NAME

SAT 22ND (18.30)

DIRECTOR: This collaboration between director A.J. fresh songs, albums, and performances. A.J. Eaton Eaton and producer Cameron Crowe As a troubled talent but uncompromising FILM INFO: coaxes musical legend David Crosby and principled spirit whose voice has 95 mins, UK-USA, 2019, Digital into unflinching candour as the singer- been harmoniously woven into the fabric songwriter confronts mortality. of pop culture and music royalty since the mid-1960s, Crosby finally distinguishes In the illuminating twilight of his days as himself as a masterful raconteur and a living legend, Crosby has chosen living unsparingly self-aware survivor. over the legend. He’s making less money but more music than ever, touring despite His redemptive journey back to music is serious health issues, surrounded by universally inspiring and uplifting, bearing young players who have helped inspire an emotional impact that transcends the a critically-acclaimed creative streak of rock documentary genre.

THE BIGGER PICTURE BRAZIL

TUES 25TH (20.00)

DIRECTOR: Brazil is many things: one of the great life of heroism. When he is assigned to Terry Gilliam dystopian sci-fi films; a biting and investigate a clerical error that led to FILM INFO: nightmarish satire on bureaucracy that the death of the wrong person, Sam is 142 mins, UK-USA, 1985, Digital blends Kafka and Orwell seamlessly; a drawn into an ever more convoluted set Notes by Kevin Coyne highly influential exercise in style, design, of circumstances involving terrorism and tone; and the beginning of director against the faceless state, plastic surgery Terry Gilliam’s difficulties with studios disasters, and, just maybe, love. With a that would go on to plague his career. rich vein of dark humour and typically In a future society operated along rigid Gilliamesque visual flourishes, Brazil lines and according to unfathomable remains a highpoint of the director’s career. bureaucracy, low-level clerk Sam Lowry (Jonathan Pryce) fantasises of breaking This screening will be introduced by free from his humdrum reality into a broadcaster Rick O’Shea.

19 IFI & NT LIVE CYRANO DE BERGERAC

THUR 20TH (19.00)

DIRECTOR: A magnetic soldier full of swagger and This acclaimed production stars James Jamie Lloyd brilliant poet, Cyrano de Bergerac is in McAvoy as Cyrano in this new production FILM INFO: love with his beautiful and intelligent by Martin Crimp (Attempts on Her Life), 180 mins approx, 2020, UK, Digital cousin Roxane without her knowing. His directed by Jamie Lloyd. one curse in his life, he feels, is his large nose and although it may have been Tickets cost €15. Free List Suspended. a forming influence in his razor-sharp wit, he believes that Roxane will reject him. When the handsome but unpoetic Christian falls for the beautiful Roxane, he asks Cyrano to help him win her heart. Cyrano de Bergerac can be delivered as an allegory of inner and outer beauty.

IFI & NATIONAL GALLERY OF IRELAND PORTRAIT OF A LADY ON FIRE + GALLERY TOUR ( )

FRI 28TH 16.30 Photo: Jack Caffrey, The Pimlico Project, 2017.

DIRECTOR: Join one of the National Gallery’s guides approx. one hour. Guests should then Céline Sciamma to explore the history of gender and make their way to the IFI for the 18.15 FILM INFO: sexual identity through a selection of screening of Portrait of a Lady on Fire; 120 mins, France, 2019, works from the Gallery’s collection tickets for the screening will be available Digital, Subtitled. that are connected to the lesbian, for collection at the IFI Box Office. gay, bisexual, transgender and queer Transport between the two venue community. Then, make your way to the is not provided. IFI for a screening of Céline Sciamma’s critically acclaimed Portrait of a Lady See page 9 for film notes. on Fire. Tickets cost €15. Free List Suspended. The event will start at 16.30 at the National Gallery and the tour will last

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