JUNE 2016 TALE OF TALES THE IRISH FILM INSTITUTE

The Irish Film Institute is Ireland’s national cultural institution for film. EXHIBIT 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.

FRENCH FILM CLUB IFI OPEN DAY

This month’s French Film Club screening – where IFI and Mark Saturday, July 2nd in your calendars! IFI Open Day Alliance Française members pay just €7 a ticket – on the returns for a full day of FREE screenings, including previews, evening of June 8th is The Measure of a Man, Stéphane classics and cult favourites, as well as a glimpse behind the Brizé’s most overtly political film, and his third with Vincent scenes at the IFI, and more. Check out www.ifi.ie, Lindon, winner of the Best Actor award at Cannes for his facebook.com/irishfilminstitute and @IFI_Dub on Twitter performance. See page 5 for film notes. Please visit for details of what we’re showing and doing and, more www.ifi.ie or ask at the IFI Box Office for further details. importantly, how to get your FREE tickets!

IFI FAMILY FESTIVAL Jonas and the Sea FEAST YOUR EYES

The IFI Family Festival returns a little earlier this year – from Our movie and main course pairing this month will be Matteo June 24th to 26th – with amazing cinematic adventures from Garrone’s Tale of Tales, a baroque fantasy based on fables Austria, India, Germany and beyond, before school holidays from a 17th century book of Neapolitan folk tales and starring even begin! Soar with the eagles or roar with the lions, learn Salma Hayek, John C. Reilly, Toby Jones and Vincent Cassel to write like Shakespeare or dance with a little grey tractor. (see page 8 for more). Join us on June 21st at 18.15 for this There are premieres and animations, Zig and Zag and mad delightfully inventive film followed by a specially devised main creations, something for all film fans aged 4 to 12. For more course in the IFI Café Bar. Tickets €20 (free list suspended). information and to book your tickets, see www.ifi.ie/familyfest

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Welcome to the IFI June programme which is packed with the first of the year’s IFI Festivals and a major 400th anniversary celebration. JUNE

AT THE IFI Much Ado About Nothing (p12) This June the IFI is all about families and Shakespeare! A jewel in the crown of this special season will be the 70mm Moving from its regular slot in July, this year the IFI Family presentation of Kenneth Branagh’s Hamlet, a must for all Festival runs from June 24th to 26th, right at the end of cineastes and the only opportunity to see this rare version the school year and before many families head off on their in Ireland. Another highlight of the season will take place on summer holidays. We have another wonderful programme Friday, June 17th with a special outdoor event on Meeting lined up for our younger films fans, with stories from House Square in Temple Bar. Occurring just a few nights prior Austria, The Netherlands, Germany, India and others, all to Midsummer, this event will combine music, food being told through animation and live action. Zig and Zag (a pig on a spit!) and theatre performances, all leading are on the list, as is the modern Disney classic The Lion up to an outdoor screening of Branagh’s Much Ado About King with associated workshop. The IFI Family Festival is Nothing in which he also stars alongside Emma Thompson. a great opportunity to introduce young film enthusiasts to This is sure to be a magical evening. I would like to take this cinema from all around the world, most of which would not opportunity to thank the British Council for their support of be otherwise seen, and many complemented by hands-on this season throughout the month of June. workshops. Check out the full programme online or in the separate flyer. And keep an eye out for the annual IFI Open Day which takes place early next month – Saturday July 2nd. To mark the global celebrations of the 400th anniversary of Once again we’ll be throwing the doors of the IFI open for the death of William Shakespeare, this month’s IFI Season a day of free film screenings for audiences old and new. focuses on the playwright, poet and actor. With too-many- to-mention adaptations of his work for the big screen, some adhering strictly to the original text and with others using Ross Keane the subject matter as inspiration, Shakespeare appears as Director relevant today as he was four centuries ago. Our season includes many classics, from Franco Zeffirelli’s The Taming of the Shrew and Derek Jarman’s The Tempest to Gus Van Sant’s Shakespeare-inspired My Own Private Idaho.

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RACE OPENS JUN 3RD DATE SCREENING TIME THE MEASURE OF A MAN OPENS JUN 3RD 1ST IFI & CAPSTONES SHIFT: GERMANY YEAR ZERO 19.00 WED EMBRACE OF THE SERPENT OPENS JUN 10TH 3RD VERSUS: THE LIFE AND FILMS OF KEN LOACH 18.30 FIRE AT SEA OPENS JUN 10TH FRI 5TH VERSUS: THE LIFE AND FILMS OF KEN LOACH 14.00 WHERE TO INVADE NEXT OPENS JUN 10TH SUN 7TH VERSUS: THE LIFE AND FILMS OF KEN LOACH 18.30 BANG GANG OPENS JUN 17TH TUE IFI CAFÉ BAR PUB QUIZ (FREE EVENT) 21.30 (A MODERN LOVE STORY) 8TH IFI EXPLORERS: RACE 15.45 CEMETERY OF SPLENDOUR OPENS JUN 17TH WED SHAKESPEARE LIVES: CHIMES AT MIDNIGHT 18.30 10TH WHERE TO INVADE NEXT 18.30 TALE OF TALES OPENS JUN 17TH FRI + LIVE SATELLITE Q&A WITH MICHAEL MOORE 12TH SHAKESPEARE LIVES: THE TAMING OF THE SHREW 15.00 MA MA OPENS JUN 24TH SUN REMAINDER OPENS JUN 24TH 13TH THE BIGGER PICTURE: DESERT HEARTS 18.30 MON (WITH UNA MULLALLY) 14TH FIRE AT SEA + PANEL DISCUSSION 18.00 TUE 15TH IFI FILM CLUB: WHERE TO INVADE NEXT 18.00 WED SHAKESPEARE LIVES: HAMLET (70MM) 18.30 GET SOCIAL! 16TH IRISH FOCUS: SHEM THE PENMAN SINGS AGAIN 16.30 Excited about this month’s programme? So are we! THU + Q&A Tell your friends which film you’re planning to watch, IRISH FOCUS: MEDICATED MILK + Q&A 18.40 17TH SHAKESPEARE LIVES: MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING 20.30 share your movie reviews and show us your best pics on FRI (OUTDOOR PRE-FILM EVENT) Instagram, Twitter and Facebook! SHAKESPEARE LIVES: MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING 22.00 Join the IFI Community online: (OUTDOOR SCREENING) 18TH IFI & CAPSTONES SHIFT: DUBLIN PLAYS ITSELF 11.00 SAT (TOUR GROUP 1) @IrishFilmInstitute IFI & CAPSTONES SHIFT: DUBLIN PLAYS ITSELF 14.30 (TOUR GROUP 2) @IrishFilmInstitute @IFI_Dub SHAKESPEARE LIVES: MY OWN PRIVATE IDAHO 20.30 19TH SHAKESPEARE LIVES : THE TEMPEST 15.00 SUN 21ST FEAST YOUR EYES: TALE OF TALES 18.15 TUE Open Captioned screening 22ND SHAKESPEARE LIVES: ROSENCRANTZ AND 18.30 WED GUILDENSTERN ARE DEAD 24TH IFI FAMILY FESTIVAL* Audio Described screening FRI 25TH IFI FAMILY FESTIVAL* SAT ARCHIVE AT LUNCHTIME (FREE EVENT) + 13.00 INTRODUCTION BY DR. SAM SLOTE SHAKESPEARE LIVES: ROMEO AND JULIET 13.20 26TH IFI FAMILY FESTIVAL* SUN THE HANGOVER LOUNGE: PAN’S LABYRINTH 14.00 28TH IFI & AEMI PROJECTIONS: SIXTY SIX 18.30 TUE + CONVERSATION WITH LEWIS KLAHR 29TH WILD STRAWBERRIES: WILD 11.00 WED 30TH SHAKESPEARE LIVES: MACBETH 18.15 TIMES THU + PANEL DISCUSSION For a breakdown of times and dates of IFI New *See separate flyer or visit www.ifi.ie/familyfest Releases, IFI Docs & IFI Classics, check out our weekly schedule on www.ifi.ie/weekly-schedule or the IFI ads in The Irish Times on Fridays and Saturdays. You can also sign up to receive our weekly ezine by joining at www.ifi.ie/signup.

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RACE RELEASE NEW

OPENS JUNE 3RD The legendary Jesse Owens, one of the (an impressive turn from Jason all-time great athletes, famed for the Sudeikis), the film follows his ascent FILM INFO: still unequalled feat of setting three to Olympic greatness, all the while 135 mins, France-Germany- world records and tying another in struggling with family life, the racism Canada, 2016, Digital 45 minutes at a 1935 event, and for he encountered from the white Notes by Kevin Coyne winning four gold medals at the 1936 community, and the pressures placed Olympics in Berlin, to the horror of on him by the black community. the watching Hitler, is the subject of this fine biopic from director Stephen With a supporting cast including Hopkins. Beginning with Owens Jeremy Irons, William Hurt, and (Stephan James) arriving at Ohio State Carice van Houten as Leni Riefenstahl, University, where he comes under the it’s a fascinating account. care of coach Larry Snyder

THE MEASURE RELEASE NEW OF A MAN

OPENS JUNE 3RD A victim of factory downsizing, Thierry petty theft, Thierry finds himself in a (Vincent Lindon) has been out of work compromised position, spying on those EXCLUSIVELY AT IFI† for over a year; with special needs even less fortunate than himself. schooling for his teenage son on the FILM INFO: horizon and sundry other demands on This is Stéphane Brizé’s most 93 mins, France, 2015, his meagre unemployment benefit, overtly political film, his third with Digital, Subtitled Notes by David O'Mahony something must give in order to make Vincent Lindon (winner of Best Actor ends meet. Being on the wrong side at Cannes), which takes a leaf from FRENCH FILM CLUB of 50 proves an added obstacle, the Dardennes‘ book in its low-key Our French Film Club screening – where IFI and Alliance a fact made abundantly clear to him social realist aesthetic and humanist, Française members pay just € in humiliating job centre training quietly angry concern for the €7 a ticket – will be on June 8th. exercises. Landing security guard work marginalised everyman. See page 2 for details. for a company trying to weed out

5 JUNE 2016 EMBRACE OF THE SERPENT NEW RELEASE

OPENS JUNE 10TH The year is 1909; gravely ill German film presents the two quests in parallel, scientist Theodore Koch-Grunberg shifting between time periods. A satisfying (EL ABRAZO DE ventures deep into the Amazon in device in its own right, the dual narrative LA SERPIENTE) search of the sacred yakruna plant also affords a critique of colonialism and he believes will cure him. His guide is the destruction of indigenous peoples at FILM INFO: Karamakate, an imposing, swaggeringly the hands of white traders. 122 mins, Columbia-Venezuala- Argentina, 2015, Digital, Subtitled, confident young shaman. Many years Black & White later another adventurer, Richard Evans Filmed in gleaming monochrome, Notes by David O’Mahony seeks Karamakate, who is now a broken, Embrace of the Serpent is both a despondent figure, to retrace Theodore’s sensory and contemplative work, the steps into the heart of the jungle. cumulative effect of the visuals and Inspired by diary accounts of Amazonian thematic weight of the story creating fieldwork, Ciro Guerra’s bracingly original an intoxicating experience. FIRE AT SEA IFI DOC

OPENS JUNE 10TH Lampedusa has become a flashpoint Samuele, juxtaposing impressionistic in the ongoing immigration crisis; observations of their lives with FILM INFO: roughly half way between Libya and frequently harrowing scenes of 108 mins, Italy, 2016, Sicily, African migrants are drawn coastguard search-and-rescue missions Digital, Subtitled to the tiny island on their hazardous as grievously over-burdened migrant Notes by David O'Mahony crossings to make first contact with boats are apprehended. Samuele’s mainland Europe. Gianfranco Rosi’s obliviousness to what is happening just PANEL DISCUSSION (Sacro Gra) portrait of the island, a beyond his limited horizon is telling. Join us after the 18.00 screening deserved winner of the Golden Bear Employing a detached viewpoint, Rosi of this film on June 14th for a panel discussion with guests as at this year’s Berlin Film Festival, takes skillfully avoids didacticism, creating part of a Migration Learning Lab an oblique approach to its subject, a portrait of a traditional community conference (June 14th – 15th). choosing to focus on the everyday lives unwittingly tainted by the geopolitical See www.ifi.ie for details. of the islanders, especially 12-year-old realities of conflict and war.

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OPENS JUNE 10TH In his wryly titled new film, his first crisis, it takes something of a romantic since 2009’s Capitalism: A Love Story, perspective, with an unashamed focus FILM INFO: Michael Moore is in unusually mellow on the positive elements of the countries 119 mins, USA, 2016, Digital form, though as impassioned as ever, as visited – in his own words, he is “picking Notes by Kevin Coyne he travels around Europe cherry-picking flowers, not weeds.” those social innovations which he feels could be laid claim to for the betterment Although the film may primarily target of American society. Moore’s domestic audience, it is difficult not to wonder why many of these ideas MICHAEL MOORE SATELLITE Q&A From the Finnish education systems can’t be combined and applied for the There will be a live satellite to Norwegian prisons, French school betterment of any particular country, Q&A with director Michael dinners to the treatment received by those including our own. Moore following the screening bankers responsible for Iceland’s financial on June 10th at 18.30.

BANG GANG RELEASE NEW (A MODERN LOVE STORY)

OPENS JUNE 17TH Where 16-year-old George (Marilyn his seduction of Laetita, she, seeking Lima) is outgoing and sexually aware, revenge and hoping to hurt him, (BANG GANG (UNE her best friend Laetitia (Daisy Broom) is initiates a game of “Truth or Dare, with HISTOIRE D’AMOUR shy and virginal. Both are interested in only dares” amongst the others present. MODERNE)) class lothario Alex (Finnegan Oldfield). Over the following weeks, more and When George sleeps with Alex, she more classmates join the “Bang Gang” FILM INFO: secretly hopes that it is the beginning as the parties become mere excuses 98 mins, France, 2015, Digital, Subtitled of something serious. for orgies. Notes by Kevin Coyne Alex is currently living alone in his The film charts unexpected paths for its large family home, which has become protagonists, and, refreshingly, presents the place for his classmates to gather their sexual explorations as an entirely and party. When George walks in on natural step towards maturity.

7 JUNE 2016 CEMETERY OF SPLENDOUR NEW RELEASE

OPENS JUNE 17TH Not unlike his other work in which dream malady. There she befriends Keng, and spirit worlds often interact with a a medium who relates the hibernating (RAK TI KHON KAEN) recognisable reality, Palme-d’Or-winning patients’ thoughts to their families, filmmaker Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s and Itt, a soldier with whom she forms FILM INFO: Cemetery of Splendour opens with a a unique bond. It transpires that the 122 mins, Thailand, 2015, situation that appears familiar but which hospital is situated on the grounds of an Digital, Subtitled Notes by Alice Butler gradually destabilises conventional ancient and contested regal cemetery notions of reason, logic and structure. disturbed by local construction work, Voluntary nurse Jenjira (an inspired a contrivance Weerasethakul uses performance from Jenjira Pongpas) to suggest ways in which a modern, arrives at a former schoolhouse now used increasingly western-influenced Thai as a hospital to care for a unit of soldiers culture is at variance with its past. overcome by an unrelenting sleeping TALE OF TALES NEW RELEASE

OPENS JUNE 17TH An anthology of fables drawn from a is seduced by the heavenly singing of 17th century book of Neapolitan folk an unseen maiden. A gloriously realised FILM INFO: tales compiled by the poet Giambattista fantasia featuring a rogue’s gallery 125 mins, Italy-France-UK, Basile, Matteo Garrone’s Tale of Tales is a of otherworldly grotesques, Tale of 2015, Digital baroque fantasy of three mythical lands Tales sees the director leave the social Notes by David O’Mahony and their distressed rulers. commentaries of Gomorrah (2008) and Reality (2012) very much behind him. FEAST YOUR EYES A childless queen (Salma Hayek) sends Join us on June 21st at 18.15 her husband (John C. Reilly) to battle a Pitched somewhere between Grimm’s for our Feast Your Eyes screening of Tale of Tales with sea monster; a king (Toby Jones) becomes fairytales, Pasolini’s Trilogy of Life with a meal afterwards, for just €20. obsessed with his pet flea, which has smatterings of Monty Python (and even Free list suspended. grown to gargantuan proportions; a third Shrek), this delightfully imaginative film See page 2 for details. philandering monarch (Vincent Cassel) defies easy categorisation.

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OPENS JUNE 24TH The new film from director Julio Medem illness, she meets at her son’s football (Lovers of the Arctic Circle, Sex and match Arturo (Luis Tosar), who, in the FILM INFO: Lucia) is something of a departure for course of their conversation, receives a 111 mins, Spain-France, 2015, him; while his previous work contains call informing him that his daughter has Digital, Subtitled an abundance of sex and magical been killed in a car crash and his wife is Notes by Kevin Coyne realist flourishes,Ma Ma is, by his usual in a coma. The two become closer, but standards, a relatively straightforward the progression of her illness remains account of how one woman deals with to the fore, and is complicated by an her diagnosis of breast cancer. unexpected pregnancy.

On the day that Magda (Penélope Cruz, who gives an outstanding performance of quiet resolve) receives the news of her

REMAINDER RELEASE NEW

OPENS JUNE 24TH Although Remainder is Omer Fast’s leaving an office block just before he is feature-length debut, as a renowned struck down by an unidentified object FILM INFO: video artist who uses filmic devices such hurling from the sky. While in recovery, 103 mins, UK-Germany, as looping and reconstruction to explore he is awarded a considerable sum to 2015, Digital the politics of representation and the keep quiet about the accident, money Notes by Alice Butler often calamitous impact trauma has on he then uses to meticulously re-stage identity and memory, he is well qualified the only fragments from his past that to handle the task of adapting author he can remember. Smart, inventive Tom McCarthy’s novel of the same and occasionally droll, Remainder is a name about a distressed and obsessive psychological thriller that subverts genre amnesiac. Set in London, the film opens conventions with impressive results. as an unnamed protagonist, played by Tom Sturridge, is seen hurriedly

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That is not the question. This 2016, as global Throughout the history of cinema, the play remains the commemorations mark the 400th anniversary of the thing – a rich source, but ripe for cinematic picking. death of the actor, poet and playwright, the erstwhile chronicler of heroes, villains, lovers, citizens and At the IFI in June we mark the anniversary with a statesmen, of seven ages of men and women, we need special Shakespeare programme in partnership with not ask whether Shakespeare lives, but rather how this British Council. Through our selected screenings, ‘upstart crow’ just keeps on living. including Branagh’s four-hour Hamlet, an open-air Much Ado About Nothing, The Lion King singalong In cinema, Shakespeare has provided plots for and a panel discussion, we invite you to ‘live a little, countless interpretations; from the pioneers who comfort a little, cheer thyself a little’ that, in 2016, sought recognisable stories for a public sceptical of Shakespeare lives. the medium, to filmmakers who loosely borrow for new tales of star-crossed lovers or brave Macbeth- Please see details of our IFI Family screening types. It was in fact Olivier’s 1944 take on Henry V of The Lion King as part of the IFI Family Festival that afforded Shakespeare the first truly cinematic (June 24th–26th) on www.ifi.ie/familyfest gaze. Other filmmakers followed suit; Zeffirelli cast real teens as young lovers of Verona. Polanski brought Introduction by Alicia McGivern. Part of British his own bloodied past to a ruthless Macbeth. Council’s Shakespeare Lives programme celebrating Shakespeare’s work on the occasion of the 400th Kenneth Branagh signalled his devotion with his anniversary of his death in 2016. blood-and-mud-soaked, battle-calling Henry V. Gus Van Sant’s Portland hustlers play Henry IV in My Own Private Idaho. Hamlet

10 SHAKESPEARE LIVES and adds some scenes from Richard II CHIMES AT and Henry V, along with some text from MIDNIGHT The Merry Wives of Windsor. Welles himself plays the part of Sir John Falstaff, the “abominable misleader of youth” who is friend to Prince Hal ( ) (Keith Baxter), heir to the throne. JUNE 8TH 18.30 Their troubled relationship plays out against the backdrop of a country at FILM INFO: Chimes at Midnight was originally war in a film Welles regarded as his 115 mins, France-Spain- a disastrously unsuccessful stage personal favourite. Switzerland, 1965, Black & White, Digital production, the Dublin performance Notes by Kevin Coyne of which marked Orson Welles’ last appearance as an actor in the theatre. The film presents an abridged compilation of both parts of Henry IV,

Bianca (Natasha Pyne), if he can find THE TAMING someone who is up to the task of marrying his eldest, the formidable, OF THE SHREW ill-tempered Kate (Elizabeth Taylor). Enter lusty nobleman Petruchio (Richard Burton).

( ) Originally intended as a vehicle JUNE 12TH 15.00 for Sophia Loren and Marcello Mastroianni, Burton and Taylor put FILM INFO: The setting is Padua in Italy in a million of their own cash into the 126 mins, UK-Italy, 1967, Digital the late 1500s; the rich merchant production to secure their roles; their Notes by David O’Mahony Baptista Minola (Michael Hordern) undeniable chemistry adds layers to is attempting to marry off his two this playful adaptation. daughters, but he will only part with his youngest, the sweet-natured

daughter Miranda (Toyah Willcox) were THE TEMPEST abandoned on a remote island by Antonio (Richard Warwick), the Duke’s brother.

Versed in the ways of sorcery, Prospero creates a tempest to shipwreck Antonio on the island in an attempt to marry his ( ) travelling companion Prince Ferdinand JUNE 19TH 15.00 of Naples (David Meyer) to his daughter, in order to restore peace between Milan FILM INFO: Derek Jarman’s interpretation of and Naples. 93 mins, UK, 1979, Digital Shakespeare’s final play is an evocative Notes by David O’Mahony depiction of colonialism, revenge, Jarman brings a punk sensibility to the retribution and reconciliation. production, with wild visuals and rich Prospero (Heathcote Williams), designs which conceal the film’s the former Duke of Milan, and his modest budget.

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SHAKESPEARE LIVES HAMLET (70MM)

JUNE 15TH (18.30) Kenneth Branagh is contemporary entirely on 70mm adds to the epic cinema’s most noted interpreter of scale of the production, and allows FILM INFO: Shakespeare, having now brought him to create a uniquely visual 242 mins (plus intermission), five of his plays to the big screen. take on the material. This is a rare UK-USA, 1996, 70mm opportunity to experience the film Notes by Kevin Coyne His version of Hamlet represents as the director intended. perhaps his crowning achievement, the first unabridged film of the play, Tickets €12 (€10 Members). running to just over four hours in length, which restores text from the Second Quarto and amendments from Supported by other sources to the First Folio version. Branagh’s decision to shoot the film OUTDOOR SCREENING:

JUNE 17TH (20.30) Join us on June 17th for a magical Branagh’s mischievous adaptation midsummer’s evening in Temple of the Bard’s comedy wherein the DIRECTOR: Bar’s Meeting House Square, with defiantly single Beatrice (Emma Kenneth Branagh pre-screening entertainment, including Thompson) and Benedick (Branagh) pop-up Shakespearean performances find themselves unwittingly thrust FILM INFO: and a succulent pig on a spit from The together through the machinations 111 mins, 1993, USA-UK, Blu-Ray Notes by David O’Mahony Hogfather, to keep your Shakespearean of a younger newly wedded couple. appetites satisfied! The night kicks off at 20.30 and Much Ado About Boasting some of the most uproarious Tickets: Film only €14, Nothing will be shown in the Square verbal jousting in the English Food only €8, Film + Food €18 when the sun goes down, at 22.00. language, Much Ado About Nothing (no concessions or Members The sun-kissed hills of Tuscany provide remains a wise and witty delight. prices, free list suspended). the perfect backdrop for Kenneth

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JUNE 18TH (20.30) A key film in the New Queer Cinema inheritance that will come with it, movement of the early ‘90s, and a a character specifically based on FILM INFO: landmark of American independent Shakespeare’s Prince Hal. The boys’ 104 mins, USA, 1991, Digital filmmaking,My Own Private Idaho is in paths cross in the wide-open spaces Notes by David O’Mahony part based on Shakespeare’s Henry IV of the Pacific Northwest, Italy and Parts 1 & 2. back again.

Van Sant fuses the story of disaffected young gay hustler Mike (River Phoenix), who suffers from narcolepsy, with that of rich kid Scott (Keanu Reeves), who is idling away the time until his 21st birthday and the sizeable ROSENCRANTZ AND GUILDENSTERN ARE DEAD

JUNE 22ND (18.30) Sir Tom Stoppard has often exhibited wander in and out of events at Elsinore, a playful, subversive approach to the seemingly unaware of their roles in the FILM INFO: Bard; he co-wrote the Oscar-winning larger drama as they muse on their own 118 mins, UK-USA, 1990, 35mm screenplay for Shakespeare in Love concerns. Irreverent and witty, it’s an Notes by Kevin Coyne (John Madden, 1998), and has written ingenious take on the original play. for the stage Dogg’s Hamlet, Cahoot’s Macbeth, and Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, this adaptation of which represents his sole credit as film director.

Minor characters in Hamlet, the film places the two at its centre as they

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SHAKESPEARE LIVES ROMEO AND JULIET

JUNE 25TH (13.20) Adapted for the screen over 50 times, protagonists, 17-year-old Leonard whether serving as the inspiration for Whiting and 15-year-old Olivia Hussey. FILM INFO: a film such as West Side Story (Jerome 138 mins, UK-Italy, 1968, Digital Robbins, Robert Wise, 1961), or in Enormously successful on release, it is Notes by Kevin Coyne versions more faithful to the original text, currently the last Shakespeare adaptation Romeo and Juliet has always been one to have been Oscar-nominated for of Shakespeare’s most popular plays with Best Picture. cinema audiences.

Zeffirelli’s remains one of the most acclaimed, and was the first film to cast as leads actors close to the (speculative, in Romeo’s case) ages of the play’s MACBETH

JUNE 30TH (18.15) As the first film Roman Polanski PANEL DISCUSSION directed following the horrific murder In deciding to adapt a Shakespeare play DIRECTOR: of Sharon Tate, his pregnant wife, at the for either screen or stage, one of the first Roman Polanski hands of the Manson Family, it is not decisions concerns the use of language – surprising that his treatment of Macbeth to use or not to use the original dialogue EVENT INFO: is particularly dark and brutal. It is also – and the context. Our panel discussion 140 mins (film) + 60 mins (discussion), powerful and undeniably cinematic, will focus on Shakespeare adaptations UK-USA, 1971, Digital. full of sound and fury, all of which is for both stage and screen, and the Notes by Kevin Coyne significant in one of the most singular of panellists will include: theatre director Shakespeare adaptations. Selina Cartmell; Abbey Theatre Education Manager, Phil Kingston; actress Karen Ardiff; and lecturer Dr. Jane Grogan.

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IFI EVENTS THE BIGGER PICTURE WILD STRAWBERRIES ARCHIVE AT LUNCHTIME IFI EXPLORERS VERSUS: THE LIFE AND FILMS OF KEN LOACH THE HANGOVER LOUNGE IFI & CAPSTONES SHIFT IFI & AEMI PROJECTIONS IRISH FOCUS IFI FILM CLUB

for The Bigger Picture. Todd THE BIGGER Haynes’ exquisite Carol may PICTURE have encapsulated the torments, uncertainties and infatuations of DESERT a 1950s lesbian love affair but this HEARTS earlier film, based on Jane Rule’s classic novel, offered a rawer, less effortful portrait. Cut-off denim meets JUNE 13TH (18.30) academic suit in a sun-kissed 1950s Reno of quickie divorces and ranch DIRECTOR: Our monthly strand in which a key life where uptight East Coast Viv falls Donna Deitch film is presented in the context of for free-spirited sculptor and casino FILM INFO: a notional film canon. worker, Cay. Regarded as the first 96 mins, USA, 1985, 35mm mainstream lesbian film, it depicts a Notes by Alicia McGivern Marking this year’s Pride Festival, passionate relationship with positive journalist and broadcaster Una outcomes for both women – neither of Mullally will present Desert Hearts which involves returning to a man.

on a solo, three-month, 1,100-mile WILD trek across America, after her STRAWBERRIES mother’s death from lung cancer. Sometimes short on dialogue but big WILD on introspection, the film offers a counterpoint to the buddy-talkie A Walk in the Woods and the stunning JUNE 29TH & landscapes will make you want to JULY 1ST (11.00) pack up and head for the hills.

DIRECTOR: Wild Strawberries is our Tickets: €4.25 including regular Jean-Marc Vallée bi-monthly film club for over 55s. tea/coffee before the event. FILM INFO: Wild Strawberries is our film club for 115 mins, USA, 2014, Digital Based on US writer Cheryl Strayed’s over 55s. If you are lucky enough Notes by Alicia McGivern memoir, this beautiful looking film to look younger please don’t take follows Reese Witherspoon in the offence if we ask your age. title role as the woman who embarks

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ARCHIVE AT IFI EXPLORERS LUNCHTIME Ulys SHAKESPEARE & COMPANY RACE

Free screenings of films from the IFI Irish JUNE 8TH (15.45) Film Archive (collect tickets at IFI Box Office). Please see www.ifi.ie for dates and times. IFI Explorers is our discounted ticket offering This month we celebrate Bloomsday and the for 15–18 year olds. quatercentenary of Shakespeare’s death. This month’s film selection on special offer for IFI PROGRAMME 1: SHAKESPEARE Explorers is Race, based on the incredible true Amharc Éireann Newsreel: Abbey players at RSC. story of legendary athlete Jesse Owens. (3 mins, B&W, 1964, Digital.) His quest to become the greatest track-and-field Hamlet at Elsinore: The Gate Theatre takes sportsperson in history puts him on the world Hamlet to Denmark. (17 mins, B&W, 1952, Digital.) stage of the 1936 Berlin Olympics, where he crosses racial barriers to defy Adolf Hitler's vision of Aryan supremacy and shows the world that PROGRAMME 2: JOYCE he’s the fastest man alive. A fascinating film about Amharc Éireann: Opening of the Joyce Tower courage, determination, tolerance and friendship. with Sylvia Beach of Shakespeare and Company, publisher of Ulysses. (2 mins, B&W, 1962, Digital.) Tickets: €3 for 15–18 year olds.

Ulys: Tim Booth’s animated, potted Ulysses. DIRECTOR: Stephen Hopkins (3 mins, 1998, Digital.) FILM INFO: 135 mins, France-Germany-Canada, 2016, Digital Notes by Dee Quinlan Eamon Morrissey’s Joycemen: Passages from Ulysses. (5 mins, ca1980, Digital.) Faithful Departed: Kieran Hickey’s portrait of Dublin on June 16th 1904. (10 mins, B&W, 1968, Digital.)

Dr. Sam Slote, Joycean Scholar and Associate Professor of English in Trinity College, Dublin, will explore James Joyce’s relationship with the work of William Shakespeare in an introduction to the Archive at Lunchtime Double Bill at 13.00 on June 25th. See also Shakespeare Lives, p10.

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VERSUS: THE LIFE AND FILMS OF KEN LOACH

JUNE 3RD (18.30), 5TH (14.00) & 7TH (18.30) In 2014 Ken Loach announced his in the Palme d’Or at Cannes for retirement after 50 years of filmmaking. The Wind that Shakes the Barley (2006). DIRECTOR: The following year the Conservative Louise Osmond Party came back into power, reason The screening on June 5th will be FILM INFO: enough for him to come out of operated on a ‘pay what you can’ model 92 mins, UK, 2016, Digital retirement to begin work on his new to reflect Ken Loach’s ethos. There will Notes by David O’Mahony film,I, Daniel Blake. Versus chronicles be a collection box by the Box Office the crusading director’s preparations for on that day and tickets will be available this film, while reflecting on his career – on a first-come-first-served basis. No from the controversies surrounding the advance bookings can be made online or TV film Cathy Come Home (1966), in person. Supported by Dogwoof with to international recognition culminating the backing of the BFI Distribution Fund.

THE HANGOVER LOUNGE PAN’S LABYRINTH

JUNE 26TH (14.00) Our monthly indulgent Sunday in Franco’s army. Relief from her afternoon of brunch and a classic. difficult family situation appears in (EL LABERINTO DEL FAUNO) the form of a fairy who leads her to a DIRECTOR: The release this month of adult magical labyrinth where she is believed Guillermo del Toro fantasy Tale of Tales (see page 8) to be the reincarnation of a princess. FILM INFO: provides the Hangover Lounge with Filled with genuinely astonishing 119 minutes, Spain-Mexico, a welcome opportunity to revisit imagery, it may well prove to be 2006, Subtitled, Digital Guillermo del Toro’s dark fairytale. del Toro’s most durable film. Notes by Kevin Coyne Arguably the director’s best work to date, and certainly his most popular, Brunch + film €16; film only is normal it tells the story of young Ofelia, the IFI pricing. Sunday brunch is served unhappy stepdaughter of a captain 12pm – 4pm.

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IFI & CAPSTONES SHIFT

PROGRAMME 1: FROM THE VAULTS: GERMANY YEAR ZERO JUNE 1ST (19.00) GERMANY YEAR ZERO DUBLIN PLAYS ITSELF DIRECTOR: Following Rome, Open City (1945) and The Irish Architecture Foundation Roberto Rossellini Paisan (1946), Roberto Rossellini turned and IFI present two walking FILM INFO: to the ruined city of Berlin to complete tours, complemented by film and 75 mins, Germany, 1948, 35mm his trilogy of films exploring the architectural analysis, exploring the destruction wreaked by World War II. impact of the 1916 Rising on the DUBLIN PLAYS ITSELF A devastating portrait of an obliterated fabric of Dublin and the post-conflict JUNE 18TH post-war Europe, Germany, Year Zero evolution of the city. Both walks (11.00 & 14.30) is also one of the most affecting begin at the IFI, taking in the IAF on films about childhood in the history Bachelor’s Walk and the Hugh Lane FILM INFO: Gallery, Parnell Square for screenings 11.00 – 13.45 Group 1 — Sunniva of cinema. O’Flynn & Dr. Ellen Rowley; from the IFI Irish Film Archive. 14.30 – 17.15 Group 2 — Sunniva The screening will be introduced by O’Flynn & Merlo Kelly Professor Kathleen James-Chakraborty, The walking tours will be conducted by Sunniva O’Flynn, IFI Head of Irish Presented with the Capstones UCD School of Art History and Cultural Shift conference organised by Policy. Film Programming, Dr. Ellen Rowley, Dublin City Council and UCD Irish Research Council EPS Fellow, Decade of Centenaries, which DCC Heritage + UCD Architecture, seeks to explore the impact of conflict on the built environment. and Merlo Kelly, Architect and Architectural Historian.

achievement”, the culmination IFI & AEMI of several decades of productive PROJECTIONS: engagement with what NY Times SIXTY SIX + calls a “cinematic archaeology of CONVERSATION the American unconscious.” WITH LEWIS KLAHR We are delighted to welcome Lewis Klahr to introduce the film and to JUNE 28TH (18.30) take part in a discussion about his work at Temple Bar Gallery + Studios DIRECTOR: In the vein of Peter Horvath, Winston after the screening. Lewis Klahr Smith, or William Burroughs, Lewis FILM INFO: Klahr can be considered among the AEMI – Supporting and Exhibiting 90 mins, USA, 2002-15, Digital great cut-up/collage artists of his Artists’ and Experimental Moving Notes by Daniel Fitzpatrick generation. His latest work, Sixty Six, Image. See www.aemi.ie for which premiered at MoMA last year, more details. has been celebrated as a “milestone

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IRISH FOCUS BLOOMSDAY

PROGRAMME 1: PROGRAMME 2: SHEM THE PENMAN SINGS AGAIN SHEM THE PENMAN MEDICATED MILK ( ) JUNE 16TH 16.30 SINGS AGAIN Lucia Joyce was a talented dancer, DIRECTOR: writer and musician. She spent her life Padraig Trehy A new exploration of the actual and much-fabled friendship between Joyce under the control of her father James, her family and multiple doctors. FILM INFO: and Irish tenor, John McCormack. 80 mins, Ireland, 2015, Digital, Her time in Ireland during the 1930s Black & White and Colour McCormack inspires the character of – particularly in Bray, Co. Wicklow Shaun the Post in Joyce’s famously – was one of her few moments of MEDICATED MILK ‘unreadable’ final novel Finnegans freedom. This film deftly interweaves JUNE 16TH (18.40) Wake, in which Joyce portrayed himself Lucia's story with the filmmaker’s as Shaun’s lowly twin brother, Shem. own to explore accounts of loss and DIRECTOR: Joyce’s twin obsessions, singing and trauma spanning over 100 years. Áine Stapleton, made in literary experimentation, flow through collaboration with With a haunting electronic score by José Miguel Jiménez the film as the friends’ encounters Somadrone, fine dance sequences, are reimagined in a variety of early FILM INFO: vivid underwater cinematography and 50 mins, Ireland, 2015, Digital cinematic styles and real and imaginary graphic scenes of animal butchery. audio recordings. See page 16 for our Archive at Áine Stapleton and José Miguel Jiménez Lunchtime series of free Joycean Director Padraig Trehy will participate will participate in a post-screening Q&A. short films during June. in a post-screening Q&A.

and the audience is welcome to IFI FILM CLUB: contribute their thoughts. The talk WHERE TO is open to anyone who has seen the INVADE NEXT film or is interested in contributing (attendance at the film screened just before is not mandatory). For full film notes, see page 7.

JUNE 15TH (18.00) Normal film ticket prices apply for the film and discussion. Attendance at the DISCUSSION AT 20.00 Join us for a discussion following a discussion only is free. DIRECTOR: screening of Michael Moore’s latest Michael Moore documentary, Where to Invade Next. The IFI Film Club strand takes one FILM INFO: 119 mins, USA, 2016, Digital film each month as a starting point for discussion about the filmmaker, the work itself and relevant themes,

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